Tag: natural law = soviet law
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We need a Foy Rebellion
Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary men after WW2. France implemented a similar IMPERATIVE after it recovered from the 1789 revolution, which turned its demonic vision of “science” into a god of war and torture. France returned to a strictly practical and concrete way of life, with careful regard for the…
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Terrible idea.
US Congress and UK Parliament are starting to consider regulations on bitcoin. Terrible idea. 1. Regulating after the fools have lost their money won’t help anyone. If you’re going to protect fools from voluntarily losing their money, you need to do it on the boom side, not the bust side. The bust itself cures many…
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An old contrary view
Not immediately topical, just an item I’ve been wanting to highlight. In this short clip, commentator Raymond Gramm Swing covers two trials that were happening in 1938. Swing points out that our conventional view of both trials was (and still is) flat wrong. Pastor Niemoller was NOT a rebel. He was a ferocious Kraut soldier…
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Tenzor
Continuing a vaguely defined theme of obscure and peculiarly clumsy secret equipment. = = = = = = = = = = Soviet spies were working in Oklahoma and Kansas in the ’50s, as evident in the correct local pronunciations on their maps. Every city and province has its secret shibboleths, its own tests for…
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The importance of plateaus
Assisted by the Kirn discussion, I connected two longtime themes. 1. Exponential vs tanh. Life doesn’t go exponential. Every individual, or company, or community, rises to a ceiling or plateau and stays there. Individuals die, but companies and organizations don’t necessarily die. Many have lasted for hundreds or thousands or years, by steady satisfaction with…
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