Tag: Parkinson
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Flow chart
Just for fun, let’s try another multiple-choice bet. Assuming Elon is really done with the game, Twitter has two choices. (1) Keep the litigation going, or (2) charge Elon a billion dollars as per the contract. Take the money and run would be the only conceivable choice for humans, but I don’t know how demons…
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It’s all in the baseline
MindMatters nicely handles Jeffrey Tucker’s confused and incomplete realization. Tucker admits that information was useless, but he still takes the aristocratic side, treating peasants as dumb cowardly beasts. MindMatters (probably Denyse but not bylined) gives Tucker a healthy kick. I’ve gone through the same process of realization, starting from a different baseline and with a…
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Ran across this
THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX … has been true for centuries. Machiavelli and Parkinson exposed it, and nothing changed. While looking for something else I ran across this 1960 letter from Theodore White. He deserves RAW VICIOUS CONTEMPT because he knew the whole thing was a fucking fraud and CONTINUED…
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More rambling on UATX
Most of our institutions are stuck in a Parkinsonian positive feedback loop, often without any real reason. Corporations and universities and media channels keep punching and torturing and strangling their customers, and then they wonder why their customers are running away. Life is negative feedback. If the current path is leading to failure, try something…
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Carver. Carver. Carver.
Listening to Nesbitt’s ‘Passing Parade’ episode on the development of the giant Palomar telescope. Hale was a rich heir who took up astronomy. He used up his father’s money on building bigger and bigger scopes, and then learned how to lobby other rich men and foundations and governments for more and more money to build…
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No excuse
For a month or two I’ve been pleasantly marinating in UFO discussions, mainly from the mid 60s. Thanks to archivist Wendy Connors, we have a huge well-organized selection of radio programs and interviews. Earlier today I was reminded of Avi Loeb’s pet UFO, and watched some of his recent interviews. He hits the failings of…
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WPA 1/5, background
Time for another review/renew series. Five parts from top to bottom. = = = = = The New Deal set up dozens of overlapping agencies at first, then gradually simplified the arrangement. In other words, FDR didn’t allow Parkinson; didn’t let agencies create problems to guarantee growth. Unneeded agencies were removed or merged. Bureaucrats were…
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Return to Truman 2
Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings near a powerful magnet. Still branching from that Feb ’50 Mutual news broadcast. It includes a brief emotional snip of the HUAC committee grilling Henry Wallace. The simple FACT is that all politicians were neutral and non-combatant from 1920 to 1940. We actually…
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