Tag: skill-estate
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Simple answer
I stopped tracking the “climate” fight in 2018 after I decided that most advocates on the side of truth are not really defending truth, just making money. Now I try to determine the truth for myself, and try to live according to the truth, and that’s all. I didn’t even know about the Mann vs…
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Witch hunts end…
When the torches start burning the igniters. This applies to all sorts of evil fads and trends, not just witch hunts. Harvard seems to have broken the long-term wildly destructive trend of credentialism when its highly credentialed president and Chief Inquisitor foolishly inquisited Correct Persons. Now the broad movement against college is accelerating, which is…
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Since 1975
We’ve been a colony of China since Nixon surrendered to them in 1975. Everything we do is aimed at reserving our natural resources for the Mother Country. Environmentalism eliminates our own consumption of coal and oil and natural gas so we can send all of it to China. This article by a railroad man gives…
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Buckle down and stay lazy!
I’m noticing a common theme in a lot of writers this week, which looks orchestrated. Let’s buckle down and get back to work! Let’s keep the wheels turning at full speed! Start families, have babies! NO. This is what the Tyrants want. They want everyone cheerfully working together to achieve total destruction. Empires don’t collapse…
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Cute trick.
I was always suspicious of the “free” university UATX. It’s NOT based on skills. It’s centered on ideas, which necessarily means it will enforce orthodoxy and avoid truth. Skills are intrinsically true and unalterable, facts are arbitrary and controllable. UATX advisers and organizers include several unreformed Deepstaters like Bari Weiss and Richard Dawkins and (former…
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Platonic crap
Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else—independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The…
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Internal vs external
Stoller features a guest column on a new anti-monopoly trend in Canada. The author says that Canada has always been more prone to internal monopoly than US, with one family controlling most grocery stores and one family owning most of New Brunswick. Last year our tech monsters finally went too far, and Trudeau has made…
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Finally a bit of sanity!
Elle Griffin writes some SANITY about college. Even better, she’s writing about a FEW colleges that have reverted to the Anderson model. They’re not tiny startups; they’re big universities with lots of money available. = = = = = START QUOTE: BYU is followed by a dozen colleges and universities hoping to do the same—among…
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Stoller grasps Gosbank
Matt Stoller is getting close to the Gosbank solution. He’s discussing Boeing, with a complete and accurate history. He concludes that the government needs to BUY Boeing and redistribute its production to benefit American workers instead of American shareholders. On the dot. In the Soviet system the government provided the FINANCE and also made the…
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Not your campaign 2
Fortune mag says the anti-DEI movement has gone mainstream. In all of these cases, ideologues are mischaracterizing the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Their strategy is working: critiquing DEI has become more mainstream. Increasingly, even people who likely support some of the most common and visible examples of these efforts (parental leave, fair…
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The Tocqueville shared lie
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Listening to a second-string Repooflican radio talker. He’s running the same old tape about The Forty-Seven Percent, the same old line about Voting Largesse From The Public Treasury. He’s saying that Obama is guaranteeing perpetual D majorities by offering lots of free…
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Another shared lie
In 1948 a Chevy sales film mentioned Volkswagen as an icon of Hitler. Twenty years later the actual car was the enemy in this 1973 film aimed at GM factory workers. It cites the losses in various other industries. Textiles were mostly gone. Home radios and TVs were all gone. 20% of autos were foreign.…
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Da yoots has got it right.
The Progressive Policy Institute (Will Marshall’s outfit) surveyed young working class folks. If the poll is valid, it shows a remarkably accurate understanding, despite all the toxins spewed by R and D media for decades. These people want Democrats to be like FDR and want Repooflicans to be like Ike. A couple of specific questions:…
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No, it’s not neofeudalism
I’ve made this point before. It’s worth repeating. Everyone is referring to the gig economy as neofeudalism. The personalities are unquestionably feudal, the same insane inbred incestuous imbecilic aristocrats who ruled Europe for 500 years. The system is the exact opposite. Feudalism was based on TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS. The lord was required to support his serfs…
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Misdirected
Big Entertainment is fading. The tech tyrants who bought it know it’s fading. They’re happy to let it fade. That’s why they bought it. LBO. The Hollywood unions acquired solid contracts from the dying dinosaur, but the contracts don’t mean much. The contracts will help the dinosaur to fade, and the tech tyrants will be…
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