If you want to win votes, propose wealth redistribution. There are always few rich, and few truly happy people, so to the lonely and discontented voter your words will be like a balm for the soul. Except of course that much like heroin, “once is not enough.” Soon more is needed, and the one-time-fix of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social darwinism’
Stop yer cryin’!
OK, don’t stop your cryin’. I don’t care if you cry. Crying can be good, after all. It cleans out the eye sockets and soothes the driest of eyes. You’re left with red and bloodshot eyes, but that’s what attracts the babes, these days: men exploring their sensitive, feminine sides, etc… But it doesn’t, really. [...]
Proles versus Elites: a review of the protests, part I
For some time on this website there has been a raging debate about the banking system, the protests, occupy movements, and who’s to blame for it all. In the discussion there’s basically two sides. Side one points out that the captains of industry got where they are by hard labour and a degree of talent. [...]
Emotion
Quotations often appear, around here, and one of the more illuminating sources seems to be Arthur Schopenhauer. He had an especially good one, as you will see… But what also often appears, is a tendency to view historically-quoted sources as final, and absolute. I’ve never understood this tendency. It’s as if everything that can be [...]
Revolution or evolution
We normally think of time in BC/AD, but we should probably think instead in terms of before and after 1789. In that august year, our ancestors decided to shift to liberalism, which is a philosophy based upon the equality of all individuals. In other words, it’s wishful thinking made into policy. The revolution brought us [...]
Rebellion against rebellion
The idea of rebellion is simple: the jerks in power are forcing the rest of us away from the good life, so we’re going to band together, outnumber them, and take over. Rebellion puts the rebels in an unassailable position: we’re the good guys, doing this for you! The bad guys have rules, but we [...]
Stuttering
I stuttered for over fifty years. There was nothing funny about it. Then, over a very short space of time, it fizzled out, disappeared, and hasn’t been heard from since. I was left trying to discover exactly what had happened, and why, to have so completely routed this demonic possession of the vocal cords. Nobody [...]
Human ecocide will replace humans with new species
A growing fear that the environment is on the brink of collapse is making many greens less willing to compromise, even with each other. And George Bush’s departure from the White House has removed a common adversary. Politicians like Mr Schwarzenegger tend to believe that energy projects should be judged on whether they improve on [...]
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
This terrifying book by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, shows us the elephant in the room of politics: the difference between have and have-not nations is intelligence. The more intelligent nations not only invent more things, but they’re aware of a longer-term time-scale to their goals, so they value things like civic morality, collective awareness, [...]
Intelligent outer space life may be common
To estimate a distribution of values instead, he created a computer model of the Milky Way’s stars, generated planets around them, and assigned life to some planets in the habitable zones of their stars. Then he used equations that take into account the random nature of evolution to determine if that life went on to [...]
