It has become trendy to say that the right wing and left wing are two faces of the same party of elites. This is a convenient statement if you want the status quo to continue, because it makes people shrug and rage against the machine, but ultimately they do so knowing they cannot change it. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘socialism’
Sharing
I hear a lot about “sharing”, these days. The self-styled “99%” are big on it. As are legions of self-styled “poor”, of which there are none, in the western world. Yet. “There’s more than enough to go round”, it is claimed, ad nauseum. Why can’t “we” have “our share”? Why am I using so many [...]
Cancer
One fine fall day, a massive grumbling from the stomach split the silent morning. The cells on break time were hanging loose at their favorite watering hole, a looped vein near the pyloric sphincter that tended to accumulate abundant nutrients. And, as usual, the talk turned to the lack of a comfortable living in the [...]
A permanent obsession
When empires are strong, they are carried by their deeds: their productivity, the clear wisdom of their mandate, and their great works. However, when they start to die, they instead turn to control. If they have no deeds, they can instead control your thought by forcing you to repeat insane dogma until your brain accepts [...]
Liberalism is the cause of inequality
One of the pitfalls of being human is the many perceptual traps that can ensnare us. Spotting an object in water is difficult because of refraction; our ability to estimate the lengths of lines is hampered by nearby objects. Colors surrounding an object affect how we perceive it. For the past five hundred years, a [...]
Expectations define reality
When we plan, we project a vision of the future in our minds. We then filter out everything but what fits into that vision, and in so doing, make our expectations come to pass. Extrapolating this, we can see that how we shape our civilization now determines what it will grow into in the future. [...]
The economic value of chastity
People too frequently talk about morality as entirely disconnected from this world. Everything here is wrecked, they suggest, so you perform this otherworldly duty that makes no sense by the rules of the gritty physical environment in which we live. While that description applies to most of the arbitrarily abstract theories of those who have [...]
Begging For Socialism
In a shameful move by a shamefully & poorly managed US auto company, GM is now asking the government to completely take over the company so it doesn’t have to run itself – nor confront the unions it plans to phase out: GM is living on $15.4 billion in government loans and faces a June [...]
