PICKETTY’S ARGUMENT?
Um, here is what he’s saying: “There is this game of cups and balls. The economy moves the cups. The ball is missing, and this cup is my logical suspect”.
Sorry man. Its under the cup called ‘inflation’.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 10:08:00 UTC
MY VIEW OF MAN?
My view of mankind? Mostly? Excited children running with scissors – with a precious few elder historians trying their best to prevent the worst of the injuries.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 10:06:00 UTC
Place: Lviv, Ukraine (49.8333, 24)I can sort of start to see a set of axis that represent the techniques of truth telling and lying. I’ll figure it out. I can sense it. pretty cool.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 08:20:00 UTC
http://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/674929874574950400/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=674929874574950400The Fallacy of Libertinism’s Crusoe’s Island Though Model. #NRx #AltRight #Conservative #libertarian https://t.co/iTPyvDlF65
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 07:33:00 UTC
http://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/674886300080676864/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=674886300080676864The Only Thing That Melts Is Rule Of Law https://t.co/4GjmwyDVpk
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 04:40:00 UTC
THE NOBEL PRIZE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF PROPAGANDA SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
Well, the Nobel Prize is awarded for POLITICAL ACTIVISM, not for content. Is her work worthy of a Nobel? Not likely. Is Solzhenitzyn? Maybe. The only Nobel prizes that are not rewarded on the basis of political progressivism are the hard (physical) sciences. The nobel prize is a vehicle for promoting european social democracy.
So in this sense, the Nobel prize given to this woman is equivalent to the Russian sponsorship of the Frankfurt School, The Ron Paul Institute, Global Research in Canada, and Russian funding of Muslim terrorists in Europe and America.
I have gained enough (limited) understanding of Russian economics and infrastructure to grasp why Putin does what he does. The only problem I have with what he does is (a) expanding Russian influence into eastern Europe, and (b) that they lie about what they’re doing.
The reason is that both American experiment has failed, and the Russian experiment has failed. And we both need to contain the barbarians and get our own houses in order, and punish troublemakers rather than try to expand our influence.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 04:26:00 UTC
http://www.amazon.com/Hive-Mind-Your-Nations-Matters/dp/0804785961THE ONLY THINGS THAT MELT IN THIS POT, ARE RULE OF LAW, HIGH TRUST, THE COMMONS, AND THE VOLUNTARISM OF THE CIVIC SOCIETY
—-“For along with strange people, strange doctrines must come in; and novel doctrines bring novel decisions, from which there must arise many feelings and resolutions which destroy the harmony of the existing political order. Therefore he thought it more necessary to keep bad manners and customs from invading and filling the city than it was to keep out infectious diseases.”—Plutarch
ALSO READ
Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nations IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
http://www.amazon.com/Hive-Mind-Your-Nation%C2%92s-Matters/dp/0804785961
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 03:59:00 UTC
FB TIP
Replying underneath someone allows them to delete your comment when they delete theirs.
I try to save everything I write, everywhere, so if something is worth saving, I post it as a new comment rather than a reply.
Same for something written by others: Copy the author’s text, then share his post, and past his text into your share. This will preserve your text (I think).
“Software should never destroy data that the user doesn’t explicitly want it to.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 03:38:00 UTC
http://fee.org/freeman/capitalism-is-the-wrong-word/RETIRING THE TERM “CAPITALISM”?
I use the terms:
1) “Consumer Capitalism”;
2) “Voluntary organization of production vs involuntary organization of production”;
3) “The voluntary organization of invention, investment, production, distribution and consumption, into sustainable adaptable networks of specialization and trade”;
…depending upon how deep a point I want to make.
There are only three methods of organizing man: force ( slavery/socialism ), exchange ( capitalism ), guilt/shame ( communism ). And under all three we keep only some of the proceeds. The debate is always how much.
The purpose of Cosmopolitan Libertinism is to force others to pay for all the commons. This is why Cosmopolitan Libertinism (“libertarianism”) fails to catch on beyond the socially challenged and autistically biased.
The purpose of Classical Liberalism is to construct commons free of privatization – since it is fear of privatization that diminishes incentive to produce commons. Despite the fact that commons – particularly normative commons that demand truth-telling, are a groups greatest competitive advantage.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 03:29:00 UTC
VILLAGE GIRLS VS FARM GIRLS
Ukrainians use the term ‘Village Girl’ the way we americans use the term “farm girl”. Now, in america this tends to mean ‘pretty, wholesome, pragmatic, honest, and open, if unsophisticated’ and basically uncorrupted by city life.
A ‘Village Girl’ in Ukraine has all the good qualities, except the poverty has made them a bit ‘pragmatic’ and lacking in suburban romanticism and urban idealism. The local urbanites use the term disparagingly. But I don’t see it the same way.
We are spoiled in the west. We have forgotten our poverty of less than a century ago.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 01:58:00 UTC