http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2013/Kuehnimmigration.html#.UiT7RV9yIDw.facebook(SIGH) IMMIGRATION IS ONLY “GOOD” IF YOU EXICLUDE THE COST OF NORMS.
What was the cost to america of the violation of the 14th amendment?
What is the cost to america of political friction?
Without accounting for ALL COSTS it’s NOT economics.
It’s finance.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-02 16:57:00 UTC
THE WEST VS THE EAST VS THE ARAB MODEL
Citizens as individual actors with the state as neutral arbiter vs citizens as troublesome dependents to be managed by the paternal head of family.
“These societies possess the outward trappings of a modern state but are founded on informal patronage networks, especially those of kinship, and traditional ideals of patriarchal family authority. In nations pervaded by clannism, government is coopted for purely factional purposes and the state, conceived on the model of the patriarchal family, treats citizens not as autonomous actors but rather as troublesome dependents to be managed.” – the Arab Development Report.
We are different. Our ancestry is that of egalitarian warriors not extended familial hierarchy.
We were different from the start.
And that difference: the need to debate between peers is the origin of reason, science, and all else that we have used to dig humanity out of ignorance and poverty.
Kicking and screaming, all the while.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-16 04:03:00 UTC
http://www.craigwilly.info/2013/08/14/can-media-tell-the-truth-on-new-vs-traditional-journalism/TRUTH IN JOURNALISM; A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION
(The Common Law)
Craig WIlly, a blogger who I follow who writes honestly about EU affairs, will leave blogging for a position as a reporter with a financial new service in Germany.
In his column he states the obvious: that there is no such thing as journalism, only opinion writing. “Opinion Journalism”. He uses a quote from Julian Assange to justify the journalistic economy: It is the clashing of these voices together that reveals the truth about the world as a whole”. Just like any other form of capitalism.
But I would argue, given the statements below, that if you don’t get paid for it, it’s an opinion. But if you sell it, it’s a product. And if you sell a product, you must warrantee it. And journalists, or at least media providers, should be held accountable for the quality of their products.
Our courts made a vast mistake undermining traditional common law on libel and slander. And we worsen that mistake with not requiring warrantee on the products of reporters. If products must come to market with warrantee, then fewer of them will come, but they will be of much higher quality.
It should be noted that the government gives corporations the permission to pollute, and journalists the permission to lie, slander and commit fraud, by revoking your right of standing in the court of law, as a consumer of a good that was purchased on the market.
So while I agree with Craig’s argument, I do not agree that the market without the courts, is a sufficient guarantee of public good. Not even market anarchists make this argument. Nor do I agree that the market for information is a sufficient guarantee of public good without the protection of the courts in enforcing warrantee on the quality of the product that we consume. Nor do I agree that the market for academic knowledge without the courts is a sufficient guarantee of public good.
Personally, I’d like to take Dan Rather to court for all the damage he did to America.
QUOTE:
“Today, years later, I’ve come to be more aware than ever that media are generally not in a particularly good position to tell the truth. There are too many structural problems:
The journalist (or media) is often an amateur-generalist who writes about subjects about which he has no expertise. (How many Yugoslavia-experts were there in Western media in the 1990s? How many Islam experts after 9/11? How many Germany experts since the euro crisis?)
1) The journalist has to write to very short time constraints, before the “fog of war” clears.
2) The traditional (print or TV) journalist has to simplify according to the constraints of column size and screen time (“concision”).
3) The journalist panders to the powerful in order to preserve “access.”
4) The journalist panders to his audience’s prejudices in order to acquire and keep readers.
5) The journalist engages in sensationalism to get “hits.”
6) The journalist must respect the interests of his paymasters (corporate or government owners, subsidizers, advertisers, subscribers…).
7) “The journalist” is defined here as he who lives by his writing, each of these points could be extended to media in general.
The point here is all media, all journalists, have necessary and structural conflicts of interest that potentially compromise and bias the truthfulness of their writing.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 13:18:00 UTC
CLOWN: EVIDENCE OF A STATE RELIGION?
Now, we have a long history of ridiculing our officials. I have spent halloween dressed as both Reagan and Clinton – neither of them very charitable representations.
So a clown gets up and plays the president. Or Hollywood puts out a discrediting film using prominent left wing actors about Reagan or the iron lady.
We burn effigies of Bush, and copies of the flag.
Funny enough that the progressive reaction to a clown wearing an Obama mask at a rodeo produces the same intensity of reaction that a cartoon of mohammed did from fundamentalist muslims.
American libertarians and conservatives must understand that the philosophical framework we call postmodernism, is a FUNDAMENTALIST religion far more dangerous than islam. Far more dangerous than socialism or communism.
Christianity had churches against the nobility. Communism had the state against the nobility and the capitalists. Socialism had universities and argued that it was a science – until it was demonstrated in theory and practice that it was not.
But universities did not give up upon the failure of their new religion. They invented postmodernism.
We see postmodernism as political correctness. As feminism that did not grant equal rights, but extraordinary privileged. As absurd liberal logic: Equality as a fact rather than a necessity of just law. Diversity as a good rather than a temporary tolerance until people assimilate . Merit as an obscurity for invisible inexplicable but assumed corruption. Support for the unfortunate as an obligation to subsidize poor judgement.
That the separation of church and state must equally apply to universities and their religion of postmodernism, as it did to our cathedrals and christianity.
Universities, like advertising agencies and consumer brands have the incentives to mislead people, whether customers or citizens. To sell them lies, dreams and fantasies. And since they are unaccountable there is
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-15 11:39:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-monetary-currency-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchy
https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-monetary-currency-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchy
“The third social order arose over the last 300 years: open access orders sustain social order through political and economic competition rather than rent-creation.”
(Thanks Skye)
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 02:49:00 UTC
WHY THE RELIGION OF THE STATE: POSTMODERNISM?
Family structure + literacy + godlessness = political ideology
1) Family systems and agrarian systems
2) Modernization phases (literacy, industrialization, dechristianization, contraception)
3) Ideology (nationalism, socialism, religious conservatism)
-Emmanuel Todd (France)
The state suppresses christianity in order to replace it with postmodernism (state socialism). That is why it is OK to criticize christianity, and white people, but no one else. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 09:30:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Did-liberalism-socialism-anarchism-and-post-colonialism-fail
https://www.quora.com/Did-liberalism-socialism-anarchism-and-post-colonialism-fail