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Failure of Logic
Read more: Failure of LogicThere are three big things which impair people from thinking through the big problems of these times. One is the straight out thought policing; anyone who has a brain and can use it is a threat and a target. Second is the great difficulty getting right information about things. Finally there is the simple lack…
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About living in a Behavioural Sink
Read more: About living in a Behavioural SinkThe fish rots from the head down. Recently one of my fellow blogsters put up a piece complaining about the decline of human behaviour in the syndemic age. She referenced it to the famed Calhoun experiments with “rat paradises”. This produced some discussion. I have decided it is a good time to take this topic…
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War of Words; Economy versus Society
Read more: War of Words; Economy versus SocietyDenying the word does not make the thing go away. Public discourse in the 2020s is getting weirder all the time. The “newspeak” of George Orwell was an early predictor of this phenomenon. People are trying to make ideas and things go away by making it impossible to say them. That kind of thing was…
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A reflection on ‘Collective Amnesia’
Read more: A reflection on ‘Collective Amnesia’It is not a normal or inevitable thing. Here is my comment on something one of my fellow substackers wrote. It is so good I think I should post it. Find the article it responds to here.Wildfire almost has it right here. The thing to understand about “collective amnesia” is that it is not something natural.…
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The Magician, the Artisan, China, The West, and the Scientific Revolution.
Read more: The Magician, the Artisan, China, The West, and the Scientific Revolution.Something Pertinent to Comparing Chinese and Western Civilization in this age of “civilizational” conflict. My most recent blog post was “The Panda Hugger’s Handbook”, a review of a book titled “Why China Leads the World”. I agreed with the book’s main thesis that China will lead the world by example in this century. The culture and…
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The Panda Hugger’s Handbook.
Read more: The Panda Hugger’s Handbook.A review of “Why China Leads the World.” This book came out in 2020. It is not to be confused with “”When China Rules the World” which is from 2009. I have not read the latter but it sounds stupid, because the Chinese would not be foolish enough to try to rule the world.Only the…
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About the Blue and Yellow
Read more: About the Blue and YellowLogic is not selective. It has to be applied through thefull spectrum of reality Now seems like a good time to write this. A couple of very big public follies are about to come to a moment of realization. My theme is my exasperation that so many people who seem immune to one bullshit narrative…
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An Age of Monetary Cranks
Read more: An Age of Monetary CranksThe Global Economy is Changing in Ways Some People do not Like. There is a saying that in politics there are long periods when nothing happens and short periods when a lot happens. The opening of the Ukraine war has shaken loose some fixations and a lot of things are happening fast. This means there…
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Putting the migration issue right side up
Read more: Putting the migration issue right side upYou do not save A by wrecking B I am again seeing comments on the world’s refugee mass migration problem, reciting the riffs from the villains who are engineering this growing crisis. What is so sad about it is that it is mostly coming from people who should know better, who consider themselves to be…
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Keep Listening, Greenhouse Gasbag.
Read more: Keep Listening, Greenhouse Gasbag.This Global Warming Nonsense has a History Rolling right along, I have now explained the bogus nature of global warming. I exposed the real driver of climate variations on earth and the driver of false perceptions about climate. Find that here.Next I covered the most serious danger to the continuance of a habitable planet; a…
adults in charge
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Adults in Charge 