For many years, we here at The Privateer (and many others) have been explaining the mechanism by which the production of real wealth has progressively been taken over by the production of “purchasing power”. The onset of the GFC [global financial crisis] exposed these mechanisms to public scrutiny to an extent not seen since the [...]
“L’État, c’est moi.” The state, it’s me. OK, so Louis XIV never said this, but the principle has long been coveted and applied, left or right. If one really thinks about it, it’s an incredible spectacle that a lawsuit is being filed with the aim of having Barack Obama enjoined by a Federal Court from [...]
I have a mind, an ADD one at that, to mimic Jackie Harvey’s style. Much easier than discursion. Aye, it is difficult to concentrate with the World Cup in swing now. Perhaps this will be less disjointed than my previous entry, but perhaps not. That said, as always there are interesting developments afoot on the [...]
Yes, for nothing left to lose. Funny how things work in pairs. Hollywood likes a pairing. Think of Mission To Mars and Red Planet; Leviathan and The Abyss; Armageddon and Deep Impact; Democrat and Republican… On that note, the best political movie I can think of at the moment is The Candidate. “Best” being superlatively [...]
Bless the intertubes. I hope to write a longer post on similar themes this weekend, in memory of memory.
Gerald Celente talks in the clip below of lighting a candle locally made, which calls to my mind three things: 1. Can one light a nonlocal candle? 2. More seriously, Bastiat’s Candlestick makers’ petition, though itself a fun parody, and, 3. More seriously yet, that which other quarters have been talking about for quite a [...]
By that I mean…. Lincoln, Abraham, understanding? He has been so vaunted that to qualify Lincoln as understanding seems surprising to some, I’ll hazard. So, what did Lincoln understand? Simply, that people conspire. Hark! The verb confirmed. We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see [...]
In my last Goodreads micro-review, I stated that “there’s a lengthy excerpt which pertains to literature which I should type in here, but I may save that for a blog entry.” I’ll go for half here and cite the better paragraph, truncated at that: In dealing with the [classical] liberal social philosophy there is a [...]
Although I’ve come to have important doubts about Noam Chomsky’s political work, largely through articles such as Weintraub’s, I am more and more impressed by his scientific work, in particular his comments regarding the inherent creativity and constraints of language use, often humorous – John ate a sandwich. Sandwich a ate John. – and his [...]
I must quibble with Hornberger’s autonomic judgment of targets as “terrorists”, but otherwise, gratifying sanity from principled right-libertarians: