I said something the other day about FDR being closer to national socialism than Hoover to make the point that the mainstream must adapt to new conditions.
The establishment changed quite a lot between the years before 1929 and 1945. FDR was in many respects closer to national socialism than Hoover and what stands out today is how the liberals haven't changed with the times. Same old dead men with the same old dead ways.
Men have to invest quality time and attention in the assumption that it will pay off later.
But the difficulty is you. Maybe a man wouldn’t need so many irons in the fire if woman wasn’t so picky. Making you feel #1 as well as the other 54 is not an easy ability to possess.
My half brother became my half sister. The orders from my father and other brothers are to make no effort with him at all, but I can't see me taking any notice of that.
We’ve whittled religion down to one god who’s left us to it. Expanded horizons just make god distant although because he’s so far away people can say anything about him, as they do. Religion has evolved to be the most difficult to disprove and never in mankind has there been as many takes on what god is.
Civilisation conquers the unknown and creates the assumption that you’ll behave like a civilised man. You can’t go back to a myriad of different gods chasing you around the earth after that.
Exaggerating for comic effect or a serious situation met by a thoughtless glib remark acting in error is therapy for some reason beyond our control. There’s something inappropriate to the surprise and we laugh in our refusal to feel violated. All the best comedians had an abusive childhood.
The alternatives to the rat race are Upskilling, arranging your financial affairs, refusing to make impulse purchases and being less swayed by the power of advertising. The laziness must be rational.
I'd like to find a happy medium between the poor getting charged to withdraw their own money from the bank and people browsing in stores only to buy it all online.
The consumer wields absolute power potentially. It's a pity the poor still get ripped off with the grasping monopoly middle expecting you to work almost for free ensuring a salted earth for infant business and posterity in general. To sell you so much for such rubbish money requires scale.
In some industries the answer to the innately de-skilled job was to make the most skilled thing about the job lie in deciphering its red tape. But that can't carry on forever neither.
What I would say is that the world moves so fast that the value you add grows worthless faster than you grow up. Knowing the job in and out is one thing, but it's still half the job it was.
They practically fly themselves. But business does this to rid itself of the overpaid older people; to start on an inflated wage and then receive pay rises as your job gets less skilled. You end up like France paying professional wages for tasks that could be or would be performed by a chimp.
Basically in the modern world the man's biological destiny is trade not war. But capitalism never quite suits how we all evolved, it's not what the animals practice and civilisation isn't quite the same thing as biology.
And in my defence we're forced into nationalistic zero-sum thinking by the alternative. 500 million lives stagnate in the west to equip the global billions.
They'll forgive his means so long as he maintains the image of fighting for America. Which he does. I won't join the chorus of quislings singing his praises from abroad because overall he's bad for every other country, but if I was American I'd vote for him.
Comes with a delay unless the world breaks you then I wouldn't bank on there being much delay. Times change much faster when the world is blowing itself to bits for example.
But theres a definite delay in it. People don't forget how to read the moment Playstation was invented, the response to 2008 doesn't happen until 2030, and Brexiteers will not be the ones character built by Brexit. There's a couple of decades before what's happening becomes who we are to any significant extent.
Whatever remains of the thinking man he chooses to think because he finds it pleasurable to do so. This is not the way it's supposed to exclusively be. Hobby humanity is the bread and circus, the stress of necessity isn't.
If the average on the right today is 16 syllables before you're bored of a text you'll whittle this down to 8 syllables through Trump. To accelerate the dumbing down since Reagan is the reason your educated friends don't like you and Trump loves the badly educated. Sustaining a massive head injury will stop you making the kind of mistakes only intelligent people can make, but at what cost?
I would have argued that the richer you make the super rich the more philanthropy you will see. Buying friends and wives is more normal for the Zuckerbergs and the BIll Gates, outside of their entrerprise the rich are normally weak. Anyway it looks like a move to big charity, the ordinary American is becoming less charitable this is a product of the rich being too thick to know what to do with money.
Socialism is a nice albeit cluttered idea that couldn't possibly succeed without a lot of editing. If anything take from it thinking holistically. It's better for the whole city to make a loss on the roads so that the whole city can get to work rather than paying a toll at the end of every street. When that efficiency or impartiality matters more than profit-motive innovation is a time to consider the state.
The ends always justify the means you know what Trumps like. The gut says “yes” or the gut says “no” and every other word he speaks is manufactured to get that result.
And that’s a fine business model capitalism is a soft science. On average feelings are the decision-maker in people, markets are run by faith and belief what people want is not necessarily, or even very often, the ideal. Not to be patronising but the man of reason might want to think about the people around him.
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RE: Pelosi - I would rather see Trump in jail, than impeached.
I said something the other day about FDR being closer to national socialism than Hoover to make the point that the mainstream must adapt to new conditions.