Billionaires Agree

George Soros apparently agrees with my assessment that the current financial crisis is histoircally analogous to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.
I can’t find a transcript of the event where he gave [...]

Guts

It’s impossible to stand firm for anything when you’re still dominated by primal fear of your parents. Most children are born into the world afraid – which makes sense, as it’s a rude awakening relative to the comfortable and largely secure environment that they start out in. That ordinary and healthy fear can be assuaged [...]

Change?

I hope what comes out of the new Obama administration is a new understanding among people that real change can only be created at the personal level through alterations in personal morality. Few presidents in history have had as strong a mandate from voters or have had such a lock on congress. Combine that with [...]

Indifference

It’s pleasant to be indifferent to the results of the election.
I’m having trouble empathizing with voters. Ever since I’ve followed politics closely, starting at around 11, I’ve regarded it as a corrupt process. I thought about possibly voting for Kerry on the lesser evil justification back in 2004, but rapidly tossed out the thought after [...]

National Celebrate Violence Against Everyone Day

Don’t forget, everyone, tomorrow is National Celebrate Violence Against Everyone Day! There will be celebrations held at almost every public building in the country. Line up with your fellow proles and pull a lever to celebrate mass-murder, theft and all things irrational.
It doesn’t matter which one you pull – mostly, it’s just important that you [...]

The Calculation Problem in Action

Check this out.
“What’s the best investment? It’s called a collateralized debt obligation,” or a C.D.O., Mr. Noack said. He described it as a collection of bonds from 105 of the most reputable companies that would pay the school board a small return every quarter.
“We’re being very conservative,” Mr. Noack told the board, composed of [...]

Scale

It’s easy to lose track of the massive scale of the philosophical error that surrounds us. Contradictions do not exist in reality, but core contradictory beliefs always result in catastrophe when people attempt to apply them to the real world. One example of this is the belief that the application of aggressive violence can result [...]

Why Sanction Murder?

War is the health of the state.
If you give sanction to the state, you support war.
“When you praise a politician, when you join a political party, you stand in blood. You wade in blood.”
From the LA Times:
The Raad brothers, and tens of thousands of children like them in this poor walled-in Shiite Muslim district, have [...]

L’État, C’est Nous

The state is a concept. It does not exist in the real world. There are men with guns who call themselves “the government,” but there is nothing that separates them morally from the rest of mankind, despite their pretentions to the contrary. It would be quite a feat to prove that putting on an American [...]

They Are Not Leaders

If you need to reach for a gun in order to get people to follow you, then you no longer qualify as a leader. Presidential candidates merely attempt to guilt and bully a large enough minority of people to vote for them so that they can take power and impose their will on hundreds of [...]