“The only concrete proposal he provides is to get rid of billionaires—or, rather, their billions, suggesting that an individual’s net worth be capped at $500 million: “there’s no reason we as a society have to put up with the continued existence of billionaires,” who he argues help “fringe philosophies” thrive.” I have to absolutely andContinue reading “Freedom is NOT Greed”
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Us vs Them or Each Against All
More confused everyday. I thought “Woke” just meant to be aware of white supremacist policies and worldviews affecting society. Now Chris is telling me, no, it is bad. Some on the left seem to be defecting to the right (not Chris). I was all in for Harris and now….after listening to Thomas Frank I seemContinue reading “Us vs Them or Each Against All”
The End Of The Story
Abridged Transcript, On Point (my favorite Public Radio Show)Part I MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is back with us today. She’s a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She writes a Substack newsletter on threats to democracy called Lucid, and she’s author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. And throughout this year,Continue reading “The End Of The Story”
Solve The Right Problems
The naive theory of information: Most information is not truth, it is fictions and fantasies and delusions and errors and lies. Truth is a very rare and costly kind of information…a small subset. Flood the Earth with information and the truth sinks to the bottom. Fiction is very cheap, no research, fact-checking. Truth is complicatedContinue reading “Solve The Right Problems”
A Limitarian Political Party
The only question in a democracy is how much a person gets to keep, which depends on how much the rest of us are empowered to keep other people from keeping everything. Wealth concentrates upward slowly but surely and eventually a small group of people own everything and everyone. This has been going on forContinue reading “A Limitarian Political Party”
Jurassic Park to New America
It occurred to me that what has happened resembles, in some ways, the 30-year-old movie Jurassic Park. The movie’s central character is Alan Grant, who studies dinosaurs. In the story of the end of America, the central character represents the white male, 60 percent of whom voted for Trump. In the movie the rich guyContinue reading “Jurassic Park to New America”
Do You Believe?
The Kamala Harris speech was rousing…and took me back to a significant event in my life some years ago. She concluded with, “Do we believe in the promise of America…and are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win! God bless you and God bless the United States of America.” IContinue reading “Do You Believe?”
Half an Acre
I made a comment on YouTube about “Freedom.” Interestingly, freedom is inextricably linked with inheritance. Start with land….this is where the indigenous Americans were in conflict with Europeans. We acquire and hold land and pass it down to our children and eventually, without checks or balances, all the land concentrates into a small group orContinue reading “Half an Acre”
Ice on the Moon 