The reason people hang on is they still have hope. Do you think hope will get you anywhere?
As it would undermine their moral standing.
Canceling people in Woke outrage is a big fad now. Often the canceled — their careers gone, exile affirmed — complain it isn’t fair. But fair’s got nothing to do with it. It isn’t reasonable to expect ‘fairness’, ‘reciprocity’ or ‘tolerance’ from left wing or Woke media outlets or platform. One cannot count on the kindness of an avowed foe. To rely upon it is a confession of mental weakness.
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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
The rise of the global China class.
China is waging a subtle war against an island neighbour, deploying a rather unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire.
Its latest weapon? Sand…
Although China is a formidable geopolitical rival it is not ten feet tall. It’s birthrate continues to fall to record levels despite the Party’s reversal of the One Child policy. Compared to the Quad alliance …
I was interviewed by Steve Bannon on War Room on my recent piece Bandwagon of Perdition. My segment starts at about 26:50
Charles de Gaulle when asked by a journalist if ‘he was happy’ retorted “What do you take me for, an idiot?” For some people neighborliness is just plain irksome.
Do you really want to help people or just enjoy sitting in judgment of others? This is the dilemma of the virtuous. Nothing is more ensnaring than the temptation of knowing you are better than others for it is the key to power. The churches were meant to be full of sinners while the halls of authority are reserved for those without need of forgiveness. The secret to modern virtue is knowing that no one can forgive.
Is war making a comeback in the Middle East? What about the Pacific? One of the two things the pandemic did was weaken great powers across the board. The other was it destabilized countries and power blocs internally. The former lessens the danger of deliberate conflict; the latter increases it. The question is whether and to what extent this internal disquiet will overflow into external miscalculation.
We spent 4 years of the Trump administration listening to media warnings of a war that never came. One never knows what tomorrow brings, especially in the middle of a paradigm shift, especially under an administration using yesterday’s calculus. The intifada was once dead — then it came back to life.
“China’s record aluminium output last year emitted more C02 than some entire countries, including Indonesia and Brazil,” says Reuters. Maybe the West should shut more of their economies down in order to shame China into compliance. Or it could develop cheap nuclear power and outcompete their “inefficient coal plants”.
Politics ought to be decided on policy and performance. Virtue signaling was always a pretty phoney basis for choosing public positions.
The NYT asks why the caring left is far behind the cruel conservatives in vaccination rollouts.
Tis witchcraft. Or more jab jab and less jaw jaw.
It’s amazing how much slavery you can impose in the guise of ‘safety’ and ‘justice’. In the last few years humanity has given away its birthright for a mess of digital pottage. And we want seconds.
Democracy in action from the pages of Time. Rejoice.
No longer the regime agent watching from across the street but the cell phone tracking you from your pocket. Who needs the Stasi when the regime has social media?
