I like to say things like ‘when I become the ruler of the Universe’…but, really, if I ever became that, I would pluck Thomas Sowell out and make him do the actual ruler. Because he is that awesome.
I would place Thomas Sowell along with Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Richard Feynman, Thomas Payne and, well, all the giants that advanced humanity. The only difference between him and them is that he is still alive, able to share his wisdom with us.
When the Ancient Greeks would conquer another peoples, they would claim that their main God, the head of their pantheon, is just another manifestation of the Greek head god, Zeus (Romanized as Jupiter), so, there really is not that much of a difference between them. They all worship the same capricious head god – this time, this side won, but if Zeus (by any other name) wanted, the other side would have won.
No shame in defeat – God’s did it. A way to ‘save face’…
We may not appreciate this now in our time, but, that is an extremely important aspect of integrating the defeated peoples’ culture into the winning one in a positive, constructive manner.
It seems that the Ancient Greeks understood (knowingly or not) that destroying a conquered culture’s ‘origin myth’ is devastating, for – what we now know – is a few generations.
So, whether by instinct, knowledge or wisdom, the Ancient Greeks avoided that.
Instead of denigrating the defeated peoples’ mythology, they went out of their way to graft it on to their own mythology, thereby giving the conquered peoples’ a channel to integrate into the Greek culture. This benefited both: new blood, new ideas – but within the same overarching cultural framework that is necessary to hold a society together.
Which makes ‘integrating’ the various ‘goddess queens’ that much more difficult…(coming next)
Charity is good – just like Shakespeare spoke of mercy (paraphrasing): it blesses him who receives it as well as him who provides it.
Yet, in order for this to be true, it needs to be personal: one person choses to help another, one way or another.
When governments get involved – we are taking on a whole new thing.
Governments decide who is to ‘receive funds’ and who is to ‘surrender funds’ – you cannot give someone money without first taking it from someone else. Governments have a monopoly on taking money from some individuals (taxes) and they are permitted to use force to extract these funds.
Nay, they have a monopoly on violence to extract taxes.
These are collected from all citizens, willing or not. (We shall focus on the ‘not’ ones in just a bit.)
Then, a portion of these tax-collected funds are given out to people who do not work (cannot or are not willing to – sad, but irrelevant to the point of my argument).
So, some people work without compensation (taxes taken away) for a period of time (part of the year) only to support the lifestyle of other people who do not work.
In other words: people who are on welfare are ‘slave owners’ who do not need to work yet have their living needs provided for by other people who do work, but who would not support them if it were not for the threat of force (in this case, by the tax collecting governments).
If working/doing things for the benefit of others under the threat of force is not THE definition of ‘slavery’, then I do not know what is: and I would like your input – please correct me if I am wrong!
Yes, it is true – I dislike most music.
Playing music just to drown out the silence, the thinking time – that is how our culture has gone.
But, there are a few songs I do enjoy – and yes, they are political in their nature or I would not find any merit in them. Music is awesome, because it is a most potent vehicle of brain-washing. It is silly not to acknowledge that each and every song is a tool of brainwashing.
We can drill down to folk songs back when they were sung by peasants to make their plight tolerable…yeah, I am a descendant of these peasants and fully understand their songs, for what they are…
Dr. James Lindsay is a Mathematician who, along with friends Helen Pluckrose and Dr. Peter Boghossian noticed that there was a marked lack of rigour and scientific method in highly regarded, peer-reviewed papers published on a particular part of the Social Sciences, derogatorily referred to a Grievance Studies. To see if they were correct, they wrote a number of bogus papers with very poor scientific methods and a lot of popular buzzwords and claims of the Grievance Studies.
Surprise surprise, their papers (like how dog-owners react to male-on-female humping vs male-on-male humping in dog parks and how these reactions ‘prove’ inherent sexism in our culture) began to be published and acclaimed. I actually remember some of these papers being papers being touted in mainstream media (MSM) and rolling my eyes – and it is a sad commentary that so many people accepted them as ‘science’ because they were ‘peer-reviewed’…because none of us quite realized that the ‘peers’ doing the ‘reviewing’ were not scientists but ideologues.
When what they thought were transparently fake and somewhat satirical papers began to be cited and nominated for scientific excellence awards, the trio pulled the plug on the project and revealed what they had done.
Perhaps some of my details of the story are fuzzy by the flow of time, but the major point remains.
Since then Dr. Lindsay has taken a deep dive into the world of Grievance Studies and what were the underlying principles that let to them and their open disdain in rejecting the scientific method and instead treating purely political screeds as ‘science’. He has gone to many primary sources and slugged through them, as well as some excellent analyst like Maj. Stephen Coughlin of Unconstrained Analytics. Here is one of Stephen Coughlin’s ‘briefs’:
Winston Marshall prides himself on being a banjo player in some band, but had to quit because he liked a book written by a journalist who was seriously injured by Antifa. Now, he has a wildly successful program here he interviews the greatest thinkers of our times and helps unlock the complexity of their arguments to those of us just learning about the topic can follow with ease – but they are complex topics.
For example, in the video below, James Lindsay and Winston Marshall delve into what is wokism (best explanation so far is that it is Critical Constructionist Epistemology, where the ‘way of knowing’ is constructed on the foundation of the Critical Theory as evolved from the original Frankfurt School teachings – yes, big words – but they really explain them) and the difference between the ‘woke right’ and the ‘woke left’ as well as the different flavours of conservatism and leftism/progressivism in our current political milieu and how the second coming of Donald Trump to the Presidency disrupts how the various groups are evolving.
It is only an hour-and-a-bit long, but is is distilled information that is made comprehensible and Winston Marshall asks all the questions I would have asked for clarification when the wording got too technical.
Warning: James Lindsay – in any of his videos/podcasts/interviews will stretch your mind. But, Winston Marshall is such a skilled interviewer, he makes it enjoyable.
So, please, do enjoy this video:
Vladimir Putin is a bad person – perhaps evil. You do not get to head up the KGB by being nice or kind person – or barely registering as human. So, let me state this from the very beginning.
I have no illusions about who and what Putin is.
But that does not mean that I have to be blind to who and what Zelensky is, and that he might be just as bad – or, perhaps, worse, than Putin.
I have it on good authority that Zelensky’s luxury villa in Italy is on the same street, and only 4 houses down, from Putin’s luxury villa in Italy. If that does not bring things into perspective, I don’t know what will.
Please if you can, prove or disprove this claim in the comments – we all should know.
Well, this does not bode well…
Romania held elections, and the ‘wrong’ party won
What to do, what to do, what to do…
Oh – here is an idea: arrest and criminally charge the leader of said party!
Then, cancel the election altogether!
That is exactly what had happened to Romania’s Calin Georgecu…
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1894713321422721070
Just because it is called ‘a democracy’ does not mean it is, actually, a democracy. Think DDR – the Democratic Republic of Germany, there are many. It’s newspeak – call things by the opposite of what they are.
In the EU, the elected politicians are not allowed to reject the laws drafted by the unelected bureaucrats: they may only vote ‘yes’ or request a delay to re-negotiate the terms in the proposed law, to be re-crafted by the same bureaucrats who engineered the original proposed law.
OK – we have a bit of a pattern here: in Czech, the opposition leader is being criminally charged (just ahead of the elections) for opposing the ruling coalition’s policies, because even though ‘opposing’ is actually in his job title as an opposition leader in Parliament, ‘actually opposing’ is … ‘divisive’.
In Romania, the ‘wrong’ party wins, so the election is cancelled and the winning party leader is criminally charged and arrested.
In Germany, the most popular party in current elections has flipped on the issues that it ran on, and the second most popular party that has held true on these same issues is being frozen out of the governing structure…
This makes it look like President Trump – having been charged with a no-victim crime and convicted just prior to the US elections – got off easy. OK, the assasination attempts against him were not ‘getting away easy’, of course, and I am in no way making light of that. All I mean is that despite the establishment ruling interests, Trump won despite their lawfare.
Now, we will have to see how – now criminally charged opposition leader in the Czech Republic, Mr. Tomio Okamura, and Mr. Calin Georgescu, the winning candidate now arrested in Romania, will fare.
End well, this will not…
As the worldwide protests to free Tommy Robinson took place on June 9th, 2018, our sleepy little town of Ottawa, Canada, also had its small contribution.
Again, it is clumsy, because I do not know how to embed bitchute, and YouTube is not playing very nice…but, I will try a workaround for a later post.
In the meantime, here are a few more speeches from the rally:
Sorry, not sure if embedding will work, but, please, follow the link.
This is my intro to the rally:
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
Having grown up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, everything I learned about the USA was just how bad and evil it was. And then there was this campfire song that people sang – well out of the hearing of the officials and their spies. It was called ‘John Brown’s Body’.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body
While there are many versions of this song in English, none are exactly the same as the one that I learned and loved to sing as a kid – but this one comes the closest. Please, enjoy