If you've been going down youtube rabbit holes, spending time on social media, or have family who do, you might have a video similar to the below come to your attention: Of course, at the end, the video exhorts us to have more awareness of our connection to nature. It's part of a general leftist trend of looking at the changes quarantines and "social distancing" hath wrought, and drawing the wrong lessons from it. When I had this passed to me, it was with a "why can't it be like this…
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> Tyranny of the minority demonstrates that an overemphasis on individual liberty without a sense of a community WILL fail. The blood of the last century demonstrates that central control will be seized by the psychopaths I really don't know the source of the quote - I think it was inspired either by a comment or a podcast and summarized by me, but it's pithy, and it's true. It encompasses both the failures of an overemphasis on atomic individualism, and an overemphasis on defaulting to the gove…
The inevitable yet "surprising" end of Panera's socialist restaurant experiment [http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2019/02/panera-breads-socialist-restaurants.html] . Who'd have thought that asking freeloader types who want other people's money to pay their fair share out of the good ness of their heart to get a meal would leave you going broke? I know, sarcasm. While on the topic of inevitable yet surprising, who'd have thought that inviting in the third world would bring about third wo…
> “Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; & if he messes w/you, remember to keep messing w/him long after he has forgotten about it”. Silver Rule of Fat Tony [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/972887563164946432] in N. N. Taleb’s #SkinInTheGame I’ve said it before – socialism is evil [https://thelastredoubt.com/socialism-is-evi/]. Not kidding, then or now. While I’ve respected Dr Peterson…
Over at the Zblog, the Z man has a few thoughts on what happens when you combine the worst aspects of capitalism and socialism [http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=10804]. > The result is that the business is forced to hire people it may not wish to hire, but the state also dictates to labor how and when they can sell their labor. Put another way, the poor are forced to serve the rich, but the rich are forced to be generous to the poor, looking out for their welfare. It is a social contract enforc…