This is a good article. Read it. Not just analysis. The author makes some suggestions for action.
And I learned a new word from it, polycule.
Month: February 2023
CBDC
Are you ready? What could possibly go wrong?
Is it Still Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
The good Baron proffers a depressing Yes. Gates of Vienna and MavPhil have been sphere-mates for a good long time, going on 20 years. The Baron's wife Dymphna was a regular reader of MavPhil back in the early days and an e-mail correspondent of mine. It has been some years since she quit the sublunary. My very belated condolences to the Baron.
The Question of the Meaning of Life
A Substack upload that clarifies the question.
resist, Resist, RESIST!
Seemingly, no day without a 'woke' outrage. See below. Beneath refutation. There's no point in trying to engage these clowns on the plane of reason. Mock, deride, resist, and above all: ignore the A.P.'s asinine recommendations. By the way, 'asinine' is spelled exactly as I just spelled it, and not 'assinine' despite the fact that L. asinus mean ass or donkey. So if I call you a wokeass, I am saying inter alia that you are donkey-dumb, the ass being the totemic animal of the Democrat Party.
Write and speak sentences like this: "The Germans are more rule-bound than the Italians." Not only does this sentence violate the A. P. recommendation, thereby resisting willful wokester self-enstupidation, it is also offensive to the wokeassed on the ground of its being a generic statement. "One must never generalize!" But I just did, and so did you. The difference is that my generalization is true whereas yours is self-refuting. Try thinking for a change, and you just might think your way out of your wokeassery. Since I care about and you and your sanity, I recommend that you study my Substack article Generic Statements.
Homo Homini Lupus
Top o' the Stack. Opening paragraph:
A 28-year-old Gypsy girl from the Tene Bimbo crime family 'befriends' an 85 year-old single man, marries him, and then poisons him, causing his death, in an attempt to steal his assets. The two were made for each other, the evil cunning of the woman finding its outlet in the utter foolishness of the man. What lessons are to be learned from this?
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Joe Odegaard comments:
This is from Dante's Inferno, Canto 26:"Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but tofollow virtue and knowledge."Considerate la vostra semenza:fatti non foste a viver come bruti,ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.'Some people don't try.