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It’s not news that the GOP is becoming increasingly ineffectual against the left and has conceded on almost all significant cultural and economic issues, with the exception of abortion, guns, defense spending, and tax cuts, which are the last four holdouts for what is left of American conservatism. Consider the issue of illegal immigration. Trump… Continue reading The decline and failure of American conservatism

Nassim Taleb is quoted as saying “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary,” and “those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.” Also, reliance on a paycheck makes one ‘anti-fragile,’ because all of one’s metaphorical eggs are in a single basket, that being… Continue reading A job is not like slavery , nor higher risk than entrepreneurship

Eric Weinstein calls Trump an “existential risk,” and no one calls him out on it, neither Joe Rogan nor anyone in the comments. It completely goes over everyone’s heads. Maybe Joe didn’t understand what Eric meant by existential risk. In layman terms, it means that Trump being in office is a threat to the existence/survival… Continue reading Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan

Moreover, there’s much less civil unrest than decades ago, and much of the culture-warring is being waged online rather than in person. From the post Politics may seem bad now, but it used to be much worse: In the span of 150 years Americans fought a war over slavery to now a culture war over… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 11

Things have been slow on the news front lately. As I predicted 3 months ago, don’t expect much from the Trump administration until after the election, so we’re looking at 20 months minimum. Regarding Epstein, So a sleazy financier who everyone expected of being a pedophile is actually a pedophile…who knew. I predict there will… Continue reading Trump’s 2020 odds improve, but victory far from certain

For the past few years or so, there has been a lot of discussion online about ‘collapse’. There is even a very popular sub devoted to the topic, /r/collapse. From a 2017 post Collpase: Over the past few years, there has been considerable interest in the subject of ‘collapse’, whether it be the collapse of… Continue reading No coming collapse, and predictions for next 10 years

From Bloomberg, by Tyle Cowen I Want More Immigrants and a Census Citizenship Question: It’s obvious Tyler unapologetically and unconditionally supports more immigration, possibly even more so than most left-wing pundits and politicians, who support immigration but under the condition of including with reform. What is interesting (to me, at least) is how certain pundits… Continue reading Intellect as Social Currency

Online, strong opinions about issues such as immigration, the national debt, student loan debt, tariffs and China, internet privacy and surveillance, gun control, abortion, etc., are commonplace. Pundits such as Alex Jones go on long rants about the encroaching power of the state, about the overreach of CIA and FBI, about the ‘Chicoms’, and how… Continue reading Capital rules the world

But also, boomers tend to default to platitudes such as ‘democracy’, ‘ education’, and ‘voting’ as solutions to societal problems, whereas many of these woke (as in to be awake and aware, not necessarily left-wing as the definition is commonly understood) young people prefer alternative, potentially controversial and politically incorrect explanations and solutions to such… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 10

This is pretty fascinating: Exceptionally Gifted Children, By Miraca U. M. Gross The book concerns education in Australia for exceptionally gifted children. Terence Tao, who was born in Australia but since 1999 has been math professor at UCLA, is mentioned in the book. And the related table of reading and talking ages for exceptionally gifted… Continue reading Studies of Exceptionally Gifted Children