We are careening dangerously from a high-trust to a low-trust society. We trust one another less, we trust government
and other mediating institutions less. This trend, which like many of
our pathologies predates and arguably helped give rise to the Trump
presidency, has ominous consequences.High-trust societies have lower transaction costs, lower crime rates and less corruption.
People are nicer and better behaved when they’re reasonably confident
that the local grocer won’t steal their credit card information and the
IRS won’t audit them based on their politics.Low-trust countries
are clannish, unable to develop the civil institutions of a free
society, and those in power tend to use government authority like a club
to punish political enemies. The resulting disorder builds demand for
strongmen, for more centralized state power. None of this is good.
the state is not the nation
tax dollars shouldn’t have “values”
a dollars is better spent by private interest
Deals with the Devil
Trump or the trump party where not the opposition to the dem till very recently. It is the naive middle painting oranges red
Is it possible that both parties could simultaneously reach the
toleration tipping point? Can the country defy political gravity and
clamber its way back up the slippery slope? No bipartisan, smoke-filled
backroom exists where such a deal could be hammered out. Rather,
politicians and laypersons on both sides of the political spectrum who
believe the pendulum has swung too far toward amorality must be willing
to face down the true believers in the current ends-justify-the-means
political culture. It may be a bloody fight, but if it is fought on both
sides simultaneously, it may help restore our politics to a higher
plane.“who believe the pendulum has swung too far toward amorality must be
willing to face down the true believers in the current
ends-justify-the-means political culture.” is not likely to win the race
with progressive totalitarian control, civil war or societal collapse
Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism With It
Most workers own no shares and have barely benefited from record corporate profits. As G.K. Chesterton observed, “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”
When the left and right speak of capitalism today, they are telling stories about an imaginary state. The unbridled, competitive free markets that the right cherishes don’t exist today. The left attacks the grotesque capitalism we see today, as if that were the true manifestation of the essence of capitalism rather than the distorted version it has become.
this is example of why i love this channel. wish they kept making content. it’s actually talking about the way films are made and why some film do better at conveying emotions and telling a story than others.
The Superstition Behind Twitter’s ‘Deadnaming’ Ban | National Review
Today, we laugh at the notion that droughts are the cereal gods’
retribution against impious kings, and also believe very strongly that
if the American economy doesn’t do well then it must be because the
president is a bad man. We have only gone from hocus pocus to hocus
focus group. It won’t do to underestimate the power of unbridled
fanaticism: Small, committed bands of true believers can and often do
move peoples and nations and even empires, as that cross-surmounting
Caligula’s obelisk in St. Peter’s Square attests. Social and political
ideologies, at sufficient scale, behave in much the same way as
religions. Even Communism had its holy texts and saints, all those dirty
little campus crusaders waving their Little Red Books in people’s
faces, their evangelical fervor unmistakable. Political beliefs are in
many cases less about politics and more about belief.
Writing in the New York Times, Parker Malloy offers the
pristinely Orwellian argument that the prohibition of speech is a
necessary condition for free speech: “Things like deadnaming, or
purposely referring to a trans person by their former name, and
misgendering — calling someone by a pronoun they don’t use — are used to
express disagreement with the legitimacy of trans lives and
identities.”
If we could for a moment tighten up and focus on the question of what words actually mean,
this is a group of common English words put into an order that doesn’t
add up to anything sensible: Nobody is denying that Parker Malloy exists. Nobody, to my knowledge, is denying that trans people exist. We are once again ill served by an excess of metaphor and a refusal to look at the thing itself.
The Superstition Behind Twitter’s ‘Deadnaming’ Ban | National Review
Trump marches off G20 stage before group photo and is overheard saying ‘get me out of here’ on microphone
Bret Weinstein on seeing the common humanity of people on the right and ignoring flak from the left
He may be very far left and hold a lot of positions I disagree with and
some I even feel are potentially dangerous. And yet, I can overlook all
of that because when push came to shove (almost literally) he refused to
join the left’s authoritarian social justice mob. He did so at the cost
of his job, ultimately (and that of his wife). That’s an act of
political defiance that is incredibly rare on the left and one even many
people on the right hesitate to take it because the cost is so high.good 4 him… so what
“hold a lot of positions I disagree with and
some I even feel are potentially dangerous“
are they less dangerous now?
this is the problem with the intellectual dark web, debate openly and honestly, as it should always be, and decide nothing. defeating bad ideas on paper and continuing to treat them as if they are worthy of discussion.
they debate philosophical points or a symptomatic outrage. why free speech is important and how to fix the campuses. yes How they got that way and why it won’t happen again? who should go to collage? how do eliminate the extra capacity? what is the point of education? not as much
lets talk about why the iceberg hit the ship and how we could avoid that in the future. It is very interesting, let me pull up a deck chair.
is it necessary
is there time 4 it
y
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Bret Weinstein on seeing the common humanity of people on the right and ignoring flak from the left
CultML 