Hi Tereza! Love everything you're sharing. Always giving me good food for thought, but I'm way behind on keeping up with it all. I started your book a while back, and but I didn't finish. I'll say again that I love the idea of a book group.
In reading your comments here, I see the important point that your concept of Carets and community owned mortgages can continue alongside the current economy. Perhaps you've said that before, but that felt like a sigh of relief! Don't have to dismantle EVERYTHING to try this new idea!
Are you familiar with Sarah McCrum? She's a mentor of mine, and I've learned loads about the principles of energy from her. She is passionate about the energy of money and for the last few years has been building a business that's another path to healthy money and healthy economies. Love To has created a crytpo currency (Bright Greens) that will pay farmers for regenerative farming. One can invest in Bright Greens, or apply to receive them, and they hope to expand beyond farming. Valuing and supporting efforts that are healthy for earth and healthy for communities.
I'd be happy to introduce you too, or you can just reach out to her yourself if her ideas speak to you.
May 18, 2023·edited May 19, 2023Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Before reading the full article and watching the video I feel the manly need to point out some facts about how idiotic men can be:
1) We are in the middle of what appears to be the greatest crisis in all History. It started officially with the fraud of the virus and covid. Most male economists still to this day believe or pretend to believe that the virus was real, or that there ever was a new contagious disease. Male economists have so much intellectual pride that they can never accept the simple truth in the moment no matter how many times Mother Nature yells at them right in their faces. Mainstream Economics is pure conceit and self-deception, which is the bane of men, and other economics (such as behavioral economics) are not far behind from that huge error. The only economists that make some sense of the present are the some of the Austrians, and that's because the tradition of the school demands to reject conceit and self-deception.
Any person who wants to be up-to-date needs to consider the possibility that all medical advances are a fraud or are used as part of a a fraud. Which should not be surprising because the technical advances of medicine are no different that advances in any other profession. For example, radio an tv could have been used to promote civility and good information since they started. Instead, they have been used by power to promote stupidity, violence and frauds of all kinds. This pattern of degradation can be seen everywhere. Why not in science, why not in medicine, you bunch of scumbags (addressing male economists with their head up their asses)?
2) A social scientist must unify the masculine and feminine in everything. It has been observed many times by men studying the natural sciences that females of all species have a different time than males. The differences in time use explain differences in economics wants. Females who study the natural sciences are not surprised by this difference in time use, rather they seem surprised by the fact that males of many species often become overprotective of females, and this is a clear contradiction of some postulates of feminist theory, which attribute this behavior to culture. Then the natural scientists timidly go to inform themselves about what the social scientists have studied, only to find that the field is mostly unbalanced and describes social phenomena from a masculine standpoint. Many problems of today's world are caused by scientists playing Dr. Frankenstein with their subject, which is a symbol of hubris.
3) GDP is bullshit, and everything derived from that is fake as a vaccine, and no one can polish a turd. Let's get real. Wealth and poverty are not the product of a mathematical equation. That should be obvious to everyone by now. Totalitarianism appears as motherly in the beginning, and then becomes fatherly, and then a manly war starts and everything is FUBAR and then it's time for Kali and the Mothers of Destruction. Some economic theories have enabled the installation of the new totalitarianism, that has murdered a number of people already. Real economic growth depends on saying unpopular things, like the truth about frauds: a scientific fraud will be used by Power to steal from everyone and destroy productive businesses. Power prefers to expand over the ashes of people. It's easier. People need to hear the truth, which is in contradiction to psychological conditioning from basic education and even superior education, in order to perform the inner change that is necessary to survive the carnage and restart economic growth. This is one level of the integration of the abstract concepts of the masculine and the feminine.
4) To the women who are still dumb: economic growth is good for babies. It keeps them alive. It's that simple. Now, become less dumb and integrate the abstract masculine in your worldview, you cannot be intellectually lazy.
5) In my opinion, most people don't need to occupy themselves with the complexities of abstract thought. They have enough with the complexities of action. The abstract thinkers give a solution: decentralization. Useful for many practical problems (education) and also abstract problems (cultural erosion.) Decentralization means many things: nullification of positive legislation, isolationism, scientific work driven by humility instead of marketing, families living in self-regulated communities that are safe, not living in ghettos which are the byproduct of practical communism. If you want to see more misery and mental illness in the world, just give more power to the socialdemocrats to bomb foreign countries.
6) END THE FED!
7) Sound money, depoliticized money, free banking in communities and ending the socialist legal tender laws are all decentralizing practical measures that will help with real economic growth.
8) Communities need realistic doctors, but most people with a MD or ND degree know nothing about being realistic. They think in terms of pseudoscience and marketing. They are not qualified and they are also victims of educational malpractice. Ending professional licensing is necessary to decentralization. Also that parents understand that kids don't need drugs. Most diseases are not diseases but simply part of the process of growing up. This means that people had it right already generations ago, and bad science has helped to destroy real knowledge. Their job as parents is also to protect the children from the harms of drugs and tests. If they fail, do not make the problem bigger and accept reality. Other families do not need to repeat your mistake.
I'm not sold on your idea but there's some interesting things addressed in it.
I have a feeling that "the revolution will not be televised" because humanity seems to have reached a point where they know that leadership was just a sneaky scammer.
May 24, 2023·edited May 24, 2023Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Well-said overall, Tereza. Thank you for your insights. I am certainly no fan of Thomas Sowell myself, and you are certainly correct about the mansplaining.
That said, I believe that the ideal is a happy medium somewhere between small-scale autarky and large-scale imperialism. And even if you believe that small-scale autarky is the ideal, that is quite a long way away for practical purposes, and IMHO we need to meet people where they are currently at.
I look forward to that episode, Is that next? I see the usual war=$ & syphoning money, but this has been in the pipeline for sometime because of Maidan in 2014 and there was a planning stage before that. I saw a video of John McCain and Lindsey Graham inciting violence toward Russia in a speech or pep rally to the Ukrainian Military (2016-ish if my memory serves me correctly) I was very shocked at their candidness to violence. I also read the IMF loaned money to Ukraine directly (with land as collateral). Not sure if that is a normal thing. So the tale to be told (imo) is this war tells the resetters Russia's capabilities and willingness to fight them (nato), therefore they don't have global control!! I will also mention the unity of nations who want a multi polar world grew because of the war. I also think the resetters didn't see that once someone (Russia) stands up to the bully (US) all the other countries get brave and join in the pile on (Tackle). How could the bull dog US not see there was a rebellion stirring against it for the deeds it has done to others. Wasn't it crazy how quickly the ridiculous rhetoric was started in the West in a deliberately staged fashion. It certainly was not organic. Also the Nordstream was blown up during this war, so maybe the perpetrator thought it would give cover to help them get away with that operation. Russia can not supply fuel to Germany as it is beneficial to both countries (Russia and Germany must never be friends because it threatens the US). I think the resetters were also hoping for distractions from other things maybe covid vaccine issues, WHO treaty, Issues in Europe (15 minute cities) CBDC's, Food destruction, land theft etc.. It definitely succeeded in making our nation and other nations poorer & depopulation itself. You and Matt have given me so many reasons why they thought the time was right to instigate this war. They may have even thought it was possible to defeat Russia. So on that note I say they are ready to move on to weaker opponents. There is so much going on in the middle east now. I also heard the US backed candidate for PM won in Thailand, not good for relations with China. Anyway....
Now that I read about the C.S. Lewis debate, I guess you know about his debate with Anscombe.
G.E.M. Anscombe was a young woman philosopher in Oxford. Anscombe was a student of Wittgenstein, a philosopher from a super-wealthy family in Austria with a troubled psychology and a complicated philosophy about language.
[As a piece of gossip, it seems that Wittgenstein went to live to England and shared the same lover with famous Economist Keynes, and this lover happened to be a young man (For the movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/plotsummary/)]
The debate, which I have not read, was about apologetics, which is the philosophical defense of Christian theology. Lewis was an Anglican and Anscombe was a Catholic. She attacked a criticism of Lewis against Naturalism. I guess this debate was surprising perhaps because Anscombe was the underdog and everyone was betting on the expert Lewis.
2000 documentary on William Gibson's musings on The Future: Title = No Maps for These Territories
Absent ground rules or community guidelines regarding profanity, triple entendres, religion, etc. , I will try to keep my brain's writing module in way back mode and compose this as though it were being graded by an Ivy League professor...Oh, hell no! Not one of today's types, but rather the ones that were scoring me back in 1968-72, when, with the right connections (aka dealers) and a dystopian outlook borne from reading certain sci/fi texts, you could see the future of today campus culture developing but could be optimistic that it wouldn't get as far as it has gotten due to enormous pushback from well-meaning classmates who presumably would have, such was a justice-oriented career-path fantasy of the era, worked their way up the ladders of power and taken steps to thwart what is in place, their success in the thwarting being, if not a slam dunk, at least a likely outcome, a safe bet that people like Fast Eddie down at the bookie joint would not have been afraid to bet his own money on.
(This was in the very earliest stages of the OTB setup, which, being a NY State system, did not make credit available to equine race enthusiasts, primarily due to the legal restrictions against having either irregular collection contractors or uniformed police entrusted with recouping moneys owed to the State under the authority of a bat or baton. Now the irregulars are overseas contractors making 5 to 10 times the salary of active duty US armed forces personnel for doing essentially the same jobs and, except for the momentary state of grace between the former and the coming period of emergency, the cops will smile and whack citizens (and non-temporary visitors) with pugil sticks up one side of the street for getting too close to one another or for not properly covering their faces. But it could have been worse, no? Without the semi-sterilizing effect of Vaccine-2A it might be worse, and we could be like NZ or AU, where the constabulary is not required to wait until you are on the street and they can make enforcement house calls, like doctors used to do in some areas. THX-1138 was prophecy.)
So, horse reference not too subtly slipped in, along with, while it's still legal, a reference to one of the remaining, for now, constitutional amendments not yet shredded by the Patriot Act. Maybe one and a half horse references, if mentioning NZ and it's former PM, whom, like so many prospective actresses paying for acting school lessons, the camera did not really love.
If you detect a penchant for parentheses & and their small, aggregatively powerful cousins, commas, ethical full disclosure requires me to identify them as homages to a popular musical icon of the time.
So, the topic today is mansplaining? Pirating the construction used by a Democrat inquisitioner of Mr. Taibbi just a few weeks ago, the "so-called economist" can be charitably described as having a definition mismatch wrt your conception of what constitutes "economics". In computer terms he might be thought of as championing hard or soft technology that does a very limited job, championing it irrespective of what the customer wants to achieve. He may be spot on in his assessment of how well he and his discrete tech (I want so much to use techne, mostly because Samuel Delaney likes to use it, but I had an instructor who had a bad vacation in Greece one year and went all red-pencil on a written assignment I turned in, so tech...at least on the audio book version it won't get confused with techie or Trekkie...audio book formats are valuable for people outside of Australia, too...my kid brother in Austin reads with difficulty but soaks up audio books con gusto.) his discrete tech (circling back like a white house spokesperson) perform in the narrow country lanes that are important to the organizations that provide the funds necessary for his personal maintenance, but big but, you're setting up architecture (not patri-architectural, though... I really don't need to explain that to you, but I have cultural dues to remit to el equipo de los hombres) for a world full of smaller cities, commonwealths, states, etc. that we might just get lucky enough to be forced to build as survivors of something as omnicidal as a nuclear war or as mobile resisters trying to stay one step ahead of UN "medical" teams. But wait, if Dr. Mihalcea is seeing reality the way it really is now, we're in the ending phase of the transhumanist production/evolution process due to the kajillions of tons of metals that have been raining down on us for decades to the point that there are small, but programmable non-human structures in our blood systems, vaxxed and unvaxxed alike, so maybe it's time to listen to a couple less perky tunes before switching over to upbeat and inspiring. I found this woman on YT years ago, maybe even before encountering young Molly...for some reason, probably for a constellation of reasons, I find her renditions of songs I have known since before she was born the source of a guarded but resolute optimism, although Fast Eddie is more dystopic, but then I suppose bookies are going to have a dismal outlook overall...if they win, chances are (to kick an overused bookie phrase like a dead, oops, almost went to the track, or the third rail, there) chances are they're going to have to go out and threaten some fraction of the losing public to collect their profits...maybe economists aren't quite that dismal...it's usually an office job 24/7/365 except for continuing education junkets...but it's not like you can just rattle off a handful of names of economists that are as cheerful as, say, Richard Simmons or Jack LaLanne...maybe economists would be more chipper if they were to transform the boundaries/scope of what they deal with...no need to go so far as a virtual version of surgical reduction or endocrine disruption, just gradually expand the envelope of what the profession envelops until it has grown large enough to perform a wider range of functions that are desired by a wider range of people. Just a thought, but here's Nori cat with the not so sunny weather:
Better not tag me with this as a theme song for my composition technique...I might not have stables full of unstable animals, but, you know...lawfare...nice AirBNB you got there...hate to sue you for it. :-)
This one has a lyric "Amos, he was a markin' time", but it also whispers to the question of jurisdiction on railways (city, commonwealth, state, federal?) which could be important, and also raises questions about "How do intrinsically good humans develop into sociopaths?" No answers, but...
Geez, they can't all be sad songs, Mr. Science, can they? Not on this channel, Billy, no they can't...
And sometimes when you plan to use the 1967 original, you find one with a gender switch vocal as well as a diverse horn section and back up singers...imagine Lucky Chops on this one?
Kill one, go to jail...but something's wrong when the math scales up: Memo from the Sure, they'll let you smoke cigars with the boys...as long as you're ready to smoke some kids too department.
Before we decided to get married in 1989, my wife told me she liked that I was well in touch with the feminine side/aspect of my nature...she died in 2012...I may have shifted back a few % points.
I have digital copies of Graeber's & Brown's books on Debt now. Should I get yours from Amazon, or do you have a digital copy available? I'm subscribed to your stack here, so if you ever want to communicate off-stack, feel free to use the email I used when I subscribed. Nice AirBNB, BTW!
Look, if the Pennsylvania script worked, there is no reason why your caret system won't work. You are correct in assessing that criticism without putting forth an alternative rooster isn't worth your time investment. I would think you are on their radar, so that just might have been a goon. That guys comment sounded so ridiculously deliberate. Tereza, I can't recommend your book enough! Thks.
Since the critics are asking you to read their favorite books, it seems only fair that they should read yours. But apparently they are above that.
Plus, as you say on the back cover of your book, you don't have a fancy string of letters after your name to make you seem more authoritative. Perhaps you could add a randomized string of degree-sounding letters to help with this problem.
I applaud your willingness to go toe-to-toe with an academic economist. I once suggested to one that the household should be the basic unit of economic analysis. His scorn iced the air.
This was only a few years after Thomas Piketty's "Capital" which had given me some hope that economics was on the verge of a paradigm shift. Having since read David Graeber's "Debt", I think it is fair to say that economics is modernity's gift to empire, a grim science to match the grim realities that attend the pillage and plunder of the materially mighty.
I like your five feminine economies. It sounds like a plan to hack the current system by overwriting it with new code. I once would've been highly skeptical of a plan like that but have recently begun to think of the "public benefit" model of incorporation as a similar kind of hack that might actually work. Now, I say, hack away. 🌼
C.S. Lewis (who I consider a moron about lots of things) was wrong about the capacities but not untrue about the effect.
Men and women do generally do better when they can maintain some private spaces from the opposite sex, and much of the idiocies we’re dealing with right now can be credited to them women who sued to get into the sex-segregated golf clubs and eating clubs on campuses. The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming can thank them for their service.
This looks to me like a not awfully high IQ woman trying to make out she is 'right'. And when some higher IQ male says 'err, no, wrong', then she claims its a feminist issue. Rather than admitting its her own lack of intelligence that is the problem.
Well, derr, what else would a not awfully bright but entitled woman do but claim its a feminist issue?
Feminism in a nutshell: I'm a perfect. I'm a Princess. Its all men's fault. If you don't agree with me then you are the toxic patriarchy.
Hi Tereza! Love everything you're sharing. Always giving me good food for thought, but I'm way behind on keeping up with it all. I started your book a while back, and but I didn't finish. I'll say again that I love the idea of a book group.
In reading your comments here, I see the important point that your concept of Carets and community owned mortgages can continue alongside the current economy. Perhaps you've said that before, but that felt like a sigh of relief! Don't have to dismantle EVERYTHING to try this new idea!
Are you familiar with Sarah McCrum? She's a mentor of mine, and I've learned loads about the principles of energy from her. She is passionate about the energy of money and for the last few years has been building a business that's another path to healthy money and healthy economies. Love To has created a crytpo currency (Bright Greens) that will pay farmers for regenerative farming. One can invest in Bright Greens, or apply to receive them, and they hope to expand beyond farming. Valuing and supporting efforts that are healthy for earth and healthy for communities.
I'd be happy to introduce you too, or you can just reach out to her yourself if her ideas speak to you.
https://www.loveto.group/
https://liberatehumanity.com/
Before reading the full article and watching the video I feel the manly need to point out some facts about how idiotic men can be:
1) We are in the middle of what appears to be the greatest crisis in all History. It started officially with the fraud of the virus and covid. Most male economists still to this day believe or pretend to believe that the virus was real, or that there ever was a new contagious disease. Male economists have so much intellectual pride that they can never accept the simple truth in the moment no matter how many times Mother Nature yells at them right in their faces. Mainstream Economics is pure conceit and self-deception, which is the bane of men, and other economics (such as behavioral economics) are not far behind from that huge error. The only economists that make some sense of the present are the some of the Austrians, and that's because the tradition of the school demands to reject conceit and self-deception.
Any person who wants to be up-to-date needs to consider the possibility that all medical advances are a fraud or are used as part of a a fraud. Which should not be surprising because the technical advances of medicine are no different that advances in any other profession. For example, radio an tv could have been used to promote civility and good information since they started. Instead, they have been used by power to promote stupidity, violence and frauds of all kinds. This pattern of degradation can be seen everywhere. Why not in science, why not in medicine, you bunch of scumbags (addressing male economists with their head up their asses)?
2) A social scientist must unify the masculine and feminine in everything. It has been observed many times by men studying the natural sciences that females of all species have a different time than males. The differences in time use explain differences in economics wants. Females who study the natural sciences are not surprised by this difference in time use, rather they seem surprised by the fact that males of many species often become overprotective of females, and this is a clear contradiction of some postulates of feminist theory, which attribute this behavior to culture. Then the natural scientists timidly go to inform themselves about what the social scientists have studied, only to find that the field is mostly unbalanced and describes social phenomena from a masculine standpoint. Many problems of today's world are caused by scientists playing Dr. Frankenstein with their subject, which is a symbol of hubris.
3) GDP is bullshit, and everything derived from that is fake as a vaccine, and no one can polish a turd. Let's get real. Wealth and poverty are not the product of a mathematical equation. That should be obvious to everyone by now. Totalitarianism appears as motherly in the beginning, and then becomes fatherly, and then a manly war starts and everything is FUBAR and then it's time for Kali and the Mothers of Destruction. Some economic theories have enabled the installation of the new totalitarianism, that has murdered a number of people already. Real economic growth depends on saying unpopular things, like the truth about frauds: a scientific fraud will be used by Power to steal from everyone and destroy productive businesses. Power prefers to expand over the ashes of people. It's easier. People need to hear the truth, which is in contradiction to psychological conditioning from basic education and even superior education, in order to perform the inner change that is necessary to survive the carnage and restart economic growth. This is one level of the integration of the abstract concepts of the masculine and the feminine.
4) To the women who are still dumb: economic growth is good for babies. It keeps them alive. It's that simple. Now, become less dumb and integrate the abstract masculine in your worldview, you cannot be intellectually lazy.
5) In my opinion, most people don't need to occupy themselves with the complexities of abstract thought. They have enough with the complexities of action. The abstract thinkers give a solution: decentralization. Useful for many practical problems (education) and also abstract problems (cultural erosion.) Decentralization means many things: nullification of positive legislation, isolationism, scientific work driven by humility instead of marketing, families living in self-regulated communities that are safe, not living in ghettos which are the byproduct of practical communism. If you want to see more misery and mental illness in the world, just give more power to the socialdemocrats to bomb foreign countries.
6) END THE FED!
7) Sound money, depoliticized money, free banking in communities and ending the socialist legal tender laws are all decentralizing practical measures that will help with real economic growth.
8) Communities need realistic doctors, but most people with a MD or ND degree know nothing about being realistic. They think in terms of pseudoscience and marketing. They are not qualified and they are also victims of educational malpractice. Ending professional licensing is necessary to decentralization. Also that parents understand that kids don't need drugs. Most diseases are not diseases but simply part of the process of growing up. This means that people had it right already generations ago, and bad science has helped to destroy real knowledge. Their job as parents is also to protect the children from the harms of drugs and tests. If they fail, do not make the problem bigger and accept reality. Other families do not need to repeat your mistake.
I'm not sold on your idea but there's some interesting things addressed in it.
I have a feeling that "the revolution will not be televised" because humanity seems to have reached a point where they know that leadership was just a sneaky scammer.
Leadership is showing their horns more and more.
Well-said overall, Tereza. Thank you for your insights. I am certainly no fan of Thomas Sowell myself, and you are certainly correct about the mansplaining.
That said, I believe that the ideal is a happy medium somewhere between small-scale autarky and large-scale imperialism. And even if you believe that small-scale autarky is the ideal, that is quite a long way away for practical purposes, and IMHO we need to meet people where they are currently at.
http://truespiritofamericaparty.blogspot.com/2023/05/ubi-is-only-way-to-end-modern-slavery.html
I apologize in advance for any mansplaining on my part :)
So your man splaining did not make me flee. So far, I think you espouse what many call Voluntaryism.
I am of that camp... But you should read a book by... JUST KIDDING! I will catch up on some of your other vid/articles as time permits.
Oh wow, thks, no I haven't seen any. I'll get to work!
I look forward to that episode, Is that next? I see the usual war=$ & syphoning money, but this has been in the pipeline for sometime because of Maidan in 2014 and there was a planning stage before that. I saw a video of John McCain and Lindsey Graham inciting violence toward Russia in a speech or pep rally to the Ukrainian Military (2016-ish if my memory serves me correctly) I was very shocked at their candidness to violence. I also read the IMF loaned money to Ukraine directly (with land as collateral). Not sure if that is a normal thing. So the tale to be told (imo) is this war tells the resetters Russia's capabilities and willingness to fight them (nato), therefore they don't have global control!! I will also mention the unity of nations who want a multi polar world grew because of the war. I also think the resetters didn't see that once someone (Russia) stands up to the bully (US) all the other countries get brave and join in the pile on (Tackle). How could the bull dog US not see there was a rebellion stirring against it for the deeds it has done to others. Wasn't it crazy how quickly the ridiculous rhetoric was started in the West in a deliberately staged fashion. It certainly was not organic. Also the Nordstream was blown up during this war, so maybe the perpetrator thought it would give cover to help them get away with that operation. Russia can not supply fuel to Germany as it is beneficial to both countries (Russia and Germany must never be friends because it threatens the US). I think the resetters were also hoping for distractions from other things maybe covid vaccine issues, WHO treaty, Issues in Europe (15 minute cities) CBDC's, Food destruction, land theft etc.. It definitely succeeded in making our nation and other nations poorer & depopulation itself. You and Matt have given me so many reasons why they thought the time was right to instigate this war. They may have even thought it was possible to defeat Russia. So on that note I say they are ready to move on to weaker opponents. There is so much going on in the middle east now. I also heard the US backed candidate for PM won in Thailand, not good for relations with China. Anyway....
Now that I read about the C.S. Lewis debate, I guess you know about his debate with Anscombe.
G.E.M. Anscombe was a young woman philosopher in Oxford. Anscombe was a student of Wittgenstein, a philosopher from a super-wealthy family in Austria with a troubled psychology and a complicated philosophy about language.
[As a piece of gossip, it seems that Wittgenstein went to live to England and shared the same lover with famous Economist Keynes, and this lover happened to be a young man (For the movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/plotsummary/)]
The debate, which I have not read, was about apologetics, which is the philosophical defense of Christian theology. Lewis was an Anglican and Anscombe was a Catholic. She attacked a criticism of Lewis against Naturalism. I guess this debate was surprising perhaps because Anscombe was the underdog and everyone was betting on the expert Lewis.
thecslewis-studygroup.org/the-c-s-lewis-study-group/lewis-genre/theology/miracles-2/the-lewisanscombe-debate/
Women like Anscombe and other intellectuals never needed feminism in their time to have a career in the academic world and a family life.
2000 documentary on William Gibson's musings on The Future: Title = No Maps for These Territories
Absent ground rules or community guidelines regarding profanity, triple entendres, religion, etc. , I will try to keep my brain's writing module in way back mode and compose this as though it were being graded by an Ivy League professor...Oh, hell no! Not one of today's types, but rather the ones that were scoring me back in 1968-72, when, with the right connections (aka dealers) and a dystopian outlook borne from reading certain sci/fi texts, you could see the future of today campus culture developing but could be optimistic that it wouldn't get as far as it has gotten due to enormous pushback from well-meaning classmates who presumably would have, such was a justice-oriented career-path fantasy of the era, worked their way up the ladders of power and taken steps to thwart what is in place, their success in the thwarting being, if not a slam dunk, at least a likely outcome, a safe bet that people like Fast Eddie down at the bookie joint would not have been afraid to bet his own money on.
(This was in the very earliest stages of the OTB setup, which, being a NY State system, did not make credit available to equine race enthusiasts, primarily due to the legal restrictions against having either irregular collection contractors or uniformed police entrusted with recouping moneys owed to the State under the authority of a bat or baton. Now the irregulars are overseas contractors making 5 to 10 times the salary of active duty US armed forces personnel for doing essentially the same jobs and, except for the momentary state of grace between the former and the coming period of emergency, the cops will smile and whack citizens (and non-temporary visitors) with pugil sticks up one side of the street for getting too close to one another or for not properly covering their faces. But it could have been worse, no? Without the semi-sterilizing effect of Vaccine-2A it might be worse, and we could be like NZ or AU, where the constabulary is not required to wait until you are on the street and they can make enforcement house calls, like doctors used to do in some areas. THX-1138 was prophecy.)
So, horse reference not too subtly slipped in, along with, while it's still legal, a reference to one of the remaining, for now, constitutional amendments not yet shredded by the Patriot Act. Maybe one and a half horse references, if mentioning NZ and it's former PM, whom, like so many prospective actresses paying for acting school lessons, the camera did not really love.
If you detect a penchant for parentheses & and their small, aggregatively powerful cousins, commas, ethical full disclosure requires me to identify them as homages to a popular musical icon of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4&t=54s
No false advertising department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZS-X78Cqc
So, the topic today is mansplaining? Pirating the construction used by a Democrat inquisitioner of Mr. Taibbi just a few weeks ago, the "so-called economist" can be charitably described as having a definition mismatch wrt your conception of what constitutes "economics". In computer terms he might be thought of as championing hard or soft technology that does a very limited job, championing it irrespective of what the customer wants to achieve. He may be spot on in his assessment of how well he and his discrete tech (I want so much to use techne, mostly because Samuel Delaney likes to use it, but I had an instructor who had a bad vacation in Greece one year and went all red-pencil on a written assignment I turned in, so tech...at least on the audio book version it won't get confused with techie or Trekkie...audio book formats are valuable for people outside of Australia, too...my kid brother in Austin reads with difficulty but soaks up audio books con gusto.) his discrete tech (circling back like a white house spokesperson) perform in the narrow country lanes that are important to the organizations that provide the funds necessary for his personal maintenance, but big but, you're setting up architecture (not patri-architectural, though... I really don't need to explain that to you, but I have cultural dues to remit to el equipo de los hombres) for a world full of smaller cities, commonwealths, states, etc. that we might just get lucky enough to be forced to build as survivors of something as omnicidal as a nuclear war or as mobile resisters trying to stay one step ahead of UN "medical" teams. But wait, if Dr. Mihalcea is seeing reality the way it really is now, we're in the ending phase of the transhumanist production/evolution process due to the kajillions of tons of metals that have been raining down on us for decades to the point that there are small, but programmable non-human structures in our blood systems, vaxxed and unvaxxed alike, so maybe it's time to listen to a couple less perky tunes before switching over to upbeat and inspiring. I found this woman on YT years ago, maybe even before encountering young Molly...for some reason, probably for a constellation of reasons, I find her renditions of songs I have known since before she was born the source of a guarded but resolute optimism, although Fast Eddie is more dystopic, but then I suppose bookies are going to have a dismal outlook overall...if they win, chances are (to kick an overused bookie phrase like a dead, oops, almost went to the track, or the third rail, there) chances are they're going to have to go out and threaten some fraction of the losing public to collect their profits...maybe economists aren't quite that dismal...it's usually an office job 24/7/365 except for continuing education junkets...but it's not like you can just rattle off a handful of names of economists that are as cheerful as, say, Richard Simmons or Jack LaLanne...maybe economists would be more chipper if they were to transform the boundaries/scope of what they deal with...no need to go so far as a virtual version of surgical reduction or endocrine disruption, just gradually expand the envelope of what the profession envelops until it has grown large enough to perform a wider range of functions that are desired by a wider range of people. Just a thought, but here's Nori cat with the not so sunny weather:
Better not tag me with this as a theme song for my composition technique...I might not have stables full of unstable animals, but, you know...lawfare...nice AirBNB you got there...hate to sue you for it. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHlqRYiio14
An exemplar of melancholy, not depression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjebnq0FYlg
Definitional or format mismatch: sorry but this is incomplete...if I find a clip that has the bit about:
She'll as for you advice
Your reply will be concise
She'll thank you very nicely and
Then go out and do precisely...what she wants
I'll send it along...until then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY
Left and right ends of the horseshoe could unite against a common enemy, someday in the Future:
Cartoon world pro tip #54: Keep Prince Acturus' image in mind when you see Klaus Schwab's pic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4C5VIxbqhw
This one has a lyric "Amos, he was a markin' time", but it also whispers to the question of jurisdiction on railways (city, commonwealth, state, federal?) which could be important, and also raises questions about "How do intrinsically good humans develop into sociopaths?" No answers, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk71pHqCu8
Geez, they can't all be sad songs, Mr. Science, can they? Not on this channel, Billy, no they can't...
And sometimes when you plan to use the 1967 original, you find one with a gender switch vocal as well as a diverse horn section and back up singers...imagine Lucky Chops on this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG1_LAAL4w0
2000 years of your goddamned glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5yFYyZuSg
Kill one, go to jail...but something's wrong when the math scales up: Memo from the Sure, they'll let you smoke cigars with the boys...as long as you're ready to smoke some kids too department.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1OAD9jSaI
Before we decided to get married in 1989, my wife told me she liked that I was well in touch with the feminine side/aspect of my nature...she died in 2012...I may have shifted back a few % points.
I have digital copies of Graeber's & Brown's books on Debt now. Should I get yours from Amazon, or do you have a digital copy available? I'm subscribed to your stack here, so if you ever want to communicate off-stack, feel free to use the email I used when I subscribed. Nice AirBNB, BTW!
Look, if the Pennsylvania script worked, there is no reason why your caret system won't work. You are correct in assessing that criticism without putting forth an alternative rooster isn't worth your time investment. I would think you are on their radar, so that just might have been a goon. That guys comment sounded so ridiculously deliberate. Tereza, I can't recommend your book enough! Thks.
Since the critics are asking you to read their favorite books, it seems only fair that they should read yours. But apparently they are above that.
Plus, as you say on the back cover of your book, you don't have a fancy string of letters after your name to make you seem more authoritative. Perhaps you could add a randomized string of degree-sounding letters to help with this problem.
I applaud your willingness to go toe-to-toe with an academic economist. I once suggested to one that the household should be the basic unit of economic analysis. His scorn iced the air.
This was only a few years after Thomas Piketty's "Capital" which had given me some hope that economics was on the verge of a paradigm shift. Having since read David Graeber's "Debt", I think it is fair to say that economics is modernity's gift to empire, a grim science to match the grim realities that attend the pillage and plunder of the materially mighty.
I like your five feminine economies. It sounds like a plan to hack the current system by overwriting it with new code. I once would've been highly skeptical of a plan like that but have recently begun to think of the "public benefit" model of incorporation as a similar kind of hack that might actually work. Now, I say, hack away. 🌼
I'm only through the 1st 1/4 of this and love how you start to dismantle him through questions. Socrates is smiling somewhere. (reading rest now).
C.S. Lewis (who I consider a moron about lots of things) was wrong about the capacities but not untrue about the effect.
Men and women do generally do better when they can maintain some private spaces from the opposite sex, and much of the idiocies we’re dealing with right now can be credited to them women who sued to get into the sex-segregated golf clubs and eating clubs on campuses. The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming can thank them for their service.
This looks to me like a not awfully high IQ woman trying to make out she is 'right'. And when some higher IQ male says 'err, no, wrong', then she claims its a feminist issue. Rather than admitting its her own lack of intelligence that is the problem.
Well, derr, what else would a not awfully bright but entitled woman do but claim its a feminist issue?
Feminism in a nutshell: I'm a perfect. I'm a Princess. Its all men's fault. If you don't agree with me then you are the toxic patriarchy.
Sigh, no wonder men prefer porn to relationships.