If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too...

Successful barter (direct or extended) should be the only source of demand in an economy, in order to maximise the prosperity of a people.

These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.

Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year.

There is much more to science than reductionism.

Jay Powell announced that he aims to taper QE by March 2022 and raise rates to 0.9% toward the end of ‘22. At least this is the objective as at December 2021, and aimed at halting rising inflation. I don’t expect he’ll carry this objective out - that is I reckon he’s bluffin’ with his muffin. The ‘everything bubble’ will be popped by inflation rather than by interest rates.

I'm not going to trust your opinion on the creator when you were created into a puddle! Re: Steven Hawkins

Many believe that vaccines have 'approval'. They don't - they only have emergency use 'authorization' which will expire once the state of emergencies end. How long will these be extended? Surely some jurisdictions will lift theirs before others.

2020 will go down as a notable year. It will also be among our most difficult to explain to posterity. ‘Pandemic, panic and protest’ does well to summarize this current US election year. Politics has taken on a religious fervour all throughout the Western world. It reminds me of ‘the Troubles’ in Ireland with its ability to divide families against themselves.

Neo-Marxism posits that there is a part of society that oppresses the other part for their own benefit. That part of this oppressed class supports the status quo only because of false consciousness, that a revolutionary reconstitution of society is required, and the eventual disappearance of class antagonisms exists within the forthcoming utopia. We shall look at correcting this misrepresentation of reality elsewhere. First, we shall look at how Marxism has made it’s advance.

As an economics student I learned of Say’s law, the idea that production is the source of consumption, and believed it in a sincere but naive manner. So much so, that I could only scoff during a class where the professor warned that every successful entrepreneur had failed seven times (on average) before finding success.

Hence, Conservatives need to distinguish between the persuasive effort and the effective effort. The first is the effort to persuade our opponents; the second involves the effort required to enact our ideals, realistic though they are. Returning to Ayn Rand once again, we must remember that it is our justified civil duty to use force upon those who initiate its use; including through redistribution or monetary debasement.

How do we go about understanding psychology, especially pathology? Insights from Carl Jung’s ‘Psychological Types’ are useful here, providing one has sufficient context. Hence, we shall consider that each individual is the sum and sequence of their choices. Thus, making initial choices the most significant, as in a nonlinear system adapting to feedback.

2020 will go down as a notable year. It will also be among our most difficult to explain to posterity. ‘Pandemic, panic and protest’ does well to summarize this current US election year. Politics has taken on a religious fervour all throughout the Western world. It reminds me of ‘the Troubles’ in Ireland with its ability to divide families against themselves. I offer no pretence of an unbiased viewpoint. As Charles Darwin noted, “How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” Thus I hope to be biased toward the service of greater Truth. At the very least, I hope to acquire it for myself.