One of the smartest and deepest thinkers alive today. Explains why no one pays much attention to him. His book changed my entire outlook, while deepening my understanding of how the universe was created to work.
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Many thanks for your post.
In this country we have a very serious, and worsening, culture problem. Things like honor, personal standards, legal morality, accountability and equitable legal consequences are steadily eroding. The Founding Fathers would be very dismayed if they could see the state of the country today.
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Under the Schengen Agreement, Brussels promised to guard the outer frontiers of the EU, while abolishing internal border controls.
The Eurocrat Corporate elites lied = broke the first promise but kept the second, thus opening a wide path for the onrushing Muslim Hijrah immigration invasion...
Kickbacks to the Eurocrats from George Soros ?
I see a lot of what Our President has done since he has been in office, and an awful lot of what he used when he made his empire of golf courses, hotels around the world, how he talks to people, how he deals with people, his knowledge level, which in my opinion, is off the charts...
I am intrigued to learn more about this man, I like the ‘down to common folk level of talking’ so we ‘deplorables’ can understand what he is saying...
I have read a lot of this type of information in my life, how do other people operate, what motivates them, where do they get their ideas, what are their ‘end goals’, I want to know how things ‘tick’ and this guy is good in that area...just like Our President...
Thank you for this article, just right down my alley...
Thanks for the post.
I like Taleb’s IYI (Intellectual Yet Idiot) description. It fits so well all the “educated” pompous asses in the NYT, Compost, NPR, NRO, etc., etc.
I also like his concept of the the “dictatorship of the intolerant minority”. It’s on display constantly these days.
he is a very arrogant fluck (IMO)
Thinks he knows more about “important stuff” than anyone else.
Great post! Thanks!
Is this person an offspring of Ayn Rand?
Guaranteed student loans. Schools have no skin in the game.
Obamacare. Congress exempted themselves. No skin in the game.
If you are a journalist, then, you are only as good as the risks you take because newspapers were supposed to be here to take risks exposing power, not playing the system.
The wire services are the death of journalistic independence. Before the advent of the AP, newspapers were mostly weeklies, and printers didn’t have independent sources of news of far-flung disasters. So newspapers were about the opinions of their printers - much like the EIB is about the opinions of Rush Limbaugh.It took a generation or two, but the fact that wire services are continual virtual meetings of all major journalist - and the veracity of
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)combined to produce the “objective journalism” cartel which promotes the opinions of journalists as a class. And that class is anti fragile at the expense of the fragility of society. That is, journalism is the bad news business, and as such it profits from disaster. Society, OTOH, is damaged by it.Worse, the “objective journalism” cartel promotes the fellow travelers of journalists - whom journalists call “liberals,” and whom journalists promote to infest the government. Government “liberals” also are anti fragile at the expense of society. Which is another way of saying they don’t have skin in the game.
The advent of the wire services created the “objective journalist” myth. With that myth firmly established, the Warren Court in 1964 unanimously awarded journalism the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, which awarded the “objective journalism” cartel freedom from any duty to be truthful. It did so by dismissing almost two centuries of jurisprudence with the fatuous claim that
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”The framers of the Bill of Rights were all about suppressing controversy over the effect of the Constitution on the rights of the people. Assaying to modify libel law would have been a funny way indeed of assaying to suppress controversy, and before 1964 no one seriously suggested that they had done it.Since Republicans are the only ones who get libeled by “objective journalism," Republicans must sue for the dismantling of the (inherently anticompetitive) wire services (their raison d'être, the high cost of telegraphy bandwidth, is ancient history in the Internet era). And sue for libel in the teeth of Sullivan. I see no other way that the truth crisis of journalism can be ameliorated.