It was only a little more than 100 years ago that the only time anyone heard music, ever, was one somebody else was playing it. There was no recording, only performance, and musicians played an important role in the community (you could only hear music as good as the local musician could play it!). Listening [...]
I have a short intellectual temper. Occasionally I see something online which infuriates me, and this blog entry and the comments which ensue are certainly such things. It’s a blog entry showing the text of one-star reviews of The Diary of Anne Frank made by dumb teenagers on Amazon.com. The blog comments are all exasperated [...]
Our military’s express purpose is to control everything and make resistance impossible. (More detailed explanation taken from USDoD’s “Joint Vision 2020″). One of those things you should know, especially as the government takes on an unprecedented socialization of America’s institutions.
Women aren’t happy in the workplace. No shit! Hey ladies, want to give military frontlines a shot too? We gentlemen have plenty of ways to be miserable. Hypothetically, if a species was subdivided into two roughly equal groups, each with a characteristic set of hormonal chemicals which influence their physical development, temperament, and behavior, you’d [...]
Art: to learn a language and to speak- of life, and love, and death. The End of the Road to Peace: appreciating the good and quietly accepting everything else. Better still: to add something good to the world yourself. Keeper of the Flame: the normal condition of of society (of the world, of the universe) is nothingness, abyss. [...]
In my last post I referred to the securities market as a “Natural System,” and I think the way I use that term requires elaboration. Defined most broadly, a natural system (or organic system) is one in which the individual, uncoordinated efforts of any number of small parts are aggregated so that they use all [...]
Greenspan wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal. It’s a long for what it is (propaganda) and is written in an evasive technical style. Moreover, the whole thing is one big narrative fallacy. In it he claims that “between 1971 and 2002, the fed-funds rate [the interest rate at which banks lend money to [...]