‘But data aren’t information, information isn’t knowledge, knowledge isn’t wisdom and wisdom isn’t painless’…love this! So much great writing. Hard to keep up! Great resource. Your book was very timely.
That is absolutely right. He laughed about it and told people at rallies "That's how smart I am." Lutnick lied on TV and then when he was found out, just brushed it off. The whole system selects for scoundrels, anybody with a single moral fibre in his or her body would be repelled and walk away. Can we just make sure the tumbrils have been in for service and the wheels are greased?
> Buried under the prejudices economists bring to their research, we find the paradox of hierarchy, the fact that built into all of us is an urge to dominate and an opposite drive to avoid being dominated.
This jumped out for me.
Instead of a hierarchy a flat leadership structure could be less draconian.
Like a bazaar where there is a more organic or natural interaction.
Instead of being told by a top down flow we can interact with those aroind us and deal with eachother
Precisely. Instead of concentrating power at the peak of the dominance hierarchy, e.g. in the US president who has recently been ruled immune to all legal action by the US supreme court, instead of that, authority and responsibility must never be separated, and should be pushed DOWN the hierarchy as far as possible. If you strip authority from the lower levels, treat them like monkeys, they will act like monkeys but treat them as humans and they will rise to the occasion.
Agreed on everything, BUT...you are under the influence of Western Historians who have conflated, falsely but sadly successfully, Communism with Fascism. Stalin was an extraordinary success, he transformed a medieval feudal dictatorship into a force which defeated one of the mightiest army & country in the world. He transformed the Soviet Union in 10 years, what it took the capitalists a hundred years to reach. And this single handedly, contrary to the Hollywood/Trumpian bragadaccio of we won it. Krutschev and Gorbatchev frittered it all away. Mao and successors, under the tutelage of the communist party are going one better over the remnants of the Imperial realm, led by the Yankee/Sionistas and their g7 vassals. The collective always beats the hyped and illusory "individual"... disciplined co-operation over so-called "competition" in a pseudo free market, the rule of the gangsta monopolies. Read or re-read Lenin's 1917 Imperialism, the last stage of Capitalism. To the point, even after 100 years. Randy Ayn, Milton Freudman & tutti quanti , already in the dustbins of History...dogs bark, the caravan passes...
Important to remember the difference between the political program and the methods used to implement it. I have set out the case that fascism is not a doctrine or form of government but is a technology used to gain and maintain power. The methods of Stalin and of Nazism were very similar, reading from the same book, as they day.
And yes, the USSR pulled itself up very quickly but at what cost? 20million dead from Stalin's methods even before Barbarossa was launched. Could they have achieved similar success with less brutality? I'm sure they could have but Stalin's paranoid state turned the country into a prison.
Unfortunately, the ghosts of Rand, Friedman, Hayek et al are alive and partying in DC, London, Berlin and so on right now.
‘But data aren’t information, information isn’t knowledge, knowledge isn’t wisdom and wisdom isn’t painless’…love this! So much great writing. Hard to keep up! Great resource. Your book was very timely.
Could not agree more
My mother used to say to my grandmother, who was a dreadful old trout, "Don't laugh, you'll encourage him." I was her favourite.
Trump was very rational.
He avoided paying taxes and commented that therefore he was smart (no reference to morality)
That is absolutely right. He laughed about it and told people at rallies "That's how smart I am." Lutnick lied on TV and then when he was found out, just brushed it off. The whole system selects for scoundrels, anybody with a single moral fibre in his or her body would be repelled and walk away. Can we just make sure the tumbrils have been in for service and the wheels are greased?
> Buried under the prejudices economists bring to their research, we find the paradox of hierarchy, the fact that built into all of us is an urge to dominate and an opposite drive to avoid being dominated.
This jumped out for me.
Instead of a hierarchy a flat leadership structure could be less draconian.
Like a bazaar where there is a more organic or natural interaction.
Instead of being told by a top down flow we can interact with those aroind us and deal with eachother
Precisely. Instead of concentrating power at the peak of the dominance hierarchy, e.g. in the US president who has recently been ruled immune to all legal action by the US supreme court, instead of that, authority and responsibility must never be separated, and should be pushed DOWN the hierarchy as far as possible. If you strip authority from the lower levels, treat them like monkeys, they will act like monkeys but treat them as humans and they will rise to the occasion.
Thanks this raise my confidence for searching a for bazaar like solurltions.
Local. Flexible, organic.
Agreed on everything, BUT...you are under the influence of Western Historians who have conflated, falsely but sadly successfully, Communism with Fascism. Stalin was an extraordinary success, he transformed a medieval feudal dictatorship into a force which defeated one of the mightiest army & country in the world. He transformed the Soviet Union in 10 years, what it took the capitalists a hundred years to reach. And this single handedly, contrary to the Hollywood/Trumpian bragadaccio of we won it. Krutschev and Gorbatchev frittered it all away. Mao and successors, under the tutelage of the communist party are going one better over the remnants of the Imperial realm, led by the Yankee/Sionistas and their g7 vassals. The collective always beats the hyped and illusory "individual"... disciplined co-operation over so-called "competition" in a pseudo free market, the rule of the gangsta monopolies. Read or re-read Lenin's 1917 Imperialism, the last stage of Capitalism. To the point, even after 100 years. Randy Ayn, Milton Freudman & tutti quanti , already in the dustbins of History...dogs bark, the caravan passes...
Important to remember the difference between the political program and the methods used to implement it. I have set out the case that fascism is not a doctrine or form of government but is a technology used to gain and maintain power. The methods of Stalin and of Nazism were very similar, reading from the same book, as they day.
And yes, the USSR pulled itself up very quickly but at what cost? 20million dead from Stalin's methods even before Barbarossa was launched. Could they have achieved similar success with less brutality? I'm sure they could have but Stalin's paranoid state turned the country into a prison.
Unfortunately, the ghosts of Rand, Friedman, Hayek et al are alive and partying in DC, London, Berlin and so on right now.