Morality derived from human nature (and thus from Darwin’s sociobiology) differs from divine law as expressed in the New Testament in significant ways. It is Aristotlean and Randian morality, is fundamentally selfish. Aristotle and Rand tells us to cultivate our own excellence. Darwin tells us we commit ourselves to conduct that will enable us to get along with others because humans are a social and political animal, we need to …
Losing in Afghanistan 3
Pashtuns need to be defeated, not morally uplifted.
There is no Republican party
If the republican party existed, it would be going after Van Jones’ scalp and the Obama
health plan, rather than Glen Beck and Sarah Palin going after them. The leadership of the Republican party, like the movement for Obama’s health plan, is itself merely astroturf manufactured in Washington.
The error of Nazism
people and groups that subscribe to Hobbesianism find themselves at war against all, because they expect to find themselves at war against all – but find to their shock and surprise that their non Hobbesian enemies are cooperating just fine to deal with the common enemy and common threat. Thus people and groups that subscribe to Hobbesianism get defeated, and frequently enslaved or wiped out. All those who doubt Hobbesianism gang up on them.
Losing in Afghanistan 2
Our policy in Afghanistan is as if the Czechs had fought and won, and then Chamberlain sold them to Hitler. We are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Audit the Federal Reserve
No member of congress wants to be seen to oppose the audit – but such an audit is extremely unlikely, for no member of congress, with the possible exception of Ron Paul, wants the public to know what the Fed has been up to – still less do they want America’s creditors to know what the Fed has been up to.
Obama’s public private partnership
government support for developers meant that developers had an incentive to be active in politics, and be good at political activism, but no incentive to be active in preventing the roof from leaking, or the roof from falling in.
Losing in Afghanistan
The winner in a guerrilla war is the side that most brutally terrorizes the population. Our troops lack the stomach for what it takes to win a guerrilla war, so more troops will not help.
American debt
Thus the excess “private” debt is not private. The normal level of public and “private†debt is about twice GDP, say twenty six trillion, so we are about thirty trillion or so in the hole and getting deeper fast – well past the danger level of twice GDP.
US turning french
It is getting steadily harder and harder for someone to find a new job – and having found a new job, harder and harder to afford a house – presumably because of the very great and rapidly increasing regulatory burden on building houses and hiring people. This renders employees powerless before their employers, which tends to result in class war and social violence as in France, and tends to result …