Saturday Australia’s Liberal government is going to blame Dingbat Dan for the economic crash that is upon us. Dan Andrews, the Victorian Premier, is widely perceived as a completely out-of-his-depth idiot who has stuffed up his responsibilities to a magnificent degree. It will stick. Dan’s daily, self-obsessed, media ramblings have made him the poster child … [Read more...]
Socialist Kleptocracies
Thursday Countries never recover from a socialism that is allowed to run its course, i.e., until it has squandered the capital accumulated in the prior period. Compounding this problem is that the human capital also vanishes – for sunnier (saner) climes. The gene pool is weakened as only the old, apathetic and party apparatchiks are left. Lacking capital, intellect and … [Read more...]
A Free Man
Monday I am a free man, beholden to no tribe, group, country, state, territory or government save that which I choose of my own volition. I am beholden to no code, ideology, dogma, morality, logic, reason or law that is enforced by others, no matter who they are or what their claimed standing. I am not the property, chattel or subject of any external authority. I am … [Read more...]
Cultures are Important
Tuesday Cultures are important. They went a bit out of focus after WW2, being replaced by ideologies. But they never went away. It was during WW1 that the communists noticed that troops were more inclined to die for their country (merely the physical location of their culture) than their ideology. In the 1930s, and based upon this realisation, National Socialism … [Read more...]