Friday Pol Pot was a stain on the 20th century. Not so much for the amount of slaughter that he perpetrated, but for the crazed rationale behind it. Socialist slaughters were common and some produced a far larger body count than Pol Pot (Hitler was responsible for around 70 million deaths, Stalin and Mao were not far behind), but Pol Pot killed all those that … [Read more...]
Diversity, Equality and Nazis
Wednesday ‘Diversity’ describes the situation where everybody has to have exactly the same ideas about everything. Check out the word in the dictionary, then think about that for a moment. Those who do not accept diversity will be ‘deplatformed’, ‘unpersoned’ (it is not just their philosophy, even their language is ugly), beaten up and lose their jobs. … [Read more...]
Try Gold
Wednesday When a long-existing social order begins to crumble, then the old, who know what they are losing, seek to repair and save it, and the young, who don’t, seek to replace it. That generalizes the situation, but it is approximately true. What is galling (to those old enough to know what that word means), is that in the instance of the collapse of our existing … [Read more...]
Capitalism Equals Wealth Creation – Socialism Equals Wealth Destruction
Monday Let’s not be too hard on the Venezuelan socialists. Yes, it’s been a disaster and has resulted in widespread hunger amongst the poor and untold deaths. But the people did originally vote for socialism, despite all the historical evidence for what would happen. Besides, Venezuela is a minor manifestation of the disease. From the national socialism of Hitler, Mao … [Read more...]