Thursday Social engineering schemes always fail. As the 20th century English philosopher Ringo Starr eloquently noted: “Everything the government touches turns to shit.” My Starr was quite correct. Since the dawn of human society, centralised control, in one form or another, has always, eventually, collapsed that society. But why is that? The usual … [Read more...]
POG Agog
Friday There is a plethora of articles on the many Gold websites about how Gold and silver are about to take off – by which, they mean, about to go up as measured in dollars or some other currency. It is unwise to sit agog, waiting for this to happen. Gold, when monetised as a known weight and fineness, has a totally unique stability of value and is hence the measure … [Read more...]
The Smell of Rot
Saturday The smell of rot is in the air. European bank problems have become so bad that the media are actually covering it. There is usually a law of inverse proportion between the direness of the situation and the triviality of the media news. Maybe that is justified by the reality that the closer that the world approaches Armageddon, the more weirdly trivial the … [Read more...]