Saturday Despite the in-your-face hysteria of the WuFlu fiasco, it is not the most important story of the day, just the most titillating for the media. The destruction caused by the lockdowns is testament to the dopiness of our politicians the world over. What has become forcefully clear over the last sixteen months is that democracy is unworkable once average … [Read more...]
Save the Middle Class
Thursday The concept of a middle class is very new. It emerged in England during the Industrial Revolution. From there it spread throughout the UK and then outward to what became known as the Western world. Since time immemorial, there had been the few who were strong (rich) and the many who were weak (poor). The strong took from the weak and that was … [Read more...]
The Law of the Jungle
Monday The concept of a middle class is very new. It emerged in England during the Industrial Revolution. From there it spread throughout the UK and then outward to what became known as the Western world. Since time immemorial, there had been the few who were strong (rich) and the many who were weak (poor). The strong took from the weak and that was just … [Read more...]
From Feudalism to Capitalism and Back Again
Sunday No country will be spared the impact of the lockdowns. It was done and that was the end of normality as we knew it. It was the philosophic and economic destruction of Western Civilization. The mystery is that so few identified it as such at the time. The truly obtuse still don’t. To gain wealth in the ancient world it was necessary to loot, … [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...]