Thursday In Dawn of Gold, I pointed out the hitherto unremarked fact that all human groupings are brought about by the need to exchange – whether of sperm/egg cells, goods, services, companionship, hunting skills etc. All congregations, both large and small, are a demonstration of this phenomenon. Without this need to exchange, tribes would never have formed. … [Read more...]
Capital Destruction and Dispersal
Wednesday The prosperity of Western Civilization is built upon accumulations of money. Accumulations of money translate into money to lend and, the reverse side of the coin, money to borrow. Borrow for what? Increased production – the making of better and/or cheaper goods. (It is interest, and only interest, that draws this money out of the … [Read more...]
Pol Pot
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...]
The Warming Herring
Monday Global Warming is the greatest ever Red Herring, but it has to be acknowledged that it is also the most successful. A whole generation of children have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless we destroy Western Civilization by removing the use of fossil fuels, then Western Civilization will end. It is a combination of Chicken Little writ large and the … [Read more...]
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Wednesday The situation of being between Scylla and Charybdis is a state that small business knows well. It is otherwise known as being between a rock and a hard place. The simple truth that ‘people build civilizations and governments destroy them’ seems terribly hard for people to grasp. Yet, it is profoundly obvious. It is private business that is the … [Read more...]