Allison Shrager on HBS Woke Capitalists; A teacher tells horror stories to Wesley Yang; Tyler Cowen on American robustness; Renaud Beauchard on French fragility
I’d take the tallest Pygmy line a little farther still: the USA has not had massive food riots like the rest of the world, or strikes by farmers and other critical industries. So far we have managed to be slightly less insane than much of the rest of the world, if only just.
The strength of the USD against most other currencies (not the Russian Rouble, after Putin's capital controls), remains a big MMT-ish reason for much less inflation than would be expected by the huge Trump deficits, and even more enormous Biden handouts.
It would be even better if the US became a leader in both small safer nuclear power as well as geo-thermal.
Fair point, I didn’t bring up China imprisoning entire cities for weeks at a time. The company I work for has plants there and it is a shot show. Interestingly people in other cities seem unaware of such acts, too.
"the felicitous promises of the greatest illusion of all, the illusion of progress, are now gone, and have left behind a full-blown techno-totalitarian nightmare"
But what if progress is not an illusion, but something that can be promoted by good government?
Beauchard's progress IS the reality of a techno-totalitarian nightmare. And it is promoted by gov't support for Big Tech totalitarians.
You're more right that progress is real, as in movement, but it does seem we're moving towards both some better things AND some worse things. With Dems in power, far more worse things than better.
Per usual, a hysterical conclusion (Beauchard's) is not justified by the decent analysis that precedes it. Worrisome conditions? Of course. All progress is an illusion? Ah, the underlying motivation driving the reasoning
Wesley's horror story includes a most horrible note - despite the horror inflicted by the horrible Democrats (/ Left), the teacher remains a progressive. Not yet so mugged by reality to accept that they've been teaching and enabling the Democratic muggers.
Wesley has a great transcript from an early 2022 podcast:
He notes that he is trying to become a better extemporaneous speaker, and putting his podcasts on his substack.
He also notes a 2007 Ford Foundation attempt to get educators to support free speech and academic freedom - this is huge support for Tanner Greer's objection to J. Haidt's claim that the polarization is mostly driving by smartphones. Greer is far more correct than Haidt, and even more than he claims.
The US colleges, thanks to 60+ years of soft but increasingly hard discrimination against Christians (& pro-life folk and Republicans) are morally corrupted. Their tax exempt status should be forfeit - they should be paying their fair share of taxes.
I’d take the tallest Pygmy line a little farther still: the USA has not had massive food riots like the rest of the world, or strikes by farmers and other critical industries. So far we have managed to be slightly less insane than much of the rest of the world, if only just.
The strength of the USD against most other currencies (not the Russian Rouble, after Putin's capital controls), remains a big MMT-ish reason for much less inflation than would be expected by the huge Trump deficits, and even more enormous Biden handouts.
It would be even better if the US became a leader in both small safer nuclear power as well as geo-thermal.
Europe has always been a shitty version of America, no competition there.
China has shown its fundamentally flawed with COVID. In fairness, it seems like all of Asia is insane.
There is nobody else to compete with.
On top of that the energy squeeze isn't that bad of news for America because we have lot of energy compared to everyone else.
Fair point, I didn’t bring up China imprisoning entire cities for weeks at a time. The company I work for has plants there and it is a shot show. Interestingly people in other cities seem unaware of such acts, too.
"the felicitous promises of the greatest illusion of all, the illusion of progress, are now gone, and have left behind a full-blown techno-totalitarian nightmare"
But what if progress is not an illusion, but something that can be promoted by good government?
Beauchard's progress IS the reality of a techno-totalitarian nightmare. And it is promoted by gov't support for Big Tech totalitarians.
You're more right that progress is real, as in movement, but it does seem we're moving towards both some better things AND some worse things. With Dems in power, far more worse things than better.
What does progress want?
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/what-progress-wants
Per usual, a hysterical conclusion (Beauchard's) is not justified by the decent analysis that precedes it. Worrisome conditions? Of course. All progress is an illusion? Ah, the underlying motivation driving the reasoning
Wesley's horror story includes a most horrible note - despite the horror inflicted by the horrible Democrats (/ Left), the teacher remains a progressive. Not yet so mugged by reality to accept that they've been teaching and enabling the Democratic muggers.
Wesley has a great transcript from an early 2022 podcast:
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/transcript-the-road-to-year-zero
He notes that he is trying to become a better extemporaneous speaker, and putting his podcasts on his substack.
He also notes a 2007 Ford Foundation attempt to get educators to support free speech and academic freedom - this is huge support for Tanner Greer's objection to J. Haidt's claim that the polarization is mostly driving by smartphones. Greer is far more correct than Haidt, and even more than he claims.
The US colleges, thanks to 60+ years of soft but increasingly hard discrimination against Christians (& pro-life folk and Republicans) are morally corrupted. Their tax exempt status should be forfeit - they should be paying their fair share of taxes.
The zoom meeting with Allison was also good - she is quite lively. I like the name of her stack:
Known Unknowns.
You forgot to say, "Have a nice day."