On Keir Starmer

 As an island nation the British have historically relied on trade to survive. This required an independence of action and a will to take advantage globally of opportunities. Subservience to the European mechanism curtailed Britain on the former. However it is an epidemic of a lack of belief in itself that have eroded its will to win abroad. Bad has fostered a malaise that appears to be terminal. Keir Starmer is more suited to the role of Grim Reaper at this point in time then he is to that of Prime Minister.

Reflections LIX - Sobering Thoughts

 A driver for civilization instability is the lag time when one aspect of the flow of information increases at a rate that far exceeds the ability of further steps along the processing line to understand and make sense of it.

Without brute force ideological policy making cannot withstand the empirical push back of the economic reality.

We will reach a breaking point when the false metrics of success run head first into the unyielding wall of  the physical universe.

Nature has an inherent bias in rendering the vast majority of predictions to the effuse of history.

The older I become the more apparent it is to me that many a belief system is based on lies, misconceptions and a dangerous disregard of skepticism.

How much time has been wasted by physicists on a theory of everything? So many hours lost as slaves to hubris. 

Listening to the rhetoric of politicians it is overwhelmingly obvious that the most common trait they share is narcissism.

Reflection LVIII- May's Murmours

A proportional Allied response in world war two would have likely ensured a thousand year Reich.

Systems fails as they have innate flaws in that those who design them rarely have to use them. How many of the framers of Obamacare for example use Obamacare themselves?  The same can be said for public education wonks who send their offspring to private schools while pontificating about the benefits of the state system.

The scarcity of evidence is not evidence in and of itself.

The curse of the podcaster is that in order to stay relevant they inevitably platform garbage,

Ireland has a victim mentality which makes it a perfect  breeding ground for post-Catholic Wokeism. They lost a lot of their best to the United States (through emigration) and in a post-Catholic era are looking for a new religion which requires a devil.  Israel fits that bill for many in the population. The irony is that immigration into Ireland  is eating the out the framework of its society providing a backdoor for an Islamist surge on the Emerald Isle. 

Green parties in the west are far more red than they are green. The environmentalism is the hook for the Marxism.

Once you realize that true happiness comes from cultivating a restful soul based on a transcendence then material wants recede into the background.

A great part of wisdom is honing one’s mind filter to contextualize the information deluge. 

Reflections LVII - Pesky Pontifications

Western Progressives often excuse the worst behavior exhibited in the Arab world by evoking a context of culturally different but ultimately lowered  standards. The Arab Street with remarkably few exceptions have done their best to live up to this appraisal.

The hatred of the Jew and Israel by various Christian nationalists is so diabolical that many seem to show little concern for the possibility that the Holy Land could indeed fall into Islamist hands. Hatred does indeed blind one to rational decision making. 

Ultimately every framework of knowledge acquisition is guided by a leap of faith in a system of understanding. The more robust of these systems minimize such a leap.

The problem with change is not that it is intrinsically bad (it can often be positive) but that much of it is initiated by partisans who have devoted too little time to the mechanism of its initiation and workable contingencies that can re-correct should the change fail.

It is the politics of envy that guides most leftist policy.

Nobody can truly believe in G-d and still be a self centered narcissist for it is the transcendent being that reaffirms our limitation.

It is a poverty of historical knowledge that drives extremism. 

Reflections LVI - April Aspirations

 The enemies of Canada could not have envisioned a greater gift than the term of office of Justin Trudeau. In what seemed like an eternity of time he eviscerated what was left of Canadian Identity. The country at present doesn’t stand for much.

One should resist the temptation to platform bad ideas lest they take over. This is the story of the modern drift leftward of the Democrat Party in the US and its Liberal counterparts here in Canada.

No nation is great enough that it can’t be reduced to its knees by a series of bad administrations. This is modern Britain in a nutshell.

We are living in a time when both major political parties in the USA are being dined on by their extremes. If the center fails to hold the American decline will become much more than a myth.

Those counted as the sane may become the most threatened minority.

The artificial have been trying to sound intelligent for some time. Software has finally allowed them to succeed. 

In electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor, New York has shown that it can match and exceed London in every aspect, including the potential to self destruct.

The West is undergoing a great experiment , the subject of which is to test the robustness of our institutions against a powerful cocktail of incompetence and malevolence. As of this point in time the institutions are failing.

I never despair it is more fun after all in laughing oneself through the apocalypse.

Once you remove envy of the other your happiness factor has no place to go but upwards.

Regret nothing, for the arrow of time does not permit any do-overs in events past. It does however at times allow us to chart with leaned understanding of error,  a possible new future.

The tragedy of the great men is that the national essence that they build will eventually be whittled away by the mediocrities who are destined to succeed them.

Reflections LV - Sustainable Thoughts

If politicians in a democracy don’t see themselves as servants to the people as opposed to masters then its very notion is an illusion.

Cursed be the peacemakers if the peace is not rooted in reality.

It astounds me (or maybe it shouldn’t) as to how many Western Europeans are willing to lend a sympathetic ear to the Islamist take when its that very ideology that is involved in the destruction of its own civilization.

The disturbing curiosity of the Internet is that it consistently magnifies and multiplies stupidity.

The best way to destroy creativity is to document it and formulate under the banner of a process.

One of America’s 21st century challenges center on its ability to integrate its Hispanic population at a rate faster than its demographic growth. Western Europe has failed the task so far with its Muslim minority.

A nauseating quality of the Canadian political character is its obsession with coming across as the level headed good guy in international politics. This often subjugates its moral clarity to the temporary domain of feel good politics.

Reflections LIV- The Morning Smorgasbord

 It was not that Wellington was a greater general than Napoleon (he certainly wasn’t) but that he knew his limitations all the better. This guaranteed him more success than he might otherwise have received.

It is no accident that both the French and Russian Revolutions ate their children and brought into power authoritarian dictatorships. Chaotic upheaval is the fertile ground for a strongman to emerge. People are more comfortable with one source of violent control than many.

For the leadership a controlled populace is more preferable than an educated one. This mentality unfortunately dominates public education.

Deliberate political polarization is predicated on the strong assumption that most people abhor nuanced takes. It is this reality that has manufactured its growth.

I come by my cynicism naturally, as a workable coping mechanism to navigate the decay around me.

It could be argued that the impulse by those who should know better to turn the other cheek has been the greatest blessing to military aggressive regimes.

Sometimes our only hope is that various elected politician don’t live up to their promises.

While we are burdened to surrender part of our security to the government we should never surrender our sanity.