Reflections XL - Gathering Some Thoughts

 The most underrated intellectual move a thinker can make is it to admit that they are wrong.

The problem with elections is that they overvalue in the candidates the noxious stench of hubris.

It still never occurs to many on the left that their failed policies (re immigration, national identity) made the ascendancy of Donald Trump. With greater pragmatism and less deference to ideology it surely can be argued that Trump’s two presidential terms may not have to come to be.

It takes a lot of energy to reform a flawed institution as they have the habit of making great swaths of the population indifferent to their failures and comfortable to their existence.

If you believe in one ridiculous idea it is more than likely that will believe in multiple stupidities as well.

The Left hate Trump as they see him as Hitler. Nazis hate Trump as he is not Hitler.

As I write the west is sacrificing itself on the fake notion of subjective reality.

To fight its wars the Far Left reside on an army of ghouls which they call Antifa.

Never date anybody who is crazier than yourself.

What a tangled web we weave when we seek to do away with created order.

Nobody learns less from a series of failed experiments than the committed communist.

You have no meaningful worldview when the core of your ideology is primarily focused on the failure of the other.

From the Political Front

 Anti-Semitism has been mainstreamed by nefarious actors, bot farms  and a growing movement of voices eager to find a scapegoat for their respective problems and shortfalls. A large degree of anti-Semitic rhetoric online comes from the Middle East, China and other parts of Asia.

Most reported news today is narrative driven. Much of it is downright lies and if it does carry elements of truth one has to be cognizant to employ the necessary thinking skills to navigate the bias. There are however islands of sanity still surviving in the deluge of dross.

It is rather hilarious to see countries that refuse to recognize Israel’s existence showing tantrums over the country’s recognition of Somaliland. The lack of awareness of irony is indicative of the mess that is modern global politics.

The reality of post-colonialism is the establishment of a multitude of failed states.

The Iranian Revolution of 2026 is a litmus test for morality which is why it has been so loathed by many on the political extremes.

Reflections XXXIX - More Pulsations of the Mind

I fail to see how the existence of a transcendent entity as the cause of the original singularity is any less plausible then the origin of a primordial quantum foam operating with the constraints of physics bubbling a universe into existence.

Civilizations collapse when its leaders lose the ability to distinguish between good and bad ideas.

The purpose of life is to render meaning to what on the surface appears to be meaningless.

No amount of constructive building can rescue a political system that is built on flawed assumptions. This is the common tragedy of Marxism, Fascism and Islam.

The market can be a cruel and uncaring reality but it is never wrong economically.

You can lie to the world without paying a price but you cannot lie to your finances. It will coming collecting at some points.

Ultimately any scam will collapse in the long run as those instigating it have to rely on the integrity of people who are most flawed in such an attribute.

Beware of derived vocabulary overload, it is the surest way to tell that an intellectual model lacks empirical and practical foundation.

Judaism unlike Christianity does not damn unbelievers to an afterlife of no salvation.

Much of the turbulence of history has been driven by those chasing false assumptions and making gods of bad ideas.

Reflections XXXVIII - January Looking Glass

Nothing has more inertia than time. It is impossible to stop, slow down or speed up. Its motion is consistent.

What the ancient Greeks lacked in unity they made up for in innovation. However like all who had conquered so much they were destined to fall to more disciplined version of themselves, which explains their fall to the emerging Roman goliath.

The Persians had a great Empire but ultimately their forces were disadvantaged when fighting the Greeks. Lacking the centralize bureaucracy of their Eastern opponents the Greeks empowered  their smaller fighting force to act with a greater independence in battle thus maximizing the outcome of the rank and file.

Without a corporate capitalism the Scandinavians would simply not have the wealth that the socialists wish to distribute. The greatest success of these countries is that there has been enough cooler heads to prevent this wealth from being destroyed by the inevitable collectivist overreach.

One of the key functions of the Qatari money machine is to wage war against the Jews worldwide. This has the form of a multi prong attack which involves nurturing anti-Semitism on campus, the media and the corporate world disguised as the seemingly less innocuous label of anti-Zionism.

On Pundits, podcasters and youtubers

These are some pundits/podcasters that I find to be very reliable: 

Victor Davis Hanson (Geopolitics), Daniel Greenfield (All forms of Radicalism), Andy Ngo (writes well on ANTIFA), Raymond Ibrahim/David Wood/Apostate Prophet (All are great on Islam), Alan Dershowitz (Legal Issues), Andrew Klavan (Culture Wars), Ryan Macbeth (military technology and the cyber wars), Simcha Jacobovici (Simchas's Session - Biblical Archaeology + the Middle East), Warren Smith (Critical Thinking), Gad Saad (Mind viruses and radicalisms), Jonathan Turley (Law), Ben Shapiro (Conservatism in general), Dennis Prager (Culture Wars), Sabine Hossenfelder (Science), Bari Weiss (US politics), Veritasium (Science), Jordan Peterson (Psychology,,unfortunately his health like Prager's is a problem lately), Indy Neidell (20th century history), Andrew Gold (Heretics...good interviewer), Preston Stewart (military), Serpentza (China) and  Chris Wyatt (South Africa).

I also like the vlogging work of Charlie Veitch, Tousi TV, Nick Shirley. A young up and coming pundit who has great potential for the future is Moderate Case... bigger on Instagram.

The following pundits/sites are absolutely terrible: Cenk Uygur/Ana Kasperian (Young Turks), Jimmy Dore, Scott Ritter, Dave Smith George Galloway, Owen Jones, Max Blumenthal/Grayzone, Sam Seder, Secular Talk, Breaking Point,  The Intercept, Jen Perelman, Kim Iverson, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Mark Dice, Nick Fuentes, Valhalla, Marc Lamont Hill and Peter Beinart.

These individuals are hit and miss...too many misses for my liking but not as bad as the previous list....Piers Morgan, Benny Johnson, Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper,  Theo Von, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald (terrible on Israel..great on free speech), Richard Dawkins (Great on science not so good on politics), Peter Hitchens (largely gets the issues but is way too pessimistic), Firstpost/ WION (Indian media).