In 2020 Bruce Charlton wrote out his three litmus tests: Currently, as of 2020, the ideological-religious Litmus Tests – i.e. the three major planks of acute, ’emergency’ Leftism – are, in order: 1. To believe in the deadliness of the birdemic and the need for societal lock-down-social-conditioning-masking-etc; which schema justified the Leftist totalitarian global coup, and the …
Stop talking about cringe. It’s a female idea. It’s an extension of the managerial pant-suit state. To say something is “cringe” is to project your emotional state onto that thing or person. Someone says or does something that makes YOU have an emotional reaction, then you name that thing for YOUR emotional reaction. When someone …
What the hell are brownies? Are they cake? Are they fudge? Something else? Around my house we’ve debated the brownie problem and the hotdog/sandwich problem many, many times. These questions confound the modern person, but Aristotle dealt with them easily. Brownies are cake. Brownies do not differ in any essential way from cake in it’s …
My property is a mess. The place was completely unmanaged for decades when we bought it. The owners lived in Missouri and likely hadn’t stepped foot on the place in at least ten years. It was originally an Cherokee land grant given to a little girl in the 1920’s. She and her family fenced it …
We are beset upon by dumb people. If you are dumb and don’t understand causation life becomes a cargo cult for you. If you are dumb, you can’t believe that the West was built by a meritocracy. If it was and your people didn’t get to participate, that means you weren’t good enough. That is …
Cargo cults cropped up during the late colonial era that petered out in the 20th century. Cargo cults are characterized by a desire for material goods and a complete misunderstanding of all preconditions that gave rise to those goods. From Infogalactic: With the end of the war, the military abandoned the airbases and stopped dropping …
Stupid people say “It takes money to make money!” This is actually an excuse poor people and spiritually poor people make for not trying to launch their own business. Smart people are always trying to make money by using as little money as possible. In fact, ROI or ROC is a measure of how much …
Money folks talk about financing in terms of the mechanical. They talk about leverage. If you borrow against the equity in your rental property in order to buy more property they’d say you are leveraging the equity. The total debt in your company might be referred to as “gearing.” Using debt to obtain control of …
Usury used to be illegal. It used to be hated by the true Church. It should still be. If usury is hated, should that hatred reserved for only the lender? If usury is sinful, is borrowing sinful? When asked if usury is a sin, Thomas tell us: I answer that, To take usury for money …
I’m getting ready to go on a tirade about debt and usury. I know with the inflation, market consolidation, and financialization of everything we are experiencing today it seems like it’s impossible to “get ahead” without borrowing. As a result, I know some of you will think this is boomer-poasting from me. That it’s “easy …