Too many books sit unread on my shelf. This weekend, I finally made my way to Debt, The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (2011). The first chapter prepared me for disappointment. Graeber proudly announces his role in protesting the IMF and occupying Wall Street (I did not know his background before buying his books).Continue reading “Graeber’s “Debt””
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Friedrich Hayek
Had to memorialize this gem of a thread: Elizabeth Cohen was clearly baiting the idiots – and she reeled them in (and protected their identities). It was a cheap shot designed to draw trolls, but cheap shots are great tactics in combat. This wasn’t “the wisdom of crowds.” It was the illiteracy of crowds: aContinue reading “Friedrich Hayek”
MINING THE MOON
Amid the Covid-caterwauling, the media failed to take proper notice when Mr Trump signed an executive order encouraging our mining the moon on April 6, 2020. Mining the moon and its exploitation was the premise for Robert Heinlein‘s, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In Heinlein’s vision, the lunar colony is exploited by EarthContinue reading “MINING THE MOON”
Protective Arts 