"A supposition stacked on an assumption built on a guess tied up in an imaginary fantasy..."
How very wise and accurate Joel - and not just in relation to "History" as we know it. It seems so much of what we think we know, what we are taught and what we are told could and SHOULD fall into this category.
"Conspiracy" Theories turning out to be true by the dozens, suspected corruption in our "leaders", "government" and "institutions" being regularly verified through actual documentation (receipts) obtained as the fruit from Freedom of Information Act requests or leaks by whistleblowers, the disgruntled or the disgusted - even billionaires buying corrupted "media" platforms and exposing just the tip of a very dirty iceberg - all of these things simply serve to muddy the water in real time. Imagine how convoluted the "history" of our current days (if we survive to write any) will actually be if one could discern actual Truth about ANYTHING, now or in the future.
There is a very popular Book that clearly states DECEIT will be the overriding characteristic coloring all aspects of the End of our Age. Coupling with widespread apathy, a hardening of hearts and a pandemic of reprobate minds - it's rather clear that we are well and truly living in those times...
This is quite good, PG V. It reminds me of my dad, himself a devout Catholic. When I would get all wound up abt the world events, he’d gently remind me “it’s all in God’s hands. Just trust him and everything will work out as it should.”
He didn’t mean to turn and blind eye to everything, and don’t worry and don’t help and don’t prepare, but know in the end it’ll be ok, because this is not our home.
Our current generation of Globalist overlords, in their mid-fifties to mid-nineties, have taken what they consider to be history’s grandest lesson of all to heart. It is this: It all really is just too messy, with too many moving parts and too many people and not enough control, and history has now reached its climax. The time of all Times has come. They posit that Napoleon would agree, as would Hitler and Alexander and the Caesars. Depopulate, and use this marvelous technology to control every aspect of what’s left, including life itself. Stop the pendulum in its’ tracks, once and for all time.
I have often wondered how our cocky politicians have been able to stuff up even the most simple of tasks. They exist in almost impenetrable echo chambers that dampen the flow of information that determines their decisions. Black and white can't even maintain their integrity and merge into a dirty shade of grey once a suitably biased human tries to define them. The truth is always in there somewhere but often obscured by the tangled weeds of context, or lack of it. Here, in New Zealand, the "truth" of our relatively shallow history seems to be getting ever more maleable as the various vested interests fight to define it in there own terms.
As always Joel, you have penned yet another entertaining, yet informative epistle.
Joel - font quality is a step backwards (looks like a cheap type written page) in my opinion but its the words that matter.
Your description of what comprises history using Naploean's invasion of Russia as an example is much clearer and more understandable than Taleb's entire book Black Swan.
I absolutely love to hear about central planning failure because I think that is the primary failure society is struggling with today. Central planning is central to our debt, central to covid reaction, central to media control, central to loss of our freedom of speech and inalienable rights. Central planning is at the center of all today's failures.
Central planning always seems logical, seems attractive and easy but the problem with it is it doesn't work!
Just another great piece of writing and edifying, thank you Joel. Your overriding "Centralization versus Decentralization" thesis is a wonderful reminder of the genius of the Founding Fathers of these United States. The U.S. Constitution (as written) is a masterwork of defining a decentralized system of governance. Unfortunately, as Ben Franklin famously foreshadowed, "if you can keep it". I'd say the verdict is in on that and it's not favorable to "the people".
Twisting history to suit the empire is a necessary evil. Hope springs eternal, we are instructed by clergy that our failings are the result of a lack of faith. We are conditioned to believe what if examined under the microscope of logic and reason can be known to be patiently false.
The Roman's learned how to record history from the Greeks and they the Persians. According to Rome most battles lost, were in fact stunning victories. The Greeks made their warriors into gods, Rome their emperors. Emperors became Popes, and they to the living mouthpiece of the new man god. Not to be out maneuvered the King of England created his own political, military backed religion. Accordingly the church of England bestowed to the king the divine right to rule his empire. The king's word is law, rebellion against the king's law is against gods law.
It only follows Washington, DC is redefining pronouns and economic reality. History has a way of sorting things out, and it will get around to sorting out the USA and all those who put their faith in government and politics.
Faith is counterproductive to knowing, if history teaches us anything the vast majority of humans prefer faith over knowing.
Excellent point about D.C./dims/domestic enemies needing to change the language and meaning - unfortunately, they are well on their way to making "new speak" the norm.
Your comment about Faith got me thinking about something my dear old mum used to say (she'd whack me if she read that, she's still around and feisty as ever.) Anyway -
Methinks you’re too hard on faith and religion. I prefer to think their values lie on a spectrum, their “absolute” values turning on circumstances that will vary, sometimes substantially, from epoch to epoch. H. L. Mencken came close to my understanding in this paragraph (the very first one) from his book “Minority Report,” published in 1956 shortly after his death:
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
"A supposition stacked on an assumption built on a guess tied up in an imaginary fantasy..."
How very wise and accurate Joel - and not just in relation to "History" as we know it. It seems so much of what we think we know, what we are taught and what we are told could and SHOULD fall into this category.
"Conspiracy" Theories turning out to be true by the dozens, suspected corruption in our "leaders", "government" and "institutions" being regularly verified through actual documentation (receipts) obtained as the fruit from Freedom of Information Act requests or leaks by whistleblowers, the disgruntled or the disgusted - even billionaires buying corrupted "media" platforms and exposing just the tip of a very dirty iceberg - all of these things simply serve to muddy the water in real time. Imagine how convoluted the "history" of our current days (if we survive to write any) will actually be if one could discern actual Truth about ANYTHING, now or in the future.
There is a very popular Book that clearly states DECEIT will be the overriding characteristic coloring all aspects of the End of our Age. Coupling with widespread apathy, a hardening of hearts and a pandemic of reprobate minds - it's rather clear that we are well and truly living in those times...
This is quite good, PG V. It reminds me of my dad, himself a devout Catholic. When I would get all wound up abt the world events, he’d gently remind me “it’s all in God’s hands. Just trust him and everything will work out as it should.”
He didn’t mean to turn and blind eye to everything, and don’t worry and don’t help and don’t prepare, but know in the end it’ll be ok, because this is not our home.
I like the old font better, easier on the eyes.
I second that.
Your Article, Joel: Superior, very interesting and thought provoking.
The New Font: Not. Don’t really know what it is, but I find it hard to read.
Please change back to the old font. The new one looks like an advertisement. Much harder to read.
Somehow I got stuck with 74 year-old eyes. The old font was much easier to read.
Regarding your new font, hate it, it makes your article look like an ad.
New font is very hard to read. Too small. try Times New Roman and in a bigger size.
The font is too big on my phone.
Our current generation of Globalist overlords, in their mid-fifties to mid-nineties, have taken what they consider to be history’s grandest lesson of all to heart. It is this: It all really is just too messy, with too many moving parts and too many people and not enough control, and history has now reached its climax. The time of all Times has come. They posit that Napoleon would agree, as would Hitler and Alexander and the Caesars. Depopulate, and use this marvelous technology to control every aspect of what’s left, including life itself. Stop the pendulum in its’ tracks, once and for all time.
I have often wondered how our cocky politicians have been able to stuff up even the most simple of tasks. They exist in almost impenetrable echo chambers that dampen the flow of information that determines their decisions. Black and white can't even maintain their integrity and merge into a dirty shade of grey once a suitably biased human tries to define them. The truth is always in there somewhere but often obscured by the tangled weeds of context, or lack of it. Here, in New Zealand, the "truth" of our relatively shallow history seems to be getting ever more maleable as the various vested interests fight to define it in there own terms.
As always Joel, you have penned yet another entertaining, yet informative epistle.
If everything will continue to play out haphazardly, then why worry or write about it.
Joel - font quality is a step backwards (looks like a cheap type written page) in my opinion but its the words that matter.
Your description of what comprises history using Naploean's invasion of Russia as an example is much clearer and more understandable than Taleb's entire book Black Swan.
I absolutely love to hear about central planning failure because I think that is the primary failure society is struggling with today. Central planning is central to our debt, central to covid reaction, central to media control, central to loss of our freedom of speech and inalienable rights. Central planning is at the center of all today's failures.
Central planning always seems logical, seems attractive and easy but the problem with it is it doesn't work!
Just another great piece of writing and edifying, thank you Joel. Your overriding "Centralization versus Decentralization" thesis is a wonderful reminder of the genius of the Founding Fathers of these United States. The U.S. Constitution (as written) is a masterwork of defining a decentralized system of governance. Unfortunately, as Ben Franklin famously foreshadowed, "if you can keep it". I'd say the verdict is in on that and it's not favorable to "the people".
Twisting history to suit the empire is a necessary evil. Hope springs eternal, we are instructed by clergy that our failings are the result of a lack of faith. We are conditioned to believe what if examined under the microscope of logic and reason can be known to be patiently false.
The Roman's learned how to record history from the Greeks and they the Persians. According to Rome most battles lost, were in fact stunning victories. The Greeks made their warriors into gods, Rome their emperors. Emperors became Popes, and they to the living mouthpiece of the new man god. Not to be out maneuvered the King of England created his own political, military backed religion. Accordingly the church of England bestowed to the king the divine right to rule his empire. The king's word is law, rebellion against the king's law is against gods law.
It only follows Washington, DC is redefining pronouns and economic reality. History has a way of sorting things out, and it will get around to sorting out the USA and all those who put their faith in government and politics.
Faith is counterproductive to knowing, if history teaches us anything the vast majority of humans prefer faith over knowing.
Hi Dennis -
Excellent point about D.C./dims/domestic enemies needing to change the language and meaning - unfortunately, they are well on their way to making "new speak" the norm.
Your comment about Faith got me thinking about something my dear old mum used to say (she'd whack me if she read that, she's still around and feisty as ever.) Anyway -
"You don't have to Understand to Believe,
but you have to Believe to Understand"...
I'm sure your mum was a great lady, but not so versed well versed in logic.
I't impossible to believe one's way into understanding. The same is true with claiming faith leading to knowledge.
Methinks you’re too hard on faith and religion. I prefer to think their values lie on a spectrum, their “absolute” values turning on circumstances that will vary, sometimes substantially, from epoch to epoch. H. L. Mencken came close to my understanding in this paragraph (the very first one) from his book “Minority Report,” published in 1956 shortly after his death:
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
:)
I'm a fan of HLM especially his observations on the US government.
I'm not picking on religion, more offering an alternative to faith in listening to God.
Religion like history is its own worst enemy, and religious history is the stuff of legend or more accurately put faithful fiction.
Please change the font back, this is very hard on my old eyes! Thank you!
Back to the old font please. Seems like a change for change’s sake.