Recent content by philostam

Recently I watched an excellent 2017 movie about Churchill (Darkest Hours) when he first became PM in 1940, and during his famous "we shall fight on the beaches" speech, his main opponent in the war cabinet, Lord Halifax, summarized it with a fantastic line. He said Churchill has "mobilized the...

This one is the most scary for me: Firstly, you can just see in her face that she is possesed by some kind of demon. Second, her opinions are trash, her reasoning is trash, her personality is trash. She filmed this conversation with his dad (who is shocked and disappointed with her) and she...

His family seems decent and loving. This kid was radicalized in school and campus, and spent his whole days on reddit and discord as confirmed by his classmates. And his own father reported him to the police and brought him in. Another case of the mind virus taking a perfectly good kid.

I think it can be prevented in the left wing politicians and media de-escalate the situation. I've seen a hint of self-reflection after the Kamala/Biden election defeat, but now they're back to the "Hitler needs to be stopped" rhetoric. Someone has to take the moral high-ground. To be clear, I...

This is nothing new to me, we have seen the same reactions from the left when Trump was almost killed a year ago. They cry so much over the killings of innocents abroad, yet they cheer when it happens at home. They are the same, just have different targets. I've made my mind that vast majority...

Something it's definitely rotten in the media complex. I understand that they don't want to pour gasoline on the fire but they had no problem stoking the fire (literally) when it came to George Floyd. It's not even conspiracy that they wanted to create chaos on the streets so that Trump was not...

That's some real deep understanding of system thinking right there. Let's go set up a GoFund Me page so that John K from INFJ forum gets enough money to buy out Sam Altman from OpenAI and becomes our AI over-lord. I would trust you to navigate our society.

One concept from finance that I like is that volatility cannot be suppressed, it can only be transferred to something else. Kinda follows also the second law of thermodynamics. For example you can somewhat control for unemployment and keep it steady, but you'll have volatility in inflation...

I don't know, but I suspect that the key may be deeply studying British history from like 16th century to WW2 which I have not done. The way in which England managed to impose some self-regulation, so it wasn't just slashing and raping people, while also gradually usher in progress without...

Some more remarkable quotes from Burke (just taken of goodreads): “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.” “A man full of warm...

What also irked me in the video was this simplistic characterization of right-wing as always reactionary and against progress. French revolution is a good example. Is that the progress that we should cheer on? I've been long looking to read Edmund Burke's Reflections on Revolution in France...

Dominic Sandbrook is the man!

This is the horseshoe theory that he dismissed out of hand at the beginning of the video. The notion that far left and far right are unified in their totalitarian tendencies seems pretty accurate to me. But then his justification was that far-left doesn't mention it in theory (it just so...

They certainly were not democracies, but as you say, democracy doesn't mean much if it's controlled by other interests. I think David Starkey makes this argument, that England under Tony Blair and New Labor, underwent a shift of power from parliament to vast array of committees that are not...