someone liked my Peston post the Negative Sum Game

Here is a snippet:

If you can punish foreign economies even more than yours suffers,  by making them consume ever lower and lower down the food chain rather than producing, and also producing less and less, while  keeping yours from consuming but still able to produce to do it, then you can take over foreign economies at some point.

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RE EXPERTS SPECIALISTS SUBSPECIALISTS

Take, say, dendrochronologists. There are sub fields of it, even.

Under Frye, they can, so to speak, establish their own qualifications, sui generis.

Under something like Daubert, a little bit more difficult, especially for a relatively thin sub specialization.

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fascinating interview

http://michaellewis-blog.blogspot.com/2013/09/video-interview-with-michael-lewis.html

A classic thumbnail sketch

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html

ANOTHER RATHER TIMELY GROUP OF REMARKS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html

WHY NOT REPRISE THIS SOMEONE LIKES IT AFTER ALL

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/phenomenology-and-popular-culture.html

RE JOHAN HEILBRON ADDRESSES SOME OF THESE ISSUES

I learned this only later than the post below:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-modern-life-and-compartmentalization.html

CLASSIC POST SOMEONE NOTICED THIS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-nation-building-works-editorial.html

RE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SENT ME AN OFFER

They want to offer me their professional rate for "Foreign Affairs".

Their bait is a free ecopy of The Clash Of Civilizations

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The last post by a known individual who can sneak onto my site.

Over. It. Done. Bye.

It has occurred to me that I have really lost it and it is time for me to start my new life. I shall be quitting my blogging and moving on to ant and firefly communication. It's an area I've always been interested in and I've finally convinced myself to follow that path. Blogging and making rants has gotten me no where, and no one even reads my blog, so why waste any more of my time. This is it folks, blogging is done for me, read my lips, game truly over.

RE A SPEECH THAT MIGHT BE GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN GOD

DK has taken to writing very good speeches, which the President might have, or, perhaps, should have, given, instead.

Why not do a take off, involving God?

RE THE LAST POST AND THEMES HERE FROM THE BEGINNING WAR IS DIPLOMACY BY OTHER MEANS

Clausewitz had a famous phrase.... how does it go? 

I have postulated, and here encapsulate, another, equally old and venerable one:

Trade is war by other means.

' What matter this or that reason? '

POPE ACKNOWLEDGES WHAT I HAVE POINTED OUT FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW

Numerous piecemeal struggles, everywhere, amount to World War Three. (I prefer calling it IV.)

See: Reuters, world news.

Professor Kaiser said, some time ago, something like: not much likelihood of a major war for the next five or ten years. 

His reasoning, as I recall was that major players are not ready, have demilitarized, etc. He certainly knows of course that lack of readiness, by itself, cannot prevent war. For certain players, lack of readiness of adversaries might be seen as an advantage. Many obvious examples spring to mind.

IF YOU WANT TO SNUFF OUT MILITANT GROUPS IN EVERY CIVILIZATION

in order to make the world safe for democracy,

then you have a whole lot of Wilsonian snuffing out to do.

RE OBAMA AT HOWARD FRIEDMAN FUND RAISER

As I have said, not a really good idea...........

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/09/re-dk-quote-re-clinton-as-hawk-for.html

RE CATALANS SCOTS YOU NAME IT AMERICAN AND WILSONIAN SELF DETERMINATION GLOBAL ANARCHY COMING HOME TO ROOST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-allison-before-1776-and-misplaced.html

RE YAHOO BIG DATA JARON LANIER PPP

Forget about privacy, or borders, or anything else, really, about the past. 

Daily fine, what nonsense, really.

Furthermore, it is not about just the US, since

"Never, ....":

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/11/never-in-history-of-human-conflict-has.html

RE TIRING GAMBLERS

This scenario is coming round again soon, we just don't know just when:

see Collins' new post

 September 6

RE DK QUOTE RE CLINTON AS A HAWK FOR THE JEWISH VOTE

"I think she is equally likely to suffer because it looks as if she is going to run as a foreign policy hawk, perhaps to try to prevent the pro-Israeli lobby from defecting en masse to the Republicans." 

I think, going forward, having the Israeli lobby go over en masse to the Republicans would be just another small stake in the heart of the moribund Republican Party.

The Israeli Lobby, it seems to me, perhaps I am alone in this, is very much like a huge tar baby, going forward, for any party, regardless of ample pro Israeli funding. 

Mere money will, after a certain point, going forward, mean less. At least that's how it seems to me things are going.

RE THE REVOLT OF THE WEAK BROOKS' DREW PEARSON AND HUNTINGTON FALLACIES

He also has numerous other fallacies.

Is he talking about the Western leaders, as the weak, or the third world, and others, at or below the sustenance level?

Hard to say. He sounds like world leaders are also the weak powerless ones.

He knows what he is saying, and he knows the score.

Another example of the Drew Pearson fallacy, by Brooks.

IF YOU LOOK AT HIS NOTION OF CIVILIZATION, THE ONLY ONE SHOWING. along traditional notions, IS THAT OF THE WEST. 
Brooks refers to civilization in the singular.

Alternatively, he refers, of course, to the globalist civilization, the pet of the NYT.

I vote he really means a globalist, rather than a Western, one.

Brooks is a victim of what one might call the Huntington Fallacy, that is, he has no real notion of what civilizations are really like. 

Whether it's western civ, or globalist civ, it's still the Huntington Fallacy.

Let's show Brooks what civilizations (plural) really look like on a map, shall we?

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RE DK QUOTATION AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION

"Otherwise, we will face a world divided into regional blocs based upon fundamentally different world views, as Samuel Huntington, the real prophet of the 1990s, seemed to predict.  That however will not be an unmitigated disaster. It will force us once again to focus on our own civilization, and perhaps to get it back on track."

Unfortunately, the US is just about the last core state, ideologically, in the West, to be in a position to try to get Western Civ back on track.

We, after all, as even so respected a person as Michael Howard pointed out in so many words, were the ones to most take us off that track in the first place, both in 1776, and again after 1945.

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