“That’s because no one realised that Twilight was an arthouse movie. It’s part of the same thing. In a few years, people will suddenly realise – ah, it was arthouse! I totally missed it!”
Is it all art house, now, or not?
Paglia can say.
Yet, here, also, is Paglia, a drop of her nonsense:
In 2007, Professor Camille Paglia argued in her article "Art movies: R.I.P." that "[a]side from Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather series, with its deft flashbacks and gritty social realism, ...[there is not]... a single film produced over the past 35 years that is arguably of equal philosophical weight or virtuosity of execution to Bergman's The Seventh Seal or Persona". Paglia states that young people from the 2000s do not "have patience for the long, slow take that deep-think European directors once specialized in", an approach which gave "luxurious scrutiny of the tiniest facial expressions or the chilly sweep of a sterile room or bleak landscape"
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Saturday, February 8, 2020
KENNAN ON TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY ON GLOBAL WARMING ENVIRONMENTAL DECAY
He quotes Tocqueville in Russia and the West
Under Lenin and Stalin, "a democracy can only with
great difficulty regulate the details of an important
undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out
its execution in spite of serious obstacles."
Under Lenin and Stalin, "a democracy can only with
great difficulty regulate the details of an important
undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out
its execution in spite of serious obstacles."
Think about Iowa............
This post is dedicated to Greta Thunberg.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
RE DK CURRENT POST AND MY COMMENT HERE TOO LONG TO BURDEN HIS SITE WITH
"Fueled by a post-Cold War fantasy of ruling the world, a resentment of Arab states that would not obey the US, and devotion to the interests of the State of Israel, the Bush Administration also seized upon 9/11 as an excuse to begin a string of endless wars in the Middle East. These wars, too, could have brought the country together and created a new consensus--if they could have been successful. Broad strategic problems, however,. doomed them almost from the start. Overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq was well within our capabilities, but establishing stable, friendly regimes in those countries--much less democracies--was far beyond them. Sixteen years and many trillions of dollars later, our side is losing the war in Afghanistan, while the sectarian Iraqi government is destroying the country's second-largest city, Mosul, in order to save it. But that was not all. The fantasy behind those wars: that we could solve terrorism, and other problems as well, by replacing Middle Eastern autocrats with democracies, has continued to be a principle of our foreign policy ever since, with increasingly disastrous consequences." DK
"These wars, too, could have brought the country together and created a new consensus--if they could have been successful."
I don't think that this is true. I doubt that wars, even those which have commonly been touted as bringing a nation together, for us WWI and WWII are the classic examples, actually themselves did this.
They did also a lot of other things, simultaneously, and after, which, over time, cut very strongly against domestic social integration, and resulted in an American led globalization which frankly could care less about American domestic social integration.
It is also openly anti Western Civilization oriented, so we are a longstanding pariah within Western civilization itself as well.
Vietnam, similarly, was both very socially divisive for us while it was happening, unlike WWI and WWII, but much more importantly, disastrous for us, as they too were, in the long run, in a global hegemonic sense, in terms of their tendency to distract, and to enrich and empower so called allies in Asia, encouraging Americans to think, to this very day, that blindly booming noncommunists, both ideologically and for short term profits, was somehow good for America in the long run.
Korea had some very similar tendencies too.
Places where proxy wars like this have been fought have of course since ancient times been turned into wastelands.
FDR wanted to render Germany and in fact most of Central Europe, in general, pasturage, after WWII, until sense was talked into him, and into his successors.
England, before us, had long mostly been the same way, also throwing France into the mix of throw away buffer areas between Britain and Russia, its natural ally.
Places where proxy wars like this have been fought have of course since ancient times been turned into wastelands.
FDR wanted to render Germany and in fact most of Central Europe, in general, pasturage, after WWII, until sense was talked into him, and into his successors.
England, before us, had long mostly been the same way, also throwing France into the mix of throw away buffer areas between Britain and Russia, its natural ally.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
RE PROFESSOR BOBBITT SHIELD OF ACHILLES POSSIBLE WORLDS
I want to say a few words, at some point, here and there about what Professor Bobbitt prognosticated, 8 or 9 years ago now, concerning possible worlds scenarios.
Private sector companies allegedly do good uncertainty work, better than government. That is a given I think, for Western democracies, but I would point out, most Western firms, not really true (their perennially short time horizons).
Witness also the recent disclosure, as just another example, that HP has cut most of its remaining R & D.
See some reasons why, at eg Bobbitt Shield, p. 725, 'Technology'; esp. paragraph beginning "The capability..."; and the article NYT Aug 22, 2010, today re South China athletic shoe knock off factories.
I am far from sure that places like Japan have not been doing something even more sophisticated re scenario planning for a long time now; perhaps I give them too much credit. No one can predict what actually will occur.
The BP situation may or may not be a good example of what Professor Bobbitt was referring to; certainly they found lax federal regulation, going in, and no doubt factored that into their cost equations, going forward, regarding whether certain failsafe measures were necessary.
I want to refer, in a more general sense, to some of the points made, regarding certain aspects of the analysis, re the Meadow, the Park, and the Garden, the drivers, etc., etc.
Private sector companies allegedly do good uncertainty work, better than government. That is a given I think, for Western democracies, but I would point out, most Western firms, not really true (their perennially short time horizons).
Witness also the recent disclosure, as just another example, that HP has cut most of its remaining R & D.
See some reasons why, at eg Bobbitt Shield, p. 725, 'Technology'; esp. paragraph beginning "The capability..."; and the article NYT Aug 22, 2010, today re South China athletic shoe knock off factories.
I am far from sure that places like Japan have not been doing something even more sophisticated re scenario planning for a long time now; perhaps I give them too much credit. No one can predict what actually will occur.
The BP situation may or may not be a good example of what Professor Bobbitt was referring to; certainly they found lax federal regulation, going in, and no doubt factored that into their cost equations, going forward, regarding whether certain failsafe measures were necessary.
I want to refer, in a more general sense, to some of the points made, regarding certain aspects of the analysis, re the Meadow, the Park, and the Garden, the drivers, etc., etc.
Friday, February 7, 2020
TRUMP RECALLS EU ENVOY KIND OF A BAD JOKE GOING IN
EU
This is also quite fair and fitting:
This is also quite fair and fitting:
Lt Col Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, a senior lawyer for the National Security Council, was also sent back to the Department of the Army on Friday.
YOU DON'T GET TO DICTATE WHAT YOU ARE CALLED
You are not entitled to be called anything.
It is not a human right.
There is no such thing as a human right.
There is no such thing as a human right.
You can be called white, Caucasian, cracker, gammon, gringo, farang, coonass, gubba, hinky, hunky, barang, bule, charlie, gweilo, haole, mangia cake, ofay, arkie, okie, peckerwood, whitey, ang mo, etc., etc.
List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity, Wikipedia.
List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity, Wikipedia.
ISRAEL WILL BE SURROUNDED AND EXTERMINATED TOO BAD US SHOULD OFFER ASYLUM FOR THE WHOLE BLASTED POPULATION
Israel says it will not allow Iran, its sworn enemy, to deepen its military presence in Syria, which Israel sees as an attempt by Iran and its proxies to surround it.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
LINCOLN, ALSO JEFFERSON MADISON CLAY, WAS AND REMAINED A COLONIZATIONIST
'In fact colonizationism took precedence over emancipation.' Gideon Welles on Lincoln, see Magness Page, p 108, 109.
As I have pointed out here, his whole political career resonated with this colonization theme.
Emancipation during the Civil War, without having first placed immediate colonization plans on a firm and agreed political footing, especially within his own party, was Lincoln's own special personal blunder, among other really big ones.
My suspicion is that the only way he might have gotten cooperation for such plans in our fragmented system, was to have threatened to halt the war, in its very midst, declare an armistice, treaty agreeing to secession, or something else, unless an agreed, firmly established, and multi year plan for colonization were first hammered out by Congress and agreed by him.
The other huge point to make (Clausewitz or whatever):
Why even embark on a war which, even if you quote ' win ', you cannot then achieve the outcome (colonization) which you most intended to achieve? See George Julian's remark, Magness and Page, p 109, re if he had known colonization would not work whether his preliminary notice to the rebels would have been given.
After all, Lincoln had won the war, before he was killed, yet no colonization plan, whatsoever, worthy of the name had ever been firmly put in place and agreed by Congress.
In fact, the opposite was where it stood when he died.
Further, the decision to recruit blacks as Union soldiers violated Lincoln's own principles, and made the whole project for colonization difficult to carry forward. By the end of the war, there were about 100,000 of these, who had been armed.
Lincoln expressed concern that these freed trained and armed ex slaves might then go back into the south and commence a race war there. One wonders why he didn't think of these things before that time.
Nevertheless the Civil War outcome was nothing whatever like what he had hoped for:
My suspicion is that the only way he might have gotten cooperation for such plans in our fragmented system, was to have threatened to halt the war, in its very midst, declare an armistice, treaty agreeing to secession, or something else, unless an agreed, firmly established, and multi year plan for colonization were first hammered out by Congress and agreed by him.
The other huge point to make (Clausewitz or whatever):
Why even embark on a war which, even if you quote ' win ', you cannot then achieve the outcome (colonization) which you most intended to achieve? See George Julian's remark, Magness and Page, p 109, re if he had known colonization would not work whether his preliminary notice to the rebels would have been given.
After all, Lincoln had won the war, before he was killed, yet no colonization plan, whatsoever, worthy of the name had ever been firmly put in place and agreed by Congress.
In fact, the opposite was where it stood when he died.
Further, the decision to recruit blacks as Union soldiers violated Lincoln's own principles, and made the whole project for colonization difficult to carry forward. By the end of the war, there were about 100,000 of these, who had been armed.
Lincoln expressed concern that these freed trained and armed ex slaves might then go back into the south and commence a race war there. One wonders why he didn't think of these things before that time.
Nevertheless the Civil War outcome was nothing whatever like what he had hoped for:
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,-- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifyling them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." Abraham Lincoln, 4th Debate.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
SANDERS' ECON ADVISOR STEPHANIE KELTON SEE DK STEVE CLARK COMMENT HUSBAND PAUL
His most important text: Epidemics and Enslavement
This book presumably blames white European male conquistadors with both new world epidemics and for the subsequent white European need for large scale negro enslavement.
I didn't read his book yet, but one can put one and one together.
Let Sanders' People Go!
Let Sanders' People Go!
THOMAS L FRIEDMAN'S MOTHER NATURE REQUIRES SOPHISTICATED DESAL COOPERATION ARABS ISRAELIS
TLF says Trump doesn't know Eastern Mediterranean drought 15 of last 20 years. TLF very short memory....
This area has been a half desert rocky arid wasteland for thousands of years.
A crossroads of warring empires.
A graveyard of empires.
It was never in recorded history a land flowing with milk or honey or more than a trickle down of water.
Agriculturally, it has always been a piece of shit.
Mother Nature took a big dry crap on the Middle East tens of thousands of years ago.
A huge crap without boundaries. An enormous flat hot dry crap. A crap on a place already crowded with losers.
That's TLF's Mother Nature, the only one he deserves.
Postscript:
Here's an old TLF post someone saw, re TLF solutions:
Agriculturally, it has always been a piece of shit.
Mother Nature took a big dry crap on the Middle East tens of thousands of years ago.
A huge crap without boundaries. An enormous flat hot dry crap. A crap on a place already crowded with losers.
That's TLF's Mother Nature, the only one he deserves.
Postscript:
Here's an old TLF post someone saw, re TLF solutions:
Sunday, July 28, 2019
TLF MR GLOBALIZATION 'BOTH PARTIES FAILED WE NEED SOMETHING VERY COMPLEX
TLF flat LA LA LAND
TLF SAYS HE IS WORKING ON IT!
SOMETHING MORE COMPLEX.
(America has always been really really really good at complex.)
A DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIST COMPLEX MAGIC BULLET!
HE CAN FIX THIS!
Guess what his solution will be: More Globalization Please, mimicking David Mr More Free Trade Brooks.
Trust me, that is what he will say any day now.
Liberace: "We can fix this!" "We can do better!"
Here's an old post someone is looking at today:
TLF SAYS HE IS WORKING ON IT!
SOMETHING MORE COMPLEX.
(America has always been really really really good at complex.)
A DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIST COMPLEX MAGIC BULLET!
HE CAN FIX THIS!
Guess what his solution will be: More Globalization Please, mimicking David Mr More Free Trade Brooks.
Trust me, that is what he will say any day now.
Liberace: "We can fix this!" "We can do better!"
Here's an old post someone is looking at today:
JUST GUESS HOW MANY FACE MASKS THAT LARGE POPULATION NEEDS
2M A DAY, IN HUBEI ALONE, FOR MEDICAL STAFF ONLY.
And they are thought to be ineffective.
And they are thought to be ineffective.
TECH IS THE PROBLEM NOT A 'SOLUTION' MARKET TECH BULLSHIT TECH STEVE HAND JOBS TECH
Climate change: Clean tech 'won't solve warming in time'
JAMIL QUEERFACE ROLE CRITICS QUEERED BY HER OUTING AS QUEER
Why don't the bitches demand that only queers can play queer roles, like they bellow only negroes should play negro roles!
Only a midget can play a midget.
Only a midget can play a midget.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP YOKOHAMA QUARANTINE MIAMI COMPANY
Report: Japan quarantines cruise ship after previous passenger tests positive for coronavirus
Florida school group possibly exposed to coronavirus confined to home
Florida hospitals are prepared if the coronavirus makes its way to the area, a risk that could increase as more travelers arrive for the Super Bowl in Miami. Medical experts in South Florida say with the number of international travelers to South Florida, it is just a matter of time until local hospitals see a case. “The department is coordinating closely with our local partners to investigate, confirm, contain and report any suspected cases, should they occur,” Florida health officials said.
OFFSHORING IS A GREAT NEW STRATEGY FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS NOT JUST PRODUCTION
You can offshore untouchables, plague victims, felons, illegal migrants, all kinds of folks whom you need to get rid of permanently.
Hong Kong is going to quarantine mainland Chinese.
Why not just offshore them!
make it some one else's problem.
Coronavirus Nimbys!
I say send them to Africa. There is already so much dying there, a little more will make little difference!
Migrants into Italy or Greece or Spain, I would offshore all the way to, say, the Congo, just to make sure they have almost zero chance of ever bothering Europeans or Russians again with their presence.
Maybe Putin can be persuaded to kick in a few roubles for this worthy cause, not to have to worry about them again in this lifetime!
Same goes for Chinese who illegally try to get across the Sino Russo border bringing who knows what with them!
Hong Kong is going to quarantine mainland Chinese.
Why not just offshore them!
make it some one else's problem.
Coronavirus Nimbys!
I say send them to Africa. There is already so much dying there, a little more will make little difference!
Migrants into Italy or Greece or Spain, I would offshore all the way to, say, the Congo, just to make sure they have almost zero chance of ever bothering Europeans or Russians again with their presence.
Maybe Putin can be persuaded to kick in a few roubles for this worthy cause, not to have to worry about them again in this lifetime!
Same goes for Chinese who illegally try to get across the Sino Russo border bringing who knows what with them!
PAGLIA WOULD BE GREAT AT STABBING LATE ROMAN OR AMERICAN DEGENERACY
But she is a late American degenerate!
So, she goes around betraying her own perv kind!
Werewolf in Drag
So, she goes around betraying her own perv kind!
Werewolf in Drag
DIMS' SUICIDAL IMPEACHMENT RATHER LIKE DIMS' COMEY RATTING HILLARY'S EMAILS 2016
Impeachment Biden poison pill
DIM AND DIMMER
STATE OF UNION AFRICAN ASIAN HISPANIC AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT RATES MEAN SHIT
in the global civ, nation, and race wars now already fitfully unfolding.
Americans of color are dwarfed, midgetized, made ridiculous, politically, by the enormous truly staggering numbers of starving, poor, and hopeless foreigners of all non white colors, now mobilized, industrialized, and ideologized against the West.
Americans of color are dwarfed, midgetized, made ridiculous, politically, by the enormous truly staggering numbers of starving, poor, and hopeless foreigners of all non white colors, now mobilized, industrialized, and ideologized against the West.
THE IMPLOSION OF POLITICAL PARTIES LINCOLN HAD FIREBOMBED THE WHIGS DEMOCRATS AND KNOW NOTHINGS
Democrat Debate Friday night!
Bernie, a globalist communist whacko.
Pete, strange fruit.
HOT NIGHT FRIDAY!
Bernie, a globalist communist whacko.
Pete, strange fruit.
HOT NIGHT FRIDAY!
YOKOHAMA CRUISE SHIP 10 TEST POSITIVE
Just imagine what airplane air would be like?
A week later, 100% would test positive.
A week later, 100% would test positive.
THOMAS L FRIEDMAN MR GLOBALIZATION HITS OUT
TLF doesn't respect national boundaries except Israel's expanding one.
He has spent his career railing against national boundaries.
He notes climate change, etc, don't respect boundaries.
He means national boundaries, trust me.
Neither do MNCs.
Neither do Coronaviruses.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS WOULD HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS W OLD AIRLINE AIR INTAKE
Previous airline air intake systems took in fresh air in flight.
Not any more. That changd years ago.
Now, the bitches recycle the same air the whole time, injecting oxygen into it as they fly along, to make it survivable.
It has become an incubator for all manner of infections, not merely fatal ones.
With the current airline air no intake design, planes are all incubators for spreading the infection to all on board!
Not any more. That changd years ago.
Now, the bitches recycle the same air the whole time, injecting oxygen into it as they fly along, to make it survivable.
It has become an incubator for all manner of infections, not merely fatal ones.
With the current airline air no intake design, planes are all incubators for spreading the infection to all on board!
KEYNES RE VERSAILLES LENIN AND STAGFLATION
John Maynard Keynes described the inflation and economic stagnation gripping Europe in his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Keynes wrote:
- "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some." [...]
- "Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
Keynes explicitly pointed out the relationship between governments printing money and inflation.
- "The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths. The various belligerent Governments, unable, or too timid or too short-sighted to secure from loans or taxes the resources they required, have printed notes for the balance."
Keynes also pointed out how government price controls discourage production.
- "The presumption of a spurious value for the currency, by the force of law expressed in the regulation of prices, contains in itself, however, the seeds of final economic decay, and soon dries up the sources of ultimate supply. If a man is compelled to exchange the fruits of his labours for paper which, as experience soon teaches him, he cannot use to purchase what he requires at a price comparable to that which he has received for his own products, he will keep his produce for himself, dispose of it to his friends and neighbours as a favour, or relax his efforts in producing it. A system of compelling the exchange of commodities at what is not their real relative value not only relaxes production, but leads finally to the waste and inefficiency of barter."
Keynes detailed the relationship between German government deficits and inflation.
- "In Germany the total expenditure of the Empire, the Federal States, and the Communes in 1919–20 is estimated at 25 milliards of marks, of which not above 10 milliards are covered by previously existing taxation. This is without allowing anything for the payment of the indemnity. In Russia, Poland, Hungary, or Austria such a thing as a budget cannot be seriously considered to exist at all."
- "Thus the menace of inflationism described above is not merely a product of the war, of which peace begins the cure. It is a continuing phenomenon of which the end is not yet in sight."
- WIKIPEDIA STAGFLATION
THIS IS FOR ALL YOU LIBERALS WHO LOVE THAI FOOD AND CULTURE
Foreigners are not allowed to own land in Thailand by law. If interested in buying, a foreign investor has two options: either a 30-year leasehold or purchasing the property through a limited company. Apartments can be purchased by foreigners as long as at least 51% of the building is owned by Thais.
A limited company is a faux solution..........
Apartments are majority owned and controlled by Thais, including yours, or you don't get one. Think about it.
I am for it. I think we should have such laws, to keep out riff raff.
Apartments are majority owned and controlled by Thais, including yours, or you don't get one. Think about it.
I am for it. I think we should have such laws, to keep out riff raff.
EUROCENTRISM VERSAILLES KEYNES BAIROCH PIKETTY
It is good to recall that Keynes was not talking about booming the third world.
Third World backwardness and poverty were not at all caused by the West, as one merely reading something like Marx, or today, something like Piketty, might conclude. Western exploration took a huge toll on the New World, but that was an unintended, and very unfortunate, consequence. They wanted gold and silver for European trade, not to trade with the natives. One has to distinguish between 'the proletariat' and savages..........
He, Keynes, wasn't even thinking of the third world much in something like The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
He was thinking of the industrialized West.
The West did not get to its dominant industrial position by agricultural and mineral extraction trade with, and domination of, the third world, but rather by industrial and commercial trade within the West.
Terms search: Bairoch
Third World backwardness and poverty were not at all caused by the West, as one merely reading something like Marx, or today, something like Piketty, might conclude. Western exploration took a huge toll on the New World, but that was an unintended, and very unfortunate, consequence. They wanted gold and silver for European trade, not to trade with the natives. One has to distinguish between 'the proletariat' and savages..........
He, Keynes, wasn't even thinking of the third world much in something like The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
He was thinking of the industrialized West.
The West did not get to its dominant industrial position by agricultural and mineral extraction trade with, and domination of, the third world, but rather by industrial and commercial trade within the West.
Terms search: Bairoch
Friday, December 14, 2018
THIRD WORLD AGRICULTURE BAIROCH
The Economic Development of the Third World since 1900
He makes some important observations I never thought about.
Why has third world agriculture, not even to get into third world industrial development, been so problematic?
Some problems have to do with vegetarianism itself, normally associated with religious systems, and its tendency to keep people at or near a subsistence level for various reasons versus animal husbandry and its associated advantages.
Many people nowadays will try to tell you that vegetarianism is good for you and good for the planet, and there are elements of truth to that, but they miss Bairoch's arguments completely.
Additionally and catastrophically, he criticized very early what was then called the green revolution, already seeing where it was heading.
It later has turned into a horrific monster with Monsanto and corporate control of vastly reduced numbers of strains of crops, and built in pesticides, re genetically modified products.
It has been a truly horrific development, originally started by Western market capitalism and its philanthropy to feed a hungry enormous and bloated world population, so to speak, Arthur Daniels Midland, Monsanto, Dow, Etc.
Now it's even Microsoft, Bill Gates, Mr thousand dollar third world toilet, advertising AI to feed a hungry world with high tech.....
See Bairoch's Chapter on Agriculture.
He makes some important observations I never thought about.
Why has third world agriculture, not even to get into third world industrial development, been so problematic?
Some problems have to do with vegetarianism itself, normally associated with religious systems, and its tendency to keep people at or near a subsistence level for various reasons versus animal husbandry and its associated advantages.
Many people nowadays will try to tell you that vegetarianism is good for you and good for the planet, and there are elements of truth to that, but they miss Bairoch's arguments completely.
Additionally and catastrophically, he criticized very early what was then called the green revolution, already seeing where it was heading.
It later has turned into a horrific monster with Monsanto and corporate control of vastly reduced numbers of strains of crops, and built in pesticides, re genetically modified products.
It has been a truly horrific development, originally started by Western market capitalism and its philanthropy to feed a hungry enormous and bloated world population, so to speak, Arthur Daniels Midland, Monsanto, Dow, Etc.
Now it's even Microsoft, Bill Gates, Mr thousand dollar third world toilet, advertising AI to feed a hungry world with high tech.....
See Bairoch's Chapter on Agriculture.
Monday, July 22, 2019
WESTERN INDUSTRIALIZATION WAS NOT BASED ON THIRD WORLD EXPLOITATION
Oppression and enslavement of third world folks was Kismet, and a happy coincidence. Icing on the cake of Western industrial development, so to speak.
That exploitation was purely incidental.
You will never convince any low level person of any color of that today. They all think they made the West what it was, and now should be paid reparations for their subordination, and for the theft of what they contributed to Western domination of them.
The people of color believe that they themselves, alone, made Western domination of them possible in the first place.
Paul Bairoch referred here to colonialism and to the exploitation of the third world in the 19th and early 20th century.
He argued that this exploitation was not indispensable for industrialisation.
This he thought is "good news" for the third world because it means that development could occur without exploitation of other regions.
"L'occident n'a pas besoin du tiers monde, ce qui est une mauvaise nouvelle pour le tiers monde." ("The West doesn't need the third world, which is bad news for the third world.") – Paul Bairoch, Le tiers monde dans l'impasse (1992)
Bairoch, Wikipedia
Bairoch, Wikipedia
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET SEE EG PAUL BAIROCH
Monday, January 2, 2017
THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET REGARDING COLONIALISM IS THAT IT WORKED
You don't develop these pups.
You exploit their natural resources for you not them, and otherwise leave them where you found them, in a state of nature.
You don't have to sell them, or trade them, industrial products; certainly never teach them to make them themselves for sale.
Most of that trade, contrary to theories of industrial development being tied to colonial development, especially in the industrial revolution, was intra European and North America trade, not driven by colonial trade. Raw materials inputs weren't the big cost factor. Most of the biggest raw materials inputs for the industrial revolution came from within Europe anyway. Cotton was an exception.
Saturday, December 15, 2018
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
You used to hear a lot about this idea, even halfway into the 20th Century.
It was an economist's panacea for a virtuous specialized world trade market, leading, by natural self correcting equilibrating forces, to prosperity for all everywhere eventually.
It was an economist's panacea for a virtuous specialized world trade market, leading, by natural self correcting equilibrating forces, to prosperity for all everywhere eventually.
It didn't turn out that way at all.
Reading Bairoch's book, one sees unfold the disaster it became for the under developed world.
Not that I am a fan of third world development in the first place. In fact the opposite.
But were I trying to promote it, comparative advantage would of course with hindsight be the last place for one to look for organizing principles for third world development.
See Comparative advantage, Wikipedia
This post is dedicated to Thomas Piketty.
See Comparative advantage, Wikipedia
This post is dedicated to Thomas Piketty.
Sunday, July 26, 2015
RE POWER AND PLENTY INDUSTRIALIZATION PER CAPITA TABLE 6.3
So many implications emanate from this table for my topics on this blog. Even if, as they say, Bairoch's numbers were based on slender evidence, as they acknowledge, it says more about the trends over that crucial period.
Friday, December 14, 2018
RE THIRD WORLD ISSUES IN GENERAL THE AGENDA
Why am I talking about such crazy things as outdated economic historians talking about problems of third world agriculture?
The reason is to begin to burst the bursting bubble presumption that it was merely Western Imperialism that held the Rest back singlehandedly, apart from other causes besides merely Western imperialism.
This is a theme Bairoch touches on in some works, and we will bring those passages forward, to show that it was not merely the overbearing Western white man who dominated the colored man of the Rest, but also the backwardness of the colored man and his civilization itself which had made such domination possible in the first place, and its causes in the culture and history of the colored races and civilizations themselves rather than in the West itself.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
SEETHING MASSES IN THE REST BLAME THE WHITE WEST FOR THEIR POVERTY
Technically, this is a fallacy, call it The Western Imperialist
Fallacy, but ask yourself whether any of them, people of any color, even white, would believe it, even if they could understand it......See eg, Paul Bairoch
"...(because our security problems do not arise from a competition among the great powers, but rather out of the seething underclass, domestically and in the Third World, that has been seduced by the cult of consumption at a time when the future dictated by its demographics moves this class ever farther from realizing its fantasies)..." The Shield of Achilles, p. 258.
Maybe, if the White West had not so dominated the Rest, the overwhelming majority of them might now have three bowls of rice a day, instead of two, and now live in a somewhat larger thatched roof dirt floor hut.
Convergolescence is closing in on billions.
Re Bobbitt's passage, I would just note in passing that it is not merely demographics, or even that and the cult of consumption together, that is moving this so called class farther from reaching its fantasies. It is also other processes, some working for centuries now, others only very recently, as well.
Maybe, if the White West had not so dominated the Rest, the overwhelming majority of them might now have three bowls of rice a day, instead of two, and now live in a somewhat larger thatched roof dirt floor hut.
Convergolescence is closing in on billions.
Re Bobbitt's passage, I would just note in passing that it is not merely demographics, or even that and the cult of consumption together, that is moving this so called class farther from reaching its fantasies. It is also other processes, some working for centuries now, others only very recently, as well.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
CHINA KONG TAIWAN WILL BLAME YOU BABY WHITE MALE WEST IMPERIAL COLONIAL RUNNING DOGS
OF COMMUNISM CAPITALISM AND CHRISTIANITY, TAKE YOUR PICK:
They will say you have wrecked their whole fucking civilization!
That is what they will say.
Vicious from the day they were born.
They will say that your Western Civilization was built solely on the backs of people of color.
Yet their subjugation was a mere consequence, not the cause, of western domination of them.
The cause of Western domination of the Rest was an incidental result of intra Western development and rivalries.
If you cite Paul Bairoch, it would not be believed.
Piketty does not want to hear about it.
It runs counter to his theme. Rodrik: Dittohead.
PATRIOTIC LIBERTARIANISM GLOBALIST UNIVERSALISM BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN WITH REPUBLICAN POPULIST DEMOCRACY FROM 1776
They will say you have wrecked their whole fucking civilization!
That is what they will say.
Vicious from the day they were born.
They will say that your Western Civilization was built solely on the backs of people of color.
Yet their subjugation was a mere consequence, not the cause, of western domination of them.
The cause of Western domination of the Rest was an incidental result of intra Western development and rivalries.
If you cite Paul Bairoch, it would not be believed.
Piketty does not want to hear about it.
It runs counter to his theme. Rodrik: Dittohead.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
BAIROCH SAW UNDER DEVELOPMENT AS A PROBLEM I SEE IT AS A WESTERN ADVANTAGE SQUANDERED
By Liberal Economists' Western Wastrel Developmental Capitalism.
The Economic Development of the Third World Since 1900, "Ch 11. General Conclusions".
Terms search: wastrel
The Economic Development of the Third World Since 1900, "Ch 11. General Conclusions".
Terms search: wastrel
Monday, February 3, 2020
FEBRUARY MOST POPULAR OLD POST FOR VERY DIFFERENT REASONS NOW
Sunday, August 19, 2018
THREE YEAR OLD POST
Thursday, October 22, 2015
RE NYT PUTIN ISOLATED
He is not isolated, it seems, by China, apparently.
Why, do you think?
Take a guess.
If he is isolated, is he not a threat to global growth?
Another interesting point, why is China not also 'isolated',
so to speak,
rather than merely a 'threat' to global growth?
What is the difference, if any, between being isolated from, versus being a threat to, global growth?
Great question.
Terms search: Zephyr
Why, do you think?
Take a guess.
If he is isolated, is he not a threat to global growth?
Another interesting point, why is China not also 'isolated',
so to speak,
rather than merely a 'threat' to global growth?
What is the difference, if any, between being isolated from, versus being a threat to, global growth?
Great question.
Terms search: Zephyr
CORONAVIRUS CASES IN RUSSIA UNDERSTATED AT 2
The Russian Prime Minister says Russia may deport any found there with coronavirus.
That is one way to go, seems at first to make sense, but then, what happens in that other place?
It becomes teeming with corona cases!
If they deport them back to China, that strains the Sino Russo Alliance, which I think must have been in place for some years.
That is one way to go, seems at first to make sense, but then, what happens in that other place?
It becomes teeming with corona cases!
If they deport them back to China, that strains the Sino Russo Alliance, which I think must have been in place for some years.
RE KEYNES PUTIN AND SPIN CF DK CURRENT POST KEYNES AND US
Putin does a remarkable job here, outrageous in many places considering the Soviet role after 1917.
He is all over Poland. Very ironic, when one considers the partitions, etc.
It is for his audience there, but well worth seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3KiYfr3dfM
He is all over Poland. Very ironic, when one considers the partitions, etc.
It is for his audience there, but well worth seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3KiYfr3dfM
THIS IS A GOOD PRETEXT FOR NATIONALIZATION I SAY CHINA TAKES IT
Monday, February 3, 2020
CHINA ACCUSES US OF VIRUS PANIC FEAR
I have been thinking that they would accuse the US of having caused the virus by arranging the marketing of illegal coronavirus ready animals in the market in Wuhan, and that Chinese vendors would not have been in this trade without American market pressure and involvement.
That should be the next shoe to drop.
CHINA ACCUSES US OF VIRUS PANIC FEAR
I have been thinking that they would accuse the US of having caused the virus by arranging the marketing of illegal coronavirus ready animals in the market in Wuhan, and that Chinese vendors would not have been in this trade without American market pressure and involvement.
That should be the next shoe to drop.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
THERE ARE PLENTY OF CORONAVIRUS CASES IN CHINA-TAKEOVER AFRICA
You just don't know it yet....Trust me.
aturday, July 28, 2012
See David Kaiser's current post
DK:
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Sunday, December 1, 2019
IF THE RADICAL REPUBLICAN PLAN WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SOUTH
then the Versailles Treaty, and then 25 years later, the Morgenthau Plan, were each certainly good enough for Germany!
The Germans and the Allies had agreed to Wilson's 14 Points as the basis for the Armistice in WWI, similarly to how the Confederacy had surrendered under terms Lincoln had promulgated and which had already been acted on during the war in some southern states.
The allies then betrayed the Germans at Versailles and repudiated their commitment, in the same way that the Radical Republicans betrayed the South by 1867 and had repudiated Lincoln's terms of surrender, and under similar conditions.
With unconditional surrender, engineered by the Soviets, there was no opportunity for terms. The Morgenthau Plan was actually implemented on the ground at first until the Marshall Plan was approved and took hold, but it took years, not months.
RE DK CURRENT POST KEYNES AND US
Friday, August 3, 2012
RE THE GLOBAL CLASS WAR BOOK Faux faux science economics
He gives a fairly accurate and useful account so far.
One or two places I would quibble with him about, eg p 87,
"Globalization per se is not a product of political ideology. The gradual expansion of world markets is a natural consequence of evolving technology, communications, and business organization in search of efficiencies of scale."
He gives examples, both before and after p 87, of ways in which it has been largely a question of greater and greater globalization as in fact the product of political ideology set up by institutions, notably those first developed, as he acknowledges, by Keynes, p. 88, one of his heroes, nonetheless, for Keynes' continuing reaffirmation of nationalism.
(I share an affirmation of nationalism, but Keynes per se , so to speak, is not my paradigm for it.).
Further, pace Faux, globalization is as little a natural process as are the notions, in management, of a product life cycle, or of so-called mature industries, eg manufacturing, or mature products, moving off shore, to make room for 'service economies', and symbolic analyst entrepreneurs (Faux' passage on how this played out is wonderful p.72-74), in 'post industrial societies'.
As he says, re Robert Reich's symbolic analysts paradigm, MNCs overcame this would-be geekocracy by turning these 'knowledge workers' once again into 'plug-and-play' pieces....p. 74.
As I have remarked elsewhere here, the economics field, (as Randall Collins also might perhaps remark, a pseudo discipline specialization,) had been a doomsday machine for the West.
Ironically, Faux' work contains numerous good examples of faux science in economics, in spite of his stubborn reverence for Keynes.
One might all along very well have been a trade, commercial, and military, nationalist,
without the pseudo discipline of economics, which always was ill suited to underpinning it.
One or two places I would quibble with him about, eg p 87,
"Globalization per se is not a product of political ideology. The gradual expansion of world markets is a natural consequence of evolving technology, communications, and business organization in search of efficiencies of scale."
He gives examples, both before and after p 87, of ways in which it has been largely a question of greater and greater globalization as in fact the product of political ideology set up by institutions, notably those first developed, as he acknowledges, by Keynes, p. 88, one of his heroes, nonetheless, for Keynes' continuing reaffirmation of nationalism.
(I share an affirmation of nationalism, but Keynes per se , so to speak, is not my paradigm for it.).
Further, pace Faux, globalization is as little a natural process as are the notions, in management, of a product life cycle, or of so-called mature industries, eg manufacturing, or mature products, moving off shore, to make room for 'service economies', and symbolic analyst entrepreneurs (Faux' passage on how this played out is wonderful p.72-74), in 'post industrial societies'.
As he says, re Robert Reich's symbolic analysts paradigm, MNCs overcame this would-be geekocracy by turning these 'knowledge workers' once again into 'plug-and-play' pieces....p. 74.
As I have remarked elsewhere here, the economics field, (as Randall Collins also might perhaps remark, a pseudo discipline specialization,) had been a doomsday machine for the West.
Ironically, Faux' work contains numerous good examples of faux science in economics, in spite of his stubborn reverence for Keynes.
One might all along very well have been a trade, commercial, and military, nationalist,
without the pseudo discipline of economics, which always was ill suited to underpinning it.
STAGGERING BIRD POPULATIONS DECLINES
If you hadn't liberated then boomed them, you could have kept these bitches under Western white imperial control.
S AFRICA MOST VIOLENT 58 MURDERS A DAY KEEP IT THAT WAY
9 ILLEGAL MINERS CLUBBED TO DEATH.
THEY DESERVED IT.
THEY DESERVED IT.
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