The Unworthy Elite
Substack
November 08, 2024
“The masses” understand that an intelligent, mature, honest, visionary and worthy elite is needed for society’s leadership. The stewardship of Marcus Aurelius, FDR, JFK and plenty of other patricians throughout history have been well accepted – and appreciated – by ordinary citizens.
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Tags: Metaverse, Privacy, Security
The Source Of Our Political Anger Is Not What You Think
Substack
October 01, 2024
What I’ve had to say about Anger is important – and I’m afraid I’ve not quite connected. I’ve been too pedantic.
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How To Use The First Amendment To Destroy The First Amendment
Substack
September 23, 2024
Totalitarian regimes just hate the freedom of expression that’s enjoyed in free countries, and they especially hate America’s First Amendment to its Constitution. And so they set out to undermine both the culture of free expression wherever it’s found, and specifically the First Amendment in the USA.
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Visit The New Kievan Rus’
Substack
August 21, 2024
Ever since Ilya Ponomarev led the replacement of the dissolved Commonwealth of Independent States, aka the Russian Empire, with the re-emergent Kievan Rus’, what used to be called “Russia” is now a free and thriving nation, resuming the ancient European country established
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Anger Sells
Substack
July 19, 2024
Anyone who has ever succeeded in marketing knows that the surest way to get a reaction to a message is to touch an emotion in the audience member.
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Sutton Smith Has Important Advice For you.
Substack
July 10, 2024
The actress Sutton Smith is today’s Hedy Lamarr.
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Q: Why does Nurse Ratched use negative words like “Deficit” and “Disorder”? A: Jealousy.
Substack
July 04, 2024
OK, I’m being unfair to director Milos Forman and writers Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman and Ken Kesey. The term "ADHD," - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - was first used in the DSM-III diagnostic manual five years after their brilliant film One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest came out.
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Marco Rubio, you are right. However...
Substack
June 20, 2024
Someday perhaps Marco Rubio will get a chance to meet David Spiegelhalter, as I did when he spoke at a salon hosted by my friends Manolis and Lucile Kellis in the latter’s home. His talk was a truly inspiring advocacy for a new academic discipline, which he calls “Problem Solving.”
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Why are nonprofits so popular?
Substack
June 02, 2024
The money to pay those salaries and bills needs to come from somewhere, right? If the nonprofit is lucky, its benefactors are stable and as goodness-minded as the people who carry on its work.
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Optimocracy Brings The Engineering Mindset To Governance
Substack
February 03, 2024
Every smart politician knows that there is a segment of the population whose members harbor a certain resentment that comes from their inability to understand the world’s complexities. Things are just a bit more complicated than they are equipped to handle. For good reason, they feel left out. In n my previous article, Thwarting The Power Addicts by Thwarting Goebbelsology we called them “the seventy-fives.”
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Watch Jordan Peterson and Niall Ferguson’s Insightful Conversation;
Escape Silibandia
December 24, 2023
In this insightful conversation , Jordan Peterson and Niall Ferguson address “The German Problem” – how did such an advanced society as Wiemar Germany give rise to its primitive and brutal opposite, Hitler’s Third Reich?
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What Has Religion Got To Do With God?
Escape Silibandia
December 22, 2023
Animism is the name commonly used for the unreligion of various indigenous tribes around the world. In animism the Creator of everything, including ourselves, is called by various names such as “The Great Spirit.” There’s no more complexity to it than that: somehow we got here, along with other animals and plants and stars, and all we know is that it’s all amazingly complex and intricate, and so we attribute all that to a Creator whom we will never begin to comprehend. There is profound respect for the Creator, the Great Spirit, or whatever name they give to that entity
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Most Venture Capitalists Are Not Capitalists
Escape Silibandia
October 23, 2023
If the word “capitalist” means “businessperson” then most of today’s venture capitalists are not capitalists. For that matter, many of the “businesses” funded by technology venture capitalists are not businesses.
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Quiet Enjoyment, Second Edition
PKI Press
April 13, 2014
Quiet Enjoyment is a real estate term, summing up in two words all that the occupant of a building can and should legally expect from a builder or a landlord.
The internet used to be called the Information Highway, i.e. an outdoor public transportation system. In the physical world we typically use highways to take us from building to building, that is, secure bounded indoor spaces; that is spaces defined the accountability they define for occupants.
So: in our digital world, where are the buildings? Where are our accountability spaces?
It turns out that a robust and stable construction material for digital buildings was invented in the mid-1970s. When combined with reliable identity enrollment methods, buildings made from this construction material will eliminate most of our security problems: phishing, ransomware, breaches, malware, etc., etc.
The second edition of Quiet Enjoyment shows you how we can have accountable InDoor spaces, that is digital buildings.
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