Saturday, November 26, 2016
New Premiere Date for SIX: January 18
Cast Photo with Walton Goggins
But also on History Channel: The Selection.
Putting women in a competition with men? What BS:
But also on History Channel: The Selection.
Putting women in a competition with men? What BS:
Friday, November 25, 2016
Libertarian But Not Wholly Liberal?
Do the authors accept there can be a common good distinct from the private goods of the members of a political community?
Doug Casey on Globalism and the Worldwide Populist Revolt by Nick Giambruno
Except Casey then says this:
Loyalty is not a feeling -- it is an act of the will based on trust and experience with the other. Loyalty to strangers is just stupid. An illustration of a version of political science that has not been thought out carefully.
Doug Casey on Globalism and the Worldwide Populist Revolt by Nick Giambruno
Mankind has gone through three main stages of the political organization since Day One, say 200,000 years ago, when anatomically modern men appeared. We can call them Tribes, Kingdoms, and Nation-States.
In prehistoric times, the largest political/economic group was the tribe. Since men are social creatures, it was natural enough to be loyal to the tribe. It made sense. Almost everyone in the tribe was genetically related, and the group was essential for mutual survival in the wilderness. The local group was all that counted. “Others” from alien tribes, were not only in competition for scarce resources, but they might want to kill you for good measure. Tribalism is probably genetic—it’s a survival mechanism. Patriotism for your tribe also served a survival purpose, because you were always fighting with the neighboring tribes. You wanted your co-tribalists to be loyal and patriotic…
In the Kingdom phase, from around 3,000 B.C. to roughly the mid-1600s, the world’s cultures were organized under strong men, ranging from petty lords to kings and emperors. With kingdoms, loyalties weren’t so much to the “country”—a nebulous and arbitrary concept—but to the ruler. You were the subject of a king, first and foremost. Your linguistic, ethnic, religious, and other affiliations were secondary. Tribal leaders who were good warriors conquered neighboring tribes and set themselves up as kings.
Then came the nation-state, one of the mankind’s worst inventions.
Except Casey then says this:
Today’s prevailing norm is the nation-state, a group of people who tend to share a language, religion, and ethnicity. Like a gigantic tribe. The idea of the nation-state is especially effective when it’s organized as a “democracy,” where the average person is given the illusion he has some measure of control over where the leviathan is headed.
I think, however, that the nation-state is approaching its end game. What will replace it? I think Neal Stephenson was right in his superb novel The Diamond Age, where he put forward the idea of “phyles.” It no longer makes sense to be loyal to a group just because they have the same government ID that you do, or because they were born in the same bailiwick. I don’t feel any particular loyalty to the people living down the road in the trailer park, or in the barrio, or the ghetto, or the next town. As a matter of fact, they’re likely adversaries and liabilities. We’ve got little in common.
I feel more loyalty to people with whom I share values—and they could as easily be in France, or Burma, or the Congo as the U.S. Now, with the internet, modern telecommunications, and jet travel, we can find each other. Birds of a feather will wind up forming phyles, obviating the nation-state.
Loyalty is not a feeling -- it is an act of the will based on trust and experience with the other. Loyalty to strangers is just stupid. An illustration of a version of political science that has not been thought out carefully.
Friendships of Convenience
They never bothered to check and see if their core values made them compatible or not ... it was about sharing common pastimes or activities. The Trump supporters in blue areas need to find their own tribe, people who share their values and commitments and start making new friends.
Trump Supporters and Their Fair-Weather Friends by Gavin McInnes
Trump Supporters and Their Fair-Weather Friends by Gavin McInnes
Feels Like Saturday
Go to 2:16. "What a creep!" These days Tony would get in trouble with feminists for harassing women like that...
The Green Hornet Getting a Reboot
Will they get both the Green Hornet and Kato right this time? Screen Anarchy
Because the NRA is Evil!
And willing to do anything to stop a tough, heroic female lobbyist from protecting children everywhere! Miss Sloan -- shouldn't that be Ms. Sloan? The movie-makers can't even get their politics 100% correct.
I bet Sam Waterston was happy to play an evil right-wing male.
I hope it tanks at the box office.
I bet Sam Waterston was happy to play an evil right-wing male.
I hope it tanks at the box office.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
A Prequel TV Series for Taken...
NBC trying to gain some viewers... it could work; I'd rather see this than the 24 revival. From Vikings to a Taken TV Prequel, Clive Standen’s Ass-Kicking Evolution
A Testimony to the Strength of the British Empire
Exclusive Clip: LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD Testifies to the Strength of Gertrude Bell
Could a woman wander around unmolested in that part of the world today?
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Could a woman wander around unmolested in that part of the world today?
website and FB
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