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John, I took Huston Smith's course and enjoyed it immensely. I still practice Zen meditation. I have a solution to that koan, I'll be interested to hear yours.

And yet the Republican Senators and Congressmen ON THE SAME BALLOTS were elected! Those devious Democrats figured how to hack one line of the ballot! We’re doomed to decades of “democratic socialism.”

But continue your paranoia if it makes you happy.

Of course, the election was 100% rigged in favor of Biden. Why else would Biden have spent the majority of his campaign unseen and "in his basement"? Only someone who knows the fix is already in the bag wouldn't bother actively campaigning. And only the Democrat party, knowing that the 2020 electio...

John, if I could "like" your post I would! You have attracted a strange bunch of "friends." Se if any will take you to lunch.

Anybody know why silver has gone up so much more than gold in the last few weeks? I thought there was a “usual” 16:1 ratio.

Here’s John Grey on surveillance, capitalism, the West, and China.

https://www.noemamag.com/surveillance-c ... nce-state/

John, interesting essay....”cliodynamics” sounds a lot like GD...

https://aeon.co/essays/if-history-was-m ... =atom-feed

Didn't President Art of the Deal get Putin and MBS to prop up the price of oil (after taking credit for lower gas prices, then realizing US producers weren't happy)? Oh well...

John, your "Afghan Papers" was full of your usual stunning insights (they seem obvious once you state them), and I wish our"leaders" could have a chance to digest them. But you left out one aspect of the Afghan War (and Iraq War, and and and...): Wars are Profitable! Not so much for those killed or ...

"ch-, ch- ch-, changes"...wass't that the refrain of a song from the 70's?...well, there's the 1st derivative (rate of change), and then the 2nd derivative (rate of change of the 1st derivative, acceleration). The problem is, that may not apply to real-world, complex systems, where so many interacti...