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Back can college, I took a an intro to philosophy course. On the first day, the young professor started out with a non philosophical problem. A man was looking for a squirrel on a tree. The squirrel did not want to be seen, and kept the on the far side of the tree as the man circled it. The question ...

I can agree on the debt and the bubbles. Eventual trouble.

Normal? Trump is obsessed with tariffs. Many nations are changing their trade arrangements to get around the tariff expenses. China, Canada, Mexico and Europe are included. I would not describe this as normal. Still, if anything they will ...

Hmm... The major power that anchored the West since the Greatest Generation has been the US. With Trump's tariff obsession, he is a least temporary organizing a new international order excluding the US and much of its advanced industrial base. I'm really confident that this is short term, that ...

Maybe the worst part is that there's far too many who overestimate our own power and ability and underestimate the position that we're in.


I sympathize with FullMoon here.

I see Trump going through the same mental deterioration as his father, with overt loyalty to him combined with quiet ...

Well, wrong. His obsession with tariff based economics is rewriting world economics to eliminate America and American jobs. His racist attitute towards latinos and jews is getting him into legal and conflict trouble. His popularity is tanking.

Belief in a political ideology can divorce one's ...

It seems that a lot of Americans get some form of benefit from the federal government, be it weather prediction, medicare, tax breaks or whatever. Many of the recent money saving service reducing actions make somebody mad, shifting votes for the future. Trump is going to be leaving politics, between ...

I'd like to think that the people living under various autocratic governments are aware that democratic ones are better for the people. They just don't have the gumption for the revolution it takes for the transformation.

We're not as overwhelming as we used to be and our collective adversaries are much stronger than ever before. We need a massive increase in leadership quality across the board if we hope to even have a chance. But hope is cheap and we're already looking at something like Navigator described in his ...

Life as normal became war life as normal. They were lucky to emerge into a better world. We don't necessarily think that's a high probability.


Yes, few indeed remember the last Industrial Age crisis. But you still have to remember that none have lived through an Information Age crisis. Nukes ...

I once read an unusual perspective on the Middle East. During the Industrial Age while Europe fought in forests with infantry and melee weapons, much of the Middle East fought in deserts with horse archers. This resulted in a basic difference in tactics. If you were losing in a fight as a horse ...