On the Left: That old time religion
Jack Batson: On the Left
One of the great debates of the last, oh, 150 years is if capitalism should be regulated. The answer is staring us in the face – yes. The beginning of the latest debates began with Ronnie Reagan and may now end with the Great Freeze in Texas.
I’m going to show that without regulation, capitalism becomes irresponsible and predatory. Fasten your seat belts!
When it’s not morphing into monopolies (more on that problem another time), capitalism sets prices by competition. We all agree that the long-sought “fair price” is the price set by competition. A good or service is worth whatever you agree to pay for it.
Today we’re going to delve deeper into the whole topic of propaganda, sophistry and the dark arts of arguing.
Do you remember “sophistry”? That’s taken from the people – Sophists – who debated Socrates a long time ago and always came up short. So they discovered how to convince people using less tha
On the Left: The Swan Song
Jack Batson: On the Left
“Bolshevism has proved some strange and disturbing things about human nature. It has proved that what is important for people is not what is there but what they conceive to be there. It has shown [that] it is possible to make them feel and believe practically anything. And it makes no difference whether that ‘anything’ is true.”
So wrote George Kennan, one of America’s greatest diplomats. He wrote it in 1944 after having watched a generation of propaganda in operation in the USSR.
People believe a leader and especially when a lie is told over and over. Now it’s happened here.
In response to “Read what’s on your mind?” by Jack Batson published in the Daily Republic on Jan. 18, I ask, what’s IN your mind/soul?
The columnist may be erudite but he misses or misinterprets some messages. Yes, we have many blind spots as humans. Most conservatives are no
Do you have blind spots? I do.
Love has blind spots. That’s why, when someone marries someone who has glaring flaws, the other can’t see them. “Love is blind,” we sadly say.
Hate has blind spots. That’s when we hate someone but we cannot see the good in that person – good that is inevitably there.
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