Nobody asked but … Kudos to Skyler, for a crystal clear statement of the intent of the Amendment. The mode of our founders’ day was “balanced power” as practiced by the British Empire. A government should have more power than any state or population it wished to subjugate. Look, for example, at the brit interface…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Invincible Summer
Nobody asked but … Kilgore Forelle
Re: Scientific Controversy
Nobody asked but … There is absolutely no standard required for a definition of science. Anyone can claim any scientific thing. Some of the most amazing hoodwinking has over the centuries been offered as science. Remember that snake oil salesmen of the 19th century, exploiting the old west, often professed to be men of science. …
Kings and High Priests
Nobody asked but … Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot I agree with Diderot that kings and priests are part of the problem. But I understand how his words might be misused by collectivists. Most of the French revolutionists and…
Face Time
Nobody asked but … Foolish names and foolish faces always appear in public places — some folk wisdom from my youth. But have you noticed that the state cannot refrain from tooting its own horn. I suppose this is from another piece of folk wisdom, about getting face time. This is the hypocritical art of…
Re: Violence — Fight or Flight
Nobody asked but … Skyler’s Blog of today, On Violence, called for feedback (so somebody did ask!) This brought to mind the book I am currently reading, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, by Stephen Kinzer. This book describes violence on a massive scale. The Dulles brothers were assassins of…
Hardwired Grammar
Nobody asked but … A good friend and spontaneous order guru shared an article on why humans have grammar — it seems to be hardwired. I think this is implicit also in theories of natural order. We understand ideas by connecting their components serially. If the first order is position, then the second is direction.…
Parenting Generations
Nobody asked but … I am in the fifth generation of parenting now. It is worth noting that I include parenting myself in the second generation, and my own parents before that — they learned from me as I learned from them. I will not try to argue here that I had a similar relationship…
Is Science Consensual?
Nobody asked but … Consensus among scientists is unrelated to precision among scientists. Wrong theories have had as much to do with knowledge advancement as correct theories, probably much more. For how many millennia did humanity believe, claim knowledge of, theories of geology before plate tectonics. And I fear plate tectonics itself will suffer some…
Climate Change-up
Nobody asked but … I could be wrong. Amiright? Here it is two days before American Thanksgiving and it’s 57 degrees fahrenheit at 2:30pm in Lexington KY. Maybe it’s warmer than usual but maybe not. It seems we’ve had a nice, long Indian Summer, but I also remember most Thanksgivings to be the occasion of…