Yeah, and Ditto on the ‘Like, a hundred yr ago‘ – !?!
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I’ve had an incredibly fun-fill, exciting, and adventurous life – gourging my pre-humble self on ‘the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life’ mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad. Hence, I have never paid much attention to what has happened ‘n gone on in the Middle East…heck, don’t even ask me about the Bosnian War. I remember something about the hero Hillary Clinton’s super special adventure there or in the area, lots of bombing, and some great movies. This shocked me this morning:
… my derision of “free trade” is a result of 21st century Principled Free Traders hijacking the historically understood definition of free trade, that being reciprocal free trade (which I generally supported), and replacing it with advocacy for non-reciprocal “free trade,” which is actually a unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism, even when the economic surrender is to foreign nations that are hostile to the United States.
Far too many Americans, especially Libertarians, fall into the trap of purely looking at the bottom line on free trade. There is more to a nation and a culture than its economy. What about the well being of its citizens? The number and type of material possessions one has is not correlative with one’s mental and physical health. This is painfully evident in the United States today, especially to those of us who grew up in decades where Americans had less material wealth.
Humans need a sense of purpose and a sense they are contributing to a community, the more local the better.
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Like, a hundred yr ago
Yeah, and Ditto on the ‘Like, a hundred yr ago‘ – !?!
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I’ve had an incredibly fun-fill, exciting, and adventurous life – gourging my pre-humble self on ‘the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life’ mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad. Hence, I have never paid much attention to what has happened ‘n gone on in the Middle East…heck, don’t even ask me about the Bosnian War. I remember something about the hero Hillary Clinton’s super special adventure there or in the area, lots of bombing, and some great movies. This shocked me this morning:
“Jordan IS Palestine” – !?!
Am not even going to quote any of it since I just dunno…
The time seemed to be slow prior to 1/20 and then post 1/20 just went into hyper-drive.
A new video just popped up on the web that shows different angles of the collision.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-cnn-obtains-videos-showing-new-angles-of-dc-plane-crash/vi-AA1yb3zZ?ocid=socialshare&cvid=018e4ecc3f0946b3b732179166ba54d0&ei=6
Buck Throckmorton at ace of spades wrote a very good post on free trade today: https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=413480
Far too many Americans, especially Libertarians, fall into the trap of purely looking at the bottom line on free trade. There is more to a nation and a culture than its economy. What about the well being of its citizens? The number and type of material possessions one has is not correlative with one’s mental and physical health. This is painfully evident in the United States today, especially to those of us who grew up in decades where Americans had less material wealth.
Humans need a sense of purpose and a sense they are contributing to a community, the more local the better.