Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

( About 4 minutes for the good stuff. Automatically starts at 19:50. ) The original source is “Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed”. Update: 7 September 2018 0938z I forgot to add in this little clue. Rod Rosenstein supports the Drug War according to what he says in the New York Times.

You might be asking why are Nike and Levi Strauss going left? Nike with its “protest the national anthem” move and Levi Strauss with its push towards gun control. It is a wonder. Why alienate a very large fraction of your customer base? It makes no sense. Unless you consider supply chains. And this feller…

Vote for candidates you don’t like. You can’t make this stuff up.

( About 28 minutes ) The article the video quotes extensively is at The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality. The tag line of the piece ==> If you think it is hard to talk about IQ, see what happens when you don’t. “Concentration of wealth is a natural result of concentration of ability, and recurs…

I was reading a book review about the dysfunction of three families. That got me to thinking and commenting. Let me repeat my comments here for your amusement. (With links added.) == Alcoholism is a symptom of PTSD. Post Civil War it was called “the soldiers disease”. It got called PTSD after Vietnam. It is…

( About 17 minutes ) South Africa will be getting the Social Justice it deserves. Starvation.

I was rambling around the ‘net and found this science experiment. ( About 14 1/2 minutes )

To all those folks cheering on the current wave of banning ideas and people you don’t like – what happens when they ban you? And it is not just words and video. The Corporate Interests intend to make people they don’t like Financial Non-Persons. The practice has already started. 1984 was intended as a novel.…

    Our ideas are so bad we need men with guns to enforce them.     Socialism. It is not just for Democrats any more.

I really admired what Trump said about the Drug War almost 30 years ago. I thought it took a lot of guts to say what he did back then. (emphasis added) In a speech delivered at the Miami Herald’s Company of the Year Awards luncheon [April 1990], Donald Trump condemned the “war on drugs” as…

( About 11 1/2inutes ) The corporate media is panicking. They need to do something about the competition. And Big Tech wants to help. These are not new battles. They happen every time a new technology threatens the incumbents. Edison vs Tesla is a classic example. It is not primarily about politics. Which they don’t…

( About 11 minutes )

( About 31 minutes )   The punch line comes at about 10 minutes in. It helps to watch the run up to get the full flavor. The short version if you don’t care to watch? Identity politics is a dead end because it requires human enemies. And ultimately the various identities have competing ideas.…

There are lots of these videos on YouTube. You can find more at #WalkAway. ( About 5 minutes ) I had my #WalkAway in 1980 when it came out that the Communists in Vietnam didn’t just kill 3,000 of their opponents as John Kerry had promised in his Senate testimony, but over 100,000. And of…

I’m not much of a market watcher. Even less so a commodities follower. But I found this description of the Chinese soybean market from some one who follows Chinese news closely, very interesting. The Chinese NEED soybeans. So what do tariffs mean? Chinese food prices will be going up. This is not good for the…

This video, which is quite interesting, is about seven minutes long. The best part is the punchline at the end. But you have to watch the whole video to get the maximum effect. Enjoy. ( About 7 minutes )

( About 14 minutes – starts around the 8:45 mark ) This is the clearest explanation of Trump’s politics I have seen. He is uniting people around economics instead of dividing them by identity or class. Politics is won by addition. And depressing the opposition. As you know I’m quite optimistic about November. We shall…

I came across a book Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law that has some interesting reviews. Here is one from OSU. In this book, Whitman examines not only the development of the Nazis’ Nuremburg Laws, but demonstrates that Nazi lawmakers used the miscegenation and segregation regimes, especially those…

A quote from my old buddy (he said something nice to me in an e-mail once – he might have been sarcastic) Hunter S. Thompson. “…. that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There…

When I go to the Q site https://qanon.pub/, I get this message: Other people have noticed QAnon is offline as well. This is still a good url: https://qposts.online/. As is this one https://qmap.pub/. If this is a true take down I expect QSites to start multiplying. Update: 8 August 2018 2239z The site is back.…