Something we need, but will never again experience?
I arrived in New Paltz, NY yesterday for a few weeks of work. The house in which I am staying was, by Four O’clock in the afternoon, in the shadow of a massive church. That it was a church that was blocking…
One needn’t be a Marxist to recognize it, condemn it, and seek to end it.
Wage slavery is people being employed as machines — or draft animals — in some enterprise that is intended to make a profit and being compensated by their employers out of the revenue generated by…
vitally important distinctions that are being lost
Increasingly, it seems, people are making no distinction between beliefs and rationalistic propositions. I think it is vitally important for human beings to distinguish between those two forms of knowledge.
Here, I am not concerned with understanding the contributors to that trend. Postmodernism…
startled
This year I will turn 70 years old. The U.S. will turn 245 years old. That means that my life will have spanned more than one-fourth of the existence of the nation in which I was born — 28.6% of it, to be precise. I find that startling.
making possible a more truly Islamic society?
[I beg forgiveness for any misstatements about Islam due to ignorance.]
I don’t know much about Islam. I had learned somewhere along the way that in it the existence of poverty is considered to be an injustice. I had developed a monetary paradigm…
free to seek to get rich vs. getting rich as the point of society
Based on my readings in history, it is clear to me that from the beginning of the U.S. as a nation ‘getting rich’ has been a driving force in our society. …
interest-only mortgages
[I’ve never bought a house, so I am not on familiar ground here. This is just an off-the-top-of-my head idea.]
There is a housing crisis afoot. Between the cost of houses and the interest that must be paid, purchasing a home is becoming a goal that is out…
and the only options for stopping it (and a final question)
Inflation is often referred to in analogical terms related to fire. It is ’heating up’; it is ‘consuming’ the ‘purchasing power’ of money like a fire consumes wood; it is at its worst a ‘conflagration’.
Many people routinely repeat…
banking systems composed of banks as profit-seeking entities
Money, once created, remains in the (global) economy forever, permanently increasing the supply of money. Money is a source of inflation to the extent that it is being used as a medium of exchange. Money held in accounts represents potential inflation.
To…
‘knowable’ harm — which can be material or psychological, but not spiritual
The organizing principle of the U.S. can be said to have been ‘liberty first and foremost’. To that end, there has been much talk from the beginning about ‘limited government’. …
