Seriously hes in the polymath pantheon of all time greatest minds rubbing shoulders without Newton, Franklin, Tesla, Galileo, da Vinci, John von Neumann, Feynman, Faraday and Copernicus.
It's amazing that Bastiat is no longer required reading in college. That dude changed my life.
I didn't even know about economics until I was an adult, working, wife+kids+house. I should note that I consider myself to be a Recovering Democrat. That should cover a lot of wordy back story crap.
But the internet became a thing, circa just post 9/11, and I someone on Instapundit or Reason linked to Bastiat's "That which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" on FEE: https://fee.org/articles/the-broken-window/
"It happened gradually, then suddenly."
- Some guy, Ernie something, had a writing problem when he drank
Watching the plunder escalation until itтАЩs collapse.
There is nothing new under the sunтАжuntil there is!
Clif calls it Galactic Center Emanations (GCE). Our cozy little solar system is moving (after a 25,000+ year cycle) into greater exposure to the radiance of a higher quality of GCEтАж.тАЭa higher quality of intelligence being available throughout the Earth biosphere at all levels, including that of human intelligenceтАЭ (from Clif HighтАЩs latest substack).
I imagine that being so consumed with the plunder game they, in their arrogance, have walled off their ability to benefit from the тАШhigher quality of intelligenceтАЩ. A superiority complex became like a shield against their ability to evolve.
They squandered their access to The Great Awakening тЭдя╕ПЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯМО
I read that post, and since I have been interested in astronomy since I was a kid, spent a bit of time looking into it. That 26,000 year cycle Clif mentions is the precession of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane around the Sun. Like a spinning top. Basically, in 13,000 years Polaris, the North Star, will no longer be near the North Pole. Nothing in this cycle moves the location of the Solar System (and Earth) 'up and down' relative to the galactic plane, which is what would have to happen to change the amount of 'GCE' received by Earth.
There is a cycle that can do that, and that is the orbit of the Sun (and solar system) around the galactic center. That cycle (orbit) no doubt has some eccentricity, which would do what Clif talks about. But this cycle is 230,000,000 years long and these effects will be felt (if indeed they exist on a meaningful level) only over a time frame of tens of millions of years.
Regardless of all this, the plunder escalation will continue... and astronomy will have little if anything to say about it. ЁЯШО
Everything in the universe operates on one or more cycles. Nothing is fixed in place; the motion of the heavenly bodies is a function of the forces acting on them. Any object in the Milky Way Galaxy will rotate around the galactic center with an orbital velocity and cycle which are a function of two things: (1) the mass of the galaxy; and (2) the distance of the object to the barycenter (center of mass) of the galaxy. The same rule applies to the orbits of the planets around the Sun.
Note that while many orbits are circular or nearly so, that is not required and indeed some objects (like comets, in the solar system) have highly eccentric orbits, and some may indeed follow 'one-pass' hyperbolic or parabolic paths -- they travel through the solar system, approach the Sun, 'slingshot' past it, and then depart never to return.
Geeze, you explained that precession of the equinoxes very well!! I first learned about that reading Graham HancockтАЩs book Fingerprints of the Gods many years ago, but IтАЩve never been great at retaining the finer (mathematical) details.
Everything is frequency. I believe a powerful energetic frequency is traveling towards us from the universe. For those with the minds to perceive, it will be a time of enlightenment.
So dawns the Age of Aquarius, an age of Knowledge and transparency. NCSWIC тЭдя╕П
Excellent essay! You had me at Bastiat.
Top 5 smartest people to put pen to paper.
Now what would Bastiat do in today's current environment:
I have a feeling he would mock the absurdities unrelentingly at every given opportunity.
Be like Bastiat!
"You had me at Bastiat."
Same
#FanboiForFrederic
Seriously hes in the polymath pantheon of all time greatest minds rubbing shoulders without Newton, Franklin, Tesla, Galileo, da Vinci, John von Neumann, Feynman, Faraday and Copernicus.
It's amazing that Bastiat is no longer required reading in college. That dude changed my life.
I didn't even know about economics until I was an adult, working, wife+kids+house. I should note that I consider myself to be a Recovering Democrat. That should cover a lot of wordy back story crap.
But the internet became a thing, circa just post 9/11, and I someone on Instapundit or Reason linked to Bastiat's "That which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" on FEE: https://fee.org/articles/the-broken-window/
"It happened gradually, then suddenly."
- Some guy, Ernie something, had a writing problem when he drank
Hahaha
"Newton, Franklin, Tesla, Galileo, da Vinci, John von Neumann, Feynman, Faraday and Copernicus"
"Let me put it this way, have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? . . . morons."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUg2cp23rGE
Watching the plunder escalation until itтАЩs collapse.
There is nothing new under the sunтАжuntil there is!
Clif calls it Galactic Center Emanations (GCE). Our cozy little solar system is moving (after a 25,000+ year cycle) into greater exposure to the radiance of a higher quality of GCEтАж.тАЭa higher quality of intelligence being available throughout the Earth biosphere at all levels, including that of human intelligenceтАЭ (from Clif HighтАЩs latest substack).
I imagine that being so consumed with the plunder game they, in their arrogance, have walled off their ability to benefit from the тАШhigher quality of intelligenceтАЩ. A superiority complex became like a shield against their ability to evolve.
They squandered their access to The Great Awakening тЭдя╕ПЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯМО
I'll check out Cliff's Stack.
I betcha they'd get more intelligent if they had to worry about where they'll find their next meal.
Probably the reason cro-magnon had larger brain cases than modern day humans.
I donтАЩt keep up with Clif as much as I used to but I did like his latest:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/conspiracists-guide-to-the-great?
I read that post, and since I have been interested in astronomy since I was a kid, spent a bit of time looking into it. That 26,000 year cycle Clif mentions is the precession of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane around the Sun. Like a spinning top. Basically, in 13,000 years Polaris, the North Star, will no longer be near the North Pole. Nothing in this cycle moves the location of the Solar System (and Earth) 'up and down' relative to the galactic plane, which is what would have to happen to change the amount of 'GCE' received by Earth.
There is a cycle that can do that, and that is the orbit of the Sun (and solar system) around the galactic center. That cycle (orbit) no doubt has some eccentricity, which would do what Clif talks about. But this cycle is 230,000,000 years long and these effects will be felt (if indeed they exist on a meaningful level) only over a time frame of tens of millions of years.
Regardless of all this, the plunder escalation will continue... and astronomy will have little if anything to say about it. ЁЯШО
P.S. I never heard of that 230,000,000 year cycle.
Everything in the universe operates on one or more cycles. Nothing is fixed in place; the motion of the heavenly bodies is a function of the forces acting on them. Any object in the Milky Way Galaxy will rotate around the galactic center with an orbital velocity and cycle which are a function of two things: (1) the mass of the galaxy; and (2) the distance of the object to the barycenter (center of mass) of the galaxy. The same rule applies to the orbits of the planets around the Sun.
Note that while many orbits are circular or nearly so, that is not required and indeed some objects (like comets, in the solar system) have highly eccentric orbits, and some may indeed follow 'one-pass' hyperbolic or parabolic paths -- they travel through the solar system, approach the Sun, 'slingshot' past it, and then depart never to return.
Johannes Kepler first described the motion of objects in space mathematically a bit over 400 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_orbit
You definitely know your astronomy : )
Thanks for the lesson!тЭдя╕П
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question18.html
Thanks. Fascinating!
Time will tell. ЁЯШК
Geeze, you explained that precession of the equinoxes very well!! I first learned about that reading Graham HancockтАЩs book Fingerprints of the Gods many years ago, but IтАЩve never been great at retaining the finer (mathematical) details.
Everything is frequency. I believe a powerful energetic frequency is traveling towards us from the universe. For those with the minds to perceive, it will be a time of enlightenment.
So dawns the Age of Aquarius, an age of Knowledge and transparency. NCSWIC тЭдя╕П
Yup ... uncompromising.