tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post4460477624296782433..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Ok. This is some dark stuff.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-39837528769200050252015-03-02T15:02:45.824-05:002015-03-02T15:02:45.824-05:00Anon-
I'd never heard of Charles Hugh Smith b...Anon-<br /><br />I'd never heard of Charles Hugh Smith before today. Are you saying that the linked post was leftist? <br /><br />I'm not sure I got that out of it. I think the mechanisms he discussed were probably relatively true. He may have suggested some solutions that I missed. <br /><br />But on the whole, I think that Col. B's assessment that the "elite" are fleecing whomever they can to keep profits flowing is correct. It was ever thus; it's just that now the "whomever" is primarily inside their nations instead of outside because they've used up outside. <br /><br />In the good old days, at least some of the elite's interests had beneficial side effects for those at home because the people at home were more the tool rather the victim.<br /><br />I think. ;-) YMMVWeetabixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106614092497408546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-12009842451069595732015-03-02T14:18:46.958-05:002015-03-02T14:18:46.958-05:00@Weetabix, I'm a latecomer when it comes to tr...@Weetabix, I'm a latecomer when it comes to trying to understand banking and finance. Hamilton has had little appeal to me as he seemed to set to work at the outset to undermine the obvious intent of the Constitution. Don't ask me to prove that. I've got Stockman's book <em>The Great Deformation</em> which I hope will be illuminating.<br /><br />@Anonymous, I appreciate Smith for his eclectic approach. His technical analysis is over my head but he's his own man and has many interesting ideas about sustainability or lifestyle revision in these odd times of enormous intellectual and spiritual confusion. Heck, I revised my original post today and think it has a Marxist flavor of its own, though that's not where I come from I hasten to say.<br /><br />I often observe that we're at the end of the period where the post-WWII paradigm held sway. Rational, admirable, powerful America is no more and now we are led by an actual damn communist who sympathizes with and supports our most vicious enemies while beggaring Americans and trashing their fundamental institutions. Not that he hasn't had a lot of help over the decades preceding.<br /><br />How does one make sense of that (and that Americans twice voted for this disaster)? Smith's a thoughtful man out there giving it his best shot. If I can sound like a lefty once in 40 years I can spot him the occasional flirtation with, um, original ideas. Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-22251151899594939812015-03-02T13:36:21.670-05:002015-03-02T13:36:21.670-05:00I wrote off Charles Hugh Smith years ago as a left...I wrote off Charles Hugh Smith years ago as a leftist mole.<br /><br />SSDDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-32296407044879854862015-03-02T11:28:01.603-05:002015-03-02T11:28:01.603-05:00I think even Thomas Jefferson shared those same fe...I think even Thomas Jefferson shared those same fears. <br /><br />It's one of the reasons I wish Aaron Burr had dueled Alexander Hamilton earlier in life.Weetabixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106614092497408546noreply@blogger.com