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Here’s What We’ve Lost in the Past Decade
Here’s What We’ve Lost in the Past Decade The confidence and hubris of those directing the rest of us to race off the cliff while they watch from a safe distance is off the charts. The past decade of “recovery” and “growth” has actually been a decade of catastrophic losses for our society and nation. […]
Our Institutions Are Failing
Our Institutions Are Failing Our institutional failure reminds me of the phantom legions of Rome’s final days. The mainstream media and its well-paid army of “authorities” / pundits would have us believe the decline in our collective trust in our institutions is the result of fake news, i.e. false narratives and data presented as factual. […]
The Myths We Tell Ourselves
The Myths We Tell Ourselves “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Your average mass media pundit regularly decries the fact Americans no longer have trust in the country’s institutions, yet simultaneously refuse to take any sort of responsibility for the situation. Government bureaucrats and other assorted supporters of […]
Before You Tell Me What You “Know,” Tell Me Your Sources
Before You Tell Me What You “Know,” Tell Me Your Sources We can no longer trust data and conclusions being published as impartial by institutions that were once trustworthy. When someone says they “know” what’s happening on the ground in Syria, how can we assess the validity of their claim to knowledge, i.e. their claim to […]
Never Trust A Banker About Oil Prices
Never Trust A Banker About Oil Prices In recent weeks I’ve commented on the powerful bullish forces that have combined in oil and oil stocks and your need to increase your exposure to them. So, before going on to other topics, this has to be the start of any column until further notice, despite the […]
Full Faith and Credit in Counterfeit Money
Full Faith and Credit in Counterfeit Money There are nooks and corners in every city where talk is cheap and scandal is honorable. The Alley, in Downtown Los Angeles, is a magical place where shrewd entrepreneurs, shameless salesmen, and downright hucksters coexist in symbiotic disharmony. Fakes, fugazis, and knock-offs galore, pack the roll-up storefronts with […]
Things Work Until They Don’t
Things Work Until They Don’t As the world begins its next adventure in financial chaos and rolls over to expose its soft underbelly of lies and deceit that have been perpetrated on the public, those that see the truth have been warning the people once again. You can give people the truth but you cannot make […]
Escape the Echo Chamber
Escape the Echo Chamber First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different […]
Breaching the Public Trust – Facebook is the Beginning
Breaching the Public Trust – Facebook is the Beginning Last night I was chatting with a friend while waiting for my daughter. She told me her phone now informs her when her bills are due. Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you realize that she never told her phone […]
Film in the Anthropocene
Film in the Anthropocene Film is of course the art form of Industrial Civilization and its mass culture, whether as a simple historical fact, a manifestation of technical possibility, or in the various ideologies it is adept at expressing. But it is also the art form of the Anthropocene. I am overstating the case somewhat, […]
An American: “Why I Don’t Trust My Government, At All”
An American: “Why I Don’t Trust My Government, At All” Would you trust your government if it were headed by a President who just now appointed to become the head of the CIA, the very same person who had headed the CIA’s interrogation of a 9/11 suspect whose interrogation consisted of 83 waterboardings (plus other […]
Do We really Hold: In God We Trust?
Do We really Hold: In God We Trust? QUESTION: I was wondering some of your thoughts on “God” and “The Creator” throughout US history? Is “In God We Trust” really a statement that if our most basic rights such as speech are not licensed by a government, then they are natural and thus come from God? Thus cannot […]
Beware The Smiling Face Of Establishment Politics
Beware The Smiling Face Of Establishment Politics Image from official music video for “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden The most damaging people you will ever meet in your life are not those who are overtly hostile to you, the obviously malicious individuals who openly pursue your harm. The people you will look back on as […]
The Battle for Truth
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer The Battle for Truth As we begin 2018, we find the world in a new phase in the loss of trust: the unwillingness to believe information, even from those closest to us. The loss of confidence in information channels and sources is the fourth wave of the trust tsunami. The moorings of […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
