Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report"
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Carving out nations by force in far-distant lands is not a "liberal" notion or the highest ideal of Western Civ. It's Old-World imperialism/colonialism. The state of Israel is an artificiality imposed by force on the people of Palestine. I don't care how great the Jews are or how "liberal" the state of Israel is made out to be. It's not sustainable without enormous external support against the will of every nation in the region.
Israel is the poster child for 'sunk-cost fallacy.' If we feel so strongly about a Jewish homeland, why don't we give up an equivalent amount of real estate for such a homeland here in America? Give 'em a chunk of Arizona or Nevada desert. With their know-how and work ethic and modern permaculture tech, they'd turn it into an oasis in one generation.
No. This is about (in essence) British imperialism, grafted effortlessly onto American foreign policy at the end of the failing British Empire. It's not their or our place to re-draw the map to please them or us.
When I look at the Muslim world, I see a lust to expand, but I also see centuries of invasion, for instance the Mongol invasion, that decimated and weaponized Islam. Brought out the worst potentialities. We picked up where the Mongols and then the British left off, and we wonder why they hate us and why they behave like Guerrillas in the Peninsular war against Napoleon. We call it "terror," when suicide bombers lash out, but call our conventional use of arms in a hopelessly lopsided war as "righteous."
WE shaped and promoted radical Islam, whenever we wanted to take out an existing government in the region, by arming ethnic minorities to fight as rebels against governments we didn't like. Mujahedeen in Afghanistan? We prepped and equipped them. Over and over, we fight agains the violence and spite that WE CREATED! And we blame the people we trained and propagandized into the most regressive and dangerous interpretation of Muslim belief for being violent and regressive.
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When Obama abolished the Fairness Doctrine, the mask slipped. He green-lit the abandonment of pretense, and the mask slipped all the way off. I'm sure Obama felt like this was good for him, which it was, because all the networks, save one, worshipped him, and he used his bully pulpit to demonize that network, while sending his thugs to audit, surveil, and otherwise harass reporters critical of him and his evil administration.
But I think Obama set the stage for the destruction of cable and other legacy news. He reveled in his power while in office and even after, but the media that were once so good at manufacturing consent behind their pretense of professionalism and objectivity are now discredited. The tail still wags the dog to an alarming degree, but the establishment is also alarmed by the decreasing length of time their big lies last.
Now that they can wear their hearts on their sleeves, while pretending to be the same "objective" news, they're breaking the illusion that's been maintained for decades.
Increasingly naked censorship works for a while, but the public's developing immunity.
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There are different kinds of intelligence. Not all kinds revolve around oratory. Most of the most gifted people I've known in any area lacked the ability to articulate things in a way that is most pleasing to others. Most of the best people, I really have to sit down with, ALONE, and give them time and space to "get it out," often with much necessary prodding.
And THEN there are the people - I think Trump is one - who deliver things in a way that is absolutely unappealing to many intellectuals, and certainly anyone who doesn't like his ideas - who can nevertheless reach people I never could, even with my absolute BEST attempts at combining truth, humor and precise word choice. The larger the crowd I'm trying to reach, especially on technical matters, the more pleasing I am to the top-level learners/intellects, but the less real meaning I seem to get across to the vast middle. Even people who LOVE the way I put it across, because I worked in something funny, miss the essence of what I'm saying. I've walked out of some of my absolute best math lectures, where I had entire auditoriums filled with students hanging on my every word and rolling in the aisles at every little joke, and glanced at the notes of random students, silently noting that what they put down was NOT the point I was making! I saw every hook I inserted, with the wrong - sometimes the OPPOSITE - idea dangling from it.
One of the amazing things about a perception-driven reality is how often people are right for the wrong reasons and how often they're wrong for the RIGHT reasons. In my college days in the 1980s, as a staunch libertarian-principle kind of guy, I found many of the people who were on "my" side of an issue, were there for the wrong reason. They would agree with me that the welfare state was destructive, but it came from a "DESTROY THE PARASITES!" place, rather than a "This is the velvet glove on the iron fist" place. The people stuck in the poverty cycle weren't evil, but the ones who kept them on "the plantation" with Free Stuff were demagogues. Since the Reagan era, this has expanded to much of the white middle class, who are so afraid they won't be able to afford health care that government intervention has made more and more ridiculously expensive for individual consumers and taxpayers, that they yearn to be on the federal tit just as much as the poorest person who can't even afford a checkup.
Jesus spoke in simple parables. Ayn Rand, whose fiction leaves me yawning, reached more people with Atlas Shrugged than she ever reached with MY favorite, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," a skinny paperback that is extremely dense and extensively footnoted. Character development isn't her thing. Donald Trump actually got himself elected president of the USA with little more than choppy sequences of repeated sound bites.
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