Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Sky News Australia"
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I'll keep an eye on her personal-growth trajectory. She's obviously bright, but she's still pretty young and spends a lot of time talking and being a personality. She needs to keep reading. Same with Ben Shapiro. Very bright, young people, who are very well-read for their age - Ben more than anybody - but still kind of green. Check back when they're 50, and how they talk and write about things.
Another one to watch is Tomi Lahren. She slurps up knowledge like a sponge, but she's pretty young to get as much exposure as she does on the subjects she speaks about. Definitely very advanced for her age in some ways. But probably a little stunted, socially, and with another few or several years of scholarship before she'll have real gravitas.
Compared to their counterparts on the left, they're all way ahead of the game, but I'd want to see a list of accomplishments and some silver in their hair. Shapiro's editor-in-chief of Breitbart, which is good administrative experience. Personally, I kind of like seeing governors who administered their state governments ably and put them on a sound financial footing as presidents. I think senators make good vice presidents, because they kind of know how Washington works, and know where the bodies are buried.
Trump was a decent choice, because of the business he was in and the projects he brought to completion. Knowing the in's and out's of Byzantine Manhattan was good training for dealing with the rats in Washington, and even knowing quite a few of them. He was still a babe in the woods when it came to how many rules career civil service were willing to break to go after him. He underestimated how far Dems in Congress and Obama appointees embedded in his administration would go to thwart his agenda. Most of all, he made the mistake of thinking characters from previous Republican administrations were in any way sympathetic to the cause of draining the swamp.
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I was spared ALL of this nonsense as a boy, for which I'm eternally grateful. Time enough for all that sex stuff when you're old enough to take responsibility for the consequences. That's something we forgot along the way. I'm no big religionist, but there are obvious survival mechanisms EMBEDDED in tradition, and we meddle with tradition at our peril.
That's why I'm such a Jordan Peterson fan. I end up treading dangerously close to being accused of social Darwinism, but the fact is, what works is what persists to be passed on to future generations. Things that don't work don't last. As an evolutionary psychologist/sociologist/biologist, you HAVE to account for the persistence of religion through the millennia. Peterson is one who tries to get to the heart of that. Not too much into the Jungian "collective unconscious" as a sort of mystical connection, but I DO believe there are explicit and also largely HIDDEN assumptions built into people on the day-to-day level that can lead to better or worse outcomes over time.
I just wish the Christians, who get so much RIGHT, didn't insist on superimposing "God Said" on top of everything. It's a paradox. Maybe an inescapable one, but probably not, if some schmuck like me can sort of abstract these notions and reason from them to some interesting conclusions that appear to hold up under scrutiny and tested in the laboratory of history.
These "liberals" can be as correct as they want to be. It's the Christians and the Muslims who are going to out-breed them and eventually start calling the shots again, as they have for millennia, with all the good and bad that entails. But I don't think the liberals are very "right." I think they throw out the baby with the bathwater and never ask themselves the right questions about how to proceed, having exposed another obsolete or regressive aspect of Bronze-Age traditions, little altered since Medieval times, when we KNOW a lot of THEIR culture - for good or ill - was embedded in our understanding of ancient texts.
For some reason, we just assume that the loudest person complaining about a wrong is more qualified than anyone else as to how to set things right. Slaves who overthrow their masters make terrible rulers. The American revolution was unique in that it was an aggrieved Middle Class who threw off the shackles of European imperialism, and set up something pretty cool that lasted for damn near 200 years, more or less as intended, for the vast majority of people.
The rot set in almost immediately, with rich dudes "having a word" with politicians, who were only too happy to exceed their writ to benefit their pal and themselves. Every time the CULTURE was undergoing a shift, somebody made it political, and the government got a little bigger, stronger, and farther removed from its intended purpose and scope.
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Dutch farmers NEED that fertilizer, because government pushed agriculture down a petro-chemical path that is destructive of soil biome. The government shouldn't've encouraged the chemical farming in the first place, but that doesn't mean it can turn on a dime and go to full-on permaculture without a MASSIVE drop-off in production and MASSIVE harm to farmers. It's just wrong. But these Climate Cultists are very absolutist in their views and their noble ends justify any and all means that will serve that one messianic goal of theirs.
I do think we need to view agriculture differently. Grow more, locally, both for quality and efficiency. Russ Finch growing oranges in Nebraska can get $3.50/pound, but a Florida grower only gets 40 cents per pound ($.40/pound), because of all the middlemen getting them from Florida to Nebraska (1500 miles? 2000 miles?). We DO need to get more decentralized, but not the way the alarmists who love wielding government power want to do it. Just make it a selling point in your products to be greener than the next guy, and customers will like you more.
Before the Mongols came through, ancient Persians were happily growing melons on the desert with first-rate irrigation and ag techniques, feeding a LOT of good people.
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