20220906 - Quasi-Philosophical Discussions (via: Muses)
020220906 - Quasi-Philosophical Discussions (via: Muses)
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- 1:45 - We're going to monetise prioritising philosophy questions
- 3:30 - Gorbachev's Eulogy
- A great person meets life with everything they have to give,
- The eternal debate of the fall of the Soviet Union
- it was reminiscent of the Versailles divisions
- To me, he was a great man, because trying to stop that weight of civilisation would have resulted in significant death and destruction of already weak infrastructure
- The blame for the fall of the Soviet Union lays not at Gorbachev's feet
- Brezhnev - the man was truly not fit to lead a country
- Definitely did not do the Union any favours
- 13:10 - Brezhnev loyalsts trying to burn down the Discord Server
- 15:00 - "Does Man want to emulate government?" (from Bagehot - Lombard Street)
- If government deposits money at the Bank of England, then that gives the bank some amount of legitimacy that normal banks do not have
- therefore people will want to also deposit money at that bank, such that their money is as safe as the government's
- CBDC
- allows people to directly access the safety of the central bank
- and allows policy to be implemented much more directly via the central bank
- At the end of the day, all money is a entry in the ledge at the central bank
- CBDC is more a philosophy that allows the central banks to interact more freely with the retail depositors
- bunch of rants
- Broadly
- We would never expect conservatives to emulate a government run by progressives
- Obviously Politics is a religion, anything is a religion if it provides a group of people with justification for their action
- Modern Progressivism is also a religion
- I will also die on this particular hill
- Political extremism has always been part of humanity
- for the majority of humanity, it was always the progressive portions of the political spectrum that was causing the unrest
- 26:50 - I am not giving a eulogy to social democratic parties
- The way that the Nationalist Socialist Party presented itself to the 1930s German public, is *not* what we remember them for today.
- we will have a private conversation stream on this, with message delays, just so everyone can speak, and be heard
- we cannot blame the German folk who only wanted stability for all the tragedies that followed, that would not be correct
- Just like we cannot blame every Brexit voter for Boris
- The UK is really suffering out of the EU in this challenging time
Today, Boys and Girls, we will continue our study of the Human Condition via ... ... ... that.
Nothing here is investment advice.