Paradocracy

The institution of money entered the minds of sophisticated traders several millennia ago, when instead of bartering with limited numbers of people within the cumbersome double coincidence of wants, large-scale economies developed from the reach and transparency of commodity money which was scarce, durable, fungible, transportable, divisible, recognizable, and usable in and of itself.  While we may appear to have transcended those primitive times and those so-called barbarous relics , the truth is that we have merely mutilated the concept of money by clandestinely replacing it with its more manipulable and abstract representative, the proverbial coat check without the coat.  This is but the device of a large-scale social experiment run in real time, and we are its unwitting and unconsenting subjects who’ve largely never heard of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate, much less its missions of “maximum employment” and 2-percent annual inflation. Yet there is hope after all....

Facebook is one of the greatest frauds whereby thoughtless friends share or tacitly embrace ideas which, in doing so, adds personal, relatable flair to messages being distributed from largely unknown reporters.  In effect, these friends then subject a wider community to the thought that since their friends are supportive of such ideas, then they ought to carry some merit or authenticity.  Facebook commits a great disservice to communication, serving primarily to subject meaningful dialogue to inherently-binary measures of laudability or contemptibility.  Whereas scientific evaluation serves to extract emotion, Facebook serves to embolden the fallacy-ridden supposition that fact follows fanfare, that truth trails trendiness, and that democratic participation (by way of “likes” or “shares”) can reliably support truth or sustainably produce virtue. What's more, Facebook and other social media sites tend also to further the fallacy that the last breath, or more ...

The vast majority of Americans hardly know what exactly happened in Florida , let alone the reasons for it. They have no idea whether any sort of policy would have prevented it, and instead of pursuing knowledge and investigating for themselves, they ubiquitously lean on the journalistic biases of those who have become intimately acquainted with hyperbole and sensational reporting absent cogent comprehension of the actual events. All they know, especially those of the Left, is that a version of nirvana, which exists purely in their respective minds, enables them to consider restrictions on gun ownership as a viable means to rectification of a problem which they have, once again, only ambiguously identified. They widely pay no mind to costs, even should their agendas yield a complete exhaustion of liberty, as they are plainly and steadfastly concentrated on their game of political whack-a-mole, legislating a perceived solution to every observable problem without any appreciation f...

Perhaps the greatest irony of Black History Month , the contemporary incarnation of what was formerly labeled Negro History Week , is that so many of its champions claim to want to eradicate both racism and focus on race, yet so many of those same people remain so heavily involved in doing whatever they possibly can to continue bringing it up and returning our focus back to it.  So long as Black History Month endures, will we ever reach a point in time when "black history" becomes world history?  If so, when will we finally flip that switch, and will we still celebrate these four weeks as Black History Month? I’ve always wondered why any person who’s passionate about any history, whether of a given civilization, culture, idea or whatever, would condense its celebration into such a narrow window.  I’ve also long believed that this particular occasion has only prevented the people of this world, particularly of this nation, from accepting “black history” as a f...