Solution? Economic Growth

Tamny always cuts through the crud:

What used to end careers in basketball no longer necessarily does.

Notable about this is that all manner of maladies not related to sports used to amount to death sentences. As this column routinely makes plain, pneumonia used to be “Captain of Man’s Death” per the late surgeon and author, Lawrence D. Dorr. Tuberculosis was a quick life ender too. So was yellow fever. Cancer was a certain killer, but then most didn’t live long enough for some form of cancer to get them. See what used to bring on mortality first.

So what happened? Economic growth did.

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others ...

 More animal farm:

The media? It is a Ministry of Truth. Informers and readers beg the Great Leader to let drop his favorite flavor of ice cream or the details of the Oval Office makeover. There is no need for censorship: the media are the censors. Whatever sinister idea a paranoid politician has for muzzling journalists, reporters themselves have already trumped it. Pravda is their model. Who can be disinterested when there is a war to be fought for diversity and equity, against climate change and white supremacy?

https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/our-animal-farm/

What if you held a pandemic and no body came?

 That was stolen from an old anti-war quote, supposed penned by Leslie Parish: "what if they held a war and no one attended?"

That's Tamny's question. He's more sure of the answer than I am. However, I hope that some of us will remember how much extra damage was done by political over-reaction.

It is also fascinating to consider, following the yin yang that is inescapable in seemingly all things, that were we poorer and therefore dying younger, as people in this nation were 100 years ago, it is likely that no one would have noticed the virus. 

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/04/what_if_the_coronavirus_had_spread_without_diagnosis_659087.html

Patterson Eversman War Stories

 Just read it

https://www.insidehook.com/article/military/matt-eversmann-james-patterson-war-stories

Hanson's Animal Farm Reverie

I was lectured by an ACLU guy in the 80s. I remember the end of the cold war. I remember many of these references when they were happening. This is like a tough piece of steak that should be chopped up and stewed - great flavor, and intense to experience.

The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare.

George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.

The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical 1930s Stalinists. Thereby, they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/our-animal-farm/

Tamny Strikes Again

The incomparable Tamny! He thinks in such unfamiliar ways it is like a workout to read his stuff - but because the light of clarity is so satisfying, it is always worth the effort.

To which some will say “yes, but,” only to mention all manner of ridiculous (in retrospect, of course) internet companies that went public over twenty years ago. There’s your “bubble,” right? Wrong. Lest readers forget, Amazon’s share price fell into the single digits in 2001 after all too many ridiculed its formerly triple digit valuation. Amazon was once “Amazon.org AMZN -0.9%,” and it was for a time one of the more public faces of an “internet bubble” having “burst.” “.org” for Amazon was a joke about its “non-profit” status. What’s perhaps “obvious” now about good and bad internet companies wasn’t obvious at the time. What’s transformative yet again is a magnet for all sorts of investment that often only becomes understandable well after the fact.
“Yes, but” what about the housing “bubble” in the 2000s? Glad you asked.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2021/02/07/a-modest-proposal-to-voluntarily-abolish-the-word-bubble/?sh=378fd9e2710b