Okay, so maybe I'm in a bad mood from drug and sex withdrawal, but right now I'm rather pissed off with the bullshit that is the SDI course.
The point is, that since the start of the year, I've written roughly 10,000 words, gathered quotes for printing costs, begun the consideration of a business plan and blogged every few days. (Although that may not have much to do with SDI all the time.)
So here's what I'm annoyed with:
Twitter; I hate it. It is pointless to make small statements when i can just do a blog post on what's been happening.
The Moodle; it has the worst interface in history, but more importantly, I just don't have time to sit and look at all of the crap on there, especially because it takes me 20 minutes to log on as I need to change the randomly assigned password. I could sort that out, but frankly this subject is meant to be CONVENIENT for me. So far, all the of the tasks set have been pointless and a waste of time.
Research; it is CONSTANT. I'm a writer. LIFE IN IT'S ENTIRITY IS RESEARCH. I cannot keep track of every article, video and other forms of media that I use on a daily basis. Per week, I watch several online shows, listen to several podcasts, read hundreds of online articles and countless blogposts. It is impracticle to keep track of all this crap, mostly because I don't know what I'm going to be drawing from for my work.
The Proposal; I haven't done it. Well, not true. I did do it, but the upload didn't work, and I lost the file. I DON'T WANT TO DO ALL THAT CRAP AGAIN! I can do a proposal from home, and post it on my Madman blog.
It's a better idea, because I can keep track of the changes, which will better suit the criteria. I'm also sure there is a part of the criteria that says something about creative thought.
My main problem here is that I've got an absolute mountain of work which I have to sift through to write maybe a line in a blogpost or a tweet. I chose this subject because I need help getting Madman to a publishable standard, but I'm feeling a bit bogged down by frivilous things.
Anyway, this was rushed because I'm hungry, hopefully I've not over reacted.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Ad Hom
John Maynard Keynes, was everything I despise manifest in a single human being. He was brazen, arrogant and deceitful. In all of his endeavors, especially sexual, he sought power and dominance over others by sometimes cruel and coercive means. His academic works deliberately misquote and misrepresent his colleagues and forebears. He used his charisma to incite his pupils to psychologically destroy a rival economics professor. He achieved his station through nepotism and trickery. He was a liar, a fraud, a racist, a fascist, a totalitarian sympathizer and a poly-sexual psychopath. Everything he ever did was to further his own desires for power and praise. He believed he was born to the superior class of patriarchs, with superior intellect and judgment. He would neutralize any perceived threat without remorse and with pleasure.
Truly this is all an ad hominem assault on the man's character and does not attack his theories, as any decent academic would do. But, as Rothbard asserted in his analysis of the man, an understanding of Keynes the person, does help understanding where his doctrine came from.
I have no real intention of discussing Keynesian theory in this post, but I did want to discuss where ideologies, and as Roger calls them "world views" might come from.
The basis of Keynesian dogma is that there are three classes of human beings; Consumers, Investors and the Elites. The Consumer's sole purpose is to consume, they are dull and cannot think for themselves. Investors can think, and their thoughts provide the capital for the Consumers to devour. This is where wealth comes from. But Investors, for all their intelligence, are paranoid and irrational, they run from industry if they fear they'll lose money. This is where the government comes in. The Elites, with their benign wisdom, can compensate by investing public funds in crucial industries. Only the government and their employed academics can keep the wheels of economy turning indefinitely. Keynes firmly believed that it was not the size and scope of government that effected the economy, but the competence of the government experts. Here is a good point to remind that Keynes believed himself the perfect expert. Conveniently, if his ideas were adopted, he would have supreme power over the governance of the economy, as he believed himself the supreme economist and being. He often asserted that immediate ends were all that mattered to him, and the future was a problem he could solve later.
I would say that this is something he applied to every part of his life. His early days at Cambridge were spent deconstructing and destroying, in his own mind, the ideas of morality and principle. He considered right and wrong to be abstract that he could ignore if he so pleased. He was a self confessed "immoralist" and instant gratification was his in effect his ideology.
This is the "world view" of a psychopath. Nothing more or less. It is obvious that other people appeared as merely ghostly images, not at all connected to him by empathy. Human Action appeared to be nothing but an illogical abstract to him. All a psychopath can relate to is himself, he has no understanding of motive or means, beyond urge and fulfillment. This is where his ideas came from. His ideology came from his need to fulfill and justify his own urges and desires. The logical structure of his mind was no different to any other functioning human being, he merely did not develop beyond the childish stage of his personal evolution.
The thoughts and theories of John Maynard Keynes are currently the conventional wisdom in handling this economic crisis. In a time when the left is blaming the chaos on the greed and heartlessness of financial executives, they are pushing the dogma of a man purely motivated by personal gain. Not only is this ironic, it's going to lead to disaster and economic ruin. Keynes understanding of Human Nature and Action were crippled by his pathological disorder.
If there is anything I look forward to after this disaster, it is that the thoughts and theories of this despicable creature will be forever denounced by humanity as a whole... Hopefully.
Truly this is all an ad hominem assault on the man's character and does not attack his theories, as any decent academic would do. But, as Rothbard asserted in his analysis of the man, an understanding of Keynes the person, does help understanding where his doctrine came from.
I have no real intention of discussing Keynesian theory in this post, but I did want to discuss where ideologies, and as Roger calls them "world views" might come from.
The basis of Keynesian dogma is that there are three classes of human beings; Consumers, Investors and the Elites. The Consumer's sole purpose is to consume, they are dull and cannot think for themselves. Investors can think, and their thoughts provide the capital for the Consumers to devour. This is where wealth comes from. But Investors, for all their intelligence, are paranoid and irrational, they run from industry if they fear they'll lose money. This is where the government comes in. The Elites, with their benign wisdom, can compensate by investing public funds in crucial industries. Only the government and their employed academics can keep the wheels of economy turning indefinitely. Keynes firmly believed that it was not the size and scope of government that effected the economy, but the competence of the government experts. Here is a good point to remind that Keynes believed himself the perfect expert. Conveniently, if his ideas were adopted, he would have supreme power over the governance of the economy, as he believed himself the supreme economist and being. He often asserted that immediate ends were all that mattered to him, and the future was a problem he could solve later.
I would say that this is something he applied to every part of his life. His early days at Cambridge were spent deconstructing and destroying, in his own mind, the ideas of morality and principle. He considered right and wrong to be abstract that he could ignore if he so pleased. He was a self confessed "immoralist" and instant gratification was his in effect his ideology.
This is the "world view" of a psychopath. Nothing more or less. It is obvious that other people appeared as merely ghostly images, not at all connected to him by empathy. Human Action appeared to be nothing but an illogical abstract to him. All a psychopath can relate to is himself, he has no understanding of motive or means, beyond urge and fulfillment. This is where his ideas came from. His ideology came from his need to fulfill and justify his own urges and desires. The logical structure of his mind was no different to any other functioning human being, he merely did not develop beyond the childish stage of his personal evolution.
The thoughts and theories of John Maynard Keynes are currently the conventional wisdom in handling this economic crisis. In a time when the left is blaming the chaos on the greed and heartlessness of financial executives, they are pushing the dogma of a man purely motivated by personal gain. Not only is this ironic, it's going to lead to disaster and economic ruin. Keynes understanding of Human Nature and Action were crippled by his pathological disorder.
If there is anything I look forward to after this disaster, it is that the thoughts and theories of this despicable creature will be forever denounced by humanity as a whole... Hopefully.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Heroes
I used to want to be a hero. I sometimes thought I was one. Now I'm fucking over it.
This is a lot of what's behind Madman. A story of the darkness overcoming a young man and turning him into a force for madness and chaos. Their are a few paradoxes along the way, but I won't cause any spoilers.
Fuck someone over. Betray them. Hurt them. Ruin the person they are and want to be, and no matter how strong they are, they'll break eventually. The Madman breaks, but instead of becoming a weak sniveling creature, hiding in a corner. He gets stronger, and by a twist of fate, inadvertently does good.
That was the original idea behind the Madman novella. To create an anti-villain, in a style that is similar to a comic book, but without the pictures. Eventually it evolved to become the beginnings of a full book, blog and comic series.
Hopefully, it turns out to be pretty original.
This is a lot of what's behind Madman. A story of the darkness overcoming a young man and turning him into a force for madness and chaos. Their are a few paradoxes along the way, but I won't cause any spoilers.
Fuck someone over. Betray them. Hurt them. Ruin the person they are and want to be, and no matter how strong they are, they'll break eventually. The Madman breaks, but instead of becoming a weak sniveling creature, hiding in a corner. He gets stronger, and by a twist of fate, inadvertently does good.
That was the original idea behind the Madman novella. To create an anti-villain, in a style that is similar to a comic book, but without the pictures. Eventually it evolved to become the beginnings of a full book, blog and comic series.
Hopefully, it turns out to be pretty original.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Arrogant
I've been called arrogant, mostly by my mother, and occasionally by my friends, but frankly I couldn't care less.
Here's why:
In the '20's , Ludvig Von Mises predicted the Great Depression. In 2002, at age 12, I predicted this "Global Financial Crisis." I'm not lying. I knew it was coming and not because I'm especially clever. When I was 11, my dad told me that after we went off the gold standard, the only thing left to base our wealth off was our land, and that's why housing prices were skyrocketing.
I thought this was stupid. How could turning productive farmland into investment property be a good idea? How could we possible need or afford so many houses?
By the time the invasion of Afghanistan was turning ugly, I had figured it out. We can't.
My virgin mind saw what not one mainstream economist could. Not because it's big and bright, but because it was a simple problem and no one had come along and distracted me with the many fallacies that brought this situation about.
Now, because no one else bothered to see this until it was too late, I'm pretty pissed off. If a 12 year old, suffering with mental illness and crippling social anxiety can tell you that in the next few years the most powerful nation on earth will be bankrupted by war and bad monetary policy, surely SOMEONE in government could have done something. Surely someone else could see this.
But alas, the few voices in the wilderness were not heard and I truly believe it is too late and it's all YOUR fault. The worker, the boss, the banker and the debtor. You failed to hear the warnings. Failed to see what was coming. You marginalized us. You ignored us and now we all have to pay the price. The only reason I'm willing to help, to keep shouting into the abyss is because you're taking me and the people I care about with you.
So understand, I'm not being arrogant when I say; I was right. I'm still right. Grow up and deal with it.
Here's why:
In the '20's , Ludvig Von Mises predicted the Great Depression. In 2002, at age 12, I predicted this "Global Financial Crisis." I'm not lying. I knew it was coming and not because I'm especially clever. When I was 11, my dad told me that after we went off the gold standard, the only thing left to base our wealth off was our land, and that's why housing prices were skyrocketing.
I thought this was stupid. How could turning productive farmland into investment property be a good idea? How could we possible need or afford so many houses?
By the time the invasion of Afghanistan was turning ugly, I had figured it out. We can't.
My virgin mind saw what not one mainstream economist could. Not because it's big and bright, but because it was a simple problem and no one had come along and distracted me with the many fallacies that brought this situation about.
Now, because no one else bothered to see this until it was too late, I'm pretty pissed off. If a 12 year old, suffering with mental illness and crippling social anxiety can tell you that in the next few years the most powerful nation on earth will be bankrupted by war and bad monetary policy, surely SOMEONE in government could have done something. Surely someone else could see this.
But alas, the few voices in the wilderness were not heard and I truly believe it is too late and it's all YOUR fault. The worker, the boss, the banker and the debtor. You failed to hear the warnings. Failed to see what was coming. You marginalized us. You ignored us and now we all have to pay the price. The only reason I'm willing to help, to keep shouting into the abyss is because you're taking me and the people I care about with you.
So understand, I'm not being arrogant when I say; I was right. I'm still right. Grow up and deal with it.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
An Ode to a Moron
Morons; without you my life is meaningless. Without your blatant disregard for principled logic, and your total lack of objective thought, I would find little to distract me from the tedium and monotony of my life. I would have nothing left but to enjoy myself, and frankly, who wants to do that? Who wants to devote their hours to those that make them happy? Who wants to spend his life in the pursuit of happiness? Apparently, not me.
Without you, those whose thoughts are unclear and misguided, I would be left to waste away in the pleasures that freedom has brought me. Without you, I would have more time to devote to myself an my loved ones. More time to play, and kiss, and laugh. More energy to move, and learn, and make love.
I shudder at the thought of a life so devoid of anger and disdain; so emptied of the all consuming rage, that I have nothing left but bliss. How sickening, that without you, I would not feel the need to spew my distaste for your ill-considered theorems and your quackery. Without you, the only place I could seek meaning, would be in my own heart and mind. Without you, I am merely a man, so content he could burst with the joys of life.
Without you, who would I be?
Without liars, preachers and snake oil-peddling Cretans. Without the Fascists and Marxists, The Keynesians and Friedmanites. Without all the Collectivists and Positivists. Without the sick and ill conceived ideologies of intervention, control and coercion, I would be someone else. I would not be.
So I bow to you, morons, fools and imbeciles. I bend my knee in respect, for you have been my guardian and my creator. My Smith and my maker. My molder and shaper.
I am your clay monster, oh Rabaais of ignorance.
The Golem you have unleshed.
Without you, those whose thoughts are unclear and misguided, I would be left to waste away in the pleasures that freedom has brought me. Without you, I would have more time to devote to myself an my loved ones. More time to play, and kiss, and laugh. More energy to move, and learn, and make love.
I shudder at the thought of a life so devoid of anger and disdain; so emptied of the all consuming rage, that I have nothing left but bliss. How sickening, that without you, I would not feel the need to spew my distaste for your ill-considered theorems and your quackery. Without you, the only place I could seek meaning, would be in my own heart and mind. Without you, I am merely a man, so content he could burst with the joys of life.
Without you, who would I be?
Without liars, preachers and snake oil-peddling Cretans. Without the Fascists and Marxists, The Keynesians and Friedmanites. Without all the Collectivists and Positivists. Without the sick and ill conceived ideologies of intervention, control and coercion, I would be someone else. I would not be.
So I bow to you, morons, fools and imbeciles. I bend my knee in respect, for you have been my guardian and my creator. My Smith and my maker. My molder and shaper.
I am your clay monster, oh Rabaais of ignorance.
The Golem you have unleshed.
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