Hell Bent in Ontario
In this is a simple and profound lesson about how societies really work. People with ideologically right wing ideas and attitudes are generally more stupid than the rest. However, they are very aggressive.
canada
stuff mostly interesting to Canadians
If I became Prime Minister of Canada
Asking someone what they would do as Prime Minister is a pretty good clarifying question. It reveals the respondent’s basic mentality. It shows the actual knowledge level, capacity to think, and focus on reality, not what is acceptable.
Social Basic Income
These shills use a Judas Goat technique to draw people who are interested in these ideas toward their idea of a BI. They find the parade and get in front of it. Yet these ideas, like BI itself, are building blocks for a post capitalist, post Billionaires economy.
Little Prince Justin is Going Away
Here is the real problem with Canadian government, as it is exemplarized by the Trudeau administration. Our institutions were never very well thought out. We have only weak, limited, caretaker type government.
Billionaire’s Basic Income
A Universal Basic Income is an income paid to everyone without conditions, and adequate to cover basic costs of living. Its real purpose is to simplify the problems of managing a complex, technological political economy, so as to comport fairness with efficiency.
2025 predictions and postdictions
The year 2020 marked the end of the post world war two era. This was the period of relative peace and stability which came out of the settlement of 1945. That settlement has now broken down and we are in a new interregnum until a new stability can be established.
About Journalism, Blogging, Truth, and Democracies
Mainstream journalist’s conceits are becoming more patently ridiculous. That is, that they constitute a ‘fifth estate’, that they are somehow important to democracy, that we actually live in a democracy.