The Left is tenacious. Fortunately for the United States, their weapons are few and largely worn out: America’s richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation’s wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. pic.twitter.com/7apm6IrOAR — Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 20, 2024 Robert Reich …
Category: envy
Nov 16 2024
You Can Feel The Hatred From Here
So! Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who recently changed her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, has been selected to be Director of National Intelligence, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t like it: New York Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Tulsi Gabbard for the position of director of national intelligence, …
Oct 19 2024
The Fallacy That Won’t Die
Our Gentle Readers may have noticed that one of the two major political parties has nominated socialists for president and vice-president of these United States. Kamala Harris’s socialism isn’t perfectly overt, though her inclinations and her totalitarian impulses are quite open. Still a comparison of her advocacies with the 1928 platform of the Socialist …
Sep 18 2024
The Explanatory Power Of Envy
First, a few words from an obscure Fifties novel: “I’d like to see him beaten,” he said. “I’d like to hear him scream with pain, just once.” “You won’t, Jimmy.” “Why does he think he’s better than the rest of us—he and that sister of mine?” She chuckled. He …
Aug 27 2024
Untoward But Predictable
How many times have I denounced envy in these pages? Let me count the ways… what? Only twelve? I must be losing my stuff. Envy has become the force most likely to destroy Mankind. Have a fresh and juicy sample: Over the weekend, NASA finally made the decision to return Boeing’s plagued Starliner …
Jul 09 2024
Turning Heads
Apparently, women’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark isn’t done breaking records yet: Caitlin Clark is currently leading the WNBA in total points from scoring and assists. Similar to the NFL’s all-purpose yards measurement, Clark now has to be considered a candidate for MVP and Rookie of the Year (ROY). Clark on Saturday became …
May 02 2024
When The Answer Is Terrifying…
…the question is unlikely to be faced squarely. Dystopic’s painfully brilliant piece of Monday has been much on my mind. He poses a question whose most plausible answer is the reverse of comforting. Indeed, it extinguishes comfort. It undermines hope for a better society. It invokes a “don’t think about it” pressure that’s …
Jan 31 2024
Too Much Clarity
In his treatise The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, the great Ludwig von Mises makes reference to “the cousins:” i.e., the relatives and assorted hangers-on of the families of the great industrialists: Even in these lucky families, the qualities required for the successful conduct of big business are not inherited by all sons and grandsons. As …
Dec 24 2023
They Who Have Not Joy
There are…people whose entire mission in life is to despoil the lives of others. Any Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch will be able to name a few categories thereof. But just now, we’re seeing one of the most odious of all in inglorious death-dealing Technicolor®: the rabid anti-Semites who cheer whenever a “Palestinian” murders …
Jul 14 2023
A Striking Inversion
Apologies for yesterday’s absence, Gentle Reader. It was a “low” sort of day. Perhaps today will be better. At any rate, it’s starting better. And for openers, I’ve got an old “favorite” subject on my mind, about which Divemedic has a few words to say: The majority of domestic flights do not have accessible …
Jun 12 2023
You Are Not Special: A Defense Of Normality
The early-morning hours often bring me to a strange place. It’s not a particularly comfortable place. Yet from that vantage point I can see things that are not apparent at other times, when time itself seems speeded up and a welter of necessities press. And being who and what I am, I’m moved to …
May 17 2023
Virtue Envy
I’ve ranted about the perniciousness of envy a huge number of times. It’s an inexhaustible topic. But there’s an aspect of its evil force that deserves more consideration than I’ve given it to date. Consider the completely immaterial occurrence of envy: the envy of someone who is: Not richer than you; Not healthier …
May 01 2023
Homelands
Give a man a free house and he’ll bust out the windows – The Rainmakers, “Government Cheese” Just a couple of days back, Matt Bracken posted the following graphic: Apparently, there’s a mass migration of African Negroes to the Emerald Isle in progress. I wasn’t aware of it until recently. The graphic …
Oct 12 2022
What Drives A Megalomaniac?
The several pieces that Fran posted this week have prodded me to move forward with a conjecture that I have long felt needs to be shared. With the video featured below, Jordan Peterson spurred the bulk of what I will present to you today. I reacted favorably to his sudden realization that his predilection to …
Jul 05 2022
The Crux Of The Matter
crux n. a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point. The nature of Man underlies everything in human society. We build the societies we build because we are what we are, including how various characteristics are distributed among us. Most of us want to be left alone…mostly. But some of us can’t abide that. …
Sep 07 2021
On Going Too Far
Yesterday’s tirade about moderation reaped me an email objection I should have expected. My correspondent assumed that I had a “system” of some sort in mind, rather than a simple respect for the equilibrium principle that governs all things under the veil of time. The writer asked if I were about to advocate “Christian …
Sep 06 2021
A Deadly Shift In Emphasis
I am frequently impressed by Misanthropic Humanitarian’s selection of Quotes for the Day. Today is such an occasion: Those three quotes underscore one of the deadliest conceptual tragedies of recent times: the shift in emphasis from achievement to acquisition. I’m about to start sounding like a cranky old man, here – as I …
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