View From The Peanut Gallery

The Great American Divide Isn’t What You Think For the last 50+years “the peaceful transfer of political power” meant a 4-8 year rebranding of the ruling paradigm designed to preserve the policy, perks, economic, legal and legislative advantages of the governing class. In 2016 election ushered in a division some say is a significant as the election of 1860. Many think it is the clear division of political ideologies. While this true, there is another split and in my opinion, is generally not recognized and ultimately more profound. First some context. The complex, interdependent infrastructure that supports modern life in America operates with such reliability that unimaginable amounts of goods and services are conceived, produced and distributed with seamless regularity. It takes a massive natural catastrophic event to interrupt it. The downside is that the demands are so great a broad interruption lasting two weeks or more would result in chaos in every major city. Ok, wh

Are Human Beings Equal? The DNA among all humans is startling similar. Research from Stanford place it as high as 99.9%. If this is accurate- it is what makes human beings equal. Everything else is up for grabs. The inputs that result in inequality are seemingly without end especially in our era of social justice. All are based on violations, egregious or not of modern notions of morality, ethics, justice, etc. Subcategories of, gender, race, sexual orientation, personal identity, equality of outcomes and environment are contemporary hot buttons. These competing grievances are not equal. Some are considered imperative or crimes against humanity others are not. Often overlooked is that the definitions, on which they are based are fluid and change over time in response to social, cultural and technological inputs. For example, the contemporary definition of the word gay describes sexual orientation not emotional state. Are there metrics which are common to human action and not

THE ZOOKEEPER SYNDROME (Foreign and Domestic) The transnational, globalist mindset is akin to a zookeeper. First some context. History is replete with ideologies that seek to save people from themselves or a foreign contagion. Until recently this impulse, as illustrated by the 20th Century, have been political ideologies. It sought to cleanse a people from the errors and machinations of the past. If the “authors/instigators of these ills were foreign, so much the better. In any case, salvation from historical, social and economic maladies required a reset of just about everything. More often than not it was accompanied by a sea of blood and violence. The objects of salvation (the people) often died, ended up in the same circumstance or worse off. I’m of course, referring to Communism, Fascism and National Socialism. Some will say what about Capitalism? Whatever the ills of Capitalism it behooves one to consider the alternatives offered during the 20th Century. Some have said that hi