Paulosophical Vimplications

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• A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS IN ELEVEN MINUTES – TIME ME

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 16, 2025 • ( 1 )

  Nothing about money or trading or buying or selling or competition or interest or inflation or taxes or … the list goes on and on. None of it makes any sense unless people own stuff. And people own stuff if… Read More ›

• POST MORTEM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  What Fox is reporting, but MSNBC is being assiduous not to acknowledge, is that one of the reasons behind the Democrats’ defeat in November is the growing rejection of wokeism. Why has the left gone silent on this? Because to… Read More ›

• GOING BOURBON

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Let’s do some conceptual housecleaning. Having a purpose and having a reason are two different things. The terrorist has a purpose in mind. He’s trying to change a government’s behaviour, whereas the reason someone goes postal is that he’s angry…. Read More ›

• MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 2, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Occam’s Razor advises us never to multiply entities beyond what’s needed to explain what needs explaining. Is this because the simpler explanation is more likely to be the correct one? If so, what would explain that? So no. Rather it’s… Read More ›

• A CHRISTMAS CAROL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  The birth of the Saviour wasn’t foretold. It was backtold. That doesn’t mean the story is false, though in fact it is. But it does mean the backtellers have to make up a whole lot of the details. Repeat a… Read More ›

• LUIGI MANGIONE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 11, 2024 • ( 0 )

  It’s not yet clear what particular beef he had with the American health care system, but clearly discontent with it is widespread enough in America that some Americans – not many but some – are hailing Luigi Mangione as a… Read More ›

• THE PERILS OF ASSOCIATIVE THINKING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 11, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Every liberator will eventually become a tyrant. He has to, because otherwise – or so he tells himself – the forces of the counter-revolution will reassert themselves. It happened with Robespierre, with Stalin, with Mussolini. It happened with Mao and… Read More ›

• IT’S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT THAT …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 10, 2024 • ( 0 )

  When someone initiates a conversation with “It’s a little known fact that …”, what he typically means is that there’s something he knows, but his interlocutor probably does not. But I want to bring our attention to another use of… Read More ›

• HOBBES ON ABORTION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Do our fellow citizens have an interest, and so can they take an interest, in our reproductive behaviour? Of course they do and can. But can the state, on their behalf, take an interest in our reproductive behaviour? Pro-Lifers say… Read More ›

• PETER BOGHOSSIAN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Apparently some celebrants are having a little fun by sending notices to Black addresses to report immediately to the nearest plantation. Tasteless but – c’mon, be honest – would the woke have been any less insensitive had they been taking… Read More ›

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