Science and Philosophy

The Rational Roots of the Irrational

It seems that the cognitive and intellectual tools that humans have at their disposal to understand and manipulate reality around them are fairly adequate within a medium range of things, tasks, and problems – hardly surprising, since they are probably adaptations to life on planet earth. These tools are mainly the capability to reason logically, to understand and apply the causal nexus, and to use practical concepts of time and space. . . It also seems that these same tools become pretty useless when we leave the middle range of earth reality and venture into the macro-cosmos . . .

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Socialism

The Birth Defect of Collectivism

Many ideologies consider the “group” (the collective) more important than the individual. The class, society, the state, the people, the tribe etc. constitute a superior value. “You are nothing. Your nation is everything” was a NAZI motto. The Fascist motto was “You are nothing. The State is everything.” Today’s dominant collectivist ideology is Socialism. . .

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Socialism

What is Fascism and NAZI-ism?

In this day and age, the terms ‘fascist’ and ‘NAZI’ have become substitutes for rotten eggs and tomatoes. They are thrown at anybody who disagrees with left-wing or right-wing ideologists. However, most people do not know what they really mean or used to mean. . .

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Economy

What Stimulates the Economy and what is Inflation?

Many people believe that government spending of tax money creates an extra stimulus to the economy. This belief is wrong. Here is why: If a person earns e.g. $100 through work in the free market and the government takes away – say – $30 in taxes, the government can now spend the $30 for goods and services in the marketplace, while the earner (taxpayer) can now only spend the remaining $70. At best, the combined effect would be the same as if the earner had been allowed to keep and spend his/her $100. In either case, $100 would have flown into the economy to stimulate it. The part of the $100 that was taxed away and then spent by the government, produces no additional stimulating effect for the economy. . .

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World

Climate Change

The world is about 4.5 billion years old, mankind about 1 million years. If we equate earth’s age with one day at 86 400 sec, humans have been around for just 18 seconds of earth’s life. Not long enough to experience earth’s mean climate, which is much warmer than today’s climate. . .

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