I’m always complaining about this to my wife: If I’ve convinced myself of an irrational belief that’s beneficial, don’t tell me it’s irrational. You’re killing my placebo effect!
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I'm a freelance writer and blogger based in Brooklyn, NY. My background is mostly in politics. I've worked on the editorial boards of the New York Sun and New York Post. In 2006, I wrote a book, "The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party" (Wiley). I've also done my share of freelancing, for places like the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Reason, and RealClearPolitics.
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Ryan – I have discovered yet another placebo – sort of, the thing is, it has the reverse set of intentions since it has proven time time again to extremely hurtful, yet we a seem to be “belivers”. I refer to a spent piece of chariot trash from 1800 B.C. As it turns out, knowing your brain is being hacked by an ancient, Hammurabi bot doesn’t make it any easier to resist.
Banks too big to fail, morph into banks too big to govern, and we wonder why, as we huddle around our desktop campfires waiting for the next OPEC stimulation package to knock us off our collective log(in).
Monopoly control over legal tender has a long, mean spirited, history. A system that places malignant cells of usury along side the enlightened idea of democracy, is just plain, poor design.
Democracy tries to give all a level playing field. With time, usury by its’ nature, must dominate or die. It uses the algebraic concept of exponential growth to accomplish this domination; it now encompasses the entire planet. Coincidentally this exponential growth accents human greed.
Exponential growth will always do an end run over any attempt to regulate [i.e the constitution]. Communism, democracy, fascism, capitalism, dictatorships, or monarchies; this old boy has no loyalty to any. He will however, eat one or two for breakfast.
Now your recruited, both U & Dan- join me as co-create a new world economic system somewhat based on something Dan has mentioned “we know our intuitive, limitations and we build around them”
Hammurabi economics needs to be completely replaced with behavioral economics.
Now the perspiration, leaking from the brim of his Gabbana Red’s,[world's most expensive sun glasses] sketches an unmanaged path down his pampered cheek. He dabs at the moisture with a thousand dollar bill, he knows he ain’t got a chance; it is time! Let the triage begin.
Ryan – I have discovered yet another placebo – sort of, the thing is, it has the reverse set of intentions since it has proven time time again to extremely hurtful, yet we a seem to be “belivers”.
I refer to a spent piece of chariot, trash from 1800 B.C. As it turns out, knowing your brain is being hacked by an ancient, Hammurabi bot doesn’t make it any easier to resist.
Banks too big to fail, morph into banks too big to govern, and we wonder why, as we huddle around our desktop campfires waiting for the next OPEC stimulation package to knock us off our collective log(in).
Monopoly control over legal tender has a long, mean spirited, history. A system that places malignant cells of usury along side the enlightened idea of democracy, is just plain, poor design.
Democracy tries to give all a level playing field. With time, usury by its’ nature, must dominate or die. It uses the algebraic concept of exponential growth to accomplish this domination; it now encompasses the entire planet. Coincidentally this exponential growth accents human greed.
Exponential growth will always do an end run over any attempt to regulate [i.e the constitution]. Communism, democracy, fascism, capitalism, dictatorships, or monarchies; this old boy has no loyalty to any. He will however, eat one or two for breakfast.
Now your recruited, both U & Dan- join me as co-create a new world economic system; somewhat based on something Dan has mentioned “we know our intuitive, limitations and we build around them”
Hammurabi economics needs to be completely replaced with behavioral economics.
Now the perspiration, leaking from the brim of his Gabbana Red’s,[world's most expensive sun glasses] sketches an unmanaged path down his pampered cheek. He dabs at the moisture with a thousand dollar bill, he knows he ain’t got a chance; it is time! Let the triage begin.