Sunday Thoughts August 18, 2024

There is some merit in the claim that we are living out a cheaply done remake of the period after the cultural revolution of the 1960’s and 1970’s. One piece of evidence in favor of that is the Kamala Harris plan to bring back wage and price controls. This was a policy created by Ricard Nixon to fight inflation, which was about the same as we are experiencing today. The official statistics are different, but that is the beauty of a remake. It updates the original.The doomers are sure this will win the election for Harris, on the grounds that the public is so dumb they will fall for this stunt. That is why I need a break from following this stuff. My patience for the doomers has reached a new low. Yeah, the copers are a bore, but at least they refuse to give into despair, which is the worse reaction to present trouble. It is not that there is always hope, but that there is always something you can do, even it is to die a valiant death.

I do not think I can read another Greg Hood tweet about how we are all doomed because the media controls our minds and there is no solution to it. I like Greg and I get what he is saying, but, my goodness, if you really feel that way then kill yourself. I do not think he really feels this way, but that is the effect when all you do is post about how we are doomed. I think I might take a couple weeks away from Twitter just to cleanse the mind of these guys.

That aside, the weird parallels to the 1970’s are interesting. The Harris plan comes from Elizabeth Warren who was not young in the 1970’s, so she surely recalls the epic disaster that was the Nixon inflation policy at the time. It is good proof that we are living through a bizarre nostalgia trip of a generation that is about to shuffle off the stage. It is just once last bit of good vibes for them before the icy hand of death touches their heart.

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