Trio and Friends

Yes you're right I am interested in what is fashionable, but I don't want to confuse fashionableness with truth. Let me be more precise: I meant that we should not use the fact that something is fashionable as an excuse to suppose that it must be untrue. We should investigate the truth for ourselves...

If that was the point then it doesn't apply to me. I don't go to Facebook or Youtube or even Google for my sources of information. I know these things are filtered. Many people blamed Trump's election on Facebook analytics targeting people with what would make them vote for Trump. To say that the me...

As for the Robin Hood story, it is interesting that Ayn Rand explicitly contrasted Ragnar with Robin Hood. Ragnar is actually the opposite of Robin Hood. Robin Hood steals from the rich to give to the poor - he doesn't stop to check how the rich got their wealth - maybe by taxes or by some other unf...

That few have framed taxation as theft in the past (the validity of which I cannot assess) most likely stems from the definition being beside the point. Defining things one way or another does not change the desirability of law, order, and stability. Definitions matter if they carry other freight w...

To God, first and foremost. But anyway, we don't have to keep harping on that. I agree with your central point which is that one of the main reasons for environmentalism is the future wellbeing of humanity. Now can we return to talking about whether or not the climate is changing, and if so, whether...

If you take the position that somehow the earth itself determines its own goodness somehow then surely anything humans do to change this is bad. I still don't see how the one thing follows from the other. Can't the earth have a goodness of its own, to be preserved, and yet have a place for humans t...

I argue that we actually have to look at the claims and not trust the label of "conspiracy theory". you wrote off the Dark Horse podcast from the lefty guy at the drop of a hat as conspiracy theory because it questions the narrative. I actually don't remember what podcast you mean and I'm...

I assume you are aware of the dihydrogen monoxide "hoax" where water is called by an obscure scientific name and then reported on, truthfully, in the most negative light. The rub is it's all true but somehow false nevertheless because of the incomplete picture. This is a powerful analogy ...

This statement suggests the recognition of a group of people who, by virtue of their repetition of the proper narrative, have gained a more virtuous status. They are sensible and thinking. Of course one cannot tell the degree of their sensibilities or how much thought they have put into their posit...

Well, I think you see my point. The implications are indeed damning. So you start with a conclusion and try to justify it. This is no different from just taking it on faith. What has happened in history must be right. It's not a final conclusion, but only a possible conclusion. The fact that it is ...