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America The Weird

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Victor Davis Hanson on the appeal of the West:

America remains the exceptional Western nation, whose influence and stature transcend the size of its economy and population, and its vast land mass of rich natural resources. Its cocktail of property rights, unfettered oil and gas development, muscular national defense, gun rights, religiosity, free-market economics, limited government, philanthropy, and great private universities is, again, unlike anything in the West.

Likewise, its excesses that arise from the marriage of free-market affluence and constitutionally protected unfettered expression, in the eyes of the world, appear often as license and indulgence. Certainly, the First and Second Amendments, the National Football League, rap music, the U.S. Marine Corps, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the Ivy League, or 24/7 cable news could not originate elsewhere.

The result is that America exists both as the world’s refuge and its beacon, the sole place where individuals can find a safe harbor. Only in America can the individual remain free and able to live his life under the assumption that the major decisions of his life are his own and not predicated on state approval. Only in the United States does the rags to riches story still exist, given that neither regulation, the deep state, nor an entrenched aristocracy can fully suppress entrepreneurs or aspiring capitalists.

A key goal of my Outer Space Treaty project is to extend this to the solar system. Speaking of which, Michael Listner has an analysis of the latest U.S. legislation along these lines.

Economics, Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Happy May Day

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…better known as victims of communism day. And it’s a tragic condemnation of our “educational” system that young people (and too many old people) don’t understand how horrific this philosophy is.

[Afternoon update]

Ten films to honor the dead.

[Late-afternoon update]

Sarah Hoyt (who would know): A remembrance of May Days past.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

The Web And Social Media

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I’ve never abandoned this blog, but I have been posting to it a lot less, for a number of reasons (less time, other outlets). I didn’t move to Facebook, but I do spend a lot more time on Twitter.

John Hinderaker says it was a mistake for conservatives to move from the web to social media. Glenn has also noted recently that the old days of blogging were a lot more free wheeling, with less ability of the left to control it. Anyway, I’ll try to do more here.

Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

SJW SF Follies

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I’m back in the states, (back to Florida for a couple days, then back to CA on Friday), and I woke up to this story from Sarah Hoyt over the latest mau mauing of the left against a sane SF writer.

I grew up reading SF in the sixties; I don’t know what happened to it. The Left apparently has to corrupt and rot everything it touches.

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Youth, And Gun Control

News outlets ignore millennial skepticism about it.

And some students do a walk out in support of the Second Amendment.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative.

[Update a few minutes later]

Yeah, you can bet the administration at the Rockledge high school would have loved to punish the students for the walk out, but they knew the wrath that would descend upon their hypocrisy if they’d done so.

[Update a few minutes later]

The teenage demagogues.