- How did things get so horribly off track this year? It’s because we’ve been under the influence of stupid. Jeffrey A. Tucker has a great essay titled “Smart Society, Stupid People” that explains this phenomenon beautifully.
- If you haven’t read “The Fourth Turning” book yet, you’re missing out on a truly fascinating historical explanation for how and why the current upheaval is happening. David Stockman also has a pretty clear–and sobering–assessment of the growing fiscal disaster, social unrest and the upcoming presidential election. This is classic Fourth Turning stuff that we’re experiencing.
- How does it feel to live in a time when our opinions qualify as crimes? Daisy Luther breaks down the current trend and explains why we are standing at an increasingly perilous turning point.
- On a related note, Tucker Carlson is dead on in his take on how our information is being controlled. This is another reason why we absolutely cannot rely on others to tell us what to think. Each of us has to be willing to become the human equivalent of a lie detector.
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