Started reading Mark Carney's book Values: Building a Better World for All.
What do you call an economics system where a government demands consensus around national goals and expects private companies to align with and serve those goals?
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I'm picturing a bundle of sticks but Im not sure why
Are you implying that we should burn something down?
Well, I'm often implying that generally but I was thinking more about the fascist symbol of the faggot or fascis, the bundle of sticks that cannot be broken where the individual stick can.
Together, we can be a mighty faggot!
I hear they call them F-boys in the club, or so i hear.
That's really interesting because I didn't know that.
Memes are powerful
The symbol of a bundle of sticks, known as the fasces, originates from ancient Rome. It symbolized authority, unity, and strength through collective power.
A single rod could be broken easily, but a bound bundle was much harder to snap.
The roman symbol of a bundle of sticks together forming an sex is a visual expression of state authority and cohesion.
I heard the word means a bundle of sticks, but I didn't know how they were used.
It's the Roman parable of the fasces, which has long been a symbol of European man. (Often the fasces is shown bundled around an axe, a symbol of unity in war. The first photo shows the fasces behind John F. Kennedy in the Senate chamber in Washington, the second shows the reverse of the US dime minted from 1916 to 1944.)
A man hands his son a stick, and asks him to break it. It breaks easily. "That is you alone, as an individual."
He then picks up two dozen sticks, each identical to the first one, binds them together in a bundle, and hands them to his son with the same instructions.
"They cannot be broken, father."
"And that is your lesson today, son. That is our people united as one."
Thanks. It's interesting.
Another great line:
Country strategies must make existing markets work better and build new markets. But markets alone won't solve our most intractable problems. We need political processes to define our goals and objectives - to set our values.
What do you call a system where the government dictates the market's goals and objectives?
I'm only 3% in. This book is gonna be hard to get through.
Utopian thinking is very provacative and seductive. In other words "if we can but change human nature, we can have everything and it will be perfect".
Utopia, The Perennial Heresy: Molnar, Thomas, is a great book on this.
His utopian name for it: mission-oriented capitalism
Beautiful memetic propaganda
Seriously. Good for you on studying your leaders.
It's a very frustrating thing to do. After studying it and calling it for what it is, NPCs who never looked into it will think you're just biased.
My wife sometimes thinks I'm being hyperbolic, because I'm too literal. But am I not supposed to take what the guy writes in his own book literally?
"when they tell you who they are believe them." For my own wife, I've just accepted we have different domain interests and am happy that she trusts me because she's pretty out of the loop on global/macro/warthreat issues.
Sounds like a slog. I wouldn't make it.
Godspeed-read it.
Is this a trick question? Fascism.
The idea of "national goals" in the context of the United States is increasingly untenable. I mean honestly what sort of goals really unite Blue and Red State America anymore? Post-cold war, post-war on terror, what does "America" stand for?
The Left over the past ~10 years has largely been occupied with a project of historical revisionism that questions the entire rationale for the USA, i.e. 1619 project.
While the Right has, in reaction, constructed some Cereal Box fantasy of "American Greatness" that existed "sometime" in the past, and put it on a red baseball cap.
communism light
marxism light
idiotic
Did you know Marx advanced Smith's thinking on the labour theory of value? 😂
not shocked at all.
she is a wingnut.
the new rates system for electricity that she set up is a mess. personally, I like that she is sticking up for Alberta but other than. that she's a lying politician.
I wish Ezra Levant would see through her but they are close friends.
at the Rebel News event in Calgary in October, it was advertised that we could ask her anything and they stressed anything. When the time came it was a semi scripted dialogue. no questions.
we need more youth to figure this stuff out. gen Z makes me hopeful.
#politics #alberta #canada
Sounds like a good book.