Comments on: Back to the Newture http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:43:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58830 Dr. Slammy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:17:44 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58830 Jeff: You're talking about "learning lessons from past experience." That's a dramatically different thing from "living in the past." Jeff: You’re talking about “learning lessons from past experience.” That’s a dramatically different thing from “living in the past.”

]]> By: Ed http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58781 Ed Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:56:34 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58781 Why is anybody paying any attention to him? Newt Gingrich did more damage to the Republican brand than Sarah Palin could do in a lifetime. Why is anybody paying any attention to him? Newt Gingrich did more damage to the Republican brand than Sarah Palin could do in a lifetime.

]]> By: Lex http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58775 Lex Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:17:06 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58775 Would that young Newt had followed his bliss and become a paleontologist: he'd be happier, i'd be happier, maybe not so much the dinosaurs...but they're dead. Would that young Newt had followed his bliss and become a paleontologist: he’d be happier, i’d be happier, maybe not so much the dinosaurs…but they’re dead.

]]> By: jeff watson http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58772 jeff watson Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:59:03 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58772 Sam, You said: "I learned a long time ago that you can’t find your future by looking in your past." I humbly disagree with some aspects of that statement, looking at a study of economic cycles to see if past has correlations with the future. In economic cycles, all cycles are compromised of the same human elements and emotions....every single one. When a panic occurs, it is good to look to the past, as every panic since the tulip bulb bubble in Holland has had exactly the same elements and consequences and endings. Over-speculation, euphoria, increased liquidity, and the general public buying at the top seem to be the common theme in cycles leading to panics. Bank closings, brokerage closings, lack of liquidity, corporate closings, personal speculative losses, and monetary discombobulation are a result of panics. I've carefully studied every US panic at length since the panic of 1812, and realize that they all play out the same way. Hell, every European panic since the time of Medici has played out the same way, with a dose of hyperinflation in a couple of them. What I'm leading to is that a sagacious, nimble person can look to the past to profit in the future, and can profit with their own self interest in mind. It's too bad that the media has given self interest a bad name, saying it is somehow evil, whereas an interest in the good of the collective is somehow better. Somehow, the good of society has trumped the self interest of the individual. Society is composed of a group of leaders that, for good or bad, can pursue whatever whims they desire(as they are in control), and another group of people that are ethically obligated to follow those whims for the good of society, wherever they lead them. Things have been turned around that the good of the society has trumped the rights and good of the individual. Totally irrational in my book, however I don't believe that the individual should break any laws imposed by government. The mercantile class of individuals is the last bastion of people acting in their self interest, and the mercantile class is pretty pissed off right now. The mercantile class just wants to be left alone to make money. Jeff Jeff Sam, You said:
“I learned a long time ago that you can’t find your future by looking in your past.”

I humbly disagree with some aspects of that statement, looking at a study of economic cycles to see if past has correlations with the future. In economic cycles, all cycles are compromised of the same human elements and emotions….every single one. When a panic occurs, it is good to look to the past, as every panic since the tulip bulb bubble in Holland has had exactly the same elements and consequences and endings. Over-speculation, euphoria, increased liquidity, and the general public buying at the top seem to be the common theme in cycles leading to panics. Bank closings, brokerage closings, lack of liquidity, corporate closings, personal speculative losses, and monetary discombobulation are a result of panics. I’ve carefully studied every US panic at length since the panic of 1812, and realize that they all play out the same way. Hell, every European panic since the time of Medici has played out the same way, with a dose of hyperinflation in a couple of them. What I’m leading to is that a sagacious, nimble person can look to the past to profit in the future, and can profit with their own self interest in mind.

It’s too bad that the media has given self interest a bad name, saying it is somehow evil, whereas an interest in the good of the collective is somehow better. Somehow, the good of society has trumped the self interest of the individual. Society is composed of a group of leaders that, for good or bad, can pursue whatever whims they desire(as they are in control), and another group of people that are ethically obligated to follow those whims for the good of society, wherever they lead them. Things have been turned around that the good of the society has trumped the rights and good of the individual. Totally irrational in my book, however I don’t believe that the individual should break any laws imposed by government. The mercantile class of individuals is the last bastion of people acting in their self interest, and the mercantile class is pretty pissed off right now. The mercantile class just wants to be left alone to make money.

Jeff

Jeff

]]> By: Steve http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58767 Steve Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:23:24 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58767 Hmm...100% of the people who visit the site are covered? Hmm…100% of the people who visit the site are covered?

]]> By: Russ Wellen http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/11/17/back-to-the-newture/comment-page-1/#comment-58762 Russ Wellen Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:32:32 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=5476#comment-58762 How is that this bunch, now horribly dated, once succeeded in making liberals look obsolete to the media and public? How is that this bunch, now horribly dated, once succeeded in making liberals look obsolete to the media and public?

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