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Ive got the CNBS oops I mean CNBC on this am and who is coming up but the disgraced David Walker from the Peterson cesspool first thing here the morning after! They are relentless...
Apostle Paul to Timothy: "13 Have a pattern of sound words, which you hear from me, in faith.."
For righteous non-Christ-believers: Please see Plato's Charmides.
The false rely on establishing and maintaining a pattern of unsound words, ie "WORDS", to sustain this enchantment which is on certain people among us... this looks like a key strategem in how they continue to get away with this.... it's via "words" not true "math".
And these "unsound words" have to get out there regularly AND OFTEN... (let's face it they are successful at this)
They use these false metaphors and false statements and repeat them regularly and often, a ritualistic pattern... we have to somehow disrupt the "pattern of unsound words" they use to the extent we are given opportunities.
"11 Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man." Mat 15:11
Matt repetition is the most effective ways to convert lies into established facts.
It has been proved scientifically so... Some human heuristic mechanisms are dragging logic thinking.
Is worrying because we can't do much about it except education, and the current educational system (private or public, doesn't matter) does not work with this issues, in fact is trapped in the same failure paradigm.
Ignacio right... here is Beowulf from another thread:
"When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank and strain and struggle, but the chain is too strong, the stake too rooted. One day they give up, having learned that they cannot pull free, and from that day forward they can be "chained" with a slender rope. When this enormous animal feels any resistance, though it has the strength to pull the whole circus tent over, it stops trying. Because it believes it cannot, it cannot."
There seems to be a certain point where these false incantations/ritualistic presentations take hold of brains and from that point on, they cant think anymore.
And it looks like these ritualistic activities are operating to both maintain AND establish new ingrained falsehoods in certain humans... dark!
I remember reading a detailed analysis of Ryan's math which concluded that for any of his scenarios to play out he had to assume conditions that would be nearly impossible to happen in reality. The analysis wasn't necessarily in paradigm with MMT but it did blow apart the idea of the merits of austerity.
I was referring to Ryan's math vs the true "tyranny of the math" revealed thru MMT... but perhaps this HuffPo thing is applicable to what you are looking for:
it wasnt just their math the people rejected, they rejected their entire wacked out platform. the gop are on the way to extinction, which is a good thing imo. just keep moving to the right until they walk off the edge, dont go away mad, just go away.
I was quoting Gavin de Becker, I'm not usually that pithy. :o)
Its funny that the one time during the campaign Romney caught fire in the polls was after the first debate where he came across as, well, a moderate former governor of Massachusetts. Too little too late.
If he had moved to the center as soon as he locked down the GOP nomination last spring and picked Rob Portman as VP (who could ever have predicted that Ohio would be a swing state?) he'd have won walking away.
Beo right once he had the nomination wrapped up he should have shifted center and picked a milquetoast moderate midwesterner perhaps from a swing state and I believe also he wins.
But the GOP has BIG problems right now in general (all caught up in many falsehoods...) gonna be interesting... rsp,
There are forces among us that are soiling the reputation of math…on purpose.
ReplyDeleteWorse, to believe what they tell us one must deny arithmetic itself, including simple addition and subtraction.
This is the battle to to be fought in the future. If we can't win this one most of the things we need to happen in order for us to succeed won't.
Agree Paul...
ReplyDeleteIve got the CNBS oops I mean CNBC on this am and who is coming up but the disgraced David Walker from the Peterson cesspool first thing here the morning after! They are relentless...
Apostle Paul to Timothy: "13 Have a pattern of sound words, which you hear from me, in faith.."
For righteous non-Christ-believers: Please see Plato's Charmides.
The false rely on establishing and maintaining a pattern of unsound words, ie "WORDS", to sustain this enchantment which is on certain people among us... this looks like a key strategem in how they continue to get away with this.... it's via "words" not true "math".
And these "unsound words" have to get out there regularly AND OFTEN... (let's face it they are successful at this)
They use these false metaphors and false statements and repeat them regularly and often, a ritualistic pattern... we have to somehow disrupt the "pattern of unsound words" they use to the extent we are given opportunities.
"11 Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man." Mat 15:11
rsp,
Crisis averted! The only party amenable to facts wins the Presidency.
ReplyDeleteNow, time for us MMTers to get back to work!
Matt repetition is the most effective ways to convert lies into established facts.
ReplyDeleteIt has been proved scientifically so... Some human heuristic mechanisms are dragging logic thinking.
Is worrying because we can't do much about it except education, and the current educational system (private or public, doesn't matter) does not work with this issues, in fact is trapped in the same failure paradigm.
Not easy solutions to this whole mess.
Ignacio right... here is Beowulf from another thread:
ReplyDelete"When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank and strain and struggle, but the chain is too strong, the stake too rooted. One day they give up, having learned that they cannot pull free, and from that day forward they can be "chained" with a slender rope. When this enormous animal feels any resistance, though it has the strength to pull the whole circus tent over, it stops trying. Because it believes it cannot, it cannot."
There seems to be a certain point where these false incantations/ritualistic presentations take hold of brains and from that point on, they cant think anymore.
And it looks like these ritualistic activities are operating to both maintain AND establish new ingrained falsehoods in certain humans... dark!
rsp,
"....and the current educational system (private or public, doesn't matter) does not work.... - Ignacio
ReplyDeletePublic education is formatted to produce worker-bees, not thinkers.
Trouble is, the system doesn't produce jobs, people need to be able to think in order to survive.
Elite private education teaches the methods of exploiting the worker-bees.
I remember reading a detailed analysis of Ryan's math which concluded that for any of his scenarios to play out he had to assume conditions that would be nearly impossible to happen in reality. The analysis wasn't necessarily in paradigm with MMT but it did blow apart the idea of the merits of austerity.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have a link or know of such a report?
Mosler lost. He suspects election fraud.
ReplyDeletehttp://moslereconomics.com/2012/11/07/usvi-election-results/comment-page-1/#comment-234542
Broll,
ReplyDeleteI was referring to Ryan's math vs the true "tyranny of the math" revealed thru MMT... but perhaps this HuffPo thing is applicable to what you are looking for:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/paul-ryan-tax-plan_n_1929142.html
But remember the left gets it wrong all the time too, Obama was already talking about deficit reduction in his victory speech last night...
rsp,
that was like the first thing he mentioned as a goal.
ReplyDeleteMatt:
ReplyDeleteLove it!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahaa!!!
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ReplyDeleteErskine Bowles thought this idiot was some sort of a maths "genius", that brings Bowles credibility down to zero.
ReplyDeleteit wasnt just their math the people rejected, they rejected their entire wacked out platform. the gop are on the way to extinction, which is a good thing imo. just keep moving to the right until they walk off the edge, dont go away mad, just go away.
ReplyDelete"here is Beowulf from another thread:"
ReplyDeleteI was quoting Gavin de Becker, I'm not usually that pithy. :o)
Its funny that the one time during the campaign Romney caught fire in the polls was after the first debate where he came across as, well, a moderate former governor of Massachusetts. Too little too late.
If he had moved to the center as soon as he locked down the GOP nomination last spring and picked Rob Portman as VP (who could ever have predicted that Ohio would be a swing state?) he'd have won walking away.
Beo right once he had the nomination wrapped up he should have shifted center and picked a milquetoast moderate midwesterner perhaps from a swing state and I believe also he wins.
ReplyDeleteBut the GOP has BIG problems right now in general (all caught up in many falsehoods...) gonna be interesting... rsp,