Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy Book

I've been reading thomas sowell here and there for...i dunno...8-10 years? plain english w/an eye to understanding, to relaying information. sowell, i believe, is an educator as well as an economist.
read him and you want to pull out your hair because eventually it begins to dawn on you that yes, what you have long-suspected is true...we are being played for fools.

and we are allowing it to happen...we have allowed our servants to become our masters.

speak for yourself did you say?

yesterday, the president of the united states spoke on national television. there he was, playing the part of leland gaunt from stephen king's needful things, pandering to envy greed selfishness.

incredible that the man knows that he can get away w/speaking like that.

sowell offers a different perspective...some of the things he says are mind-boggling, as they contradict all i have been told, all that has been informed...


....but one of the recent columns (these appeared, all, i believe, in newspapers, online)....in

"cultural issues":

"today, whole classes of people get their jollies and puff themselves up by denigrating and denouncing american society."

i believe i read walter williams writing the same thing.

dostoyevsky wrote about his time that there was an intense animal hatred for all things russian. we know what happened to dostoyevsky's russia...and yet we are too blind to what is happening to us....

...i hazard to say the same thing...we are "Dismantling America"

sowell writes of the "great global warming swindle" in several places...p 200 in one..and in his "random thoughts" the final chapter/section...."

now that the british television documentary, "the great global warming swindle" is available on dvd, will those schools that forced their students to watch al gore's movie, "an inconvenient truth" also show them the other side? ask them." p341



yes. we should ask our schools that question.

there's many quotable quotes within...from marx: "the working class is revolutionary or it is nothing." p229

to wit: the people on wall street are getting paid...some of them, some of the hispanics...whereas the people who speak the lingo have no excuse....holding up the signs, misspelled words, "feild" in one script for "field"...and so on.

"the essence of bigotry is refusing to others the rights that you demand for yourself..." p 251


"some people seem to think that we live in more 'liberated' times, when all that has happened is that one set of taboos has been replaced by another and more intolerantly enforced set of taboos." p 334

he talks/writes about this, with the column about homosexual marriage, the reaction to states voting down, or voting for the idea that marriage is and shall be between a man and a woman....this review, consequently....will be noted as a "hate crime" by those whose superior wisdom shall not be questioned...


"some people are so busy being clever that they don't have time enough to be wise." p 335

"can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of 'diversity' that we have heard gushed about for years?" 335

"what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" 335

talking points? sure....

but there's more...he has several columns on the duke rape case, a case that alas i failed to follow. some of us...most of us...me...have to work for a living...we have to work hard...my neighbor, bless his heart, told me once: you'll never work in this town again.

alas...what to do...dueling went out about the time the west was won.....so?


release the drones!

good read...the pieces were written for a newspaper, their opinion page....heh!....and there's a lot of information presented here...if only "the other side of the coin"

so...read it....unless your motto is, tails i win heads you lose.

or...unless you have access to drones.