Fight or fold?
Perhaps South Africa’s greatest contribution to the world is to provide an example of the alternative to war.
Perhaps South Africa’s greatest contribution to the world is to provide an example of the alternative to war.
Not all new ideas are beneficial. Socialism/Marxism was a new and fundamentally awful idea which changed the world dramatically for the worse.
“Whom do we serve?” is the plaintive cry of serfs, of slaves, of the defeated.
The contest for political power is the predominant narrative in the “democratic” west, and in many semi-democratic countries elsewhere.
In a truly free society, property rights will be protected by boundaries enforced by owners. Currently borders are simply imaginary lines enclosing land claimed by a state entity.
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.
Two million Palestinians are trapped in the Gaza strip. They have nowhere to go except hell. That is part of the Hamas plan.
How do I reconcile the many needs and demands of others against my own self-interest? Is there a middle ground between selfish capitalism and utopian socialism?
If you want to know what people think and want, try selling it to them.