The answer is yes, unless you believe that the experiences people have don’t shape them. At a given time and place, we experience similar things. In the US of the 30s, we experience poverty, desperation, and the hope of FDR. In the 50s, we have prosperity, but also stifling expectations of behaviour and a closing […]
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We are what we do. What we experience during our daily lives creates our habits, both of action and thought and those habitual actions and thoughts are our character. The character of men and women, and the shared character of a society is destiny. It determines how we respond to what happens, it is as […]
(First of two collections of important articles published 2014 or earlier. Read the second.) I want to take readers through some of my previous writing on ideology and character, and how they help form the societies in which we live. Taking the time to read these articles (a short book’s worth), should vastly improve your […]
This chart tells you not about terrorism, but about the nature of the people living in and running Western Europe today. So, not even close to peak. Yet Europeans in the 70s did not get rid of their civil liberties in the way that France, for example, has. They also did not react with the […]
I’ve commented before on character as destiny for societies. Character, or personality if you prefer, determines how we act. We all know people whose anger, or curiosity, or greed is predictable: people where you know exactly what they’ll do given a particular event. Indeed, we truly know someone when we can make such predictions and […]
Over the past year I’ve written a large number of pieces on ideology, and quite a few have been about character: how it is created by experience, and how specific types of character (like sociopathy) are selected for amongst our leadership classes. Let’s parse this out: 1) Character (personality), determines how people act. 2) While […]
by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy ‘Sad What We Are Doing’: Global CO2 Increase Sets New All-Time Record Olivia Rosane, May 10, 2024 [CommonDreams] The average monthly concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere jumped by a record 4.7 parts per million between March 2023 and March 2024, according to new data from NOAA’s […]
by Tony Wikrent Global power shift Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed Aurelien, via Naked Capitalism 04-27-2024] Gaza / Palestine / Israel Naked Capitalism Links 04-21-2024, by Lambert Strether, has a series of X-tweets regarding the suppression of pro-Palestinian protests in USA, France, and other countries, the attempt to label protestors as anti-Semitic, and […]