MicroGroks
“So the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent and omniscient, is the same as the lesson of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom we must bow down.”
Reformatted just a bit as our current writing customs want shorter sentences: Had they [ancient Roman legal theorists] studied the facts of consciousness, and learned that conduct was necessarily exhibited in the form of habit and custom. They would have seen that the origin of law rested in a self-governing principle of society (i.e., Customs …
Notable Quote – When you get down to the root of the matter, Custom reigns supreme Read More »
The vast disparity in knowledge and understanding between intellectuals and the population at large assumed by the intelligentsia is crucial to the vision of the anointed, whether in discussions of law, economics, race, war or innumerable other issues. But, if the knowledge that is consequential includes a range of mundane information too vast to be …
Notable Quote – Another Buttress for the Great Mind Fallacy Read More »
“Our default assumption should instead be that people who make choices different from what we make or would have made must have their reasons, even if we do not know what they are.” …
There’s a lot in that short sentence to unpack. I am perfectly fine in stating that I can generally govern myself properly but who amongst us can say we can do so ALL the time and do it well?
Empirical evidence has likewise seldom been mentioned by those who make a common claim, advanced by [Nicholas] Kristof among many others, that “Slavery and post-slavery oppression left a legacy of broken families” among blacks. But the plain fact is that the proportion of black children living with only one parent was never as great during …
Take Jan Schmidt, David Meuse, Deb Stevens, and Debra Altschiller for examples:
One of the Pillars of our American Constitutional Republic is that of the Right of Private Property. What is mine, IS mine – and not yours. Nor is it yours to take or to lay claim to it in any way.
Emphasis mine: “The belief that processes which are consciously directed are necessarily superior to any spontaneous process is an unfounded superstition.”
Price Point – not only is it a signal of relative value in which the producer thinks what an offer is worth but also signals back to the producer what the consumer thinks about it (too high, or too low).
