Holy Crap - The Revolution is about to start

[Gospel]

No way? What are you even talking about? Russia today is way more capitalist than it was in the Soviet Union era! The U.S. could have played a huge role in shaping that, but they completely missed the mark by trying to do too much at once while at the same time treating Russia like it could never be part of the team.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I'll say it again, intelligence is not what you know, it's what you do with what you know.

I thik that is more like wisdom. And one can be intelligent without being wise.

Yup. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in fruit salad.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Here is an anlysis of Hitler, who by some estimates may have had an IQ as high as 150, by some of his top stooges who themselves had above-average IQs. I should hedge that by saying I don’t put too much stock in IQ tests. Still, the testimony of these and many others paint HItler as a very intelligent man with a powerful personality who committed horrific crimes and led his nation to total disaster. Intelligence and character are not the same thing. Of course one could simply define someone who commits terrible crimes and does stuff that ends disastrously as unintelligent, but I think the reasoning there is circular.

Note, also, that high intelligence, low morality people are prone to failing badly on the big stage.

Earlier in life they are above their peers and can play them pretty well. Once the stage gets big enough they're facing others of their level, or coordinated activities of those somewhat below their level and can no longer actually get away with playing them--but they don't realize this.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No way? What are you even talking about? Russia today is way more capitalist than it was in the Soviet Union era! The U.S. could have played a huge role in shaping that, but they completely missed the mark by trying to do too much at once while at the same time treating Russia like it could never be part of the team.

They abandoned communism, but went kleptocracy, not democracy. What we saw was just a step in the looting.

 

[pood]

No way? What are you even talking about? Russia today is way more capitalist than it was in the Soviet Union era! The U.S. could have played a huge role in shaping that, but they completely missed the mark by trying to do too much at once while at the same time treating Russia like it could never be part of the team.

They abandoned communism, but went kleptocracy, not democracy. What we saw was just a step in the looting.

Of course, Communism is just another kleptocracy.