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Saturday, November 24. 2007

Saturday Morning Links

NPR explains why Bush is Hitler. Moonbattery

What is a "cargo cult"? h/t, BL

More on how they think of us. Dissident Frogman

Secular Shakers. As long as these Gaia-worshippers, with a doctrine approximating child-sacrifice, keep this up, they may mercifully remove their genes from the gene pool.

An insider's look at the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound. h/t, Growabrain

Patri Friedman in a comment to his own post:

Lafayette - Democracy everywhere is a farce, in the sense that an individual voter's actions do not matter, and the system as a whole produces many decisions which are detrimental to almost all of its constituents. See the field of economics called "Public Choice Theory" (wikipedia) for a more detailed explanation.

He's a thoughtful guy with all sorts of interests. Going to our Blogroll so we don't forget to keep up with him.

If you have been away from the blog for a few day as I have, you might have missed The Barrister's heart-warming Thanksgiving reminiscences. Also worth a look - my link on Weds to The Feminization of Churches/

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Cargo cult--religious group--and this can be a secular religious group!-- that manifests politically as a movement to vote in a government that they think will deliver the most cargo--goods and services-- to themselves paid for by others outside the group.
#1 bob on 2007-11-24 07:06 (Reply)
The "Wall of Sound" was incredible. I could still hear at the time, which of course, such ability declined rapidly after experiencing the sound emanating from that system. Memory says it was the clearest amplified sound ever heard by me. Every note of every instrument...

Some technical details here:

http://dozin.com/wallofsound/index.html
#2 Luther McLeod on 2007-11-24 11:47 (Reply)
A 'cargo cult's' members worship the deliverer of goods without regard to the process of producing the goods. The goods themselves are thought to appear miraculously as a sign from the gods. The economic processes needed to actually produce are too complicated for the cultists to imagine since they have little experience in innovation or competitive markets. Today, a cargo cultist would probably have a zero sum view of economics. Like say, a Hillary Clinton or most ivory tower types, modern cargo cultists have never met a payroll and continue to be mystified by basic economics.
#3 Tom C. on 2007-11-24 12:12 (Reply)

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