Here is another quote. Credit to the real author. “The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain an idea without feeling the need to embrace it.” Thanks Jay for all you do! 🙏🏽
Another great Essay, Jay. Thank you for continuing to deliver value and expanding our perspectives. I can honestly say that I do not always have the time or reserve the time to do these types of deep dives, even though I truly enjoy them. You deliver avenues of curiosity that I didn't know were there. Thanks again.
you are way off on this one. Almost seem to be justifying what the Chinese are doing today based on what the British did over 100 years ago. While still a way to go the West has advanced with human rights and morality, the Chinese goverment has if anything gotten worse.
Hi Jay. Your show is useful largely because you find people of different perspectives on important matters, even when they are emotionally charged. I've noticed an issue where you don't do this, though.
Please read more before inconsistently demonizing psychotropes. They're like alcohol: people can abuse them or use them productively. Your comments always presupose a cultural myth of psychoactive agents as having uniform, enslaving, & negative effects. Plenty of people take amphetamine and methylphenidate in a temperate way that improves their quality of life through the licit market, in contrast to your analogy involving the illicit cocaine market. The difference between the two is social, political, economic, but not chemical.
You would be hard-pressed to find fatal overdoses on smoked opium in the historical record.. The Prohibitionist policies whose legitimacy is commonly taken for granted have resulted in progressively more potent opioids which, when sold in a black market without quality controls, can easily lead to fatal overdoses. Even heroin usually had to be combined with somethimg else to precipitste fatal respiratory depression. Fentanyl is very cost effective, but more dangerous.
I don't think you want deaths and degradation of society; please consider whether you might be unwittingly parroting a narrative that actually fuels what it purports to combat.
I never denied that that sort of addiction was societally damaging & should be addressed; ai was saying Prohibition - and for that matter laissez faire aggressive overselling - is not a way to fix a psychosocial ill. And my 2nd closest friend died from a fentanyl overdose.Having seen addicts doesn't automatically qualify your opinion as accurate.
I really enjoyed your guest today, learned quite a bit as well.
I do disagree with one of his comments though.
I was in China for awhile back in 1991. Met a man at my hotel who worked for the Motorola Corporation, one of the first to develop a business relationship with the Chinese. He told me that if Motorola wanted the relationship to continue they were being coerced iby the Chinese into providing much more technology that was originally agreed upon and that they were comfortable sharing.
I believe that even though the Chinese have done an amazing job of turning their economy around in short order, they believe that copyright and patent laws in the West, as well as rules regarding intellectual property do not apply to them.
In my mind I will always believe that part of the expedient rise of their economy was from technology theft.
I believe recent history matters most, regardless of history longevity. The UK comes to mind. Once, the sun never set on the British Empire. Britannia ruled the sea; the British Navy was feared. The British Pound was the world reserve currency. Yet they lost all of this in a very short time. Even Argentina felt confident taking them on militarily. All their past history did not prepare them for this. Now they are a small bit player on a large international playing field.
So it is with America. In World War II, we produced massive amounts of war material to fight both Japan and Germany at the same time. Liberty ships were rolling down the ways daily. We produced aircraft carriers, jeep carriers and many battleships. Aircraft of all types were produced in the thousands and ten thousands. Even if military hardware didn't change, we could not today produce even 5% of what we produced then. We sold our manufacturing birthright to the lowest bidder in accordance with the Free Trade gurus and will suffer the consequences long into the future.
It is not that either of these countries could not be salvaged, but it takes sacrifice, vision, and determination over the long-term, which is a lot to ask. I know of no society who has sunk this low which has ever returned to so much as half the glory as before. I feel certain America is not going to reach any thousand years. We will be lucky to make it another 100 years.
What an expansive and thoughtful podcast. Thank you.
Here is another quote. Credit to the real author. “The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain an idea without feeling the need to embrace it.” Thanks Jay for all you do! 🙏🏽
Great article and information
History always repeats itself so why are the majority of people Ignoring it?
The Left are definitely shutting down all references to the past
Thanks
Another great Essay, Jay. Thank you for continuing to deliver value and expanding our perspectives. I can honestly say that I do not always have the time or reserve the time to do these types of deep dives, even though I truly enjoy them. You deliver avenues of curiosity that I didn't know were there. Thanks again.
you are way off on this one. Almost seem to be justifying what the Chinese are doing today based on what the British did over 100 years ago. While still a way to go the West has advanced with human rights and morality, the Chinese goverment has if anything gotten worse.
Hi Jay. Your show is useful largely because you find people of different perspectives on important matters, even when they are emotionally charged. I've noticed an issue where you don't do this, though.
https://reason.com/2004/08/01/dr-feelscared-2/
https://reason.com/2024/08/17/blaming-dealers-for-drug-deaths-misses-another-culprit/
https://reason.com/2024/08/08/a-study-of-problematic-opioid-use-among-pain-patients-is-less-alarming-than-it-seems/
Please read more before inconsistently demonizing psychotropes. They're like alcohol: people can abuse them or use them productively. Your comments always presupose a cultural myth of psychoactive agents as having uniform, enslaving, & negative effects. Plenty of people take amphetamine and methylphenidate in a temperate way that improves their quality of life through the licit market, in contrast to your analogy involving the illicit cocaine market. The difference between the two is social, political, economic, but not chemical.
You would be hard-pressed to find fatal overdoses on smoked opium in the historical record.. The Prohibitionist policies whose legitimacy is commonly taken for granted have resulted in progressively more potent opioids which, when sold in a black market without quality controls, can easily lead to fatal overdoses. Even heroin usually had to be combined with somethimg else to precipitste fatal respiratory depression. Fentanyl is very cost effective, but more dangerous.
I don't think you want deaths and degradation of society; please consider whether you might be unwittingly parroting a narrative that actually fuels what it purports to combat.
Missed the point. Having watched opioid addiction from close-up, I can say that nonfatal addiction is much for devastating for a society
I never denied that that sort of addiction was societally damaging & should be addressed; ai was saying Prohibition - and for that matter laissez faire aggressive overselling - is not a way to fix a psychosocial ill. And my 2nd closest friend died from a fentanyl overdose.Having seen addicts doesn't automatically qualify your opinion as accurate.
One might argue the cartel are already doing this lol
Hi Jay,
Always enjoy your open minded posts.
I really enjoyed your guest today, learned quite a bit as well.
I do disagree with one of his comments though.
I was in China for awhile back in 1991. Met a man at my hotel who worked for the Motorola Corporation, one of the first to develop a business relationship with the Chinese. He told me that if Motorola wanted the relationship to continue they were being coerced iby the Chinese into providing much more technology that was originally agreed upon and that they were comfortable sharing.
I believe that even though the Chinese have done an amazing job of turning their economy around in short order, they believe that copyright and patent laws in the West, as well as rules regarding intellectual property do not apply to them.
In my mind I will always believe that part of the expedient rise of their economy was from technology theft.
Cheers
Tom
I believe recent history matters most, regardless of history longevity. The UK comes to mind. Once, the sun never set on the British Empire. Britannia ruled the sea; the British Navy was feared. The British Pound was the world reserve currency. Yet they lost all of this in a very short time. Even Argentina felt confident taking them on militarily. All their past history did not prepare them for this. Now they are a small bit player on a large international playing field.
So it is with America. In World War II, we produced massive amounts of war material to fight both Japan and Germany at the same time. Liberty ships were rolling down the ways daily. We produced aircraft carriers, jeep carriers and many battleships. Aircraft of all types were produced in the thousands and ten thousands. Even if military hardware didn't change, we could not today produce even 5% of what we produced then. We sold our manufacturing birthright to the lowest bidder in accordance with the Free Trade gurus and will suffer the consequences long into the future.
It is not that either of these countries could not be salvaged, but it takes sacrifice, vision, and determination over the long-term, which is a lot to ask. I know of no society who has sunk this low which has ever returned to so much as half the glory as before. I feel certain America is not going to reach any thousand years. We will be lucky to make it another 100 years.
As always, thanks, Jay. Appreciate your posts.
Didn't know all these bites about China living in Singapore. Thanks for telling me about it.