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Martin Hash

Politics & Philosophy by Dr. Martin D. Hash, Esq.

  1. Jul 7

    1541 Propaganda

    People can be easily brainwashed. For example, many have been convinced that an invisible man lives in the sky, or that a changing climate is an existential threat; if it’s said enough times by authority figures with no countervailing message. Even with the presence of a competing idea, one with superior logic & merit, once the indoctrination window is past, there is no changing anyone’s mind. That’s why elections are always so even; no matter what happens to either side, however much good or terrible, it won’t change anything. This is certainly a huge weakness of democracy, possibly a fatal one, and something the propagandists understand; getting their message across during the formative period; for children that would be public school, or adults, that would be their introduction to a new concept. The Left has recognized this basic fact for decades, while the Right remains blindly docile while it happens to their own kids. That’s because the Right believes in live & left live, at least as long as it’s not pushed into their faces. However, the base emotions of envy, resentment, exploitation & narcissism, something the Left is susceptible to, keeps them from simply minding their own business, rather than proselytizing their message to vulnerable listeners, utilizing propaganda to mold & control the public zeitgeist. At first glace, it seems all bad, but there is a difficult conundrum because only brainwashing can suppress people from acting on their base emotions, so it’s not something that can be ignored. The Right must fight propaganda with propaganda.

  2. Jul 1

    1538 Inflation Simple To Fix

    Inflation occurs when consumption exceeds production. The lethal end result of capitalism is wealth concentration. It’s always a problem but it becomes infinitely more so when government creates unlimited amounts of imaginary money because all that new money will likewise concentrate to the same small number of people. Right now, there’s almost 4 times as much money as there are real things to buy. Having more money than there are things causes inflation when ultra wealthy people try to turn their imagination into reality. For example, high housing prices are a direct result of people having so much money they don’t have anything else to do with it, so to get even more imaginary money, they buy assets to run up the value of their portfolio. The simple solution is to not let this happen. Wealth concentration itself should be discouraged, but at the very least, denying a productive member of society their essential needs is a kind of extortion, and has to be stopped. First, don’t allow corporations to hold money but instead pay dividends, then tax the recipients at high progressive tax rates. Make it so that greed is discouraged and altruism is encouraged. This has worked in the past and didn’t get abandoned until the second half of the 20th-century. Also like the past, there needs to be progressive death taxes, but it won’t be easy because the one thing almost everyone agrees on is that they want to create a dynasty for their heirs, causing inflation for the rest of us.

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