In my latest Mercatornet column I say the U.S. midterms show once again the fatuity of seeking salvation through elections.
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in J.W. Marriott Jr. and Kathi Ann Brown, The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the arrogance behind the Prime Minister’s sneering refusal to admit he’s the one who stayed in that $6k/night London hotel suite is a major problem in Canadian public affairs.
“One of the most popular supposed short cuts is imagining that we can make our decisions easier by bypassing value judgments and assigning numbers to everything. Call this the numerical fallacy, or the fallacy of false precision. I’m not saying that it’s never useful to count things.... if a lot of people are out of work, I want some idea of how many, and if prices are going up, I want some idea of how much. The problem is that we rely on numbers too much, too carelessly, for too many things, and we trust them far more than we should. Excessive trust in numbers is part of the technocratic ideology which supposes that government by experts is not political.... There just isn’t a way of generating measurements that isn’t based on value judgments. The only question is which value judgments it depends on, and how transparently or obscurely it depends on them.... Fortunately, there is an instrument for making judgments: The human mind. And there is a way to calibrate it: Experience, deliberation, debate, and the cultivation of practical wisdom. Sorry, but there aren’t any short cuts.”
J. Budziszewski “Underground Thomist” Dec. 27, 2021 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/the-technocratic-fallacy-of-false-precision].
In my latest Epoch Times column I defend the desire of normal people to protect pleasant neighbourhoods from social engineering cement.
In my latest National Post column I take readers on a guided tour of the dismal wasteland that is Xi Jinping Thought.
“People wishing to get organized at home should follow advice such as the One-Minute Rule, contends The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: That which takes a minute to do (or less) should be done. For instance, hang up your coat, put shoes in the proper place, use the hamper and hang up the bath towels.”
“Social Studies” in Globe &Mail January 27, 2004
In my latest Epoch Times column I challenge BoC governor “Tiff” Macklem to tell us what he thinks causes inflation, the thing it’s his #onejob to prevent and which is currently very unprevented in Canada.