In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that, serious as Wuhan virus is, it’s teaching us a lot about preparing for something even worse.
“Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answer. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: ‘Lieben und arbeiten’ (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.”
Erik H. Erikson, quoted in Brian Lee Crowley Fearful Symmetry
“A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.”
Cyril Connolly, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2009
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Canadian government’s reflexive habit of concealing any information they might or might not possess is especially unhelpful on COVID-19.
In my latest National Post column I ask what the point is of trying to build a Conservative Frankenstein’s Monster with blue brain, red heart and green hair, brought to life by a jolt from a polling machine, when conservatism is the reality-based philosophy that believes in coherent rules.