EN — LARRY ROMANOFF: Debunking Elon Musk – Part 10 — Hyperloop and The Boring Company

 

Debunking Elon Musk – Part 10

Hyperloop and The Boring Company

 By Larry Romanoff

WATERLOO, ON – FEB. 17:Elon Musk speaks at the Hyperloop pod competition on January 29, 2017. To accelerate the development of a functional Hyperloop prototype, a high speed transportation system that Musk proposed in 2013, SpaceX staged a student pod competition. Source

 

 

 

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion -- Part 11 - Democracy to Fascism

 

Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion

Part 11 - Democracy to Fascism

By Larry Romanoff, November 16, 2022

 

 

 

Fascism is a political ideology fundamentally authoritarian in character, with a strong nationalism and an essentially belligerent militaristic outlook. Fascism carries primarily a corporate perspective as opposed to a socialist view, directed to satisfying the needs, values and objectives of finance and corporations, organising both the economy and the political system according to this agenda. A fascist government actively suppresses any objection to its ideology and will crush any movement which opposes it. In keeping with their belligerent nature, fascist governments generally view violence and war as stimulants to national spirit and vitality. Being politically Right-Wing, they maintain their position through firm control or compliance of the media, and most often engage in a vast array of lies and deception. These governments tend to be bigoted, if not racist, invariably require "enemies" to achieve public solidarity, and are often supremacist or at least 'exceptional' in their self-assessment. They either believe, or pretend to believe, that they have a license on truth. Large military budgets, the creation and demonisation of fictitious enemies to propagate fear and maintain population control, are all typical characteristics of a fascist regime, as is massive public surveillance.

 

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion -- Part 10 - The Chimera of Democracy

 

Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion

Part 10 - The Chimera of Democracy

By Larry Romanoff, November 13, 2022

 

 

Americans often fervently and unquestioningly attribute a kind of divine origin for their treasured democracy with claims that it originated centuries ago in Greece, promoted by some of the world's greatest thinkers like Plato and Socrates, and is the natural and permanent state of man. But once again the Americans are simply displaying their ignorance, with sound bytes taken out of context and substituted for knowledge. There is no evidence whatever that multi-party anything is natural, and even less evidence that it's permanent, and belief in a nonsense does not make it true. A form of representative government did indeed appear in ancient Greece, but it was entirely bereft of the cloak of reverence with which Americans have since clothed it. Here is Socrates' judgment of democracy, as reported by Plato in his 'Republic':