Guy See

Watch Free to Choose. The whole thing.

In 1957, Carl Jung wrote: "Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas." Jung believed only a small “mentally stable” portion of the population keeps things together. His estimate was that only ~40% are psychologically grounded. The rest are one bad day away from breakdown. The point he was making is that most people are not rational. Their emotions possess them and when the pressure gets high enough: - Logic stops working. - Slogans take over. - Fantasy replaces reality. That’s when societies starts feeling like its upside down. Jung called it a “psychic epidemic.” A kind of mass psychological contagion. He estimated that for every crazy person you see, there are ten more that are able to mask their perversity just enough to fit in to society. While they may not break out openly, their "views and behaviour, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors." In that state, irrational people rise to the top, extreme ideas are normalized, and emotion overrides truth. "Their mental state is that of a collectively excited group ruled by affective judgments and wish-fantasies." Their delusional ideas, which hide their fanatical resentment, appeal to the irrational, "for they express all those motives and resentments which lurk in more normal people." "They are, therefore, despite their small number in comparison with the population as a whole, dangerous as sources of infection."

Mac Donald: "It is not an accident, it is not misogyny... that males brought us the Scientific Revolution—circumnavigated the globe, spent centuries tinkering... fascinated by how the world works and determined to conquer it with a Promethean spirit."

Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

More examples of why today’s NBA is unwatchable. #NBA

This is like if someone in the year 4000 cited the Jane Austen fan fiction I wrote last Tuesday in which Elizabeth Bennet leaves Mr Darcy at the altar for a Thai lesbian but conceded that this story was left out of the canonical edition of Pride and Prejudice.

This is awesome to see. Biblical hermeneutics on Capitol Hill. This woman "pastor" is left stuttering and doesn't know the Bible—shocking, I know.

SCOTUS got it right, in my view. Three points: 1) Justice Gorsuch’s exchange in oral arguments was so key to me. He asked if a future POTUS could use this precedent to unilaterally declare a “climate emergency” and impose policies he or she wanted as a result. The admin’s lawyer said probably yes. NO THANK YOU! 🚩 2) SCOTUS isn’t so much slapping down Trump as it is *once again* telling Congress to do its job. If we want to use tariffs this way (separate debate, I’m skeptical), we can pass laws constitutionally. Way too much reliance on the executive and judicial branches to do things they won’t/can’t do with the authority they actually have. 1) This ruling deals another blow to the Left’s cynical and dangerous delegitimization campaign against SCOTUS. They push destructive schemes like court packing because they are annoyed that they don’t get all the outcomes they want from the current Court. They lie and pretend this Court just prostrates itself in front of Trump and bends to his will. Not so, including on this big one.

From Gorsuch concurrence.

Hey @ATT twenty minutes to be on hold just to activate a suspended line is ridiculous. Why won’t you let me do it online?

Measured properly, poverty in the United States has virtually disappeared.

@afshineemrani @BillAckman So you’re saying it’s 1973 all over again.

My predictions for what will happen: 1) Youthquake: the rebellion that powers the Left Mamdani’s win lights a fire under voters under 35. Social feeds overflow with clips about rent, wages, and “the people vs. the billionaires.” It works—at least for a while. Think Corbyn in the UK: a fast rise, a faster crash. 2) Trump’s counter-attack: the money siege Trump calls New York “the socialist showcase” and cuts federal aid wherever possible. Red-state governors copy the move, turning funding into a weapon. Expect the phrase “no bailout for blue cities” to go viral. 3) The great taxpayer exit The top 1 percent—who pay roughly 40 percent of NYC taxes—start hedging or leaving. Money migrates south to Florida and Texas. Within months, budgets wobble, credit spreads widen, and reality replaces rhetoric. 4) The streets erupt When promises hit the wall of arithmetic, anger replaces hope. Tenant groups, unions, and activists flood the streets, blaming one another. New York becomes the protest capital of the West—London-style demonstrations on steroids. 5) The building freeze Projects stall as investors pull back. The skyline cranes don’t vanish overnight—but progress slows, and cost overruns explode. “Big plans, no money” becomes late-night punchline material. 6) The charisma crash For a while, Mamdani’s energy and media savvy make him untouchable. Then reality bites: revenue falls, expectations soar. By summer, even loyal fans will become “disillusioned.” 7) The AOC–Mamdani 2028 flirtation Progressives dream of a national ticket. It thrills activists and splits the party. Moderates see a movement that can’t count; conservatives see the perfect foil. 8) Midterm mayhem The House goes down to the wire - most likely, the GOP will lose; the Senate will remain in Republican hands. Every GOP ad runs the same line: “Do you want your city to look like New York?” Democrats cling to cultural wins; the Right reclaims the economic narrative. 9) The misinformation tsunami Social media turns the election into theater. Memes and “rigged vote” claims drown out policy. Faith in institutions drops another few points—and nobody knows how to rebuild it. 10) The slow-motion bleed No collapse, just steady decline. Debt rises, entrepreneurs flee, rules multiply. New York stays iconic but stagnant—a global warning that even great cities can be strangled by over-promising and over-regulating

Some have been surprised by my conciliatory post to Mamdani. Mamdani won a decisive election. He is going to be our mayor for the next four years. I care enormously about New York City which has been very good to me and my family since we emigrated to NYC in the 1890s. (And for the record I have been a NYC resident since 1988 despite Sliwa’s statement to the contrary. I was born in NYC and grew up in Chappaqua and returned to NYC when I graduated from college.) While I did not support Mamdani for mayor and have concerns about the unintended and negative consequences of his policies, I want to do everything I can to help NYC regardless of who are mayor is.

@brianhadad @MSUSpaceCowboys Great spot Brian. The Aerospace Dept at State is doing great things.

Don't forget aerospace engineering with the @MSUSpaceCowboys.

For those conservatives tweeting out McConnell’s fall today and mocking him - I’ve got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last 4 years I’ll give you grace because you don’t know what the rest of us do.

The @bariweiss story is instructive: The writer left the @nytimes out of principle. She didn’t slink out, she left with a bang. She then started @TheFP, which succeeded because of diversity of thought and journalistic integrity. All of her risks have been rewarded not only financially but with recognition of her excellence. Don’t be afraid to be great. #BeBraveDoGood

Communism always ends up in violence and oppression. Here's why:

Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker. Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook. ‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’ The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.