Samiel

Happy anniversary zu der lustigsten sache die mir jemals passiert ist

The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.” It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster. He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state. Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews. The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later. It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose. They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt. That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.

La envidia de los intelectuales: «La vanidosa arrogancia de literatos, profesores y artistas, desdeña las actividades de los empresarios, considerándolas como un mero "hacer dinero" carente de intelectualidad. La verdad es que los empresarios y los promotores demuestran mayores facultades intelectuales y más intuición que el teórico, escritor o pintor medios. Su inferioridad intelectual se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no logran reconocer qué capacidad, razonamiento y pasos concretos son necesarios para desarrollar y gestionar con éxito en el mundo real una empresa comercial. El surgimiento de una numerosa clase de este tipo de intelectuales con aires de superioridad es uno de los fenómenos menos deseables de la era del capitalismo moderno.» —Ludwig von Mises, "La mentalidad anticapitalista", 1956.