Felix Mackenzie
94 posts














Social and capital networks that are gatekept by IQ with puzzles that you complete on your phone + closed loop biochem sensing of emotional control. Enough of this equality nonsense. No one actually has a problem with wealth, only the rampant participation trophy wealthy.


Steve Jobs lost something like $80 million before Pixar turned a profit, and he purchased Pixar in the aftermath of George Lucas's divorce. Every part of the talent pipeline is broken. RW billionaires don't know what they're doing and RW artists are untrained.



curveball: the Arts Council (@ace_national) is hiring a new Chair + I'd love to see someone bringing @ARIA_research-style thinking to arts funding so many artists drowning in paperwork chasing sub-scale grants could fix with high-conviction PDs, fast/big grants + org. velocity



To win WW2, the British Empire liquidated its entire gold reserves, those who understand know what that means, it essentially means you are mortgaging your entire nation and empire. This, in the long term lost Britain its empire, bankrupted its people and led to the only recourse being a post-war loan from the USA to just continue existence which was only paid off in 2006. We had to take out the loan because in 1945, we needed Lend-Lease just to get food, after VE-Day, the Americans (unexpectedly) stopped lend-lease, even though we needed it to eat, thus necessitating the enormous bank loans, we entered 1946, being THE most indebted nation in the entire modern history of mankind. This was, essentially "what it took" to win WW2, an immense warscape which demanded TOTAL WAR to win, a concept even Germany did not realise until 1944. The entire apparatus of the state had to be employed, Britain, literally sacrificed itself to defeat Hitler. I hope this may help explain why the FINAL ACT of war preparation could only be entered upon when it was clear that there was NO possible alternative, at the time you speak of, no such certainty existed. It was not until about 1934 that we committed to the potentiality of this level of utter sacrifice, Chamberlain carried out phase 1, which was a managable re-armament which could be reversible, i.e. could be carried out withot the utter destruction of the entire empire and state gold reserves, he also carried out, aspects of Phase 2, requiring that those with gold assets register them with the state. Afterwards, Churchill carried out phase 2, the required dissolution of the entire Gold assets of the British Empire. This was THE largest single asset movement in the entire known history of mankind. War, once it reached this technogical level, was no thing to be taken flippantly.












