YouTube is literally chockablock full with nutcases who propound crazy stuff about anything from guinea pigs to Putin.
It's also a major source of wilful misinformation.
This is a music group, we don't need the above.
We haven't heard much about the state of Putin's mind, apart from loose talk about him being "mad" whatever that means. We have comments from Macron that he seems to have changed recently and become more isolated from dialogue. We have had talk of himtrying to emulate Peter the Great and his expansionistic outlook. He himself has stated he regards Ukraine as part of Russia. So my interpretation is that he has become a man in the grip of an obsession, or "idée fixe" - a preoccupation of mind firmly
Examples of an idée fixe would be Don Quixote and Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle writes in The return of Sherlock Holmescapable of any fantastic outrage".
"There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idée fixe', which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man might form such an idée fixe... and under its influence be
Even the West has experienced this relatively recently. George Bush's counter-terrorism chief Richard A Clarke said of him:s obsession with imposing a neo-Roman political culture on Europe.
"Iraq was portrayed as the most dangerous thing in national security. It was an idée fixe, a rigid belief, received wisdom, a decision already made and one that no fact or event could derail". More sinister forms were Hitler's obsessions and Napoleon'
Political leaders in the grip of an idée fixe do not last - they are deposed or defeated in war. I'm guessing that Putin doesn't have too long to go as the leader of Russia. I'd probably give him to the end of the year. I don't see his idée fixeleaving him. It is the people around him that will start leaving him. Those in the grip of an idée fixe should be aware of The First Law of Holes. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
We haven't heard much about the state of Putin's mind, apart from loose talk about him being "mad" whatever that means. We have comments from Macron that he seems to have changed recently and become more isolated from dialogue. We have had talk of himtrying to emulate Peter the Great and his expansionistic outlook. He himself has stated he regards Ukraine as part of Russia. So my interpretation is that he has become a man in the grip of an obsession, or "idée fixe" - a preoccupation of mind firmly
Examples of an idée fixe would be Don Quixote and Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle writes in The return of Sherlock Holmescapable of any fantastic outrage".
"There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idée fixe', which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man might form such an idée fixe... and under its influence be
Even the West has experienced this relatively recently. George Bush's counter-terrorism chief Richard A Clarke said of him:s obsession with imposing a neo-Roman political culture on Europe.
"Iraq was portrayed as the most dangerous thing in national security. It was an idée fixe, a rigid belief, received wisdom, a decision already made and one that no fact or event could derail". More sinister forms were Hitler's obsessions and Napoleon'
Political leaders in the grip of an idée fixe do not last - they are deposed or defeated in war. I'm guessing that Putin doesn't have too long to go as the leader of Russia. I'd probably give him to the end of the year. I don't see his idée fixeleaving him. It is the people around him that will start leaving him. Those in the grip of an idée fixe should be aware of The First Law of Holes. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Is the collapse of Russia imminent?:
On Sunday, 5 March 2023 at 02:34:21 UTC, gggg gggg wrote:dependencies in countries that need it.
Is the collapse of Russia imminent?:
Far from it. Putin is still more popular internally than many Western leaders. And he has been consolidating his position with China, India, South Africa and a growing number of countries, because to start with Russia has oil and has created several
On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 6:40:51 AM UTC-8, Frank Berger wrote:
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted the eventual fall of
communism as early as 1922 (the prediction, not the fall), based in
what he saw as the inevitable failure of central planning.
If one waits long enough almost all predictions eventually come true.
Did Mises also predict WWII? That could have been more valuable.
My Audi's engine will certainly fail in the next hundred years.
dk
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted the eventual fall of
communism as early as 1922 (the prediction, not the fall), based in
what he saw as the inevitable failure of central planning.
On 3/5/2023 4:33 PM, Dan Koren wrote:
On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 6:40:51 AM UTC-8, Frank Berger wrote:
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted the eventual fall of
communism as early as 1922 (the prediction, not the fall), based in
what he saw as the inevitable failure of central planning.
If one waits long enough almost all predictions eventually come true.
Did Mises also predict WWII? That could have been more valuable.
My Audi's engine will certainly fail in the next hundred years.
The point was the reason for the prediction. I don't know if von
Mises would have been surprised that the Soviet Union lasted
as long as it did.
Can you predict the cause of your engine's failure?
On Sunday, 5 March 2023 at 02:34:21 UTC, gggg gggg wrote:dependencies in countries that need it.
Is the collapse of Russia imminent?:
Far from it. Putin is still more popular internally than many Western leaders. And he has been consolidating his position with China, India, South Africa and a growing number of countries, because to start with Russia has oil and has created several
Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.....
Why don't you contribute something original from time to time? I can assure you it can be done.
Good one.
On Monday, 6 March 2023 at 14:34:01 UTC, Frank Berger wrote:
Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.....
Why don't you contribute something original from time to time? I can assure you it can be done.
I recently discovered Julius Zabreski's piano quintet (his only work not for duo or solo piano?).
On Monday, 6 March 2023 at 14:34:01 UTC, Frank Berger wrote:
Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.....
Why don't you contribute something original from time to time? I can assure you it can be done.
We haven't heard much about the state of Putin's mind, apart from loose talk about him being "mad" whatever that means. We have comments from Macron that he seems to have changed recently and become more isolated from dialogue. We have had talk of himtrying to emulate Peter the Great and his expansionistic outlook. He himself has stated he regards Ukraine as part of Russia. So my interpretation is that he has become a man in the grip of an obsession, or "idée fixe" - a preoccupation of mind firmly
Examples of an idée fixe would be Don Quixote and Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle writes in The return of Sherlock Holmescapable of any fantastic outrage".
"There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idée fixe', which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man might form such an idée fixe... and under its influence be
Even the West has experienced this relatively recently. George Bush's counter-terrorism chief Richard A Clarke said of him:s obsession with imposing a neo-Roman political culture on Europe.
"Iraq was portrayed as the most dangerous thing in national security. It was an idée fixe, a rigid belief, received wisdom, a decision already made and one that no fact or event could derail". More sinister forms were Hitler's obsessions and Napoleon'
Political leaders in the grip of an idée fixe do not last - they are deposed or defeated in war. I'm guessing that Putin doesn't have too long to go as the leader of Russia. I'd probably give him to the end of the year. I don't see his idée fixeleaving him. It is the people around him that will start leaving him. Those in the grip of an idée fixe should be aware of The First Law of Holes. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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