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Pro Forma Orthodoxy

Revisado: 12-20-22

No mention of US dropping Atom Bomb on Japan as a shocking act of diplomacy. No Iran Contra. No objective discussion of Gulf war motivation and outcomes. Sad, manipulative, incompetent and incomplete. Ass kissing feel good BS.

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Top shelf Russian agitprop with some hard facts

Revisado: 07-16-21

Yes the Soviets sustained the most damage did most of the heavy lifting and won WW2. Yes American weapons procurement is corrupt, incompetent iand outmoded, incredibly expensive pork barrel riddled with vulnerabilities. Yes, carrier strike groups are juicy explosive targets. And yes war sucks. Perhaps hidden in the waste there are secret and effective weapon systems and unadvertised capabilities that might win wars. Pain, destruction, suffering and mass murder are the price nations pay to test their strengths and vulnerabilities. Weakness invites attack, but over confidence invites self destruction. Nation states and standing armies are the enemies of humanity. Death and taxes, oppression, deception and aggression and destruction and death. Consider Syria. Stupid people make war and believe in victory where in reality everyone loses. The United States and Russia are both criminally negligent in wasting human potential to counterproductivily despoil and abuse their own nations and many others in the preparations for war and in active conflict. Pride in death and destruction is foolish. Real international strength lies in peace, progress and prosperity. Russian and American warlords lie, corrupt, poison and despoil the planet. Americans, Russians and Chinese need to work together for peaceful development and freedom. Their citizens are hostages in a vast epic history of cruelty, exploitation and war. Humanity loses everytime the great powers prepare for and make war. Russia can take a punch and punch back hard. It's is sad that humanity continues to behave like school yard bullies with WMDs. We are still as ignorant as ants.

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Highly entertaining avalanche of lies

Revisado: 03-26-21

Mass murder, racisism and imperialist exploitation sugar coated and decorously obscured for popular consumption. Jolly good show. Pax Britannia? Savor mass murder as embodied by lopsided body counts. Terrifying and terrible imperial terrorism glossed over. A fascinating teeth bearing saber rattling celebration of centuries of racist state terror, murder, torture and oppression. Any well informed person can see through the author's stunning compendium of deadly lies. If you enjoy stunning narcissism and nativism this book will stroke your ego. A pleasant and enjoyable feel good discription par excellence of banality and stupifying evil couched in varnished and burnished bald faced manipulative lies. Nice. Enjoy!

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Conservative bent Royals prioritized

Revisado: 03-11-21

Nevertheless entertaining. All the gritty and dirty malfeasance and mechanics of conquest and racist, classist empire building and maintenance swept under the rug. Jolly good if sanitized show

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Sad idiot

Revisado: 02-28-21

Two good and true ideas utterly slain to evil purpose. Profoundly stupid. Yes men and women and different nationalities are different--but literally every other word and idea expressed in this sad book is proto fascist hate. I feel soiled and nauseated after listening to this driveling idiot.

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Bizzare but creative fun. Wordsmiths on acid.

Revisado: 02-12-21

Wild unfettered poetic insanity.
Humans are crazy and human philosophy and ideology is only even crazier if that is possible. The great thinkers of the 20th Century were as uninformed and dangerous to reason as those from any medieval epoch. Highly entertaining. Completely off the wall. A great listen. No wonder revolution, warfare, oppression, depravity and ecological degradation and it's all it's accompanying murderous apologetic and rethorical pseudojustifacations reigned supreme for that sorry Century! May we naively wish for a better 21th Century. So far it's seems to be just as disappointing...

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Militant Racism

Revisado: 02-11-21

We would not have to worry about WWIII any more if men with beliefs like this author infected our morals and ran our country we'd be fighting WWIV with sticks and stones.

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Partisan polemtics trump's useful analysis

Revisado: 02-04-21

Great idea for a book. Very poorly executed. I am glad the author has opinions and an axe to grind. I want to learn from him and understand his viewpoints, but the author allows his bias to subvert the reasoned expression of his ideas. This book and the author turned an interesting subject in to a silly, feel good fairytale devoid of any real substance. While he succeeds in discirbing a few of the always evolving concepts and ideas of the dismal science, he creates nothing valuable or new, and merely slathers on superficial praise of conservative ideas. The book is intellectually dishonest and contains no useful new ideas. It doesn't improve understanding of any of the old obsolete ideas that it unconvincingly attempts to structure into it's incomplete rather silly and obsolete arguments for it's conservative agenda. I sincerely believe the author may believe that he means well, but if he got a real job and worked as a carpenter or a short order cook, he would not only understand the world better but in the light of this intellectual improvement due to real hands on work, and chastened by it's renumeration, he might perceive the limitations of his comfortable but poisonous bias. He doesn't understand freedom, oppression or opportunity. His economics is intellectually impoverished, unoriginal, distorted, blind, rootless functionally obsolete orthodoxy...a child's fairytale. With unimaginative practitioners like this no wonder economics is such a dismal science. Truly people are in chains everywhere weighted down with bad unbalanced and oppressive ideas such as those expressed in this divisive one sided book. The author fails to understand that the creative economic and political geniuses Smith, Marx, Keynes and Friedman all fail to deliver any complete or correct explanation of human political and economic systems. While this failure is manifest, each makes good points and bad points, but there are many useful ideas available to improve society. lnstead of a dishonest and bias approach designed to advocate for one perspective, a more useful description of each economic and political theory's strong points would have made this book more successful and useful. A hybrid political and economic system that utilizes the strengths of each political theory in the context of a free and informed, peaceful, positive goal orientated democracy will produce better results than slavish devotion to an single school of thought. Freedom, education, wealth, work and productive leisure, in short, sustainable and proliferating meaningful development of peacefully unified but creatively diverse human society is an obtainable goal, but Adam Smith's invisible hand and supply side economics can only be part of the economic and political tools employed to this end. Run amuck the invisible hand and supply side economics can and will wipe out most species on the planet out of existence while enriching a few and ultimately impoverish us all.

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Shocking murderous war criminals

Revisado: 10-29-20

Great story. Well told. Incomprehensible evil. To use the bomb as they did. Forever shame.

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Smart honest science writing very well narrated.

Revisado: 07-07-20

Well crafted interesting and entertaining Hossenfelder does a remarkably good job of dispassionately outlining some of the cracks in the foundations of some of the popular threads in modern physical theory. While providing a great service to the physics community with the discussion of cognitive bias.
Math is a tool for accurately describing data and making predictions about the outcomes of experiments. When well formulated it can point to new discoveries but math is not science. Nature and physical processes ultimately determines the applicability of human invented mathematics, Hossenfelder seems to understand this unlike many of the math wielding secular metaphysicists which today dominate the space of ideas in quantum foundations.

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