The Post-Partisan Emporium

  So It Goes, Zuckerberg A Tralfamadorian day at sea Constantin von Hoffmeister In the first days of August 2026, a strange scene unfolded off the coast of Alaska. Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht Launchpad was moving through Farragut Bay when a six-meter Hewescraft ran out of fuel nearby. Two women, a child, and a dog sat helpless in the small boat while the cold grey sea stretched around them. The contrast might have come fromKurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five : one group sealed inside comfort and machinery, another exposed to chance, with both occupying the same moment but almost different worlds. The Coast Guard sent repeated calls for assistance over the emergency frequency. Vessel tracking showed that Launchpad was close to the stranded boat. The yacht slowed near the mouth of the bay, equipped with radar, helicopters, small boats, and every device money could buy. Yet the distance between wealth and need remained greater than the few hundred meters of water between the two boats....

  The United States spends more money   per capita   on healthcare than any other country on Earth –   almost twice as much as Germany and triple Japan . To emphasize, this is the average spending on an individual level, so it’s triple the spending of Japan per person. Source:  Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker And what do Americans get for all that spending? The US is  the fattest  and the sickest in terms of chronic disease rates in the world. Per  Statista , “the CDC estimates that six in ten adults in the United States currently live with a chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.” You probably know someone personally – in all likelihood, multiple people – who suffers from a chronic health condition. Much of that disease burden is due to obesity. “Adult obesity rates have more than doubled since the 1980s — in the U.S. today, obesity affects over 42% of adults and 18% of youth. Obesity and its related complications are majo...

All Government and All Rule Are Always and Inherently Immoral and Evil By: Gary D. Barnett “You are not Christians. You are not Jews. You are not Muslims. And you certainly aren’t atheists. You all have the same god, and its name is ‘government.’ You’re all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul.” ~ Larken Rose,  The Iron Web The Truth About Government Accept and understand that all government is evil. Accept and understand that all who allow and support government are supporting evil. There is no such thing as a good government. There is no such thing as a necessary government. There is no such thing as a limited government. There is no such thing as a benevolent government. There is only government, and government in all its false ‘glory,’ is nothing more than pure, corrupted violence. It is the creator and protector of theft, slavery, murder, genocide, and dem...

Their Own Stupidity and Selfishness By eric - August 13, 2021 We hear – we cannot escape hearing – about the putative “stupidity” and “selfishness” of healthy people who refuse to pretend they are sick (for the sake of the feelings of people who are sick in the head) and who are refusing to be injected with a substance that has made tens of thousands very sick. Including sick from the sickness supposedly “vaccinated” against. It seems a little  . . . stupid, does it not? I’ll speak now of my own “stupidity” and “selfishness.” I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. I drink occasionally and moderately. I eat almost no processed food – the occasional indulgence excepted – and I make the effort to hit the gym every other day and the trail (to run) on the days I don’t hit the gym. For these very selfish – but far from stupid – reasons, I am . . . healthy . I can still wear the size 32 waist pants I wore in hig...