Thanksgiving's Downside

On this day:

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The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

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The Trump administration moved to abruptly cancel or violate existing, legally binding contracts and grants with universities—often involving visas, research funding, or property use—without due process, leading to lawsuits and claims of breach of contract. This disregard for legally binding obligations undermines the rule of law and the reliability of the U.S. government as a partner. The sanctity of contracts is a core principle of both American law and free-market economics.--Dlugash

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"Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees" This is a headline from the NYT. Think about it a moment.


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The assumption that central authority can gather and use all relevant knowledge. Hayek called this “the fatal conceit.” So, what does that mean about AI's efforts to collect human information?

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Two grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton plan to launch a private university focused on science and tech, located on the company’s old HQ campus near downtown Bentonville, Arkansas.

…The future university plans to offer innovative, flexible pathways to jobs in automation, logistics, biotech, and computing — fields crucial to Northwest Arkansas’ future.

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Is decrying Somali fraud racist?

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Thanksgiving's Downside

Events like Thanksgiving are upsetting to the Left because they imply community, a violation of the Left's template of division and isolation. The basic element of society, according to the Left, is conflict, most recently the effort of the oppressed to right themselves after some oppressor's damage and continued ill wishes. The essence of community is conflict. This insane oxymoron is a repackaging of the disastrous Marxian homicidal mania of the recent past. 

However, America's invention solved the ancient inequality problem by formalizing the equality of all men regardless of their individual histories and characteristics. This was done by fiat, not by destroying the cultural/political/social outliers.

Somehow this astonishing, optimistic, true egalitarianism cannot be accepted by fractious, angry, rebels-without-a-cause who insist on fighting over problems that America has already solved.