It would not surprise me the least if this is true. With what we know of TPTB and how they operate, do you honestly think that they WOULDN’T do a false-flag chemical weapons attack in Syria and blame it on Assad? Of course they would.
There is one thing I regret in my life – and that is not following the road towards greatness, and doing what I was once becoming better and better at. I could have been a pretty decent hacker. I have an instinctive feeling for how computer systems work. But I lost interest, and I never managed to put in the time and the effort to go from “bad” to “decent”.
And it is, unfortunately, too late. I have too much else going on, also my brain is probably not plastic enough anymore to do the kind of mental loop-jumping required to understand the more advanced concepts. I did some basic inroads into cryptograhpy and prime numbers once, and it was REALLY interesting, but eventually I just gave up.
I will have to live with the fact that I will never be great, or outstanding, despite possibly having the capacity of at least attempting to, if I had drilled myself into it at an early age. Instead, I will have to do something else. Life is a long journey (for most of us), so I guess there is still time to get things done.
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don’t feel bad! Spreading the word about the benefits of capitalism and fighting against welfare statists and socialists seems rewarding to me.
Anyways, I’m almost done reading the whole General Theory. It was actually kind of difficult to read at first because of the specific vocabulary Keynes used, but I quickly got used to it. I’m currently finishing up Chapter 19 and believe that by tomorrow I can have it done. I’m amazed at how entrenched Keynes was in the classical economic tradition and to me and how a lot of the stuff in those macro textbooks like the supply and demand schedules and those graphs can be traced back to the General Theory. He also seems to talk plenty about investment and when saving would be optimal, something I don’t see Paul Krugman doing much of at all. Overall, it seems like to me, he was genuinely trying to save capitalism from going down under and improve employment prospects for people, even though I have plenty of disagreements with his thinking and conclusions that he made.
I have Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, which I might read next.