The Rich are Different . . . Now

It is probably apocryphal, but Ernest Hemmingway allegedly replied to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s statement that “the rich are different” — “Yes, they have more money.”  Mmmmm . . . that was true at one time, but no longer.  Once upon a time, all the rich had was more and better of what everyone else had.  Nowadays what the rich have is not more money, but access to money and credit to become the owners of productive technology which is closed to those of us without similar access.

JTW Podcast: Natural Theology, Part I

No, today’s podcast is not going far afield from the Just Third Way.  All “Natural Theology” says is that knowledge of the existence of God and of the natural law can be derived from human reason by examining nature and using your head.  It doesn’t say anything other than “God” exists and that what we see in human nature and everywhere else tells us something, however dimly, about “God’s” nature which is the content of natural law . . . and the Just Third Way is based on natural law.  Here is what R.C. Sproul had to say on the subject:

News from the Network, Vol. 17, No. 41

Again, there is not too much new this week, and, again, most of it could be resolved by adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

How Much Money?

One of the problems with the global monetary system is the so-called experts are never able to decide how much money to create so that there is low inflation, high employment, low prices, and high wages . . . and you get the idea.  The experts argue endlessly about everything except what they’re really concerned about: how to get the money they want and prevent everyone else from getting it.

JTW Podcast: Mystery

Do you love a mystery?  This week’s lecture on “Mystery” continues last week’s talk on “Contradiction and Paradox.”  Just to keep it exciting, Sproul starts off with antinomy.  Not, the metal, which is antimony, but the concept.  As usual, you can ignore the fact this lecture is part of a series on Christian apologetics, as the subject concerns thought and logic itself.  Apologetics is just the application . . . which is neither a contradiction nor a paradox.  Here’s what R.C. Sproul had to say on the subject:

News from the Network, Vol. 17, No. 40

Not too much new this week, and most of it could be resolved by adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

The High Priest of Capitalism?

There is much more to Adam Smith (1723-1790), the purported high priest of laissez faire capitalism, than many today suppose.  Part of this is because few people in positions of authority, whether Church, State, or Family, understand the underlying principles of his philosophy.  Instead, they accept conventional wisdom based on the principles of a competing paradigm having little in common with Smith’s fundamental tenets.