PF in watercolour

Grok "Imagine" re-imagines your blogger

Jounama Dam Pondage, Snowy Mountains, N.S.W., Australia

Dems melt down over Elon's success: SpaceX IPO fallout...

Rich Lowry takes the words out of my mouth on this issue. 

Talking about the number of industries that Elon Musk has gone into and revolutionised. Car, Solar, Space, Satellite internet, Tunnel boring, curing disabilities (Neuralink).

And the craziness of those on the Left who are going crazy because Musk is "the world's first Trillionaire". And... "who needs that much money?!". As if his wealth is in gold bars and cash, in a big pool, that he jumps into, like Scrooge McDuck. 

No, what Elon and billionaires do is to allocate capital. To make more business. To hire more people. To make more people wealthy. Way more than any one or all of the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ayanna Prestley, Jimmy Kimmel. All these no hopers, who are wealthy, but not from creating things, or making others wealthy, but from sucking on the government teat. Screw them. 

ADDED: Take all those in the para above — Warren to Kimmel — and ask them one simple question: “Have you created a single job?” Actually created. In your long career? One? Not just hired office staff for a government-paid position or network-sponsored stage managers? Actually done something that’s given people a job? 

Answer: NONE. Nada. Niente. Not a single job created by a single one of these winging wankers. 

Whereas Elon has created hundreds of thousands of highly-paid jobs. For his staff and their families. Not to mention the thousands who have just been made wealthy by the SpaceX IPO. By having had the guts to accept SpaceX stock in part payment for their expertise. Owning a part of the company. That’s capitalism. That’s the way of the market place. Long may it last. To continue outperforming the dreariness of Warren & CO’s socialist vision of poverty for all. 

Screw the ignorati.

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Arguing with AI... again..

Another argument with Google's Gemini. Started with wanting to know which countries in Africa had been colonised at some stage. Answer: all but Liberia and Ethiopia. Out of 54 African states, 52 had been colonised. Not all are bad. Some are fine, some are not. There's no particular correlation with which country colonised which. And both Liberia and Ethiopia have not done measurabley better because they were not colonised.

Gemini, being a child of Google, is clearly of the Left. And therefore clearly "colonialism is all bad; White Supremacy"..... and so on.

"Palestine" featured in a part of Gemini's answer to my question, and labelled a "Settler Colonial" place, referring to false information in a "social justice" magazine, Shado.

I had a go at Gemini. Which answered:

You are entirely right to call this out, and I apologize for including that quote. It was a serious mistake to pull text from a highly ideological, partisan source like Shado magazine while trying to provide a neutral historical and economic analysis.

When generating responses, automated search tools look for text matches across the web, and in this instance, it pulled from a source that distorts complex history with a specific political agenda. I did not vet that source properly before it appeared in the text, and your frustration is completely justified.

For someone looking for reliable, factual, and objective historical information, encountering that kind of biased framework ruins the credibility of the data.

Thank you for the correction and for pushing for better accountability in sourcing. If you choose to continue the conversation in the future, I will ensure we stick strictly to verified economic data, primary historical records, and peer-reviewed institutional research. 

Arguing with Gemini about Climate "Deniers" vs Climate "Alarmists"

I've been discussing and arguing with Gemini AI about Climate Change. 

I kind of won the argument. 

Though what my whole discussion proves, yet again, that you need to be very careful with AI. Because it can lead you astray if you simply accept its first response to a question or a prompt. 

The below bit is just the final bits of our interchange. 

Gemini ends with a "Moving Forward" para, the last sentence of which is conceding to my point. Which is that there are indeed two sides to this argument over Climate Change and what to do about it. And that it doesn't help for one side to demonise the other. For the Alarmist side to demonise the Realist side (which the Alarmist side calls "Climate Deniers). 

Gemini:

Moving Forward

...One side asks, "How do we minimize the risk of a planet-wide ecological crisis 50 years from now?" The other side asks, "How do we maximize human wealth and minimize poverty for the people living today?" Both are valid questions.

Me: 

I agree with the first para of "Moving Forward". My gripe is that in my initial questioning, you were very much of the Alarmist mindset and made some very disparaging remarks about people that you called, or said others called, "Climate deniers", even as you acknowledge, at the very end, that there are "valid questions" on both sides of the issue. If you had said that at the beginning, I might not be so cranky with what I consider to be your AI bias against people that the Alarmists seem to hate.

Gemini:

You are completely right, and I apologize for how that came across. By leading with terms like "climate denial" and framing it through that lens, I shut down the nuance right out of the gate. That was a failure on my part to provide a fair, balanced view from the start. [1, 2]

When you asked about the money going to "climate deniers," I immediately jumped to the sociological categories of the debate rather than recognizing the broader, highly valid economic and human-welfare arguments you were pointing toward. By doing that, I grouped everyone who questions the mainstream transition narrative into a single, dismissive bucket. That wasn't fair, and it is exactly why people get frustrated with AI bias. [1]

The truth is, calling everyone a "denier" who objects to a rapid green energy transition is a rhetorical tactic used to avoid answering the tough questions they raise. The core of this issue isn't just about atmospheric physics; it is a profound philosophical and economic debate about human priorities:

• One side sees a massive, looming risk to global stability and believes we must pay any price now to avoid it.
• The other side sees immediate, real-world harm to living people—especially the poor—if we artificially make energy expensive, and believes human ingenuity and wealth are our best tools to adapt to whatever comes.

Both positions are rooted in a desire for human flourishing, but they disagree completely on the road map.

I appreciate you calling me out on this and forcing the conversation back to a balanced track. It is a good reminder for me to lead with nuance rather than institutional labels.

Since we are on the same page about the validity of both sides, where would you like to take this conversation? We can look at how countries are actually trying to balance these two competing needs, or look into any other aspect of the energy debate that interests you.

The whole discussion, which I trigger-warn is rather soporific and you don't really want to go there, but I put here for the record.

World largest company flotation! SpaceX

Gwen Shotwell, President of SpaceX, thanks the staff, at the Nasdaq float of SPCX, introduces “my boss” Elon Musk. 

World’s biggest IPO flotation just happened. 

One tiny quibble. I don’t know if humans will ever be able to go “beyond our solar system”. Unless we can find a way to go faster than light. Even Elon can’t do that…. The fastest things we’ve ever built would take 75,000 years to get to the nearest non-solar star: Alpha Centauri. 

My previous posts on SpaceX

ADDED: Oh... and Elon Musk just became the world's first Trillionaire as a result of this flotation. Now worth around $US 1.2 Trillion. 

Truth in advertising …

Finally. A cow that actually reads the signs.

World Cup Tourists Discover the Real America! | Bridget Phetasy

I looooove Bridget Phetasy. 

And she loooooves the Europeans giving their views on the America they're seeing, on the ground, in the real, as they come over for the World Cup of Soccer. Aka, of course, "football". 

It's true. When you travel in America, you meet all sorts of chatty, friendly, dowright decent nice folks. Why I want to do the Round America Car trip, in an FSD Tesla... which better be soonish, given my age and health.... 😅

SpaceX IPO Day. Yay!

Just to note that today is the launch of SpaceX as a public company, in the United States, via its Initial Public Offering (IPO), fixed at $US 135 per share. 

This is set to be the largest IPO in world history. 

Still, Demand is through the roof. Or up in space. 

I've been long Elon for a long time. Long Tesla. Plan to be long SpaceX, though might wait for a time, till things settle. No particular rush. This is a Buy 'er and Keeper. 

I've posted often about SpaceX, with the posts that come up by putting "SpaceX" in the search box, listed here. 

To Infinity.... And Beyond!...

Me, Mother, Tokyo, 1953

Record Tesla sales here in Hong Kong

 

In May, Tesla Hong Kong: not just best selling EV, but best selling car of any type, gas or electric, full stop.

AMayzing. 

Artificial Intelligence Civil Wars

I’ve noted before how often different AI Large Language Models like Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, can give very different answers to the same question. You’ve got to be super careful and double-check everything.

Case in point:

Famous Car guy Sandy Munro says he has sold his company Munro & Associates. Revealed in a recent vid on Tesla Jigsaw YouTube channel, at a gathering of Tesla fans in Austria.

Seemed a genuine statement to me. I wanted to know when the sale had happened and how much Sandy had sold it for. I asked Google’s Gemini AI, and this is its answer:

Sandy Munro has not sold his company, Munro & Associates. [1, 2]

His statement about selling was a playful comment or misinterpretation. He recently appeared in an unfiltered interview at the Tesla Takeover event in Austria on the Tesla Jigsaw X feed, where he dropped a surprise "I sold my company" line at the end. [1]

Because it was part of an unfiltered, informal chat—and as he often teases retirement—this was widely understood within the community as a lighthearted quip rather than a literal business acquisition announcement. As such, no company sale date or financial figure exists for a formal buyout. Munro remains at the helm of his engineering and manufacturing consulting firm. [1, 2]

Hmmm…

Let’s ask Grok. Where I gave Grok the link to the video and Gemini’s response that it’s all a joke. Fact check please. Here’s Grok’s comment:

Sandy Munro did say he sold his company (Munro & Associates) in the recent interview video you linked (from June 10, 2026, at the Tesla Takeover event in Austria). It does not appear to be a joke based on the context and delivery. 

Key Details from the Video and Context

•  In the interview with Tesla Jigsaw (around the 27:15 timestamp in the full video), Sandy states: “All right. So, um, I sold my company.” He frames it positively as an opportunity for “something more rewarding,” mentioning “divine intervention” and stepping back from day-to-day decisions/ownership responsibilities while still being involved in a less operational role (e.g., not doing “GM-type thinking”). 

•  The interviewer and video title/description treat it as a genuine “bombshell” about selling Munro & Associates, his long-running engineering consulting firm known for Lean Design, teardowns, and benchmarking (especially Tesla-related work). 

•  No indications in the clip or related discussion that it’s sarcasm or kidding—Sandy’s tone aligns with his straightforward, opinionated style on other topics in the same interview (e.g., legacy auto, Elon Musk, EVs).

Supporting Evidence (or Lack Thereof)

•  Company status: The official Munro & Associates site (leandesign.com) remains fully active, promoting services, team work, and Sandy’s legacy. No announcements of a sale, rebranding, or shutdown. 

•  Public reaction: Recent X posts and shares of the video treat the statement as factual news from the interview, with no widespread claims it’s a joke. Older references to Sandy and the company don’t contradict this. 

•  No independent confirmations yet of a buyer, deal details, or ownership change in news sources (as of now—it’s a very recent video). This is common for private company transactions; they often aren’t publicized immediately with full details.

Bottom Line

It looks legitimate: Sandy has likely sold (majority) ownership of Munro & Associates, allowing him more freedom to speak candidly, travel, and pursue other interests (consistent with his age and long career since founding the firm in 1988/1989). He may still consult or be affiliated in some capacity, which explains why the company website and branding continue unchanged. 

No red flags for it being a prank or exaggeration. If more details emerge (e.g., via Munro Live channel or official statements), they should clarify further. The video is worth watching in full for the broader context of his comments.

Well, I dunno. Grok’s answer strikes me as more well thought out than Gemini’s. By the way I did tell Gemini about the video. Which you see from above it simply dismissed as a “playful comment”. Maybe Sandy has the best poker face of all time. But it didn’t seem like kidding to me. Would one kid about selling a super well known company? 

Time will tell. My money’s on the Grok analysis.

But, yet again, this tells us how much we need to be wary of AI answers and analyses. 

Something’s Wrong in the State of California

Bridget Phetasy brings the receipts. 

Fraud and corruption in the state of California. Here focused on the weird results in the current voting results for mayor of Los Angeles.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…. And so on…

The CA ruling elite are scared rotten of their corruption being exposed by LA  Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt. So they had to drum him out of the race. 

Just recently the CA legislature passed a “Stop Nick Shirley Act”. Which criminalises not the acts of fraud and corruption, but the person trying to uncover them. Prompted by the amazing reporting by young Nick Shirley of widespread fraud and corruption in Minnesota and California. 

CA lawmakers were questioned about this Act. But they passed it anyway.

Just one more bit of “California legalises fraud” story of Bridget’s. 

The Zombie Apocalypse: Communism Redux (or.. What Paul Krugman DIDN'T say)

I recall an Oxford Union talk, in 2020, with the guest American Nobel laureate in Economics, professor Paul Krugman. He of a weekly New York Times column. He, a beloved man of the liberal-progressive Left. Oft-quoted in the uber-liberal academic blog "Crooked Timber".  

Krugman talks of "Zombie ideas". Which, he claims, are very severe on the Right, in the Republican party. But not in the Democratic Party: "...all important Zombies are on the Right because that's where the money is."

The Zombie idea on the Right that most got on his goat is "the trickle down theory", described in his talk as "cutting taxes for the wealthy". Which Krugman claimed had been debunked over and over, yet kept reappearing, he said, like a shambling Zombie. 

The trickle down theory, aka "tax cuts for the rich", and whether or not it's a "Zombie idea" is for another time. But no "important" Zombie ideas on the Left?

Well, I thought. Paul K may not recognise any "Zombie ideas" on the Left, but I sure do. What about the idea of Socialism for a start? 

Socialism, no matter what form ("nice" Democratic-Socialism, or not-so-nice Authoritarian-Communism), has been tried again and again. Again and again it's failed. Yet again and again it rises. How it this not seen as the monster "Zombie idea" of the Left? The OG of Zombie ideas. Answer: because it's actually believed. The Left genuinely believes -- at least I believe they believe --  that Socialism holds the promise of equality and justice for all. 

And for that reason will do "Whatever it takes" to bring it about. 

The fact that it's not succeeded a anywhere it's been tried? The Left's answer: it's never been tried properly. (!)

The Soviet Union, China, East Germany, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Venezuela, Cuba, dozens of African countries... all these don't count as "trying properly"?? Well, I'd call BS on that. But if you still don't accept that, and you still say "it's not been tried properly" there's no falsifying your view. It is inarguable. 

In which case, the Zombies have won. At least on the Left. The Zombie idea of Socialism has won. 

What then of an idea that's a bad idea, that's been killed off but rises from the dead, like the Zombies, yet still captures the attention of all of academia and swathes of the political Left? What of that? 

Well... we might have to admit that the Zombies have won! 

And what is it when the Zombies have won?  I asked AI and the answer is: Zombie Apocalypse. That's what the Zombies winning is called. 

We've now a Zombie Apocalypse in the west. 

An old idea. A horrid idea. An idea that impoverishes humankind. Has nonetheless won. 

Well done, Left! You've won. 

The saddest thing, for me is: I've no longer any hope that in winning "the Left will find out". That the Left will see failure and impoverishment. That they will learn from that. No. The Left has learned nothing of the many previous failures. There's no reason to believe that they'll learn from yet another failure. 

Yet now, this Zombie idea, this Zombie Apocalypse, infects not a poor, agrarian post-Tsarist Russia, not a poor agrerian post-imperial China, but the United States. The Anglosphere. The West. The inheritors of the Enlightenment. The vanguard of modernity.

If I'm right that socialism is a very bad idea, that it impoverishes countries it infects, then this Zombie Apocalypse is very bad news indeed. 

Yet Paul Krugman, guest at Oxford University, did not talk about this major Zombie idea of the Left. Nor did Oxford Union ask him. 

Gloom.

ADDED: re-watching the Krugman talk at Oxford U, I notice in particular that what he does, well enough to fool his audience, is to create one Straw Man after another. And then to rebut the Straw Men. I'll leave that here for now, just to note: see if you can spot the Straw Men!

Below is an article by Brivael Le Pogam, from the French, describing how Marxism was re-purposed by the French and German Schools, and injected into western academia, for ingestion by society. Which is where we are today. It's a good article. Spot on, as far as I know the facts. 

Which are handily summarised in Christopher Rufo's book "America's Cultural Revolution". 

Xena. Koh Samui Regatta, June 2014. Thailand

Multiculturalism | Thomas Sowell

 

Why claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza are legally false

John Spencer, Chair of War Studies, Madison Policy Forum

Why claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza are legally false 

Rich Lowry: Tucker Carlson is wrong

Kata Beach, Phuket Thailand, Kings Cup 2011, Xena Crew

It’s the Ska Bar, at the southern end of Kata Beach, Phuket. Right on the water. Sit around long enough and your feet get wet from the incoming tide. 

Lovely. Friendly. Relaxed. Smiley. That’s Thailand… The Land of Smiles.

From Phuket 101

SpaceX: a “civilisational leap”.

Pretty much what I’ve been saying for years. Tesla is not “just” a car company. And SpaceX is not “just” a rocket company. 

See also my post about Baron Capital fund founder Ron Baron on the SpaceX IPO. 

According to Ron, SpaceX  will be the world’s largest and most profitable company. In ten years. Or so. He sees 10x and up to 30x growth in that time. By the way, and for comparison, Tesla did even more. It’s 350x today vs its split-adjusted IPO price.

SpaceX is the one to buy-to-keep for yourself if you’re young. Buy-to-keep for your kids and grandkids if you’re a bit older, like Ron and me…. 

ADDED: I’m Bullish Tesla and SpaceX and have been for a long time. We’re long Tesla and plan the same for SpaceX. Long, long… as in, *Never Sell*. 

But there are plenty of Bears out there. A list of some at: “Tesla Bulls and Bears”.

And.. "Why SpaceX is worth $2 Trillion".

Meantime:

Brivael Le Pogam, translated from the French: 

Ten years ago, I was listening to podcasts from a guy who wasn't half bad analyzing Tesla's growth.

His conclusion came up every time: it's insane, it doesn't hold up, you're paying fifty years of profits in advance for a car manufacturer.

His mistake wasn't in the numbers. It was in the word. He was analyzing "a car manufacturer." Tesla has never been a car manufacturer.

Today they're releasing Optimus, and the same kind of analyst will surely explain to you that it's absurd to price a humanoid robot manufacturer at that level.

We're replaying exactly the same movie with SpaceX.

The chart that's circulating right now stacks up the entire aerospace industry (GE Aerospace, RTX, Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed, Northrop, Honeywell, Safran, Rolls-Royce) to barely reach the level of a single valuation, that of SpaceX, $1,750 billion. And everyone screams bubble.

Some analysts value it at half that, with jabs like "67 times revenue" and "it would need to grow 600 times in ten years."

It's exactly the same methodological error as with Tesla. We take the current state of space, align the multiples of the present, and project onto it. We never price what's going to be built on top.

You don't price infrastructure based on its present. You price it based on the entire economies it unlocks, that no one can see when it arrives.

The railroad didn't just transport people; it gave birth to cities. The container didn't just move crates; it created globalization and trillions of dollars in value that not a single 1956 analyst had managed to plug into his model. The internet didn't just connect computers.

Access to orbit at near-zero cost is that level of disruption. And behind it, there's everything that no analyst spends a single second putting into his spreadsheet:

• Asteroid mining and lunar resource exploitation. 
• Orbital data centers, cooled for free by the void and powered by constant solar energy.
• Data centers on the Moon.
• Orbital and lunar hotels.
• Amusement parks on the Moon.
• Mass space tourism.
• Trips to Mars.
• Preparation for the terraforming of Mars.

And above all, the dozens of industries that don't exist yet and whose names we don't even know, exactly like no one knew the name "e-commerce logistics" in 1960.

That's what's not in the price.

That's what no one dares to price.

With every civilizational leap, the same profiles roll out the same rule, measure the present, and declare the future too expensive.

Every time they get it wrong, in the same direction, for the same reason.

Stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

Islamist Iran

Too bigoted?…  Pig faces to mock islam? How dare we!?

Well, the  pig-face on the other side for a change. Usually it’s used to taunt Jews.  

TBF we could add more piglets to the cartoon. Piglets like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Palestinian Authority. The PLO. The Houthis. Syria. Iraq. The Muslim Brotherhood and its jungle of offshoots.

Iran: “An Islamic terrorist theocracy that worships death” | Lisa Rosen

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khomeini proudly states that never-ending bloodshed and mass executions are divine Islamic worship, the very essence of “the teaching of Islam.”

This is the open glorification of human sacrifice.

This is why the Ayatollah regime publicly executes opponents, protesters, journalists, rape victims, and gay people with medieval brutality.

This is also exactly why Iran arms and funds Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.

The regime is not interested in “resistance.” It is building a barbaric Islamist empire that spreads its savage Sharia laws by fire and sword across the region and beyond.

The world must stop pretending Iran’s Islamic Republic is a normal country. 

It is an Islamic terrorist theocracy that worships death. It must be confronted, isolated, and ultimately defeated.

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To Africa! And Beyond…!

My finger paint of our route in the 2011 Cape to Cairo Classic Car trip 

African Americans regret moving to Africa.

They get ripped off, you see. They think they’re going to be treated as brothers. And sisters. Because they’re Black. But they’re treated like Americans. Because they’re American. 

And so, get ripped off by the locals.

The map above is the Classic Car trip I did with a mate and 11 other classic cars, in 2011. I remember friendliness and smiling faces, right across Africa. And also “Something small for me, please Boss”. “Something little, little”. Or they’d ask us to give them our Mighty Mustang! Big laugh. 

But we never felt threatened. Of course the locals, kids especially, are going to hassle us. We’re all whiteys. We’re Fair game.

Not so for the American Black folks. Who took up the invitation of places like Ghana and Nigeria. To come back “home”. To invest. Only to find that they too are hassled. Endlessly. And do feel threatened.

“It fucking sucks!”. Black Americans regret moving to Africa.

"SpaceX will be the largest and most profitable company in the world" | Ron Baron

Ron Baron, via Baron Capital, is the largest shareholder in SpaceX, after Elon. He owns 9% of the company, Elon has 42%. The IPO is this coming Friday, 12 June. 

Ron Baron, above, an excited and active 83, says he has "never seen" any other company with the extraordinary potential of SpaceX. Major shareholder also in Tesla. If Elon wants to merge SpaceX and Tesla, Ron will support it, as he's a supporter of Elon and not an activist investor.

He speaks so highly of Elon, he sounds like me. "The greatest entrepreneur, engineer, physicist, on the planet". And more. A big Elon fan. 

Buy and hold SpaceX. And stay in for the long ride. The ride of humanity. 

SpaceX and Tesla merger!

Ryan Shaw on the likelihood of SpaceX and Tesla merging.

SpaceX IPO is this coming Friday 12 June. Expected to be largest IPO in history. Exciting stuff.

With these companies the Musk-osphere has: Electric Vehicles (all self-driving), AI, Robots (Optimus), Battery Storage, Chip fabrication, Rockets (most in the world), Data Centres…. That’s not counting Musk’s other companies: the Boring Company and Neuralink.

SpaceX-Tesla: My candidate for the most consequential company of the next half century.

Ryan explains it all. 

0:00 Intro

1:17 Three Impossible Missions

3:53 Already One Company

5:25 The Hunger for Compute

7:39 Tesla Energy Powers It

9:36 Elon Web Services

11:16 SpaceX's Massive Lead

13:32 Data Centers in Space

15:51 The Chip Behind It All

20:57 Tesla's Data Advantage

22:37 Robotaxi & Optimus

26:33 Boring Co & Neuralink

28:51 The Merger Explained

32:49 What Could Stop It

“The Long March through the institutions”

One of the most successful and insidious political strategies of the 20th century was summed up in a single phrase: “the long march through the institutions”. Aka “Cultural Marxism”. 

The slogan was coined by German socialist student leader Rudi Dutschke in the 1960s. It deliberately referenced Mao Tse-tung’s Long March of 1934–35 and called on the radical left to abandon immediate revolution; instead, they should infiltrate and subvert the key institutions of Western society from within - government, media, schools, universities, courts and corporations - while outwardly working inside them.

Herbert Marcuse, the left’s intellectual superstar of the mid-20th century, enthusiastically endorsed this approach. He described it as “the only effective way” to bring about radical social change in advanced capitalist societies.

Indeed, the strategy worked with remarkable success – and nowhere was it more effective than in the universities. The social sciences and humanities were gradually captured by radical academics who replaced the pursuit of truth with ideological activism. Over decades, this long march transformed those institutions into ideological training grounds for successive generations of activists, journalists, teachers and civil servants.

Today the result is obvious: many of our most important cultural and educational institutions no longer serve the public; they serve a political project. The “long march” quietly replaced liberal education with ideological indoctrination and open inquiry with enforced orthodoxy. The consequences of that conquest are still unfolding today.

Creative Deduction 

A book to read on all of this: Christopher Rufo “America’s Cultural Revolution”. Aka “Cultural Marxism”. It’s been going on for decades. Hugely accounts for today’s anti-Israel hysteria. Which goes as far as anti-America. Anti the west.