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Can Incorrigibility be Corrected?

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2026-09-23

Can institutions (and governments) be designed to be responsive to the need for correction?

It's a problem when a faceless institution (or government) effectively hides behind the internet (and nowadays behind an AI or three) - when "computer says 'no' ", what to do? Whom to call? How long have you got?

The scope for diversion, for sending you around loops that somehow omit the one question that would let you exit the loop, is enormous.

The answer of course is not to deal with such outfits, but when that outfit is effectively (even if not legally) a part of the government, or is a monopoly (gas, water or electricity board billing company) then you may have to simply do as you are told if you want heat, light, and cooking facility. Or fight your way through the courts ...or somehow go off-grid and hope to be left alone.

Not before time, concerned folk are giving the problem of institutional imperviance (yes, it's a new word whose time has come!) their attention, foremost amongst them (on this site anyway) being Martin Geddes. 

But he isn't alone.

Of course, however good the academic theory of corrigibility, the problem remains: how to ensure it in an unwilling institution or government?

 

UK Government Prepares for War? Or for Civil Unrest?

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2026-09-23

Look Out! The Russians are coming!

Well, they've been coming for my not inconsiderable lifetime, and they're still not here (although the Chinese seem to be embedding themselves nicely in their vast new "embassy" underneath London).

Either the Ruskies are slacking or they have no intention of getting embroiled in unnecessary conflicts that they can sit out, confident that their "opponents" are going to fall apart of their own accord, or at least are paper tigers not worth the worry. Both of which would seem to be applicable to the UK, and even more so to the EU.

So quite apart from the general obsession with trying to scare us all witless and make us into amenable servants to the great and the not-so-good-after-all, what else might be behind the effort to distract us from the invasion of foreign persons unknown and undocumented that the British and French governments have so assiduously been ferrying across the Channel in persistent collusion and brazen defiance of election promise after election promise?

Maybe they aren't quite sure any longer that the population is still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt? Surely not? Perhaps we might (in an English rather than French sort of way) take matters into our own hands and try to deal with our corrupt Parliament, taking Oliver Cromwell as our role model? They should be grateful for small mercies, as Cromwell seems to have accomplished that particular task without bloodshed, even if there was much blood spilled in the Civil War preceding.

Be all that as it may, ZeroHedge is indulging in similar musings.

"A citizen force to guard infrastructure sold as anti-Russian preparation is, he said, "a logically absurd proposition, but it is convenient as a pretext"

Would you bet against it?

 

Gen Z - 1st Generation Raised on Smartphones - Not so Smart?

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Category: Health
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2026-09-23

Add in the pernicious effects of psychology / psychopathy, and it's a wonder we have any "normal" Gen Z at all.

We have touched on this topic before, and since then little has changed, and possibly for the worse.

Brownstone revisit it, featuring two authors from different backgrounds with a common message - Our World - No Place for Children (with acknowledgement to David Adelman).

Still, we are where we are, so must make the best of it. 

More human interaction required!

We are ALL GUILTY!

 

The "Conspiracy Theorists" are Getting Restless

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2026-09-23

Well known pandemic dissidents are losing patience that the Trump regime will ever do anything to reverse the Covid narrative, expose the mRNA shots for the biological weapons of destruction that  they are, and indeed get on with the Epstein miscreants (starting with all those in public office) and the whole public take down of the deep state.

And that it seems to me is the crux of it - once that threshold is crossed there's no going back, indeed the only sensible option is to press forward at full speed with arrests and all the associated works - it's the argument that cannot be lost and further shilly-shallying will not cut it.

So getting public opinion onside before taking that step looks like an essential prerequisite.

And perhaps the public's reaction to this move by the Covid dissenters will be enough to persuade the authorities that the time has come?

We know what to do - make a noise!

 

Make Britain Great Again?

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2026-09-22

Politics and economics are two sides of the same coin. So if our politics is broken (and who would disagree these days?) then it's no surprise that so is our economics.

And so too should the financial analysts have something to say about the politics.  

Whether or not you agree with the title, the latest article from Investor's daily nails many problems that politicians' fantasies have created ...

 ... but will any politician deign to listen?

Some lazy politicians think that forcing people to vote would solve the problem of low turn-out.

I welcome the idea, but maybe they should be careful what they wish for. After all, if all the disillusioned came out and spoiled their paper by politely writing "none of these candidates" across it, then just maybe the aggregate would be enough to win the election, and nobody would be returned to Parliament ...

We have to rid ourselves of these guys somehow.

 

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