Alexandre Fedorovski
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A few weeks ago, BEFORE the government officially recognized the HIV epidemic in America, I attended a meeting of Professor Lawrence Mead, "Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University", with the members of an elite New York club where he represented and signed his book "Burden of Freedom".
My general impression of the presentation was as if the professor had been in a deep-water research station since 1971, where he wrote his opus, without rising to the surface all these years. Moreover, he wrote not about the inhabitants of the underwater Deep Space, but about us and you ...
As I wrote earlier, I asked the professor three questions, as is customary at meetings at that and at a higher level in Europe. Professor Mead, stated that there is NO corruption in America because American, Western society is "spiritually much more
higher than the dictatorial "Eastern" society and that the laws in our country are so strict that the very possibility of corruption is extremely small. That is the case when our professor really took the cake!
Is it really so?!
As I understand it, Professor Mead has not heard about the case of the “highly moral” President Clinton, about the corruption and criminal “case of colleges” because of being at a great ocean depth for such a long time, and interruptions in communications with the surface. He has also not heard about the “case of corruption of lawmakers”. Neither me, just because the info that the FBI had started the investigation, became public only a few days ago.
That is what Annie Lowrey, the staff writer at The Atlantic writes:"... analysis of 61,998 stock trades made from 2004 to 2010, for instance, showed that politicians outperformed the market by 20 percent, with the portfolios of high-ranking Republicans beating the market by a whopping 35 percent (https : //www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/congress-insider-trading-problem/608488/), in reference to (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fire.12180.
Here I will present some quotes from the professor’s book:
"...the government has typically been more honest and effective in Western nations than in non-Western ones. A central reason, again, is the principled, moralistic character of Western Culture, which deters corruption better than the less civic (!!! - A.F.) culture of non-West" (p.13).
My comment:
Bravo professor, what civilization of the East, that presented the European one philosophy, political science, mathematics, astronomy, psychology, medicine, military, and civilian technologies can we even talk about!!!
Next:
" ... the rule of law and government by consent imply that officeholders govern not solely in their own interest but as stewards of public institutions serving the whole society" (p.155).
"...an accountable regime is more formidable that the autocracy, simply because its citizens are now more committed to the task (the same p.).
"Moralism promotes civic behavior not only by individuals, but also by government. ... during the nineteenth century, domestic opposition to corruption ... helped drive state-building in both Britain and America - even though these were already among the best-governed countries" (p.168).
From what I read in this book and on the pages of The Atlantic, we can conclude that:
- we are still in the early nineteenth-century or the reports that:
"...Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who sold off what looks like a large share of his personal holdings the day before Valentine's Day, picking up between $ 628,000 and $ 1.72 million in cash. Roughly a week later, the market tanked ..."
or that
"...Senator Kelly Loeffler, whose husband is the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, who began selling equities on January 24, the day of an all-Senate briefing from officials including Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Through mid-February, her household dumped dozens of stocks ...'
OR:
ALL of these are special psychological and ideological operations of Putin’s agents in our media, who are trying to disturb our peace, discredit the innocent "servants of the people" and destroy our ideal "democratic" system.
And WHAT do YOU think about it???
It is equally bad if Professor Mead is really “not up to date” on what is happening on the surface of our Planet or if he deliberately distorts our reality since he teaches students and forms a false picture of the world in their worldview...
My general impression of the presentation was as if the professor had been in a deep-water research station since 1971, where he wrote his opus, without rising to the surface all these years. Moreover, he wrote not about the inhabitants of the underwater Deep Space, but about us and you ...
As I wrote earlier, I asked the professor three questions, as is customary at meetings at that and at a higher level in Europe. Professor Mead, stated that there is NO corruption in America because American, Western society is "spiritually much more
higher than the dictatorial "Eastern" society and that the laws in our country are so strict that the very possibility of corruption is extremely small. That is the case when our professor really took the cake!
Is it really so?!
As I understand it, Professor Mead has not heard about the case of the “highly moral” President Clinton, about the corruption and criminal “case of colleges” because of being at a great ocean depth for such a long time, and interruptions in communications with the surface. He has also not heard about the “case of corruption of lawmakers”. Neither me, just because the info that the FBI had started the investigation, became public only a few days ago.
That is what Annie Lowrey, the staff writer at The Atlantic writes:"... analysis of 61,998 stock trades made from 2004 to 2010, for instance, showed that politicians outperformed the market by 20 percent, with the portfolios of high-ranking Republicans beating the market by a whopping 35 percent (https : //www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/congress-insider-trading-problem/608488/), in reference to (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fire.12180.
Here I will present some quotes from the professor’s book:
"...the government has typically been more honest and effective in Western nations than in non-Western ones. A central reason, again, is the principled, moralistic character of Western Culture, which deters corruption better than the less civic (!!! - A.F.) culture of non-West" (p.13).
My comment:
Bravo professor, what civilization of the East, that presented the European one philosophy, political science, mathematics, astronomy, psychology, medicine, military, and civilian technologies can we even talk about!!!
Next:
" ... the rule of law and government by consent imply that officeholders govern not solely in their own interest but as stewards of public institutions serving the whole society" (p.155).
"...an accountable regime is more formidable that the autocracy, simply because its citizens are now more committed to the task (the same p.).
"Moralism promotes civic behavior not only by individuals, but also by government. ... during the nineteenth century, domestic opposition to corruption ... helped drive state-building in both Britain and America - even though these were already among the best-governed countries" (p.168).
From what I read in this book and on the pages of The Atlantic, we can conclude that:
- we are still in the early nineteenth-century or the reports that:
"...Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who sold off what looks like a large share of his personal holdings the day before Valentine's Day, picking up between $ 628,000 and $ 1.72 million in cash. Roughly a week later, the market tanked ..."
or that
"...Senator Kelly Loeffler, whose husband is the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, who began selling equities on January 24, the day of an all-Senate briefing from officials including Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Through mid-February, her household dumped dozens of stocks ...'
OR:
ALL of these are special psychological and ideological operations of Putin’s agents in our media, who are trying to disturb our peace, discredit the innocent "servants of the people" and destroy our ideal "democratic" system.
And WHAT do YOU think about it???
It is equally bad if Professor Mead is really “not up to date” on what is happening on the surface of our Planet or if he deliberately distorts our reality since he teaches students and forms a false picture of the world in their worldview...
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