It's been a while since we just simply talked so i thought this might be a good time to do so since we have essentially completed one-half of the undergraduate work in Globanomics.  So, before we move on with the Globanomics course work, let's take a well deserved break.  There are a few things on my mind that i would like to get off my chest beginning with George Will.

I saw George Will yesterday on Morning Joe.  I guess he is back out on the circuit selling his new book about "happiness" and "outrage".  Let us start out with the fact that George said that he has not been a republican for the last six-years.  I thought that was the case, but i had not seen him for some time, so i thought it would be interesting to see what he had to say.

Wrong!  George Will looked like a shell of the man i used to think i knew.  He looked old, like he had been beaten up, like all the spark had left his body.  He looked like the last person in the world who should be writing about "happiness" and "outrage".  You could see neither in his eyes. 

When asked about the MAGA crowd, George diverted--there was no "outrage" about what Trump had done to his grand old party.  Instead, he complained that Biden had sold his soul to the extreme left-wing progressives.  Ah, come on George--you can do better than that.  Given a second chance to redeem himself, he again diverted away from saying anything bad about the MAGA crowd.  Even Scarborough seemed surprised.

George was offering nothing new other than his book.  If Joe Biden has sold his soul to the progressives, then thank goodness to that because among other things i believe in "fixing our infrastructure", "tackling climate change", "leading and uniting the free world against the authoritarian world", "reducing pharmaceutical costs", "strengthening our critically important semi-conductor industry", "addressing skyrocketing student loan costs", "targeting cancer", and "reducing the budget deficit".

Happiness and Outrage?  George, you don't seem to know what either term means, so why in the hell should I read your book?  I have learned enough about "happiness" to know that if you want it, you have to work for it.  Happiness comes from the inside, not the outside.  And at least from my own personal perspective, there is "nothing left inside the shell of the man" that used to be known as George Will.  It's no wonder that the MAGA crowd quit listening to you.  It seems there is nothing that you have to offer anyone anymore--whether they be MAGA, conservative, liberal, or progressive.

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Now on to even a bigger and more important subject that i have been wanting to get off my chest.  Putin's War and Globanomics.  

If anyone has followed me this past year since i published my book called Globanomics, they know that i was taken a bit back quite a bit at first by Putin's War.  Putin's War made no sense in terms of globanomics and i had been telling friends that long before Putin decided to actually start his war.  I had been telling my friends it made a lot more sense for Putin to cozy up with Europe than China--both strategically and historically.  Russia is much more European in nature than it is Chinese-Asian in nature.

When Putin actually started his war (less than six months after Globanomics coming out party), i was shocked.  I shut down.  For more than a month, i quit blogging.  I was too embarrassed to even mention the term--globanomics.  One of the chapters in Globanomics had dealt specifically with the Freedom vs. Authoritarianism subject and i thought i might have to go back and rewrite globanomics.

But then, after about a month's worth of despair, i went back and reread that chapter on Freedom vs. Authoritarianism, and i realized there was no need for me do edit anything i had said in Globanomics.  In fact, i realized that Putin's War could be the catalyst that really started globanomics to bloom.  And since that time, after getting over my initial morose on Putin's War, i have been pushing globanomics as hard as i can.

Now it may be still too early to claim freedom's victory in Putin's War, but one thing i do believe is that both my "first and third" assessments of Putin's War were correct.  Freedom will win over Authoritarianism every day of the week.  Freedom is worth fighting for.  Authoritarianism is not.  Globanomics has always stood firm on that position and there is no reason to ever think about changing that "fundamental principle" of globanomics.

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Now that brings me to my third point i would like to make today--China.  For quite a while now, i have been telling everyone that "China is a Paper Tiger".  Some scoffed at me for having that opinion, but i have never wavered from that position.  I had facts and history to support my position.

I started out by showing my followers what the "global investment community" thought of China with irrefutable facts.  I asked what had China given the world other than the coronavirus.  Was it China who gave us microcomputing, cell phones, the internet, new pharmaeuticals, semi-conductors, electric cars, etc. etc. etc.  Not that i remember.  What is China giving us today other than a base for manufacturing--which, btw, can easily be moved to alternative freedom loving nations?

Who wants to follow China's lead?  Russia maybe, North Korea, Iran maybe--but who else?  The freedom loving nations of the world control 85% of the world's finance and economic activities with the United States clearly leading the effort for the free world.

Technologically China cannot compete against Freedom.  So, get over it, folks.  Quit worrying about China and start thinking about how we can begin pulling the "entire world" together with "globanomics".  The time is now.  

Globanomics will bring a better, more loving future for all of humanity and humanity's planet, Earth--both in equal proportion and both at the same time.  Globanomics needs to be more the course work.  It needs to be implemented.  We should not wait any longer.  We can fix "worldly problems" easier, faster, and more equitably with globanomics than without it.

So, I say let's just "do it".  Let's quit stalling.  And if you still don't yet know what i am saying, then read the god damn book called Globanomics, which you can get to by clicking on the Contributor's link: Globanomics at the top of this blog.

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Now with that said, tomorrow we will get back to the Globanomic course work--specifically Globanomics 301.