The current regime claiming to represent California seems to want to combine the abuse and misuse of language from George Orwell’s 1984, and the lessons about government control of the economy as featured in Ayn Rand’s
The parallels you’re seeing are the same that I’ve been seeing in US banking laws, regulations and regulatory policy since January 2020.
It’s caused me to reengineer my knowledge of banking statutes and regulatory policy of the past two decades, and what I’ve started to conclude isn’t pleasant.
So glad I'm no longer a Californian. Great while it lasted.
California's insurance commissioner, another creep with no industry experience (He's gay though), has caused most of the major insurance companies to stop writing policies in CA. Now people are struggling to get home insurance, and the state is stepping in to provide insurance coverage. Part of the plan?
California's refinery situation is so tight, that a bump at any refinery causes price increases. If this doofus causes one large refinery to close with his investigations, California is in a perpetual shortage, with attendant high prices. This could go bad very quickly.
The California Air Resources Board has caused the high prices and shortages with their insane rules, and the only way to fix it is to establish another bureaucracy to punish the victims.
You have nicely articulated what I have observed for a while here in the People's Republic of California. The new energy bureaucracy is laughable, if it wasn't going to lead to even higher gas prices. "We're building a team." Fantastic.
Yeah this will work out as well as, when under Eisenhower, the oil companies were under investigation. He quashed the investigations and got his lovely estate by Gettysburg.
Then under Carter and the oil embargo we found out years later that it was a lie. This ploy IMO will only result in funding more jobs for Newsom's cronies and we will see more money going to Sacramento politicos to make sure they do exactly nothing.
Trotsky would not have disagreed with a division of labor, but more importantly, a disparity in compensation, according to one's abilities. So it is a big IF that directors of the 2011-2014 film series were cognizant of the Marxist phrase, and the ubiquity amongst other socialists of his time, including preceding him, that the statement did not suggest the advanced motor technologist/engineer would be compensated the same or lower than the employee who "claimed" "according to his needs." As Sean Penn once said of Alejandro Inarritu, ""Who gave this son of a b*tch his green card?", who gave J. James Manera his director's license?
So, libertarians are in denial that I am placing them in the hot seat. Are you being a lazy, rigid interpreter of these historical phrases?
i've recently discovered that there are more than two opposing forces- 1984 and Atlas Shrugged are just two amongst multiple gravitational bodies: https://turquoisesound.substack.com/p/risky-business-and-the-ai-arms-race?nthPub=1101 Brave New World, Hunger Games, Idiocracy are just as potent in their efficiency of dystopianism, without the intelligence of 1984/Atlas Shrugged.
Ok, and I agree with the idea that science fiction is/wasn't meant to be an instruction manual. The "torment nexus", for example. But knowing what is a torment sometimes, if not usually, requires some scientific literacy.
Great piece!
The parallels you’re seeing are the same that I’ve been seeing in US banking laws, regulations and regulatory policy since January 2020.
It’s caused me to reengineer my knowledge of banking statutes and regulatory policy of the past two decades, and what I’ve started to conclude isn’t pleasant.
Really nice article...
So glad I'm no longer a Californian. Great while it lasted.
California's insurance commissioner, another creep with no industry experience (He's gay though), has caused most of the major insurance companies to stop writing policies in CA. Now people are struggling to get home insurance, and the state is stepping in to provide insurance coverage. Part of the plan?
California's refinery situation is so tight, that a bump at any refinery causes price increases. If this doofus causes one large refinery to close with his investigations, California is in a perpetual shortage, with attendant high prices. This could go bad very quickly.
The California Air Resources Board has caused the high prices and shortages with their insane rules, and the only way to fix it is to establish another bureaucracy to punish the victims.
Don't stop with dystopian fiction novels, there are movies that fit the path of these sociopaths.
Soylent Green comes to mind when these fools start talking about bovine belches and farts.
Excellent title.
Superb work, GLF! You've tied it all together brilliantly!
You have nicely articulated what I have observed for a while here in the People's Republic of California. The new energy bureaucracy is laughable, if it wasn't going to lead to even higher gas prices. "We're building a team." Fantastic.
I think the Democrat led UniParty watched the movie Apocalypto and thought it was An Idiots Guide To Governance.
Yeah this will work out as well as, when under Eisenhower, the oil companies were under investigation. He quashed the investigations and got his lovely estate by Gettysburg.
Then under Carter and the oil embargo we found out years later that it was a lie. This ploy IMO will only result in funding more jobs for Newsom's cronies and we will see more money going to Sacramento politicos to make sure they do exactly nothing.
Well written Leap. As I have quotes before from Bad Religion, “sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.” I look forward to your next piece.
We have visions of Ma Chalmers Milder asking ChatGPT:
"Are consumers getting ripped off?" And then copying and pasting the answer into a filing sent to the Attorney General.
Thanks for putting that in our heads, GLF!
Great article, also see:
Gavin Newsom's Crude Reality: California Dependant on Oil from the Amazon Rainforest
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/newsomes-crude-reality-california
I have analyzed Ayn Rand without high-fructose corn syrup. I've spent more than a second thinking about this topic. Trotsky, who never held the premier in Russia, did not appear to suggest that skilled workers would be paid the same as workers who loot and work according to their abilities. The temporal status of capitalism, socialism, and communism was more discretionary amongst the Bolsheviks: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch10.htm#ch10-1 "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs![6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_needs
Trotsky would not have disagreed with a division of labor, but more importantly, a disparity in compensation, according to one's abilities. So it is a big IF that directors of the 2011-2014 film series were cognizant of the Marxist phrase, and the ubiquity amongst other socialists of his time, including preceding him, that the statement did not suggest the advanced motor technologist/engineer would be compensated the same or lower than the employee who "claimed" "according to his needs." As Sean Penn once said of Alejandro Inarritu, ""Who gave this son of a b*tch his green card?", who gave J. James Manera his director's license?
So, libertarians are in denial that I am placing them in the hot seat. Are you being a lazy, rigid interpreter of these historical phrases?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_Part_III:_Who_Is_John_Galt%3F#Plot
You're comment is all over the place and doesn't seem to really address the content of the post.
"contridictory" is spelled "contradictory."
Also doesn’t address the content of the post. 😂
i've recently discovered that there are more than two opposing forces- 1984 and Atlas Shrugged are just two amongst multiple gravitational bodies: https://turquoisesound.substack.com/p/risky-business-and-the-ai-arms-race?nthPub=1101 Brave New World, Hunger Games, Idiocracy are just as potent in their efficiency of dystopianism, without the intelligence of 1984/Atlas Shrugged.
More interesting, and I agree but the intention here wasn’t to imply there were only two dystopian novels with parallels to the real world.
Ok, and I agree with the idea that science fiction is/wasn't meant to be an instruction manual. The "torment nexus", for example. But knowing what is a torment sometimes, if not usually, requires some scientific literacy.
Still not seeing your point but thank you for the links.