Scott E Moore

Fan of the Chicago Bears, Butler Bulldogs, Chicago Black Hawks, and White Sox. Born and raised in the Region. Retweet’s are not endorsements. Views are my own.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Evil ideas have horrible consequences.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.

1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.

2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.

3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.

4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.

5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.

6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.

7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Graham Platner announces the real victim in all of this is Graham Platner

Saved you 11 minutes

[Scott E Moore @scottmoorebears]

@North2North Next time you’re down this way..let me know I’d love to buy you dinner. FYI I’m a Bears a season ticket holder and make the drive up for games. Also..Sox guy. Keep up the good work brother!

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Gonna be honest here, I’ve always kinda wanted my own Water Buffalo hat.

[Inglewood Jack @Inglewoodjack99]

@grahamformaine

[Art Berman @aeberman12]

The global oil system has offset almost 90% of Hormuz barrels

17.5 mmb/d has been offset with bypass pipelines, reduced Chinese imports, increased US export, SPR releases & demand destruction

#Oil #Hormuz #EnergyMarkets #CrudeOil #DemandDestruction #EnergySecurity #Commodities

[Dan Pompei @danpompei]

Many who go to games will not like it, but the Bears will thrive across the state line. They follow a long line of good businesses out of Illinois, and many more are likely to follow, given the leadership in the Land of Lincoln.

[Jersey Jerry @Jerrythekid21]

61,667 Men make a choice each month. June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Life is better with you here. Bro to bro, Love you 💙.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Chicago is basically just a warzone

[Mike North @North2North]

I’m gonna be hung over like a bear in the morning and the car smells like onions . 😂🇺🇸🔥#GodblessAmerica 🇺🇸

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

My favorite Elvis is “Demonstrating karate right after the horse tranquilizers kicked in” Elvis.

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

Micron volume $180b this week, my god this stock IPO'd during Reagan's first term and it just now hit the big time. You love to see it.

[Scott E Moore @scottmoorebears]

The GOAT

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Mocking of Christ, by Cimabue, 1280 (flipped), 📸 by @albello55

[Bryan Hodgson Believer @reallukefonts]

Mfs will see this and still say P4