TheLolGuy

Thanks for posting this MM! I used to get so excited when I was younger about these films which were usually replayed every year about Christmas time. Now that I think about them more, the facade is that they are light entertainment and innocent comedy, but beneath that is quite a serious and dark plot! The fact that a family could forget their own child, and that a child has to resort to violence to defeat burglars, is actually disturbing! If I ever see these movies again I will have a sharper analytical eye on it.

Tom Woods recently did a podcast in which he interviewed a historian about the friendly societies. Check it out on iTunes! I think it was called "What did people do before the welfare state?"

The period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War is widely regarded as one of the most peaceful centuries in western Europe. That is not to be taken as to mean there was a peaceful paradise in which no blood was spilt. There was the rise of nationalism, wars of unification, riots and failed revolutions against machinery and governments. However compared to the frequency of wars in the medieval periods and that following WW1, it was relatively quiet.

I believe he is an editor for the New Statesman now, a British and typically leftist newspaper. I'm not sure how far he would be willing to stray from the expectations of his current employers, but he has come this far criticising the efficacy of voting, so who knows?

I would be interested to see, if it's possible and generally desired, the neuroscientists Mark Solms and or Oliver Turnbull interviewed on their work in the field of "neuropsychoanalysis." They have put to test several of Freud's claims and found some corroborative though rather tentative results, especially concerning dreams. This relatively new field of enquiry seems quite promising! Here is their website: http://www.neuropsa.org.uk/

Is taking a couple of sweets which you were offered or thinking you deserved to win a monopoly game when you did win it (even if it was rigged), 'unethical' behaviour? As someone who has and knows others who have been the victim of violent assaults, robberies and burglaries, I can assure you that in my experience non of the criminals were of the upper class. They were without exception from working class or underclass backgrounds and areas. And I think anybody would regard that as immeasurably more unethical behaviour than winning a board game. I have also found it abundantly common that same sense of entitlement and shallowness amongst lower class people as others. Of course there are exceptions but this has been my experience as someone who was born in and raised in a working class area.

I believe Tyson is one big old statist. What would Stef want to talk to him about?

Wow this is a seriously powerful video. There is a lot to be learnt from it! Would love to see Stefan's thoughts on it and possibly get an interview with them! Set it up Mr MMD![rollsmile]