Paul Frijters interviewed by Andrew Hilton, Centre for Study of Financial Innovation, September 22, 2021
The Great Covid Panic
A NEW WESTERN RELIGION TAKES SHAPE (June 27, 2022)
New global institutions, politicians hope, will assist in ensuring the flock remains deeply obedient to their leaders, is preoccupied with self-loathing, and continues to be wary of any fellow man with whom they might have organised resistance.
WE CAN ALL BE EVIL AND THE GERMANS WERE NOTHING SPECIAL (June 20, 2022)
The past two years have proved that the Germans of the National Socialist period were really nothing special.
IS THE WEF THE HEADQUARTERS OF ALL EVIL? (June 15, 022)
Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan colorfully described the Soviet Union as “the focus of evil in the modern world.” Today, it seems we have a new candidate for the headquarters
THE FRANKENSTEIN GENERATION: WHAT COVID CONTAINMENT HAS DONE TO OUR CHILDREN (May 2, 2022)
For the past two years, what Western governments have done to the next generation — all in the name of keeping them safe, of course — has been calamitous. Instead of trying to ameliorate problems for our children that were already clear, well-documented and steadily worsening over time, in March 2020 the authorities began to perform particularly gruesome social experiments on them. What kind of generation will result?
WHAT COVID CRIMES WILL VICTIMS NOT FORGIVE (April 14, 2022)
The struggle ahead of us against darkness will surely take many years. Who and what will keep that struggle alive? What hurt will fuel the fight, keeping the fires of resentment burning, and what hurt – real as it may have been – will fade over time and hence be only a weak ally of the soldiers of the resistance?
THE WORLD CATASTROPHE WROUGHT BY COVID LOCKDOWNS (April 20, 2022)
The propaganda is powerful, but reality is still slowly intruding into this make-believe world. Increased food and fuel prices, general inflation, reducing services, and economic hardship cannot be painted over, and the limits of money printing have been reached. Such are the fruits in developed nations of the Great Covid Panic, just as famines are its fruits in poor countries.
CROWD CREATION: A NEW POLITICAL TOOL (March 25, 2022)
Now that the population has gotten used to one form of mobilization and a sizable fraction has found it enjoys the opportunities that mobilization opens up for bullying, new mobilizations for new excuses will be harder to resist.
THE FIVE LABORS OF A RE-ENLIGHTENMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (February 16, 2022)
Together, we can produce the force needed to generate a parallel society with a productive role on its own, but also a winning reformed society that will eventually attract most of the presently shackled majority, thereby delivering true reconciliation after this time of darkness.
WHY ACADEMIA IS DRAWN TO FASCISM (February 2, 2022)
Central to the lure of fascism is the lie that power will not corrupt us. As illustrated poignantly in The Hobbit, the lure of fascism – even to the morally upright person – is the delusion that he can both hold absolute power and continue to be a morally good person. By succumbing to the lure of power, an otherwise good person succumbs to the lie that power corrupts everyone else, but not himself, because he is Better.
HOW POLITICIANS DEAL WITH REBELLION: LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA (January 21, 2022)
Australian politicians are effectively showing us what good students of history they are. They have hanged a rebel leader, adopted his slogans, and quietly given in to some of the rebellion’s demands.
FIVE WAYS THAT PEOPLE REFUSED TO BE FOOLED BY LOCKDOWN MADNESS (January 18, 2022)
Various kinds of people stood apart from the herd at the outset, while some escaped it after it formed. Here we try to describe the main pathways to escape from the madness. We do this only partly out of intellectual curiosity: such an exercise also provides clues as to which of those still in thrall to lockdown orthodoxy might be close to liberating themselves, and what is needed to complete their unshackling.