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| Review of ‘ The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros’ | |
| 2022-11-27 | |
This god complex, combined with his downright amorality and bizarre ideas about society, makes the 92-year-old extremely dangerous to democracies, especially America. The warning comes loud and clear in Matt Palumbo’s recent book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, which documents Soros’s decades of financial dealings, political operations, and nefarious networks. Early in the book, Palumbo highlights Soros’s amorality, planted perhaps when his Hungarian Jewish family assumed Christian identities and collaborated with the invading Nazis. The teenaged Soros accompanied his phony godfather, who inventoried properties seized from Jewish families sent to concentration camps. Yet, he says he feels no guilt, only detachment. “I was only a spectator; the property was being taken away. I had no role in taking away that property. So, I had no sense of guilt,” he said in a 1998 interview on 60 Minutes. He likened his actions then to his playing the markets later. “In a funny way,” he said, “it’s just like in the markets – that if I weren’t there – of course, I wasn’t doing it – but somebody else would – would be taking it away anyhow.” He recounts that period as “probably the happiest year of my life” and “a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.” Besides hubris and amorality, two major ideas drive Soros. He has a personal theory of ‘reflexivity’ and the philosophy of Karl Popper, his guru at the London School of Economics (LSE). Both have inbuilt ironies. While ‘reflexivity’ might be just an eccentric speculator’s hobby horse, Popper’s ideas, riding on Soros’s mind and money, could lead the free world into an anarchist-leftist hell. Simply put, reflexivity says the world is very complex, so humans use perceptual shortcuts like generalizations, dichotomies, metaphors, and decision rules. These, in turn, affect reality via the changes they cause in human behavior. Soros believes that, guided by this concept, he has gamed the markets by recognizing when perception and reality are at enough variance for betting big. Like all ‘systems’ to beat the casino, this is humbug and hubris, for it posits someone immune to the perceptual shortcomings that, by the premise, afflict everyone. But every successful speculator’s theorizing gains some indulgence, never mind the informants and networks he’ll never mention. Nor is Soros innocent of insider trading, either. That is Soros’s business. What should worry us is his obsession with implementing Popper’s ideas. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, Popper propounded that no single philosophy possesses the truth, no society is superior to another, and ‘closed’ cultures are built on taboos and a single version of reality. In Soros’s words, in ‘open’ cultures, “nobody has a monopoly on the truth; a society which is not dominated by the state or any particular ideology, where minorities and minority opinions are respected.” | |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #4 /\ SPOD - They know who he is, they know what he is. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-27 17:32 |
| #3 I would like for the next congress to take a long hard look at this bastard |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-11-27 17:00 |
| #2 "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." - Blade (1998) Assholes like Søros will keep trying. What GawD has destined for every people and His own, nothing can supplant. There was this other asshole Nimrod once who had similar aspirations. This one's plans seem tied to fall of the entire corrupt world system somehow. The world is becoming an anarchist hellhole not because of Søros or his lackeys. It's because we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by corrupt bastards without periodic violent reminders of who works for whom. If there is to be anarchy, I say it should be the good guys doing it. Won't say more. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-11-27 11:30 |
| #1 If I may suggest a simple State/Federal Election Law? Since elected officials are to represent their state's voters and NOT outside interests. All campaign money must originate within the state of the candidate. Commercially run business employing 5 or more and only voters registered in that state are allowed to donate. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-11-27 08:37 |