TIME MAGAZINE has named TAYLOR SWIFT as PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2023. Taylor Swift not Jonathan Swift. This Blogger understands that Taylor Swift has a very important impact on the culture;  in the firmament of Thighs , as the Great White Hope in White Women Thighs; with the goal being to dethrone  Beyonce’s Black Thighs as the thighs non-pariel in American culture. Ms. Swift is a singer, an entertainer, an actor who was notable in that notable failure of a film, CATS. Ms. Swift has been an economic powerhouse and has inspired  America's  wandering and rootless  young people to register to vote. But she has not won a Nobel Prize for Literature, like  Bob Dylan; nor does her political power match the political or social power of  the singer/actor Metrobius, who held sway over Rome; because he held sway over Sulla. Her selection as the  2023 PERSON OF THE YEAR stunningly reflects the bankruptcy of achievement, endemic in Joe Biden’s 2023 America. In 202...

  One of the great ongoing, continuing fears of the dwindling band of victorious Cold War warriors, is how off- base American intellectuals are in their thought processes. For example, two of America’s greatest intellectuals, Professor Scott Galloway and Fareed Zakaria discussed the Israel-HAMAS War on Galloway’s podcast. The following is the relevant dialog:   “  GALLOWAY : I increasingly believe that the geopolitical or the catastrophic geopolitical decision of the last 50 years will be seen as our invasion of Iraq. ZAKARIA-Our weariness, the resources expended where like someone has gotten their eyebrows burned and we just don't want to get near any hot surface    any longer in the Middle East, that whether it's taking out a natural buffer to Iran, this incredible vacuum that we will in the fullness of time look back on going too far. Going into Afghanistan, absolutely justification. But going into Iraq will be seen as probably the greatest geopolitical ...