Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 43

• I wonder if the mysterious lights some people in the sky are actually spirit orbs that ghost investigators see in haunted locations like cemeteries and buildings. I am not saying all UFOs are spirit orbs—only the UFOs that look like lights. I mean who says orbs cannot travel in the sky.
• If earth has been visited by extraterrestrials since the telescope has been invented then why hasn't any ground telescopes and even the Hubble telescope seen them?
• Liberty and innovation cannot be sustained under socialism.
• Race doesn’t matter. I mean whatever happened to “judge a person by the content of his character not by the color of his skin.”
• Relativism + positivism + historicism = borderline insanity.
• I wonder how many people who are against the border wall have a wall around their yards or live in gated communities to keep out the riff-raff?
• Cultural appropriation is a dumb concept. Cultures change and sometimes they change through adoption or borrowing of another culture’s ideas, arts, etc. All free cultures do this. America is no exception. Cultural anthropologists call this process of borrowing, diffusion.
• Jefferson Davis like LBJ were leaders who thought they knew better than their generals to run a war. Because of this arrogance they meddled in their wars and lost. President Lincoln on the other hand listened to his generals. 
• If no news cameras show up at a protest, do the protesters disband and go home?
• Three stages of political philosophy from lowest maturity to highest: Progressivism (child) --> Libertarianism (adolescent) –> Conservatism (adult).