You are such a brilliant researcher and writer, Cynthia. I learn so much from you. I'm going to be using the phrase 'mushy liberal,' which captures the phenomenon of empty sentimentality without running the numbers on how policies play out. My town of Santa Cruz has the highest ratio of homeless to residents in California, and California has the highest ratio in the country. So it's a problem of mushy thinking I encounter daily and my economic model looks at how to change it with five years when transients (including students) go back to where they were born or have family now, where the community has the tools to strengthen families, who then have financial incentives to help their own members.
I've wondered how fentanyl figures in, which I think has been a CIA plot against street drugs, including home growers now that it's legal. But I also has included some pharma products that I talk about here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/opioids-and-the-new-opium-war.
And finally, do you know the Kuang series on The Poppy War? I did an episode on that and Fadi Lama's book Why the West Can't Win, only realizing in the process they were about the same event. The horror of Manchukuo is something I can't believe I got this far in life and never knew about. Here's that episode and thank you again for this deep and elucidating information: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/poppy-wars-and-manchukuo-monsters.
You are such a brilliant researcher and writer, Cynthia. I learn so much from you. I'm going to be using the phrase 'mushy liberal,' which captures the phenomenon of empty sentimentality without running the numbers on how policies play out. My town of Santa Cruz has the highest ratio of homeless to residents in California, and California has the highest ratio in the country. So it's a problem of mushy thinking I encounter daily and my economic model looks at how to change it with five years when transients (including students) go back to where they were born or have family now, where the community has the tools to strengthen families, who then have financial incentives to help their own members.
I've wondered how fentanyl figures in, which I think has been a CIA plot against street drugs, including home growers now that it's legal. But I also has included some pharma products that I talk about here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/opioids-and-the-new-opium-war.
And finally, do you know the Kuang series on The Poppy War? I did an episode on that and Fadi Lama's book Why the West Can't Win, only realizing in the process they were about the same event. The horror of Manchukuo is something I can't believe I got this far in life and never knew about. Here's that episode and thank you again for this deep and elucidating information: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/poppy-wars-and-manchukuo-monsters.