John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the most prolific economic writers of all time. Good writer too. At least technically speaking.

Don't get me wrong, as an economist, he was totally out to lunch with his ideas and his policy prescriptions. Naturally, then, Galbraith was a darling of the institutional left. Most of us, I'd gather, stand firmly opposed to anything that the Left has to offer today.

So, not surprisingly—given his output and ideological bent—Galbraith spent more than 50 years as a professor at Harvard University.

He wrote 48 books.

He wrote over 1,000 essays and reports and research for journals, and he was an absolute superstar in the academic world and among the circles of the leftist elite, including the corporate media.

One day, late in his life, a journalist interviewed Galbraith about writing. “What did you learn from your career in writing?”

“I learned something very interesting,” Galbraith said, “that the quality of the writing I do on the days I don’t feel like it is just as good as the quality of writing I do on the days I do feel like it.”

So take this lesson from a real writer.

Just because you don’t feel like it, that doesn’t mean you won't do it well.

What do you need to do that you don't feel like doing?

As always,

Brian

P.S. – I'd suggest that most of us need to speak up. Particularly those who are afraid of standing up to the clownish Biden-Harris regime.

We are called to get our voice out there in the world. But the vast majority of us don't feel like doing it. Fear can be paralyzing.

Meanwhile, Western Civilization crumbles in front of us as a good many simply try to keep a roof over our heads.

Now, John Kenneth Galbraith was certainly a menace. To call him—or at least his ideas—a destroyer of civilization is not an inaccurate description.

We have him to thank for suggesting or encouraging such insanities as the carbon tax, bans or taxes on plastic (or paper) grocery sacks, the obsession over banning or taxing out of existence "trans fats," egregious property tax valuations and rates, penalizing drivers with fuel taxes (without even the littlest concern for using the revenue "for the roads"), so-called "sin taxes" on tobacco, alcohol, and meat, and taxes on "noise pollution." Many such cases.

I don't know much about Galbraith personally, but I can't imagine he was a bundle of lollipops and cotton candy to be around. Furthermore, his ideas are those that are designed to discourage the human race from flourishing as a species. This alone is not to be taken lightly.

He was a popular, rich, and well-known guy. An "elite." Well, if you remember back to 1985, so was Boyd Aviation's Alan Stanwyk.

"He's a bad guy, Gail," said Irwin M. Fletcher to Mrs. Stanwyk, understating the reality of her husband's business dealings, infidelity, and bigamy.

Just because we don't want to see the evil in people doesn't mean it's not there.

There are good guys and there are bad guys. We need more good guys. The bad guys are to be shunned from society.

Those who allow the human race to flourish are the good guys. Those who prevent human flourishing are the bad guys. Simple equation.

Well, we are in the human flourishing business. And that is also the mission of our new magazine, The Los Gatos Review. We provide a platform for sane, cogent, and sober ideas to get out into the real world.

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