One of my loyal readers suggests
in a comment on an earlier blog that I should focus more on commerce. He
notes my periodic focus on Jews and Israel. I actually have two other
blogs, one on marketing and one on issues relating to my book Commerce
(I don't write in them often).
So what am I blogging about here and
what do Jews have to do with it?
I'm blogging about my unique
experience as founder of the first and largest business network: the
Briarpatch which was active for a dozen years and had over 600 member
businesses at its peak. I have been a business consultant to over two
thousand businesses, including Briarpatch businesses, in all parts of the world including several of the worlds
largest corporations.
I am blogging about the nature of
commerce. The material is fully explicated in my book Commerce which is
in paper and online. I am adding to the observations in the book.
My
blog is not 'actionable' as my friend Hans says. You can't invest in
anything based on this blog, or sell for that matter.
Commerce is the source of the modern world....our bountiful health,
technology and freedom are the fruits of commerce. Commerce has a
direction. The more meritocratic a society is, the more open and honest
a society is, the more diverse, the more market oriented, the more
welcoming to innovation and the more technologically oriented a society is
the more commerce will thrive. The converse is also true.
Some
of my blogs are focused on Lefties (I'm negative about the Left), others
on Jews and Israel.
The single most coherent ideology of the
Left, now that communism and making the New Man have failed, is
anti-commerce. The Left is an accretion of many anti-commerce vistas
from environmentalism, anarchism, anti-globalism, Ludditism to
everything else left in the dust bin of history.
The Jews and
Israel are the canary in the cage for the pro commerce world. If people
hate Jews or Israel they hate commerce. The three circles are 99.76%
congruent. Israel is the second most effective, efficient and
innovative society on the planet behind the U.S. and ahead of Japan.
(See the Singer/Senor book Start-up Nation). Anti-Americanism and
anti-Japan are also just as anti-commerce as anti-Jew and anti-Israel.
Jews
are not the only commercially successful people on the planet, there
are many others including the Japanese, the Overseas Chinese and the
Scots. I report on the mistreatment of these other groups when they
happen. Nothing currently matches the global level of Jew hate (article on the new Yale center to study this issue).
If I were an Arab or part Arab my pro commerce blog would often complain about the absence of meritocracy, innovation, openness or honesty in Arab society.