Friday night thoughts: George Soros is legitimately a genius in every field he worked. He implemented the modern Gene Sharp soft-power machinery. He ran one of the most successful hedge funds in history. Soros spent his entire life denying any objective truth could possibly exist, and that the only "good" government was a supranational set of institutions that would arbitrate the competing interests of a borderless people. Yet, for all his denial that truth could exist and his insistence that secular humanism was the only enlightened way to navigate the world... his entire philosophy of reflexivity was based on the idea that - his own quote - "discrepancy between thought and reality is so great that something will have to give: either reality will have to change, or thought will have to be brought back to the realm of reality." What is reality if not objective truth? Alex Soros is powerful, but dumb in comparison to his father. And ironically the proof of that is that Alex said he is more political than his father. Alex Soros thinks in left versus right terms. His father George operated and thought about 2-3 orders above where these labels mattered. The challenge is, George Soros was enormously successful at building a blueprint which Alex and others are following. If we are to take the Soros machine down, we'll have to understand it better than George ever understood himself.