Aristophanes 6,912 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Strepsiades Flunks Out It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad […]
J. G. Fichte 6,359 words 1. “I am what I freely make myself to be” This is the sixth essay I have written for Counter-Currents on the German idealist J. G. Fichte (see the introductory essay here), and it is effectively a continuation of my series on “Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics.” However, the reader need […]
From a synthesis of T.S. Eliot, Josef Conrad, and F.W. Nietzsche the movie Apocalypse Now questioned the humanist morality of the West and how it could oppose those who, like the Mongols, Huns, or Moors who invaded us in the past, had no such moral qualms. Instead it offered an alternative through the speech by […]
1,717 words The following is a transcript, video (see below), and audio recording of Kevin MacDonald speaking during a panel discussion at this year’s Counter-Currents retreat on the subject of individualism. The title is editorial. We would like to thank Hyacinth Bouquet for the transcript. To listen to the audio recording in a player, click […]
2,314 words “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’r the land of . . .” The average American adult has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28.2. BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms, or pounds, divided by the square of height in meters (or feet). A high BMI can indicate high body […]
My own life is intuitively spent not on a conquest of the New World or new worlds but on the search for reality. Despite schools now preparing young children for a Martian world while normalizing the presence of un-identified flying objects, future reality might turn out to be completely different. Western Education has unilaterally decided […]
208 words / 1:12:42 Gregory Hood was Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they talked about the new movie The Northman plus YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:01:57 Overview of The Northman‘s themes 00:06:12 Destiny and fate vs. the modern […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, left, and David Hume. 3,901 words “No good deed goes unpunished,” as the old saw goes. It puts a cynical, waggish twist on the perspicacious observation that acts of genuine generosity and kindness too often come to grief. Benefactors beware! Shades of Thomas Hobbes: “Man to man is a wolf.” The Scottish philosopher […]
Conservatism existed before the French Revolution. Then we were simply those who reminded everyone that there were no new ideas under the sun, that particularized and local decisions mattered more than centralization, and that time-honored things existed for a reason. After the French Revolution, all of us who realized that equality was both not found […]
J. G. Fichte meets Immanuel Kant, 1791 6,194 words 1. “The circumference of my world is equivalent to the limits of my will.” In my last essay, we established that for Fichte self-consciousness is an ultimate fact. We saw via our own experiments in introspection that the “I” — this “presence” that says, in effect […]
Humanity, like a computer system, has a backdoor, and when a virus attacks this, it not only gains access but quickly elevates its privileges and takes over. For an insight into this backdoor, look to the Garden of Eden mythos or The Odyssey: humans seek to be gods, or at least to LARP as gods, […]
Conservatives make themselves look like oafs when they rage around, looking for something tangible to hit and some perfect weapon to hit with it. Knowing nothing but Leftism, they end up waging war for democracy by accusing others of “racism.” The future regarding American religion remains unclear, but it seems obvious that even if we […]
During the early years of learning to write code, becoming fascinated with sorting routines seems like a rite of passage. After you write your first bubble sort, it seems that everything else is an optimization on that. First, you learn to treat the task as a human — optimized by millions of years of natural […]
Schedel’s Phoenix from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 2,484 words If I had to recommend one book on politics, it would be James Burnham’s The Machiavellians. If I had to recommend one pamphlet, it would be an overlooked gem of American political discourse, Sam Francis’s The Other Side of Modernism: James Burnham and His Legacy. There is no white identitarian, […]
G. W. Leibniz Memorial in Leipzig 7,565 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here 1. Introduction: Leibniz and the Completion of Metaphysics Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz (1646–1716) is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of ideas. A true polymath, he was not […]
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