Anti-liberal author Michel Houellebecq (previous reviews here, here, and here) returns with Serotonin, a new novel about the collapse of the West: Michel Houellebcq has chronicled the deracinated state of modern France, as he sees it. Made selfish by the generation of ’68, detached from morality by easy access to pornography, alienated from its history, […]
Conservatives fail because they do not understand conservatism. Most intuit that it is something like defense of the majority viewpoint and the recent past, but in doing so, forget that they are defending a society which is half or more outright Leftist. (A more sensible definition says that conservatives conserve, which means that they preserve […]
Modern citizens find it hard to believe that there was a time before modernity. Most cannot separate this time from technology, but modernity is more than that: the idea of societies united around control by symbol, administered by bureaucracy, in the name of individualism. Francis Fukuyama wrote a convincing tome about the end of history […]
Cancel culture taints The Linux Foundation, developer publicly disinvited from event over political opinions Linux developer wears MAGA hat in humorous photo, and then the usual neurotics agitate for his removal from a conference. Conference gives in, and now the echo chamber is complete. Red China’s paid accomplices in the U.S. China sponsors “experts,” then […]
Today’s article will be appearing at 11:11 for obvious reasons. It is an important one; another crack in the wall of the great evil that grips our time has shown itself, and it requires a somber moment for contemplation.
In life, we end up with a series of goals. Some are practical, some long-term, and some are moral. While the everyday stuff requires relatively little thought, the latter two categories present a challenge in that we have to decide how serious we are. A long-term goal, like having a civilization, does not strike us […]
When word got out that the Iron March forum user database had leaked, I reached out to former members to see if they wanted to upgrade from the relatively mainstream National Socialist position to something truly radical like the restorationist trad futurist Ult-Right, and many took advantage of this and signed up to our mailing […]
Big-brained humans like to think that we consider decisions in terms of their universal effect, sort of like the golden rule. In reality, the Iron Rule applies: every thing (object, person, group, idea, gene) acts only in its own self-interest alone. We saw this crop up locally with a proposed noise ordinance. It intends to […]
Trump adviser warns China exporting tech authoritarianism A theme for the twenty-first century appears: independence from “tech authoritarianism.” We might see this as part of a bigger picture, which is independence from symbolic control, by which some group of people rules over us through manipulating the masses with symbols of “good” (=) and “bad” (≠). […]
Equality reduces everyone to the same starting point, which if you think about it, means a very low level. This shows how equality always serves as a negative sanction, not a growth in the good. It stops some from rising above the rest and triggering them. This means that we depend on social goodwill, or […]
Mene, mene, tekel, parsin. The writing is on the wall, so we must not lose hope nor heart. In the book of Daniel, chapter 5, we witness a King who believes himself to be outside the boundaries of decency and goodness who is forced to face a moment that he could never see coming. He […]
Elizabeth Warren knows one big thing. She is your typical midwit affirmative action hire bureaucrat that doesn’t know much else. She does not have to. She’s the squirrel who found the right nut. It is seeing her through the lifelong winter of her own pathetic, lukewarm mediocrity. Elizabeth Warren knows that democracy is based upon […]
Illegal immigrant population inside US surged 550,000 in 2019 The Left operates by the simple principle of defeating the opposition by pointing out exceptions to rules. If you say that life treats everyone fairly, they find some guy living in an outhouse and claim you are wrong and evil, then use that to demand that […]
We stand at a point in history where a lot of parentheses are being closed. Whenever humans try something new, we open a parenthesis in our minds, since we know that we will have to watch the results of this action to see what happens, especially in the long term, because only at the end […]
Slotting oneself on the political spectrum proves more difficult than people think. First because most people measure it incorrectly, and second because it rarely applies in the strict categorical ways that people want it to. For those who view politics as a clash of philosophies, it is clear that you have two groups, the egalitarians […]
Cartels consist of really bad, mean, evil and viscious people. They sell bad and unpleasant things at ridiculous rates, they own a coercive monopoly, and they charge people a protection fee just to maintain what property they consider their own. The ill-gotten gains of this activity are then spread about to buy continued coopertion in […]
Tucson voters soundly reject ‘sanctuary city’ initiative 71.4% of voters in Tucson decided not to participate in the symbolic resistance to those who want to prevent America from being overrun with illegal immigrants. Perhaps they realized that all of the sanctuary cities out there seem to be having massive problems. Kansas City votes to remove […]
Under rule by the workers/proles, we declare ourselves “free,” but since that term means nothing without an object (“free from x“) it becomes mere marketing, and we realize now that we are simply enslaved to something new, and unlike the feudal order, it does not see us as important. In the realm of equality, we […]
Trump presses Mexico on security after nine Mormon women and children killed American Mormons discover that Mexico is not such a great place to settle since it is wracked by violence because its only functional industries appear to be the sale of illict drugs, and tourism. This makes for an ordinarily unstable third world nation […]
A positive view of humanity says that, while our current regimes are failing, this is part of a larger process by which we are emerging from a time of illusion. Specifically, we focused on symbols because those manipulate a group, and that caused us to ignore the underlying reality. From this comes an even more […]
Ayn Rand famously had a character in Atlas Shrugged remark that nobody notices philosophers until they disappear. I take her meaning but would phrase the sentiment more directly. Nobody notices the absence of philosophers, mathematicians, leaders, et al, until one is required and nobody steps up like a gifted back-up QB. Then, struck with the […]
Outrage after AfD scorn mixed-race girl playing ‘Christ Child’ They are not wrong. Germans need to be ruled by the images of ethnic Germans, not foreigners. No matter how much time someone foreign in blood spends in Germany, they will never be a German. This is why back in the 1990s I opted, unlike many […]
For most of my life, I loathed conservatives for the same reason I detested white people: they were clever morons, that is, people smart enough to manipulate the world but too dumb to have wisdom in it, and therefore they always replaced good things with ersatz inferiors. This cleverness really is the disease of white […]
The first time South Africa won the Rugby World Cup was in 1995, just one year after the country held “democratic” elections and appointed Nelson Mandela as President. Here is the team and their Manager: The second time South Africa won was 12 years later in 2007 when Thabo Mbeki was President: The third time […]
It is difficult to orient oneself when the ground keeps slipping beneath you. That might well describe this time, where political activity seems chaotic because it reflects a cultural battle that began long ago, in the 1990s. During the previous decade, most of what had been happening with the culture wars went on hold. Carter […]
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Anti-liberal author Michel Houellebecq (previous reviews here, here, and here) returns with Serotonin, a new novel about the collapse of the West: Michel Houellebcq has chronicled the deracinated state of modern France, as he sees it. Made selfish by the generation of ’68, detached from morality by easy access to pornography, alienated from its history, […]
Cancel culture taints The Linux Foundation, developer publicly disinvited from event over political opinions Linux developer wears MAGA hat in humorous photo, and then the usual neurotics agitate for his removal from a conference. Conference gives in, and now the echo chamber is complete. Red China’s paid accomplices in the U.S. China sponsors “experts,” then […]
Big-brained humans like to think that we consider decisions in terms of their universal effect, sort of like the golden rule. In reality, the Iron Rule applies: every thing (object, person, group, idea, gene) acts only in its own self-interest alone. We saw this crop up locally with a proposed noise ordinance. It intends to […]
Trump adviser warns China exporting tech authoritarianism A theme for the twenty-first century appears: independence from “tech authoritarianism.” We might see this as part of a bigger picture, which is independence from symbolic control, by which some group of people rules over us through manipulating the masses with symbols of “good” (=) and “bad” (≠). […]
Illegal immigrant population inside US surged 550,000 in 2019 The Left operates by the simple principle of defeating the opposition by pointing out exceptions to rules. If you say that life treats everyone fairly, they find some guy living in an outhouse and claim you are wrong and evil, then use that to demand that […]
We stand at a point in history where a lot of parentheses are being closed. Whenever humans try something new, we open a parenthesis in our minds, since we know that we will have to watch the results of this action to see what happens, especially in the long term, because only at the end […]
Cartels consist of really bad, mean, evil and viscious people. They sell bad and unpleasant things at ridiculous rates, they own a coercive monopoly, and they charge people a protection fee just to maintain what property they consider their own. The ill-gotten gains of this activity are then spread about to buy continued coopertion in […]
Under rule by the workers/proles, we declare ourselves “free,” but since that term means nothing without an object (“free from x“) it becomes mere marketing, and we realize now that we are simply enslaved to something new, and unlike the feudal order, it does not see us as important. In the realm of equality, we […]
Trump presses Mexico on security after nine Mormon women and children killed American Mormons discover that Mexico is not such a great place to settle since it is wracked by violence because its only functional industries appear to be the sale of illict drugs, and tourism. This makes for an ordinarily unstable third world nation […]
Outrage after AfD scorn mixed-race girl playing ‘Christ Child’ They are not wrong. Germans need to be ruled by the images of ethnic Germans, not foreigners. No matter how much time someone foreign in blood spends in Germany, they will never be a German. This is why back in the 1990s I opted, unlike many […]
