Democracy is a Lie I have come to understand that bi-partisanship is a great evil not a great good. It is portrayed as the defusing of an explosive political issue. In reality it is a way to disguise the fact that issues are not being debated. That the big decisions are all made in secret […]
To the Left, everything was going along swimmingly until suddenly these difficult people like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump showed up to wreck it. To observers with more of a time-scale, the bigger picture reveals that this resentment has been building for two decades. We barely got through the Cold War before the Left, enraged […]
Amid protests for democracy, Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities strive to be heard Everywhere it is tried, diversity fails. In Hong Kong, diversity merely fans the flames of the riots and provides other groups to whine about their self-interest, fragmenting any drive toward an actual solution. The whole setup is so stupid that you have to […]
When people tell you things, if they have to also tell you how to think about them, it is an artificial narrative. Consider the badly-told joke. It must be explained to be funny. Even worse, sometimes it requires you to assume that certain things are good and bad for it to be funny, so you […]
Looking over the events of this week, it became clear that the postwar order has well and truly ended. America was able to bind itself together with a fusion of its founding ideals and the liberalism it had picked up during the Great Depression. That meant that we moved the center to the Left, oriented […]
Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten They want to make “hate speech” illegal, apparently not realizing that they have then created a broad exception which can be used to punish any non-regime speech, defeating the point of the rule. However, indoctrination works, especially with young people who live in the consumer bubble, and […]
A friend of mine sold a property in town. His comment, when I congratulated him, was that he would have asked more if he had known about the taxes. Property taxes, capital gains taxes, licensing fees, and then income taxes on any rental he was paid before he sold. Taxes make people greedy. When you […]
Poor toilet hygiene behind E. coli superbug spread Back in the early 2000s, we were spreading the Third World USA trope (verbal meme) as a way of describing what happened after Bill Clinton took over. Standards relaxed; interpretations relaxed. Everyone got liberalized. This meant that “anything goes” replaced “do it right the first time” as […]
The Right prides itself in being a big tent where anyone who is not following the unrealistic path to egalitarianism can hang out. We are not united by one big ideal, like “equality,” as the Left are; instead we have gut instincts, common sense, history, and an ideal of being both realistic and reaching for […]
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.- Ravi Zacharias On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme […]
Nature’s Solution to Climate Change People are only beginning to understand ecosystemics, which is a way of thinking about events as polycausal, both giving and getting, and over the iterations of time that make simple, direct acts less effective and indirect, mutually beneficially acts enduring. For example, whales take a lot from the oceans, but […]
Nature’s Solution to Climate Change People are only beginning to understand ecosystemics, which is a way of thinking about events as polycausal, both giving and getting, and over the iterations of time that make simple, direct acts less effective and indirect, mutually beneficially acts enduring. For example, whales take a lot from the oceans, but […]
Candidates nervously discuss automation. Inevitably, it means that jobs will be replaced — the usual metaphor is that you do not see many buggy whip makers anymore — but even more, there is the fear that we will not have enough jobs for people to move to from what they do now. On the other […]
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. – Bill Hicks What do you believe? And from where did it come? All which we believe may indeed depend upon our environment in which we grew up with addition to whether we rejected or accepted that environment, of which has the potential […]
Herman Mashaba: Johannesburg’s black mayor resigns over DA race row Black politician resigns white party after it elects politician who praises “some” aspects of colonialism. This shows South Africa recognizing, as the rest of the world is, that multi-racial and multi-ethnic societies cannot function because they have paradoxical goals: they either try to keep everyone […]
Every civilization needs a mission statement to hold it together. The best mission statements, ironically, turn out to be those which are not language at all, but genetic similarity leading to a similar interpretation of culture. Some prefer the idea of the ideological state, where citizens are united by their pursuit of a particular political, […]
Choosing the next King of an Empire has been a thorn in organizational stability across the ages. Nature abhors a vacuum, as the saying goes, which explains why succession remains an enduring problem even in business: The relationship between succession planning and successful succession has shown mixed results, with some authors finding a positive relationship ( […]
Air pollution is now a ‘health emergency’, head of NHS England warns It turns out that our modern inventions — petrochemical motors, agricultural chemicals, and dense urban areas — are killing us. What should we do? We could go back to living in smaller communities, having tighter bonds, and using less stuff, or we could […]
In the theory of modern society, a “social contract” exists between government and citizens, whereby government protects the citizens and citizens pay taxes to government. Critical thinking offers a different look: government offers pleasant notions that citizens pay taxes to support. For example, we had the New Deal and Great Society programs, both of which […]
Mind Matters (1981) by Marguerite Iwersen 116 pages, DeVorss, $6 We might view history as a great lattice of paths, with some coinciding in nexuses where certain ideas reach clarity, sort of like how learning staggers from plateau to plain and then repeats that pattern at a higher level. Mind Matters explores where hermeticism, German […]
China has destroyed large areas of one of Tibet’s biggest Buddhist sites, satellite images reveal Control is addictive. If you understand cause and effect, you change cause to shape the world toward what you intend; this does not allow you to get exactly what you want, have it apply uniformly to all cases, or happen […]
Most people today have no idea both of the great spectacle of the fall of the Soviet Union and, prior to a few years before that fall, how terrifying the Communism presence was to those of us threatened by their nuclear missiles and tanks. They also tend to forget that the Communists stated their goal […]
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. […]
The book featured above is the LD50 gallery publication about Neoreaction, an extreme libertarian movement that wants to create an extreme realist fascism by formally recognizing the financial incentives behind government and making them transparent. It operates more as a thought experiment than anything else. In a Neoreactionary world, society would be divided up into […]
Keeping the peace among diversity contributes to a rise in police suicides increasing as more different populations share the same nation: Almost 60% of femicide-suicides were committed by men working in the police force, security industry or armed forces, says the study’s lead author, Women in relationships with men in these professions are at significantly […]
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Democracy is a Lie I have come to understand that bi-partisanship is a great evil not a great good. It is portrayed as the defusing of an explosive political issue. In reality it is a way to disguise the fact that issues are not being debated. That the big decisions are all made in secret […]
To the Left, everything was going along swimmingly until suddenly these difficult people like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump showed up to wreck it. To observers with more of a time-scale, the bigger picture reveals that this resentment has been building for two decades. We barely got through the Cold War before the Left, enraged […]
Amid protests for democracy, Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities strive to be heard Everywhere it is tried, diversity fails. In Hong Kong, diversity merely fans the flames of the riots and provides other groups to whine about their self-interest, fragmenting any drive toward an actual solution. The whole setup is so stupid that you have to […]
When people tell you things, if they have to also tell you how to think about them, it is an artificial narrative. Consider the badly-told joke. It must be explained to be funny. Even worse, sometimes it requires you to assume that certain things are good and bad for it to be funny, so you […]
Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten They want to make “hate speech” illegal, apparently not realizing that they have then created a broad exception which can be used to punish any non-regime speech, defeating the point of the rule. However, indoctrination works, especially with young people who live in the consumer bubble, and […]
Poor toilet hygiene behind E. coli superbug spread Back in the early 2000s, we were spreading the Third World USA trope (verbal meme) as a way of describing what happened after Bill Clinton took over. Standards relaxed; interpretations relaxed. Everyone got liberalized. This meant that “anything goes” replaced “do it right the first time” as […]
Nature’s Solution to Climate Change People are only beginning to understand ecosystemics, which is a way of thinking about events as polycausal, both giving and getting, and over the iterations of time that make simple, direct acts less effective and indirect, mutually beneficially acts enduring. For example, whales take a lot from the oceans, but […]
Herman Mashaba: Johannesburg’s black mayor resigns over DA race row Black politician resigns white party after it elects politician who praises “some” aspects of colonialism. This shows South Africa recognizing, as the rest of the world is, that multi-racial and multi-ethnic societies cannot function because they have paradoxical goals: they either try to keep everyone […]
Mind Matters (1981) by Marguerite Iwersen 116 pages, DeVorss, $6 We might view history as a great lattice of paths, with some coinciding in nexuses where certain ideas reach clarity, sort of like how learning staggers from plateau to plain and then repeats that pattern at a higher level. Mind Matters explores where hermeticism, German […]
China has destroyed large areas of one of Tibet’s biggest Buddhist sites, satellite images reveal Control is addictive. If you understand cause and effect, you change cause to shape the world toward what you intend; this does not allow you to get exactly what you want, have it apply uniformly to all cases, or happen […]
