We — the team that brings you this and about thirty other websites — knew that the site behind Amerika was running out of disk space, but then things went awry when our host at the time decided to install a mandatory update that broke the database. So much for the idea of postmodern America […]
You may remember that around here the opinion was expressed that the Biden administration took over the USA with a stolen election, funded by a Deep State dependent on “globalism” — world democracy plus international trade with China — and promoted by an army of goodthinkers afraid of change. It was also said that Trump […]
NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens,” may go down as the latest dumb trend in a long line of dumb trends driven by people who made too much money off government lurking around the internet trying for fifteen minutes of fame. When you buy an NFT, you essentially buy the right to a digital asset, but mostly […]
Buzz about Elon Musk buying Twitter consumed the airwaves today. To experienced media observers, this story is a “negative space” story, since the events themselves are non-notable but what they acknowledge is really big. Musk buying Twitter in itself should deserve little notice. A businessman sees an asset which is undervalued because of poor performance […]
Humans, we are told, belong to an intelligent species that specializes in pattern recognition. Our ability to use tools, our creativity, and even our emotions arise from identifying patterns of objects and events. However, in the eternal paradox of nature, whatever serves as our strength doubles as a weakness because we rely on it at […]
We delude ourselves with respect to the value of a human life. Those we love and embrace make us set that value to an incalculable infinity. Those that inspire our hatred and antipathy will tempt us as sorely as Lucifer to set that value somewhere in the vicinity of meat on a stick. The Grey […]
Philology tracks history through the subtle changes in language that occur over time. Perhaps a more important science might be trendology, or chronicling the terms and fascinations the define each micro-age. These ages seem to me to occur without a regular schedule and overlap each other. For example, people might talk about a popular show […]
~~~ You might ask yourself how you would know if you were living in a dying species. Species do not have a time-based lifespan so much as one based on adaptation. By definition, failing to adapt means you have no idea what you are not doing that you should be doing. Living in a dying […]
Life seems circuitous because nothing exists in a perfect present tense where you can say, like looking at products on a shelf, “I want that.” You must instead work through cause-effect logic to create the conditions whereby that appears. For a really simple example — forgive me — if you want food, you can perhaps […]
To be human is to be an archaeologist of the intellect, digging through what people did to try to understand what they were thinking, and therefore what they valued, and from that, who they were. This resembles the study of literature more than regular archaeology since you are trying to understand character more than motivation […]
Conservatives might make you wince because their solution to the problem of civilization is to break it up into as many warring groups as there are citizens. This is the nature of “freedom.” Like unions and insurance, “freedom” spreads out the impact of stupidity by making everyone pay a little bit instead of those who […]
Ages in the human world are moved by ideas. This seems improbable but it is true because ideas narrow the focus of our thinking and reduce it to a few tokens, and we then move those around to try to manipulate to get the result we want. This process, called rationalization, is how societies die. […]
Over the last couple decades, the generational theory of ideas has made the most sense to me. You only get to move forward in terms of events and changes recognized when the oldest generation dies out. This means that you are always three-quarters of a century behind. We are just now catching up to the […]
~~~ Reputedly Arthur C. Clarke once opined that if the civilization that had built the Antikythera Mechanism had continued, it would be exploring deep space with faster-than-light travel already. When you look at the distances required not just to traverse space but to travel between solar systems with planets capable of supporting life, it becomes […]
It is axiomatic that you cannot reach a destination without knowing what that destination is, which in turn requires you to know what it is not. You can decide to vacation in Cape Cod, but if you do not know where it is not, you will end up in the wrong place. Even knowing where […]
Donald Trump saw the problem with America back in 1987: the Republican audience was concerned about nothing other than a few symbolic issues because they believed that American society was basically like them. Your average Republican ignores politics because he knows that the insanity is always there and everything that he pays in taxes will […]
You are probably hearing a great deal now from the press about “inflation,” and wondering why they use the term so much. We heard a lot of the same in the 1970s and late 1990s when the Left last adopted fast money policies. Conservative economics consist of supply-side economics, or the idea that if you […]
Out of one side of its mouth, American media and entertainment praise our new “woke” existence, but via the other side, they spread an almost constant dose of 1990s and 1980s nostalgia. Some of this simply reflects the fact that Generation X, with the first of them hitting their fifties now, represent the target age […]
Humans possess a simple drive: to continue the belief that their decisions so far have led up to the best possible outcome for them in their lives. Without that belief, the existential pains gnaw at them from within and they feel inferior. Consequently, humans will do just about anything to keep that good feeling flowing, […]
This is the message that the Right — both mainstream Republicans and underground Dissident Right — needs to hear, not the message that any of us want to send, since we never want to “punch Right” or weaken Our Side.™ You guys need to mellow out. You are focusing on the symbols, which is what […]
A recent memorandum analyzed the tactics the Left are using to maintain power across the West: This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be recognized on its own […]
As the institutions of the West become corrupted by political correctness and diversity agendas, their replacements begin taking form through non-governmental, off-radar alternatives. The School of the West offers an option for avoiding government propaganda schooling by bluehairs, and luckily, the staff were able to take some time to answer questions for us. What is […]
As the institutions of the West become corrupted by political correctness and diversity agendas, their replacements begin taking form through non-governmental, off-radar alternatives. The School of the West offers an option for avoiding government propaganda schooling by bluehairs, and luckily, the staff were able to take some time to answer questions for us. What is […]
This is the message that the Right — both mainstream Republicans and underground Dissident Right — needs to hear, not the message that any of us want to send, since we never want to “punch Right” or weaken Our Side.™ You guys need to mellow out. You are focusing on the symbols, which is what […]
A recent memorandum analyzed the tactics the Left are using to maintain power across the West: This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be recognized on its own […]
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