Humans like every other form of life seek to adapt and thrive. The first part means not dying, and the second part means enjoying the process enough that you do not self-destruct. For intelligent beings, adaptation involves understanding the who and why of what we are, and therefore what we should be doing. For this […]
To some degree, nature rewards the vicious because nature is the ultimate ends-over-means system of thought. You either adapt or die; you can adapt by any method (means) you want, including what humans would call theft, murder, rape, and parasitism, although each method produces its own quality of experience. That is, if you are a […]
~~~ Researchers develop procedure to interpret x-ray emission spectra of liquid water To better understand the features they were seeing, the research team classified the XES spectra they calculated based on the different types of hydrogen bonds. They observed the double peak feature in the XES spectra in all the different types of hydrogen bonds […]
It seems that in the last of the cold weather, the Cold War has returned. How can that be? History repeats itself, which is a fancy way of saying that unless you change the conditions of a situation, it does the same thing time after time. Our modern world has not materially changed since The […]
The more one sees of this world, the more important it becomes to be cynical about attributed motivations. People see conspiracies everywhere, while a sensible view is that people are consistently motivated by the same things. This varies with character, of course, and therein is the taboo. Good people want to save the world from […]
The world finds itself racing toward an inevitable confrontation because the first world has made itself bankrupt by pursuing egalitarian and socialist ideals from within a capitalist system. This was the last stand of Leftism, since by itself it fails, but once it admits capitalism, its endless need for free money to pay for socialist […]
When the Soviet Union fell and Clinton took over in the USA, with the voters as usual choosing a liberal to follow a conservative because the voters focused on drama over “problems” instead of the large task of directing the ship of state, the globalist era began. It was nothing new, since progressive theorists and […]
~~~ Hundreds of New York Times Tech Staffers Vote to Unionize The group of roughly 600 employees includes software engineers, data analysts, project managers, product managers and designers. These shakedowns are occurring because cost of living is too high. Unions always pass costs on to the companies who then pass it on to customers. This […]
When democracy begins imploding, the remaining elements of oligarchy become more powerful because the demos — “We The People” — are unable to rule themselves. These oligarchs rule at first indirectly, by giving funds to those who support the changes they want to see in the system. Over time and as the society decays, they […]
People used to talk about the elephant in the room, a metaphor for a topic of conversation so sensitive that everyone avoided it and talked about trivialities instead. The metaphor works because you can easily visualize people discussing all sorts of little things and ignoring the big one because this is default human behavior. If […]
Currently a huge number of people on the Right are playing themselves by becoming Useful Idiots: they have assumed that, because those who are in power in the West are generally bad, pairing up with the people who oppose those people is wise. All they will do is make a bad situation worse. You do […]
Owing to war conditions, you cannot see this document now from much of the US and EU. That in itself is a tragedy, reversing what democracy and The Enlightenment™ promised, but even more so damages us because Putin and Xi tell us about their version of globalism: At the invitation of President of the People’s […]
Humans treat the world like another human. Sometimes this human is friendly, and the sun shines and money rains from the sky. Sometimes this human is not friendly, and the bus runs late, the toilet clogs, and Russia invades Ukraine. Forgive me for simplifying, except that I am not. People are wired to work this […]
Following our previous analysis, it makes sense to explore why the Ukraine war just kicked off: the West, avoiding the clear wisdom Trump gave us, waffled and backstabbed our way into war over oil: The 750-mile pipeline was completed in September but has not yet received final certification from German regulators. Without that, natural gas […]
I have been caught up with other pursuits this week, and am only returning here to find that the world is in a static state of panic at what many feel is WW3 kicking off in the Ukraine. Let us see if our big brains can make sense of this. First, we know the war […]
The problem with the Right, they say, is that we have no new ideas. Well, of course not; we are conservatives, so we like ideas that are as true on the last day as the first. However, during the centuries of our slumber and the decay of Western Civilization, we have forgotten much of the […]
Watching the documentary Who Killed Garrett Phillips? (2019) one gets a sense of To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) turned inside out. In the Harper Lee novel, a Southern town railroads a Black man for rape and the crowd of people supporting are stupid, “racist,” and selfish; in the Liz Garbus documentary, a nation adopts the […]
~~~ US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. U.S. officials previously accused Putin of planning a “false-flag” operation to create a pretext […]
As Plato observed, democracy runs through a life cycle from good feelings at having escaped oligarchy to a semi-oligarchic period until it reaches its final stage, narcissistic mob rule under protection by tyrants. Then the tyrants import diversity to vote against the majority interest so the tyrants can rule, and then the society collapses into […]
These IQ distribution charts provide an entertaining view of any issue. The irony is that the geniuses and idiots agree while the people in the middle come up with some mentally damaged, insane argument that clearly has nothing to do with reality. In my view, people are reading this backward: the point is not that […]
Following the success of Brexit — the exit by Britain from the doddering and domineering European Union — people began talking about Frexit, or France exiting the EU, and finally Texit, or Texas finally leaving the Union since the US broke its contract to protect it from Mexico. Exits happen when contracts are violated. In […]
The more one looks into things, the more the details align with relatively simple central principles. This forms a liquid state where one can change the central principles and watch the details re-align, almost as if by magnetism. Civilizations of the permanent sort — agriculture- and industry-based — fail because they confuse their goal with […]
Imagine if you will two separate planets which, through an encoding error in the spacetime continuum, end up overlapping, or sharing the same space at the same time. To someone on one of these planets, experience would instantly become surreal. Depending on the angle or their own expectation, they might be viewing objects or people […]
As the Right gains more currency, it needs to address some of its old, bad, and stupid habits like passing around unverified information that is so obviously fake that anyone who does ten minutes of research will consider the source insane. Above we see a meme that is popular on the Underground Right that features […]
Virtual Reality emerges as a game changing technology. It has been a staple of Science Fiction since at least the 1980s. William Gibson brought it to the library, and The Wachowskis projected it on a screen as a film trilogy. Our cultural oracles foretold its ascendancy. Reality begged to differ. This happens whenever we attempt […]
- Aug 9th 2025 5:17pm EDT