I like to make lists. Sometimes I make lists of heresies. All heresies start with this precept: reality is different than dogma. That’s what makes them heretical; they offend dogma. If our leaders and fellow citizens tell us that something is true, and we point to a contrary example, we are heretics. In a “free” [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Ragnarok
Apocalyptic prophecies, as well as religion in general, easily garner an eye-roll from most everyone. What we see on the surface is an extravagant threat made to cow non-believers into fear of eternal damnation, or slaughter at the hands of forces above themselves; a desperate attempt to accrue validity to an ideology. Growing up, it [...]
New boss, same as the old boss
People think the media has changed rapidly. It’s the generational gap at work: Having graduated high school in the 1990s, I now think that what kids are getting into in the 2000s is insanity. Same will be true of people who are graduating now looking down at the class of 2020: “It wasn’t the same [...]
Overnight
When you think about how any aspect of reality came to be, you realize there are several parts:
Groundwork
Causes
Media
Effects
Groundwork means the situation being set for a series of events to happen. For example, gasoline is often stored in cannisters in outside bars.
Causes refer to the exact chain of events that forced an event to transpire. Such [...]
Idealism
Idealism is the idea that order in the universe is not inherent but immanent.
That means that when patterns appear in our world, they occur from similar configurations of interaction of interconnected forces, like gravity plus energy transfer creating waves in our oceans.
Although that seems simple and obvious, it’s profound. On one hand it means there [...]
Toys for Modern Youth
When you shop for your loved ones this year, get them practical gifts that are both fun and prepare them for adult life in these times. We’ve put together a gift buying guide so you don’t have to feel helpless when gifting today’s youth.
Practice Birth Control Pills
Ages 6-11
These tiny candy pills resemble something your daughter [...]
Interview: Taylor Somers of Occident
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Hollow
Ever since T.S Eliot penned The Hollow Men, we’ve had this term lingering under our tongues: hollow. It perfectly describes a world that is all appearance, and no substance; a world where convincing others that appearance means reality is more important than achieving that reality.
Another way to view “hollow” is that it means we do [...]
Two layers of means versus ends
As our political parties prepare to reverse poles, with the Republicans going more libertarian individualist, and Democrats going more centralized moral activist, discussion proliferates on the question: what really are the differences between conservatives and liberals?
I’d posit this: there’s two layers, both involving a means-ends argument.
Conservatives believe individuals are the means to a civilization, where [...]
Interview: Alex Birch of CORRUPT
As part of our exploration of American politics, we’re interviewing some of the up and coming figures of American politics. Today’s interview is with Alex Birch, a writer and activist with CORRUPT, a think-tank for reversing modern decline.
Hi, Alex, and glad to have you with us. How do you describe your political orientation?
I’m a Right-Wing [...]