America and Europe are both separating like oil and water. One side is more conservative than the other, the other side more liberal than conservative. Unfortunately for both, the terms “liberal” and “conservative” have gotten so muddled that most people are confused as to which side they’re on. But if we track the two historically, [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2011’
Ideas without vision are useless
I’m in touch with folks that are considered part of Generation Y (I sort of fall in between X and Y, I guess). Many of them have no desire in kids or families, date casually, listen to vinyl, and generally strike back against anything their parents do with a hipster attitude typical of those we [...]
Tolerance and multiculturalism
Multiculturalism in American society has been different things in different eras. At the turn of last century, multiculturalism meant multiple cultures co-existing in relatively peaceful fashion. Back then, we could all accept each others different ways of life, which usually also translated to somewhat separate geographic spaces (neighborhoods within cities; entire towns outside), and in [...]
Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age, by Guillaume Faye
Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age by Guillaume Faye; translated by Michael O’Meara Arktos, 249 pages, $25. As humans, we study our world to estimate the best responses to its demands. We then make a choice, and act on it, then observe the results to see if our estimations were correct. If they were [...]
Food for thought
From Jesus to Wall Street
Grow a pair
The same leaden feeling has fallen over me. I last felt it in late 2001 when America was mourning over the attacks called “9/11.” Even the name rankled me. It was as if we went into the situation designing it to be a commemorative, collective wound. We gave it a name based not on location [...]
How Baby Boomers spread a schizoid worldview
Politics in an egalitarian state will make you slightly schizoid by its very nature. Since everyone is equal, your public statements must be of the lowest common denominator in complexity, and also must be socially acceptable. That means that criticisms must be veiled, oversimplification is the norm, and you must state everything as an us-versus-them, [...]
Fear
Conservatives are frequently accused by their opposition of being fearful, resistant to change, inflexible, closed-minded and even (worst of all) categorically-minded. The implication is that their fear is personal and that as a result, they act out of appearance and primitive animal instinct, unlike enlightened progressives. The news lit up with this latest tidbit: Self-proclaimed [...]
21st century conflict: brats versus opportunists
Success is our own worst enemy. When we succeed, and suddenly have wealth and power, we often assume that we’ve stepped out of the struggle that formed us. But evolution marches onward, as does its simpler method competition, and we need to realize that just because we have become fat and lazy does not mean [...]
Conspiracy thought paves way to anarchy
The political climate in America has been heated since the midterm election, when it was clear that Obama’s loss in popularity would grant Republicans majority in the House of Representatives. Prior to the midterms America had witnessed a series of symbolically charged events, among them the anti-Washington rethoric built up by the Tea Party movement, [...]
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