Americans and UK residents are shocked to learn the rest of the world doesn’t want their gifts. These gifts sound so good — freedom, justice, equality, tolerance — but that only hurts the situation. Much of the rest of the world doesn’t have consumer protection laws, and they know the ways of shady salesmen all [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2011’
The flip side
People in American politics are geared not toward a whole truth, but finding some story or fact-pattern that justifies what they want to be true. Our entire society is based upon this because in an equal society, where every person’s interpretation of reality is just as good as anyone else’s, there is no firm concept [...]
Global swarming
The problem with global warming as a theory is twofold: first, the science is not absolute because science is not absolute; second, global warming is a political surrogate for environmental damage as a whole. We have a modern mythic trust in “science,” but science doesn’t exist. People study and get degrees in science, and then [...]
A permanent obsession
When empires are strong, they are carried by their deeds: their productivity, the clear wisdom of their mandate, and their great works. However, when they start to die, they instead turn to control. If they have no deeds, they can instead control your thought by forcing you to repeat insane dogma until your brain accepts [...]
The wrong kind of stimulus
In order to make any change happen in a democracy, you must create a tidal wave of interest toward a simplified, symbolic version of that change. Right now, Republicans are telling you that Democrats are trying to wreck the country with their “stimulus” package — and stimulus has become a dirty word. Democrats fire back [...]
House of cards
Lateral Thinking Solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. – Wikipedia We don’t see very much of this. We don’t even recognize it, mostly, let alone promote its use. I do it. And [...]
The Vicious Cycle
Today a woman told me: “America is, was and always will be the Greatest Nation On This Planet and once we get that idiot out of our White House and get a true born red blooded republican American Patriot voted in, we will be on the right track once again.” Both the faith in Obama [...]
How government destroys the environment
Many of us are hoping right now that humanity recognizes its vast and ongoing destruction of its environment and decides to do something about it. Most expect government to be the method. However, the record of governments helping the environment has been a spotty one — with one exception, which we’ll cover later. Generally, government [...]
Identity
The completed Man has no identity. None know who he is. He left who he was, at the gates of heaven. Well. That’s pretty lofty stuff, and probably not what you might expect to find on a site like this. But it is all background for the Main Event. And what might that be? Ah, [...]
The Radical Tradition, edited by Troy Southgate
The Radical Tradition edited by Troy Southgate 186 pages, Primordial Traditions, $33 It was probably stupid of me to submit a piece for inclusion in this book, because (a) the other pieces are so good I’m now wondering if I look like a moron and (b) it kept me from reviewing this for some time. [...]
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