How do you rebel against a society with no standards? We live in a time of unprecedented permissiveness. The individual is our highest goal, and thus whatever that individual chooses to do is near sacred in our modern lexicon. We may not agree with what they say and do, but we’ll fight to the death [...]
Greece
That which goes up must come down, and it will be at its height shortly before the drop begins. Even the relatively oblivious American media are reporting on the “preppers,” or quasi-survivalist types who are planning for society to collapse. Like Guillaume Faye, they see modern civilization facing a convergence of catastrophes that will as [...]
Inverting the inverted
All leftist logic has one thing in common: it turns thinking backward from “what should I do to adapt to reality?” to “what should I do to look good in a social setting?” There’s a reason they call them the chattering classes. Leftism is fundamentally about individual humans and what they’d like to think, where [...]
Conquest
It’s hard to believe that leftists are as adamant about race as they seem to be. The primary point of doubt is that so few of them practice what they preach. A typical leftist use of race as an issue seems to be to silence the opposition, prove his own compassion and altruism, and finally, [...]
Boomerang
The current economic depression, which occupies 400 times the news space as any actual problem we have, is not the Great Depression. It will blow over. However, like the Great Depression, it’s a historical stopping point. It’s the moment when people realized that what they thought was a “magical” system was actually mortal. It doesn’t [...]
Golden ticket
What killed the Soviet Union was that ideology replaced reality. Because other people reacted more positively to ideological “truths” than truth itself, the entire country acted on those ideological impulses and excluded reality from the picture. We live in similar times in the modern West, meaning Western Europe, the UK and the USA. The ideology [...]
Exit Ron Paul
An interesting convergence of events doomed the Ron Paul campaign this go-round, like it did last time. It was a simple convergence with a lot of backstory. First however it’s necessary to point out that we live in two modern realities. One is social, one is physical. Social reality can be many things, but often [...]
Nervous
When people are inexperienced or exhausted, they look for single-step solutions. “If Bill got an A on the English test, he must be the smartest one in the class, and so he should rule us.” As they gain more experience, they tend to transfer this to ideology. “All my friends think socialized medicine is an [...]
Teach the controversy
In 1925, America was riveted by the Scopes trial, in which the teaching of evolution was debated. It was previously held that only creation should be taught. This “monkey trial” divided America. With the support of industry and government, “science” won out over “religion” (these two terms are in scare quotes because the sides in [...]
Self-deception
Many people adopt this comfortable and popular idea: there is no difference between left and right, really. All this theory stuff is airy nonsense they use to compel you to act against your own interests. These people forget that there’s a simple chain, as old as language itself. A person observes something; she calls it [...]
