Sometimes it seems the worst aspect of being human is inertia. We go along with how things have been done in recently memory. We go along with what our friends, co-workers and media icons think. Often it seems like that archetypal playground scene: a large group surrounds a lone child. He faces a choice: do [...]
Posts under ‘Globalism’
Diversity always fails
When we declared every person equal, and by so doing, made each of their choices equally valid, we created a quandary: in order to get anything done, we needed to cajole most of them into agreeing. First and foremost this means that all political decisions or concepts must be boiled down into the terms of [...]
Nationalists unite
People get upset when we talk about globalism because they see it as inevitable. They know that our society, happy on the outside, is miserable within. And they know that it is spreading worldwide, and will not stop until it collapses. They also know that most people are numb to this. If you teach a [...]
A Totem Pole for Our Time
On Portland’s “Tikitotmoniki” Traditional totem poles meant something to the men who carved them by hand. Totem poles meant something to the community and represented the identity of a people. The word totem is taken from an Ojibwe word that means “kinship group.” Many humans have traced their lineages to animals or mythological creatures, [...]
A giant Ponzi scheme
What is globalization? Formerly called internationalism, it is the idea that international trade and politics should be standardized in all places. Who does it benefit? This is the key question: it seems to benefit people everywhere. After all, they get new (exciting) jobs and money. But really, it benefits those who own the companies who [...]
Parasitism
Globalism is a parasite. There are no victors and no losers; every person takes on the parasite and learns to live with its burden. Only the parasite comes out ahead, but a kind of pyrrhic self-destructive victory. Mainly because the future of it — as with most fatal infections, cancers or out of control biological [...]
Religious fanatics
Another day, another revolution. Here in the West we’re addicted to them. We feel as if they prove us right, and the course we’ve been on since the guillotine has been the right one. Yet as in Egypt, problems remain. These tyrants we depose may have actually been an organizing force for the countries they [...]
The end of ideas
When you were in school, you probably noticed that some kids seemed like natural leaders. They were ahead of the pack because they were good at stuff — sports, school or socializing. Although there was a lot of overlap, another group existed. These kids were good at being popular. That meant somewhat good at socializing, [...]
Philosophy – is it useful?
Brett Stevens recently pointed out to me that one could launch an attack upon philosophy by stating that language is deceiving; it can be deceptive by deliberate use, by inexact use, or by shifting meanings through time. It hopes to describe truth, reality or pragmatic adaptation through symbol, language and structure – these symbols can [...]
Unamerican activities
We’re reaching a tipping point here in the West in which people decide whether they are basically conservative, or will follow the liberal paradigm. For years our people have been publicly liberal, and have supported the insanity when it was in the form of political programs and public events, but in private have made conservative [...]
