It can seem strange, or out of place, even, that a Danish conservative might submit an article to an American website. I am after all a conservative who take prides in his cultural background and language. Why should I be interested in a website named after another country? The answer may lie in the mysterious [...]
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How conservatives differ from liberals
In 1789, a movement was launched within the West to destroy the West. This ideology was designed not to cause an effect in the world, but to cause an effect in the mind, so that those who adopted it could pretend they were doing good things and living a great life while in fact they [...]
Groups
All my life I have been confused by “groups.” How does one form a “group?” What motivates people to form groups? When is a group officially a “group?” What do groups do? When I was a kid I assumed this would all make sense when I was grown up, but my mind still reels. They [...]
Movements in the forest
I started out sort of middle left. For a while, when I was too young to understand the implications of communism, I was sort of semi-leftist. Come to think of it, that was quite a while ago. Now, I am fairly hard right. Many people would say that I’m far right. Many of these people [...]
All I Really Needed to Know to Avoid I Learned in Kindergarten
Back in the 1980s, before memes were memes, a popular meme circulated on mimeographed sheets called “All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” It later became a best-selling book. It was a list of a dozen or more rules based on the teachings of kindergarten classrooms. The gist of these were that you [...]
A news round-up (05-13-13)
Where normally I write free-form based on the values of philosophy and culture, since I prefer such organic understanding to the linearization that occurs with science and politics, sometimes it’s best to remember my roots: I’m a news junkie. And even though most of the media is moose drool that leans toward the left only [...]
Esoteric conservatism
Like entropy itself, language builds up many potential meanings over time. At some point, choosing between them becomes too huge of a task, and the society reverts to using many small imprecise words and being governed entirely by context. In our time, the word “esoteric” has lost much of its meaning in day-to-day use. For [...]
How Crowdism destroys all good things
The first secret of Crowdism is that it is never unique. It is a universal human tendency that ruins things, like laziness or narcissism. It does not require anyone to invent it, because it is invented in all of us. It is an inherent pitfall to intelligence. Some might call it hubris. Crowdism is what [...]
We are the robots
Our ancient societies evolved much like a species does. Over time, they tested out their hypotheses about how the wide world out there operated. They kept the ideas that worked, and pitched out the rest. From that came culture, wisdom and even religion. Part of this original culture was that we had social castes, which [...]
Collateral damage of the Cold War
If you are old enough to have lived through The Cold War, you will remember, at least partially, the sheer terror it caused you to experience. For sheer fright value, nothing else even came close. An invading army might shoot you, even from tanks or aircraft, but at least you might see them coming, and [...]
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