Posts under ‘Politics’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The city. Like many people you probably live in one. You walk around in your lunch break marveling at the wonders of modern man’s creation –- the dull grey walls covered in graffiti you don’t understand, the broken bottles, discarded needles, masticated chewing gum and snubbed out cigarettes that cover the pavement and alleyways which [...]

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 [...]

To the best of my knowledge, conspiracy theories as a social phenomenon occur only in democratic societies. I take it that this is a very telling fact, and that at bottom conspiracy theories are a symptom of the perverse psychology found among democrats (note the small ‘d’). In general, all conspiracy theories take the following [...]

For the last sixty years, the West has been in the grip of a mania for diversity. This thread goes back centuries, but its most recent occurrence was in the French Revolution. There, the revolutionaries wanted “liberty, equality and fraternity,” but they also made another demand — for internationalism. Internationalism is the idea that every [...]