American citizenship used to mean something. We live under a federal government that was designed in a very interesting and distinct way: certain functions were centralized, but many were given to the responsibility of the individual states. The way this country was colonized and eventually taken over, and due to its sheer size, each state [...]
Posts Tagged ‘liberalism’
Interview with Vijay Prozak
An interview with an esoteric philosopher…
The world as a dojo
Imagine a world that was more like a martial arts dojo, less like an amusement park and trash dump. Personal integrity and earned respect would take the place of pretentious fantasy personalities empowered by equal rights. The novice multitudes in life would find themselves accountable to rather than the social equals of the fewer masters [...]
Diversity our greatest liability
“My fellow Americans, we must never, ever believe that our diversity is a weakness — it is our greatest strength.” William Jefferson Clinton, State of the Union 1997 Twelve years after this insidious slogan was uttered and accepted by our obliviot voting population, the contrary results continue to reveal themselves. Maybe it is more accurate [...]
Renaissance humanism also fails us today
Once upon a time, populations weren’t diverse, at least not anywhere near to the forced extent they are today. Some of these non-diverse populations started to think of ways to avoid conflict among themselves, which included thinking about ending fratricide. One consequence of the development of humanist philosophy during the Renaissance was the increased emphasis [...]
Remaking modern society
Some metal message board member offers a challenge. Assumption: we often discuss politics and this domain has its own definite views. But we are taught democracy, capitalism and liberal civil/women’s rights together comprise “freedom,” and that anything but freedom is “bad.” So what can we do? We shrug and watch the ongoing travesty, certain we [...]
Are liberals the only white supremacists?
If all politics are methods for controlling people with ideas and liberalism is fully within the realm of politics, then liberalism is a method for imposing its own progressive brand of control over others. Human rights are the core of liberalism; Human rights are a precondition for progress and stability; Human rights can only be [...]
Universal morality on its death bed
The War on Inequality continues its slow march to the margins of credibility with this latest piece from the economics angle. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” Brian Griffiths, who was a special adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said yesterday at [...]
The psychology of leftism
Every now and then you encounter a clear statement of political intent, and today’s comes from a video game site. Their attempt is to describe “We power,” or People Power as we call it here, versus the establishment, which they identify as rightist and individualistic: “There is no such thing as society. There are individual [...]
Nature recycles patterns
Nature reuses patterns. If you see a mathematical distribution, pattern, type of organization or even something you could flowchart in one place, you’ll see it in another: All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, [...]