Emotion is a powerful aspect of the human mind — There’s no denying it. It’s a very necessary force that should never be ignored, but understood in the context of healthy, rational thought. A lot of issues that people have with emotion often involve an inability to understand why it is felt or whether or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘neurosis’
Ecocide
The right has withdrawn from climate issues for the most part because the left took them over. The left then used the environment as a justification for the usual leftist agenda, which is suppressing the strong in the name of equality. If you read this blog at all frequently, you know what we hold leftism [...]
Underdog
Our society will always be divided into two groups: those who are dissatisfied, and everyone else. Among the dissatisfied, a small minority — like one in ten thousand — will be ideologues working to fix a problem that no one else understands. Your classic mad scientist, convinced that Godzilla will attack and so laboring late [...]
Wealth and the debt culture
People with wealth are blamed for our problems because many middle class, and certainly most poor, cannot imagine how wealth is accumulated. It’s not about how much Steve Jobs took home in a year, it’s how much wealth he had accumulated via his life’s work – that is to say, Apple and his other investments. [...]
Morality
Most of us who are “natural” conservatives, meaning people who are inclined this way by personality or experience, are not fond of morality in its social form. We are aware that there are two types of morality. The personal kind is the don’t-kill/don’t-steal type that also includes some “best practices” behavior like honor, chastity and [...]
Victim identity
I engineered a situation the other day on a forum for stutterers that could have had no other possible result than getting me banned from the forum. I did this plainly, by maintaining my integrity, my position, my convictions and my poise no matter what was thrown at me. I don’t stutter. Although I did [...]
Pleasure
We all know what this one is, don’t we? Pleasure. Yes! We want it. When we have it, we want more of it. And still more. We can never get too much pleasure… But what, exactly, is it? Bruce Charlton wrote some exceedingly strange things, recently, about earthly existence, that I was, am, and will [...]
Chain Reaction
For thousands of years the world was big. A man’s only concern was his family, his community, and his nation. Even at the national level, news took days to arrive. It took a full day for Pheidippides to run from Athens to Sparta in order to inform the Spartans that Persian forces were invading. Even [...]
Educating for Virtue, edited by Joseph Baldacchino
Educating for Virtue, edited by Joseph Baldacchino Essays by Claes G. Ryn, Russell Kirk, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Solveig Eggerz 114 pages, National Humanities Institute, $12 From the Foreword to Educating for Virtue, in which five scholars address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the relationship between education and the development [...]
Thinking
Thinking, people generally think, is what separates us from animals. Then in the next breath, they will say they think it is Emotion that does that. Then Reason. Then Love. And so on. “I think,” he said, as he went on to expound upon his opinion… “I think the world is round.” Asked why he [...]
