As Brett Stevens wrote in his latest post: That would allow me to cut back on information overload a little bit by saying, “Here, here’s my reality. These are the things I read to stay informed. You don’t need the rest; it’s just repeating what these guys are telling you, but in a less accurate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rationalism’
Ignoring the patterns of nature
Modern life takes effort. Just getting through to the end of the day — fighting egos and layers of management at work, then ignoring family drama, then a few hours of TV before bed — can take all you’ve got. But the last thing you need is some idiot telling you that “life is precious,” [...]
The Caste System
A key feature of any future successful government would be the replacement of the class system with a hereditary caste system. A class system is a social hierarchy that groups individuals ascending by order of a social valuation and is only as effective as a civilization is at observing reality, as it is. A caste system is a natural hierarchy [...]
On interface layers and our perfect inequality
A couple months ago, on one of our affiliated discussion domains, an interesting dialogue took place. The discussion topic was inspired by an essay by Vijay Prozak at the domain titled Oncology. I’ll repost my “Plato” part from the topical disussion as follows: Months ago, there was a blog published at the Archdruid Report (The [...]
The hero is dead; Long live the hero
For those who value the false idea of “equality” in our society, incidents like this cause cognitive dissonance: Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said Paul Langone, 33, of Reading, heard the screams of Dr. Astrid Desrosiers on the fifth floor of an MGH office building on Staniford Street. Langone entered the doctor’s office [...]
The split between responsible and irresponsible
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be [...]
Saved from the constructive terrorists
THEY are mysterious gardening bandits fixing some of Sydney’s worst eyesores. Using fake IDs, refusing to comply with development application processes and wearing clever disguises – including posing as Leichhardt Council workers complete with T-shirts sporting the council’s logo – the six-person gardening gang was shut down during its 18th “hit” yesterday. Daily Telegraph Onoes! [...]
Bring back the Aristocracy
From the Prince of Wales: Gandhi realised that humanity has a natural tendency to consume and that, if there are no limits on that tendency, we can become obsessed simply with satisfying our desires. The desire grows ever more potent as we consume ever more, even though we achieve very little of the satisfaction we [...]
Why people hate modern society
In the absence of a positive goal, we create a disorganized civilization based on parasitism. This in turn means it will collapse, losing much of the culture and technology we’ve worked hard to create. In addition, most of the people I meet are depressed and have low self-esteem, and they’re a normal cross-section (business-related contacts, [...]
