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Monthly Archive: May 2013

Meditations Upon Psychohistory: “Whispering Leaves” by Cesar Tort, Part 1 7

Philosophy / Society

Meditations Upon Psychohistory: “Whispering Leaves” by Cesar Tort, Part 1

Children have been the garbage bin where the adults dump the unrecognized parts of their psyches. It is expected that the child-garbage bin absorbs the ill moods of her custodians to prevent that the adult feels overwhelmed by her anxieties. If I kill the soul of my daughter I thus kill the naughty girl that once inhabited me. ~El Retor no de Quetzalcoatl, English Translation, (Pages 415-610 of Hojas Susur rantes) by Cesar Tort Not to be confused with the fictional Psychohistory of Asimov’s Foundation novels. Introduction Some time back I thought about writing a post on the moral imperative...

The Right Continues to be Right 5

Society

The Right Continues to be Right

So I noticed this article making its way around Facebook – Obama admits that he’s a socialist. Obama himself, the Times explained, has been “longingly” telling his inner circle that what he’d really like to do is what Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty in his 1998 movie “Bulworth,” did: to go public as an unabashed, angry and admitted socialist. No surprise here – and yet, I seem to remember a lot of Liberal snark going around when Republicans, Libertarians, Tea Baggers, and Professional Bloggers pointed this out some time ago: Quite frankly, this is just another data point...

Logos and Agape: Civilization’s Foundational Theology 11

Philosophy

Logos and Agape: Civilization’s Foundational Theology

Theology: to most of us who’ve suffered from a modern Education it sounds like “Philosophy for the superstitious.” In reality it’s far more than that.  Theology isn’t some discipline intended only for the musings of celibate priests, any more than Economic Theory is something that only Professional Econometricians ought to understand – it’s so foundational that not only do our morals derive from it, but so too the very heuristics by which we judge morality in the first place. Quite frankly, it’s Theology that makes up the ideological DNA of all Memetics. Throughout the Manosphere and the Alt-Right there is...

Win a Glorious Hat! 2

Society

Win a Glorious Hat!

Karl’s having a contest right now to win a Commie Obama Hat – you just have to guess how many one-dollar bills are in his Swear Jar – the deadline is tomorrow at noon, so hurry! Go hear to check it out, and then you too can look as stylish as Aaron and myself.