Stares at the World

My Collected Writings on history, science fiction, philosophy, and women.

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Society

The Fight for Civilization Requires Heroic Men

In some ways, I’m glad that Donald Trump has lost his lustre; it’s a signal to all of us that civilization can’t be won by worshipping a man, instead it must be earned through individual righteousness.

Society

Defeating the Codependent Within

If we are going to examine the mistakes of others, it should be with the goal of amending the mistakes which we make ourselves. Men and women have been set up to be adversaries; it’s crucial that we learn to become partners.

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Society

Corporations, United Airlines, and the Open-Air Prison Planet

The violent removal of Dr David Dao from United Airlines flight 3411 is but another example of the creeping anarcho-tyranny taking over our society, the sick marriage between corporations and governments, where the top-down, unaccountable dictates of lawyers and EULAs are backed up by violent force.

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Society

YouTube Censorship, and the Logic of Empire

Companies and governments stay in power by empowering the lowest common denominator, but the result is a trashy, second-rate world full of third-rate people. They rule over empires of dirt, rather than cohabiting with virtuous and engaging fellow humans. Everybody’s miserable, and society is decaying, but at least the logic of it all remains consistent.