My Collected Writings on history, science fiction, philosophy, and women.
The following is a guest post from my friend Laramie Hirsch; comments have been disabled here, you can find them over on his website, Forge and Anvil. *** “We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed.”2 Corinthians 4:8-9* * * Let’s stop for a minute. There’s a LOT happening right now. Quite a lot. Events are erupting everywhere, betrayal from every corner, and bombs being thrown every minute. It can be overwhelming. If you’re ignorant and unprepared for what’s happening, it would do to understand what’s...
As long-time readers of mine will doubtless know, I have a vexatious relationship with the Superhero genre. On the one hand, I find the whole phenomenon fascinating; each individual character represents something archetypal, not just visually (their spandex outfits a throwback to nude sculptures of the ideal human form, as well as evocative of powerful emotions through the bright primary colours with which they are painted), but also emotionally. Each represents a certain aspect of the moral question: Spiderman must balance great power with great responsibility, in Superman we have the ideal immigrant who exemplifies the ideals of his new,...
Politics is dead. Politics is no longer about politics, it is about identity. Late-stage Capitalism has taken it over and commodified it. Politics is a product, a performative, consumptive act; an act of identity affirmation. It’s no different than shopping at Hot Topic, and I highly recommend that you divest yourself of both. Let’s consider what exactly is going on here; afterwards you can yell, “Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” Begin with the Hegelian dialectic. Since this is the Current Year, it’s going to be a particularly stupid dialectic. So let’s look around for an argument that’s both...
I often write about the mass psychological manipulation within media culture; the manufactured “Consensus Reality” which is programmed into the populace through various media organs. It’s a constant struggle between those who want a good, honest, and fair world versus those who use mendacious rhetoric for the sake of their own profit and aggrandizement. We saw this with 9/11 – the inflation of Osama Bin Laden into an existential threat (rather than a disgruntled CIA asset) so that Bush could eviscerate the constitution, and launch a war against Iraq (despite that country having no connection to the group in question)....
When you go off the reservation of Fox/CNN thought, it’s crucial that you maintain a high standard of intellectual integrity; otherwise you fall into conspiracy theory territory, making a fool out of anyone who questions the corporate media’s narrative.
I once heard that if a shark stops swimming it dies. The story goes that sharks have no ability to force water over their gills, aside from moving forward; so they are condemned to a life of endless swimming, never stopping to rest. This is striking and odd at first, but the lesson is obvious: any organism, institution, or family which stops moving forward inevitably stalls out and dies. We might not need to literally walk forward to keep our lungs flush with air, but a failure to provide for the morrow means a failure to survive into tomorrow. Only...
A lightning stream where we discuss good animal husbandry, and what the elites are up to with their animal husbandry. In particular we discuss the last guest-article on here, and what the right could learn from the LGBT.
Note: this is a guest post by a good friend of mine, Jules Vasquez, a non-binary member of the LGBTQ community. It should go without saying (but just in case some of the light-switch brains are reading this) we don’t agree upon everything; but one thing we do agree upon is that we don’t like our corporate overlords, and we want to see more organic communities and small businesses out there. Even if this subject matter doesn’t seem to interest my regular audience, I believe you might just get something out of it. Leo The community will fight me over...
A guest post by Leslie D. Soule “What use is a golden key, if it cannot unlock what we want to be unlocked?” So let me begin by saying that I have the curse of having never been part of the cult known as the Branch Covidians, but have had the singular honor of seeing everyone around me fall victim to it. Although I was able to, at the outset of this thing, awaken one sleeper (my roommate) to the social ills that had befallen us all, I have been unable to replicate this trick on anyone else, and all...
Things are reopening for the summer, but I doubt it’s because those in charge have suddenly become sympathetic to us peasants and our blighted existence. While I certainly don’t think you should abandon your career and go live in a cave, it would be wise to have some mental preparations in place for the possibility that things might get really bad this fall. In this stream I discuss the mentality of the people around us – the psychopathy of the corporations mixed with the narcissism of the consumers – and what that means if things take a turn for the...
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