My Collected Writings on history, science fiction, philosophy, and women.
I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other night, when she made an offhand mention of the Sugar Lobby. I’ve heard of this group before. One of the less famous of the lobby organizations, but it comes up every so often when you’re reading health blogs. She brought it up to point out one of their most influential accomplishments: they successfully lobbied to have sugar content hidden on the nutritional labels of packaging. Same as it ever was. The inmates are running the asylum. The very organizations from whom safety legislation is meant to protect us are...
Put five of them in the same room, and they’ll immediately start attacking one another. Only ally yourself with adults who bring something to the table, and share a common vision.
The creator of FNAF has come under fire by his fans for… being a pretty typical Republican and Christian. Cancel culture is run by the sort of people who just want to hurt others in the name of some fake moral crusade – no different than the Helen Lovejoys who yelled about violent videogames twenty years ago. Don’t fall for their moral posturing.
During fat times, acquaintances are a fine thing. But with the lean times we’re entering – not just economically, but politically and culturally – associating with people who aren’t on board with survival and loyalty can be fatal. Be careful whom you trust in your circles, because many of them will sell you out at the first opportunity.
In this episode we cover how the powers that be have summoned up a Golem of chaos, which is out of their control. We talk about the sneaky tricks used by marketers and PUAs, and why they always backfire. And we cover the rebranding of UFOs to UAPs, and what the motivation behind that might be. Streams are broadcast with video on DLive, every Friday night at 1900 Mountain time, with occsional bonus streams on other days.
All too often, I see people spiralling off into Xanatos Gambit territory; attributing superhuman ability to plan and predict to those in charge. Certainly there’s something going on. The establishment is desperate for the population to inject an experimental mRNA formula, because of a disease which isn’t much worse than the common cold. That conspiracies exist is inarguable. And that something hinky is going on with the past year of Covid hysteria is self-evident. But the conspiracy is far more likely to be mundane than existential. In this livestream I argue that the mRNA jab is their attempt to save...
For those of you who missed it, Ta-Nehisi Coates – a Marvel Comics writer who’s been hired to write the upcoming Superman movie – has been putting Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s words into the mouth of the Red Skull: That’s right, the Evil Nazis want you to clean your room and pet a cat! And it got me thinking about who exactly the ‘Good Guys’ are according to people like Coates… Old, ugly, stupid, and hateful. I don’t know about you, but if that’s what ‘Good’ looks like, sign me up for Team Evil. So if you’re ready to join...
This book was the first time I’d heard of Tom Holland – in fact, it was a request from a reader who offered to purchase it for me, and toss a few coins in the hat to boot (thanks, brother). He didn’t pay me for a glowing review, however, which is what you’re about to read. To put it simply, if you want to understand European history – or religion – or modern politics – or the nature of the existential question which we’re still dealing with today – I recommend that you pick yourself up a copy. Holland starts...
There’s a concept I’d like to explore here, about the inevitability of our current decline, and why trying to fight the tide is not just useless but counterproductive. And to illustrate this concept I’ll start with a simpler version, one which everybody should be able to understand: the concept of the visionary film maker. There seems to be this particular class of geniuses – your Stanley Kubricks, Christopher Nolans, and James Camerons – who manage to put together these profound cinematic experiences that defy the conventions of the time. Men who somehow overcome the ‘studio meddling’ to put their own...
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