File this under “needs to be said.” Ah well.
The lords of Hollywood, the political elite, the educational elite… these are not uniformly stupid people. Some of them, in fact, are fairly bright. Observing them, however, might lead you to the conclusion that they are blindly stupid or even purposely evil. Nonetheless, most of them are not evil; rather, they are overly-committed narcissists. Continue reading “CNN Is The Mirror of Narcissus”
Martin continued talking for a while, but mainly about his childhood and early career. Then he moved back to the problem that America posed to rulers.
“In America, at least in the early days, people believed they were the primary factors; that they created rulership structures for their own sake… that the structures had no validity, except to serve them.” Continue reading “A Full Confession, Part Two”
(Originally published in 2019.)
“You can’t write about this till I’m gone,” he said, “but that won’t be long.”
I hadn’t been to Jay’s Bar in a while, but I was invited by my old friend Martin. He was a basically nice guy who ended up working for an elite group. Continue reading “A Full Confession, Part One”
We’ve been watching the Enlightenment collapse before us in real time. This is something that adults need to understand.
What remains of the Enlightenment is collapsing for structural reasons. This discourse doesn’t rest upon political or academic theories, but upon facts and direct observations. Obviously I’m simplifying (one can’t write history any other way), but minus the inevitable exceptions and complications, this is what has happened and what is happening. Continue reading “The Collapse of The Enlightenment”
Entropy & Divinity is a book that I wrote in 2010, pouring into it all the best I could muster at the time. It was very much a milestone to me, and from that point I went on to launch Free-Man’s Perspective, just a few months later. Looking back, it was a necessary consolidation point for me.
There is a lot of unique material in this book, much of it not repeated in any of our Free-Man’s Perspective issues. It’s fairly dense at times, though not actually a difficult read. And it remains a reference for me; one I turn back to fairly often. Continue reading “Entropy & Divinity Is Now Available As An E-Book”
Millions of decent and hard-working people are presently coming to grips what has been happening to them, and so we’ll cover a crucial piece of the puzzle, but one that is very little known.
Continue reading “How Political Parties Took Over The United States”
I believe that women are inherently as valuable as men. But I don’t believe this because of politics, I believe it because of experience.
Young people are taught that women before 1970 or so were suppressed, deprived of education and legally raped by their husbands. But I’m telling you that’s false. My mom, her friends, and many other women I knew were not dupes, weaklings, and victims. Whoever wishes to can hate me for this, but I was there and I know what I saw… and I will defend the women I loved. Continue reading “A Defense of 1950s Housewives”
A few years ago I uploaded a post on status to somewhat mixed reviews. A significant number of people feel that status is something to embrace, or at least something that can’t be fought.
And so today I’m “doubling down,” as people like to say these days, because once you recognize the perversity of status, you also recognize that we very much need to get past it. Continue reading “Status Revisited”
Culture has always been the antagonist of conscience.
Once we see ourselves as part of a larger entity… once we identify with it… we feel a necessity to conform to it. If we don’t, we lose the existential crutch that larger entities offer us. And, partly as a result of living with that collective identification, most of us are emotionally unprepared to stand alone before the world. Continue reading “Culture Versus Conscience”
I well remember the first time someone told me they believed in the Calvinist doctrine of “the depravity of man.” It shocked me. To complain about human behavior I understood, but to condemn the entire human species as depraved… that was and remains obscene to me. Continue reading “Why Can’t We Imagine Goodness?”
