Twenty years ago the cypherpunks were almost entirely forgotten. But now – and quite shockingly to those of us who were involved – cypherpunks are cool again. More than that, the discoveries of the cypherpunks are changing our world in a serious way.
That being so, I’d like to briefly recap what the cypherpunks discovered, because what these people found was a new world… a terra nova. Continue reading “The Discovery of Terra Nova by the Cypherpunks”
It has now been some time since the the Covid compulsions, and we very much need to recover from them. And to do that we must first face the fact that everyone got the disease regardless.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the Covid vaccine was an epic fail. We need to come to terms with this. Continue reading “The Covid Calculus”
Anyone teaching young men to seek responsibility and meaning has a place near my heart, especially when he or she delivers their message in a humane way. And Professor Peterson has certainly done that, at great personal cost. Nonetheless, I’m hearing from young people, asking me to address another part of his teaching that is impacting negatively upon them. And after getting substantially the same report from multiple directions, I feel compelled to write about it. Ah well… Continue reading “I Like Jordan Peterson, But He’s Wrong”
As I noted last time, a small roll of pages recently showed up at my door. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000–2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I am completing my transcription of them today, verbatim. Make of it what you will. Continue reading “Western Civilization, Seen from 2150 AD, Part 2”
