As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity, our comfort, our medicine, our sense of importance. Continue reading “2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face”
Congress Will Be The Last To Reform
Things have changed in the US since the Covid disaster, chief among them the attitude of the populace. Productive people are now speaking openly about the corruption of American institutions and their desire to return to a more traditional American culture.
The big event at the moment is the US Congress doing their usual: telling people what they want to hear while changing as little as possible. Continue reading “Congress Will Be The Last To Reform”
Live Dangerously And You Live Right
The title of this post, live dangerously and you live right, comes from the great author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he was ever so correct. The life of meek obedience is a sin against the self. It is a surrender of mind and passion. It’s a half life at best. Continue reading “Live Dangerously And You Live Right”
Do You Have A Plan For Improving Your Spouse?
All of us with husbands and wives are beautifully positioned to make them better human beings. Unfortunately, many of us are squandering the opportunity.
Today I’d like to help fix that. Continue reading “Do You Have A Plan For Improving Your Spouse?”
Fighting About Words Is Medieval
I dislike using “medieval” in any sort of negative context, since that has been done so often and so unfairly. This time, however, I will, and that’s because, historically, fighting about words really is medieval. Continue reading “Fighting About Words Is Medieval”
The Wages of Perpetual Fear
(Originally published August 31, 2020.)
I’ve gone on for a long time about fear making humans stupid, and even about it being a weapon and a brain poison. But I’ve also wondered at times whether people would hit fear-fatigue… that point where people have simply had enough and walk out from under it. Continue reading “The Wages of Perpetual Fear”
How Idealism Leads to Death
Having recently experienced violent idealists roaming our streets, burning things, breaking things and generally enjoying the fact that they can scare people, I think a brief explanation of how idealism leads to destruction and death is in order. Continue reading “How Idealism Leads to Death”
The Barbarians Have Taken The Institutions
(Originally published July 22, 2020.)
Let’s be honest about something: We in the West have been overrun by a tidal wave of racial hatred, and it erupted from institutions “of higher learning.” Whatever exceptions may exist, this central fact is clear. We are free to close our eyes, of course, but when we choose to see, this is what stands in front of us. Continue reading “The Barbarians Have Taken The Institutions”
To Be Young and Headed to the Stars
I would pay dearly for young people to feel what it was like to be a scientifically minded child in the 1960s. It was a special and beautiful moment. Each week there was a new step toward the stars. And this was not science fiction, this was real. There was an exhilaration to it that I don’t think can be found in any other venture. The door to infinite space was creaking open for us. Continue reading “To Be Young and Headed to the Stars”
The Ultimate Crime
The biggest crimes stand in the open; what prevents people from seeing them is simply their size and the fact that they are crimes. We can’t believe that such large evils are possible. They have to be explicable some other way. And so we notice them for only the blink of an eye, immediately conjuring a rationalization to save ourselves from the sight. Continue reading “The Ultimate Crime”