“The insurrection was foolish indeed to place its hopes in the old myths of the Republic.” Now the Trumpenreich is kaput; the Bidennium has begun; and the Resistance has taken its final butterfly form—the regime which was always its destiny—the System. Now the Trumpenreich is kaput; the Bidennium has begun; and the Resistance has taken its final butterfly form—the regime which was always its destiny—the System. Read More
a general theory of collaboration In 2020, everyone is either a collaborator or a dissident. Everything is about power. Everything has to have a side. Everyone knows what side they should pick. Pick it—and you’re a collaborator. Reject it—a dissident. Nor are these labels chosen to mean that dissidents areRead More
the action imperative Political detachment might seem sociopathic. It isn’t. Almost 250 years ago in a city that has vanished, the philosopher Immanuel Kant—a single shelf of whose work, to paraphrase Macaulay, is worth more than all of 21st-century literature—proposed an ethical standard for collective action. The Kantian categorical imperative—anRead More
Roche’s Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test is a blood sample. Based on in-solution double-antigen sandwich format. Blood samples taken 14 days after PCR-confirmed infection process Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 test with 100% accuracy. It’s available now. Which governments are buying and which are instead risking lives trying to save money (or play nationalist politics by waiting for their own 100% test)?Read More
“We simply don’t have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus… means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic.” – Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee.Read More
Data on coronavirus test kit options covering the three basic types we’ll need to mass-produce and distribute widely, or else prolong lockdown or be forced into a gamble that might cost millions of lives.Read More
What’s the current state of play with coronavirus testing, both for active infection and post-virus antibody immunity? What’s the non-hype non-fakenews status of the various peer-reviewed therapeutics? This piece is full of useful answers.Read More
“We simply don’t have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus… means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic.” – Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee.Read More
Why are millions of Remainers refusing to accept the referendum on Brexit in 2016? It’s easy to soapbox about liberal elites not accepting democracy when it makes choices they don’t agree with but this is wrong. Setting aside politics and class and party lines, Brexit is a question of reality and responsibility; on actions that must be when words and fantasy simply can’t.
Why has post-modernism taken hold so successfully, where did it come from and why does it continue to spread – despite the push-back and the warnings – a culture of mediocrity and reductive relativism that’s threatening to destroy centuries of Western thought and culture?
Mindfulness meditation may seem like a great idea – taking control of your conscious mind, learning to focus and concentrate and not be swept away by negative or extreme emotions. Merton doesn’t agree and instead sees it as something far less benign…
“Most pass their days in an ever decreasing circle of only agreeable familiar things. It’s comfort. It’s natural. It ends in a gentle senile sigh. But choose instead to push against the current by daily close contact with disagreeable difficult unfamiliar things and it’s less comfortable, no longer a decreasingRead More
In a flash of inspiration, the truth about “teleportation” came to Merton Futon as he was watching an episode of Star Trek. In a few paragraphs he tries to explain why teleportation is – objectively speaking – a window into the way consciousness works and how, if it worked like in the movies, it would be an act of murder.