New York is going through a troubled coronavirus: socializing itself a major target for left-authoritarian politicians (arguably with good reason). But without the melting pot of best-in-America social life, New York becomes little more than a less aesthetically shocking analogue for a vast human-battery pod hive. Is Brooklyn a viable escape? Is anywhere?Read More
The gov-corp model is endemic to American politics, with its most explicit expression by an American politician in Woodrow Wilson’s 1887 essay “The Study of Administration.” It’s also the cornerstone of the philosophy of neoliberalism, as propagated by wankers like Friedrich Hayek, von Mises, and Milton Friedman. Under the neoliberalRead More
Planet Earth House “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau I committed a crime. I was born on Earth. But this planet doesn’t belong to me. Sometimes I think I deserve some of the Earth to myself. How dare I? It belongsRead More
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?
Germaine Greer Modern Guardian Hijack Feminism for the Lumpen Bourgeois Dunning Kruger smart folks manifested Mention the Buckley – Cambridge Union – 70s furore. Fascism Guardian leftist prediction 20 years ago. Germaine Greer calls for punishment for rape to be reduced https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/30/germaine-greer-calls-for-punishment-for-to-be-reduced Germaine, your shock-jock musings just í today’s youngRead More
Tamsin is a consumer of Netflix content and travel shows, stumbling on “Dark Tourist” in 2018. Here she writes up some of her reactions and observations in a spontaneous stream-of-consciousness review.
Tamsin writes about the atomisation of society into in-group echo chambers, rallying behind some flag or demagogue or slogan, and how social media calcifies this antisocial apartheid.
Tamsin writes about the appropriation of ideology by corporate capitalism, manipulating sincere important paradigms into mere vehicles for delivering sales by vaguely simpatico brands.
It’s popular to write about the self-evident importance of Judeo-Christian religion to the development of modern civilisation. But Agoston finds this unconvincing and in this piece tries to explain why.
Personality is the iceberg tip of a multidimensional internal universe of the mind. The conscious tip doesn’t know much about what’s happening in the exponentially larger elsemind but psychedelic excitation – like a D.M.T. trip – brings tip and base into profound contact. Temporarily.