The Sacramental Underpinnings of Vaccine Culture
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One of the pernicious conceits of our age is the idea that by declaring oneself irreligious, one is immediately freed from the longings for transcendence that have... Read more.
A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace
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For many, I think, the idea that governments might have the capacity and the desire to assault their own populations with well-organized and persistent campaigns... Read more.
To Yearn for Sincerity Amidst Doubts
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A population filled with defensive, hyper-sensitive, and fear-corseted young is the tyrant class’s fondest dream. One made up of young people possessed of a sense... Read more.
To Lock Death in a Dark Room
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Until consumerism, the elderly were seen as a precious resource, providing us all with wisdom. So what eventually happens to a culture that has worked overtime to... Read more.
Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at... Read more.
Silence and Sovereignty
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Could there be a better way of subverting that traditional link between music and healing than by replacing it with a simulacrum of the same and to habituate people... Read more.
Wage-and-Tax Slavery as Emancipation?
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Isn’t it time we stop enticing our young females into the workplace on the idea that is the prime space of growth before they’ve even been exposed to the ideas... Read more.
Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t
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Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love,... Read more.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives
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What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness... Read more.
Clerical Abuse Redefined
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When we hear the term “clerical abuse,” I think most of us think of perverse sexual behavior. But it seems worth asking if the parameters of the term might need... Read more.
Pilgrimages to Nowhere?
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What I did not understand was just how disrespectful of transcendental thinking consumer culture is, and how it can turn the search for human and esthetic discoveries... Read more.
The Insularity of the Academic Elite
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The humanist’s fundamental job is, or at least should be, one of synthesis, of taking a wide-angle approach to the many things he observes in culture and seeking... Read more.