On Thanksgiving, we’re supposed to disregard that which hasn’t gone well and focus on that which has; even if the list of what has gone well is much shorter than that which hasn’t. If you’re sitting in a warm place, forking tasty food into your own mouth, and are surrounded by people whose names you remember, you’re comparatively blessed.
Can Thanksgiving Traditions Survive a Four-Year Pause? Continue Reading
Art and literature are not enemies of reason – they are partners in the quest for knowledge. And in the quest for wisdom and for love, one might add. This insight is invaluable at a time when imagination as well as reason should be enlisted in the struggle against tyranny.
Love Really Can Thwart Tyranny Continue Reading
The intellectuals bombarded the populace with empirically unproven models of their own making about many things connected with Covid. And when the vast majority of them proved completely at odds with observable reality, they simply doubled down.
How Modeling Can Go Terribly Wrong Continue Reading
Ninety percent of escaping the clown world cavalcade is refocusing on the bigger issues and getting out of the fracas-framings induced by teaching people to enrage one another.
Reclaim the Elites’ Frame Continue Reading
It’s time to re-assess the “need” for half of America to go to college as a vital path to the middle class. For some, sure, it’s a great plan, always was. But for many, this is not a sail; it’s an anchor. It’s just cargo cult baggage.
How Did Higher Education Become a Cargo Cult? Continue Reading
“Medical freedom” has become more than a buzzword. It is also a movement, with its advocates, experts, and critics. Multiple medical freedom conferences have been organized and are taking place in the United States and abroad, and political parties under its banner have formed.
What is Medical Freedom, Exactly? Continue Reading
The implication of there being something beyond our immediate self, a shared experience across time, changes everything. It means there is something no longer measurable within all of us, and we can no longer ignore the results of our deeds, or those we condone in others.
The Emptiness of the Transhumanist Ideal Continue Reading
Use disobedience to claw back whatever personal agency and responsibility you can in your own life, train yourself not to take these people seriously, encourage others to do the same, and if enough people do this, eventually it will become so prohibitively expensive to manage the population that the strangling vines of this parasitic organism we call the managerial state can be hacked back to something manageable.
Cutting through the Mist of the Managerial State Continue Reading
By worshiping at the altar of the safe, we denigrate, delay, and deny the myriad possibilities for human advancement that are inherent in the concept of risk.
The Cult of Safety Explodes Continue Reading
Our philosopher-king ascended the stairs in front of the partially destroyed, but still standing US Capitol Building, and, with raucous delight, begins…Building Back Better.
Movies Came to Life in 2020 Continue Reading
We are about to find out whether the frogs really boil to oblivion, or whether they recognize the water is scalding and make the effort to leap to freedom – even risking a fall and injury in the process. After all, standing against tyrants was never actually supposed to be safe. The water is quite hot. It is not the experiment as I imagined it to be, but we are soon to find the answer.
The Painless Extinction of Formerly Free Australia Continue Reading
Go take some action to strengthen your neighborhood, your local culture. Go chat with someone on the street that social media and leaders tells you is unknowable. Make a meal for friends and neighbors. Refuse to be hypnotized. You are thus unmaking your own chains. They can only enslave us if we let them.
There is Yet Hope for the Beauty of Cities Continue Reading
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