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On the Modern Plight of the Youth

Steven Kritz / April 20, 2024 / Psychology, Society / 35 minute read

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By ownership, I don’t just mean physical possessions. As the posts from the younger Brownstone contributors have made clear, it must also mean ownership of, and active participation in: 1) our shared culture; 2) a faith-based connection to the eternal; 3) a revitalization of the family; and, 4) a return to the principals of our Constitutional republic. All of these things are hanging by a thread, and the younger generations are paying, and will continue to pay a very heavy price for as long as these items are not addressed head-on.

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A Coup Without Firing a Shot

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 20, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 8 minute read

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It’s easier to wait for the historians to tell the next generation what happened. But maybe, just maybe, by stepping up and telling the story as we see it in real time, we can make a difference in stopping this madness and restoring some sane and normal freedom back to the world.

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The Bison Advantage

Julie Ponesse / April 16, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology / 15 minute read

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How will you respond next time you face a moral challenge? Will you walk headfirst into the storm like the bison or turn and drift with it? Have you used the time over the last two years to figure out what matters most to you? What costs have you prepared yourself to be able to bear? Our future depends on what you do, what each of us does, with the little moments we have right now.

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The WHO’s Road to Totalitarianism

Bert Olivier / April 9, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 12 minute read

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In a nutshell, it means that this unelected organisation would have the authority to proclaim lockdowns and ‘medical (or health) emergencies,’ as well as mandatory ‘vaccinations’ at the whim of the WHO’s Director-General, reducing the freedom to traverse space freely to ironclad spatial confinement in one fell swoop. This is what ‘total terror’ would mean. It is my fervent hope that something can still be done to avert this imminent nightmare.

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The Renaissance of Our Hearts

Julie Ponesse / March 29, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 14 minute read

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Little acts of kindness mean more than we thought and losing them means more than we might have realized. It also means we are in desperate need of a kindness renaissance.

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The Taboo Ingredient for Progress: Shame

Thomas Harrington / March 20, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 7 minute read

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What no one told us, however, is that this reformist method of engendering peaceful change was highly dependent on the existence of a broadly-subscribed ethos of honesty, goodwill and, perhaps most of all, healthy shame in the class of people possessing an outsized ability to promote new ways of approaching social problems.

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When Panic Became Normalized

Rev. John F. Naugle / March 16, 2024 / History, Psychology / 7 minute read

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What leaders in government did, whether it be President Trump on the national level or your health department head on the local level, was an abject failure in what is one of the first duties of good leadership. To encourage panic and the psychological devastation that accompanies panic is wicked and depraved. The lack of accountability for nearly any of those guilty portends a future even more devoid of the necessary virtues required for good leadership.

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The Playmobil Society vs. The Game of Nations

Haley Kynefin / March 9, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology / 22 minute read

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Our models represent, largely, a collaborative social universe, where people play by rules, say what they mean, and act with honesty and integrity — and where, in general, we do not deal with calculating minds trained in the arts of war and espionage. Their models, on the other hand, encompass a reality that exists completely off this game board, which is not beholden to it, and whose players often take each other’s movements into account and plot reactions several steps in advance.

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The Consensus Conspiracy

Thomas Buckley / February 29, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology / 6 minute read

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The difference between the two is the impression of the intent of the group by those on the outside. Conspiracies are manifestly suspect and created out of nefarious motives to achieve a specific, most likely at least unethical, goal. Consensuses are seen as positive constructs, having been arrived at after open discussion, healthy debate, and a consideration of all relevant factors.

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How to Repair Our Post-Repentance Culture

Thomas Harrington / January 26, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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Maybe I’m blind to their existence, but outside the largely narcissistic and comfortably non-personal woke rituals of remorse, I see few institutional pressures in our culture for young people, or anyone for that matter, to undertake the serious and always consequential act of examining their behaviors in the light of moral principles. Just the opposite, in fact.

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When ‘Psychopathic’ is No Exaggeration

Bert Olivier / January 22, 2024 / Philosophy, Psychology / 10 minute read

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In sum, as far as I can judge, Bill Gates (and the same could be argued regarding Fauci and Schwab, to mention only two other candidates for this dubious honour) is a textbook example of a psychopath, as revealed in the many reports of his sayings and doings.

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No One is Safe Until Everyone is Safe

David Bell / January 17, 2024 / Censorship, Psychology, Public Health / 5 minute read

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We cannot afford to have those who lead through empty sloganeering in control. We should treat them with all the respect they deserve. We will only be truly safe when we insist on integrity as a prerequisite for public office, and a basis for public health. That is as near or far as we choose it to be.

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