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I Program the Body Electric
In a presentation by Peter Thiel at Stanford, he mentions The Atlantic as an insightful source, not for the commentary it provides but for how it functions as an ideological aperture, revealing the way the global elite thinks–and, thus, wants … Continue reading
Anti-schooling Society
Anti-modern and errant pilgrim priest Ivan Illich writes in his galvanizing Deschooling Society that the agenda of modern education consists of the following: “The pupil is thereby ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with … Continue reading
It Suggested That I Get Out a Bottle of Wine–I Knew Then That It Was Love
Always On Your Side Years ago, when co-workers would spontaneously gather to talk about their children (i.e., avoid, in unison, doing work) and, obligatorily, about their fears for their children, they would, amusingly, speculate about their children’s future romantic lives. … Continue reading
No Meds for Hypermodernity Disorder
For a blessed six years, I resisted the cultural push to buy an iPhone. I playfully ribbed the first person I knew who owned one, making fun of her when she would stop mid-conversation to look up something to settle … Continue reading
The Future Belongs to Those Who Hustle
If you have ever experienced summer in the Deep South, then you will never forget the exhausting humidity and the oppressive heat–it feels like wearing a hot towel all day; t-shirts become nothing more than ornamental sop rags. Mowing the … Continue reading
Woke Me Up When This Is Over
Black pilled British philosopher John Gray recently wrote about the unpleasantness currently taking place in the late, not-so-great-anymore US; the title of his piece neatly summarizes the content: “The woke have no vision of the future.” In it, he compares … Continue reading
That’s (a Clown’s) Life
In case anyone has not heard, there is this film that has recently been released and is based upon a relatively infamous comic book villain. The film has garnered some media attention; perhaps the tireless reader may be able to … Continue reading
Disunited States of Americas
Years ago, the concept of secession (I prefer the term “self-determination”) interested me greatly. My first re-introduction to a concept that I thought had been politically decided and, thus, historically banished was through meeting a few prominent members of The … Continue reading
As Individuals, Let’s All Be Unhappy Together
In the summer edition of American Affairs, Dutch politician (trigger warning, soft ones) Thierry Baudet condenses the message of French writer Michel Houellebecq’s oeuvre: our contemporary moral and political freedoms have given many choices, but they have not given us … Continue reading
Desert and the Beatific Vision
(This is another piece that I wrote over a decade ago. I submitted this in a creative writing class–and actually got away with it. I doubt such would fly today. I have cleaned it up a bit. Anyway, it is … Continue reading
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