Category Archives: Political Economy

Superpowers (With Notes on Rules Versus Controls)

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Steven Yates

What are superpowers? Do we all have them? How do we develop them? How does formal education interfere with them? How has industrial civilization interfered with their free development and use within populations? Do the activities of ruling elites have something to do with this? How do we take our lives back? Continue reading →

Posted in personal development, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Science and Technology, Science Fiction, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged alienation, alienation in industrial civilization, dystopian science fiction, economics of abundance, free energy, free energy technology, Horace Mann, industrial civilization, kindergarten word origin, Nikola Tesla, psychology motivation, public education criticisms, public schools criticism, ruling elites, scarcity and abundance, superpowers, utopia and dystopia, writing as a career | 1 Comment

Back to Basics (2). Freedom As a Core Value

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Steven Yates

Is freedom one of your core values? Why or why not? What is freedom? What’s so great about it? If you are not free, what is blocking your freedom? What can you do to remove the blocks to your freedom, be they personal or societal? Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged bad parenting, Brave New World, core values, digital ID, Do we live in a democracy?, Frederic Douglass speech, Freedom Philosophy, global ID, globalism, H.L. Mencken, helicopter parents, Orwell 1984, revolution vs reform, self-help, self-improvement, separatism, Steven Yates, surveillance and control, Technocracy, vaccine conspiracies, What is freedom?, What Should Philosophy Do? | Leave a comment

Essay: Reading Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country” Published on Medium and Substack (and announcing The Clarity Factory)

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Steven Yates

This essay examines the late philosopher Richard Rorty’s alleged prediction of the rise of Donald Trump as well as the background. This includes Rorty’s conception of the difference between Right and Left, the Two Lefts that have influenced American politics and culture respectively, and how the inability of the Cultural Left to speak to matters of economic concern to mostly rural and working whites fueled Donald Trump’s rise. After an assessment of what Rorty got right versus what he got wrong, I conclude with a few remarks about where we might go next. Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Philosophy, Political Economy | Tagged Achieving Our Country, Cultural Left, Globalism and Leftism, Globalization and Leftism, Reformist Left, Richard Rorty, Rise of Trumpism, Rorty on Left and Right, Rorty predicts rise of Trump, Rorty predicts Trump | Leave a comment

The Five Stages of COVID Vaccine Compliance/Coercion Explained: A Dialogue

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Steven Yates

COVID-19 vaccines known to be experimental are being distributed worldwide, with mandates, passports, and passes going into place. This is becoming increasingly coercive, and is being resisted by certain segments of the population. Are the resisters simply repeating misinformation they found on the Internet, or is something really deadly and dangerous going on here that we should all know about? Who or what is really behind what has become the biggest crisis of our time? A dialogue to explore the issues. Continue reading →

Posted in Coronavirus, Media, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged Anthony Fauci lied, Coronavirus and New World Order, coronavirus COVID-19, coronavirus COVID-19 conspiracy theories, Covid-19 bioweapon, COVID-19 dystopia, COVID-19 engineered collapse, COVID-19 Great Reset, COVID-19 lockdown, Covid-19 vaccines, Covid-19 vaccines and mandates, EcoHealth Alliance, Event 201, globalists and Covid-19, Great Reset, systemic coercion, vaccine passports, Wuhan virus | 1 Comment

Lost Generation Philosopher Looks Critically at Critical Race Theory

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Steven Yates

Critical race theory: exposure of American racism and its history? the latest form of academic Marxism?… or a major distraction from the real problems we face? Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Theory and Philosophy, Critical Theory, CRT, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, Identity Politics, Kimberle Crenshaw, Marxism classical versus cultural, Nikole Hannah-Jones, philosophy of race, political correctness, power elite, superelites, systemic racism, white privilege, whiteness | Leave a comment

James Howard Kunstler – Everyone Interested in Truth Should Be Reading His Writings

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Steven Yates

James Howard Kunstler exploded the myths of our culture of mass consumption and disposability years ago; more recently, he’s been exploding those of the cult of wokery, the oh-so-convenient pandemic, and the idea beloved in elite media that last year’s election was honest and above-board. So what happens next? Continue reading →

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The Fall of Chile

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Steven Yates

Chile is presently one of the most locked down nations in the world. The “Chilean miracle” was never what it seemed. Continue reading →

Posted in Chile and Its Future, Coronavirus, Culture, Libertarianism, Political Economy | Tagged Chile, Chile lockdowns, Chile vaccines, Covid in Chile, Covid vaccines, Galt's Gulch Chile, Libertarianism and Chile, neoliberalism and Chile | 1 Comment

Is Covid-19 a Global Cult?

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Steven Yates

Is Covid-19 understood as global pandemic a medical truth based on proven facts or a corporate-governmental-media narrative based on inculcated fear and a plan for control? Continue reading →

Posted in Coronavirus, Media, Political Economy, Workarounds | Tagged C.J. Hopkins, cancel culture, censorship by Big Tech, Coronavirus, Covid narrative, Covid-19, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, Covidian cult, cult of woke, Edward Louis Bernays, Facebook censorship, Robert A. Heinlein, Steven Yates, Steven Yates articles, Unz Review censorship, Walter Lippmann | Leave a comment

Basic Conservative Principles, Part 1

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Steven Yates

What is conservatism today? This two part essay tries to answer that question. Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged conservatism, conservative, conservative basic principles, conservative basics, conservative philosophy, conservative political philosophy, constrained vs unconstrained vision, introduction to conservatism, principles of conservatism, Russell Kirk, Thomas Sowell | 2 Comments

Happy Fourth of July

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Steven Yates

Myths about “systemic racism,” “white supremacy,” and “white privilege” get blown completely to pieces in this latest article by Paul Craig Roberts, easily one of the boldest authors in the online world, who always tries to write the truth as … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Media, Political Economy | Tagged Fourth of July, July 4, Paul Craig Roberts, racism, systemic racism, white privilege, white supremacy | 5 Comments

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