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Lost Generation Philosopher Looks Critically at Critical Race Theory
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
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James Howard Kunstler – Everyone Interested in Truth Should Be Reading His Writings
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
The “Virus” of Revolutionism
The “Virus” of Revolutionism – has infected modern civilizations since the time of the Jacobins of the French Revolution, and threatens the U.S. today. Continue reading
Posted in Chile and Its Future, Coronavirus, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged American founding, American revolution, Anthony Fauci, antifa, Bill Gates, Black Lives Matter, Chile protests 2019, Coronavirus, Coronavirus and New World Order, Covid and New World Order, Covid-19, Enlightenment and Jacobinism, French Revolution, global elites, globalism, Globalism and Covid, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Paul Craig Roberts, René Descartes, Revolution, Technocracy, Technocrats, Viruses, World Economic Forum Technocracy
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From Affirmative Action to Cancel Culture: Americans, You Were Warned
Slightly over 30 years ago, some of us warned anyone who would listen that the political correctness then emerging was dangerous and would spread to every institution in the country if it was not opposed. We were ignored, or called racists. Now, everything we predicted has happened, and we find not just historical monuments but history itself being canceled little by little Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Language, Media, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged affirmative action, antifa, Bakke decision, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Marxism, cancel culture, Christina Hoff Sommers, Civil Wrongs, feminism and Marxism, gender feminism, George Soros, globalism, Griggs decision, political correctness, post-truth, race realism
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Basic Conservative Principles, Part 1
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
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Harper’s Cancel Culture Letter Is an Indicator Where Present Cultural and Intellectual Dialogue Stands — It’s Been Canceled!
Harper’s July 7 Cancel Culture Letter is an important indicator of where present cultural and intellectual dialogue stands — there isn’t any! It’s been canceled! Continue reading
“The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist”
Have you recently felt like you’d entered a real world Twilight Zone? A world where truth and lies have been literally inverted, and you don’t know what to believe? Take the real voyage into Twilight Zone 2020 in “The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist” new from The Unz Review. Continue reading
A Case for Collapse Studies
A Case for Collapse Studies: we have Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and so on. Given the times we are now living in, why not Collapse Studies. Collapse is a process, not a singular event such as a major economic crash or a pandemic. Ours is underway. Can we turn things around in time? What does history teach us about collapse? Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Age of Decadence, collapse, collapse and philosophy, Collapse of Complex Societies}, collapse studies, Comte, Dmitry Orlov, Glubb Pasha, Jared Diamond Collapse, John Bagot Glubb, Joseph A Tainter, Law of Three Stages, philosophy and collapse, stages of collapse, The Fate of Empires, The Saker, theory of collapse
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More Censorship On Social Media. This Time, it’s Facebook
This morning, a missive from Ron Unz, editor and publisher of alternative media site The Unz Review, appeared in my inbox. He was reporting that everything from his site had been removed from Facebook. Its page on the social media … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged censorship, censorship at Facebook, censorship on social media, coronavirus conspiracy theories, coronavirus COVID-19, coronavirus COVID-19 conspiracy theories, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, Ron Unz, Unz Review
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Censorship at YouTube … Again
I just learned this morning that the video content I linked to at the beginning of “Coronavirus / COVID-19” has been removed by YouTube for “violating community standards.” Which means that my readers will not be able to access that … Continue reading
