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Superpowers (With Notes on Rules Versus Controls)
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
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Back to Basics (2). Freedom As a Core Value
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?
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The Five Stages of COVID Vaccine Compliance/Coercion Explained: A Dialogue
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
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Peter Singer on Making COVID Vaccines Legally Mandatory
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has argued that COVID-19 vaccines should be mandatory for essentially the same reasons that seat belts in automobiles are legally mandatory. In this short comment I respond that his argument collapses under scrutiny that reveals numerous disanalogies between seat belts and the COVID vaccines. Continue reading
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
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