This blog entry is partly intended as a public service to the sane. I’ll first provide links to alternative takes on the So-Called Coronavirus Pandemic and then I’ll simply state some beliefs I already tentatively held about the likely fate of the West, beliefs reinforced by the current happenings in the various public spheres of … [Read more…]
As I move forward on my project to make sense of human being as both individual and community, I’m reading in certain areas of mathematics (topology and differential geometry and abstract algebra and others) and also trying to keep up my readings in history and literature. The project threatens to swallow me at times, but … [Read more…]
I’ve uploaded a new novel, The Simple Life. It’s the story of some men and women and children gathering together in New England to form a community and take care of the vulnerable and the abandoned. After they start to form that community, the climate turned a little ice-age cold. Many have moved down to … [Read more…]
I’m writing this essay to set up my responses to Claes Ryn’s essay describing how the moral teachings and traditions of the West could re-establish some sort of peace in our world: The Moral Path to Peace. I’m planning for now to finish the set-up in this essay, following up on what I wrote in … [Read more…]
The world is what it is and we Christians, of all human beings, have to accept it and work with it. For example, against the various do-gooders including those who think themselves Christians, I believe the Body of Christ has to be built of the human material which is us, the material created by God … [Read more…]
In the article, The Cognitive Dissonance of Spying, subtitled It’s Always Illegal and Often Immoral, Philip Giraldi, who has served as an officer of the CIA and also of the DIA (military intelligence), tells us: It is being reported that the attempt by Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan to steer the CIA away from … [Read more…]
A number of those most consistently and honestly upset by Obamacare seem to be libertarians and I’ll side with them on this issue though I consider myself to be what some have called Orestes Brownson—a radical conservative. I’ll ignore the clueless conservatives and liberals who think moral order to be a gloss upon their favorite … [Read more…]
My understanding of communal being is more exact and more explicit than the traditional understandings of our social natures. This is to say that traditionalists are vague enough about their understanding of our communal ties that they sometimes speak as if not so far from various sorts of radical individualists. No matter how committed to … [Read more…]
Scientists have succeeded in creating false memories in lab mice, though it’s not at all true they created memories from scratch. Rather did they expose the mice to a bad experience in one location and then manipulated activity levels of brain-cells so that the mice associated that bad experience with another location where they’d not … [Read more…]
Something strange happens in the minds of many men as they go about their work, whether that of research in particle physics or removing cancerous tumors or running a machine milling a component of a jet-engine or, maybe especially, in those who’ve studied the evolution of human beings, individuals and species and cultures. Having established … [Read more…]