The decline
I had trouble sleeping last night. My mind kept turning over the debate – a debate I didn’t watch, but read enough about to know I was right to not watch it. And even unwatched, it disturbed my sleep. That’s … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe
Trump and thinking outside the box
To even conceive of Trump as president, and then to vote for him – particularly in 2016 – a person had to think outside the box. That wasn’t a sufficient condition, but it was a necessary one. Trump himself also … Continue reading →
Trump tackles the anti-American anti-history anti-truth indoctrination in our schools
Well, well, well. Yesterday Trump made quite an announcement: On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to launch a “1776 Commission” for American patriotism in education, countering the Marxist critical race theory of The … Continue reading →
Is it useful to understand the philosophies behind “wokeness”?
Thinking more about the video I posted yesterday, I noticed this comment by “John Tyler”: No point in really in trying to understand what motivates the adherents of wokeness, Nazism, communism, ANTIFA’ism, BLM’ism, etc. , because any sentient carbon based … Continue reading →
What we’re up against in today’s woke activism
This is long, and I don’t usually watch long videos. Nor have I completely finished watching this one – not yet. But I’ve watched (or listened to; you can do the latter while doing some other task that doesn’t require … Continue reading →
The Critical Race Theory professor and the logic of the left
From William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: …Trump’s move [to end Critical Race training in federal agencies] is viewed as a mortal threat by the CRT movement. One of the leading academics on CRT, UCLA and Columbia law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, … Continue reading →
2020 America: It’s Orwell crossed with Lewis Carroll
It’s become difficult if not impossible to watch those video compilations of the left’s reaction on Election Night 2016 to their dawning realization that Donald Trump has won. The videos are no longer entertaining or funny, if in fact they … Continue reading →
The riots and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
[BUMPED UP: scroll down for new posts.] Commenter “Snow on Pine” asks, of the left and the rioters: Having created the monster, do those on the Left believe that they can call it back, that those who have tasted excitement … Continue reading →
Undoing the leftist deed
Gerard Vanderleun reminds us of how relevant Milan Kundera remains. Here’s the quote from my favorite work of Kundera’s, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: At a time when history still made its way slowly, the few events were easily … Continue reading →
Antifa: on sociopaths and riots
On the white guilt thread yesterday, I wrote about various ways in which people can react to feelings of guilt and then want to join movements such as BLM or especially Antifa. Then I added: in addition, I believe that … Continue reading →
On white guilt and the white rioters
Commenter “Art Deco” writes (the first paragraph is a quote from a previous commenter}: “The point is that Leftist[s] are motivated by guilt towards blacks. And they demand other whites share in their guilt by mongering.” Rubbish. People who actually … Continue reading →
Reading Orwell as a child
I was about eleven or twelve or perhaps thirteen years old when I first read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. It made an indelible impression on me, probably greater than it would have if I’d waited till at least college age. I’m … Continue reading →