By Rudolf von Flügel You find yourself in a glorious garden, a primordial garth containing all manner of luscious flora. You caper carelessly through fields of beautiful flowers, their petals caressing you gently, holding you in their redolent spell. Invigorated by the pheromonal ur-zest of their volatile organic compounds you sprint blindly through the fronds…
Month: July 2019
Banking for The Culture
In recent years, those on the right in the political scene have become very much aware of the atmosphere of censorship and de-platforming. It is getting hard to keep track of who has been tossed off YouTube, Patreon, and various other platforms. Those who are remaining have experienced intentional algorithm changes which have led to…
10 Friday Reads 7/25/19
I have been on vacation. Forgive me for no post last Friday and not much here. To make it up, I will link ten reads. Harvard Law Prof’s Life Becomes A Dark Comedy – A Harvard law professor gets conned by some lesbian and a trans person. I cannot do this justice. Read this and…
The Death of Netflix
After changing the culture with the introduction of streaming, Netflix has hit a wall. Even more ominous, the divisions and corporate material are being arranged that will lead to its downfall. This is not investment advice in any form. This is just the warning that the death of Netflix will come soon. If you doubt…
Technological Submission: Nature Conquers Modern Man
It’s almost a ubiquitous assumption today that man, especially since the dawn of the Age of Science, is in the steady process of conquering nature. As our technological proficiency expands, nature submits to our whims. Rather than being exposed to nature’s harsh elements, we built shelters; rather than succumbing to rampant disease and early death,…
The Eternal Anglo III
The Tudor Reformation and the Harrying of England “I am thy father’s spirit, Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets…
The Tactics of the Troubles – Part I
In the 1960s the province of Northern Ireland had one of the lowest crime rates in the United Kingdom. The modern day sectarianism that would come to plague that land had not yet erupted and the communities lived side by side, separate but largely at peace. In 1972 alone, 500 people died in the province…
The Sunset on the Anglo Southwest
“I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I traveled over them for more than 300 leagues … with no more land marks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea … there was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor…
Reconsidering the Boomer Question, A Modest Proposal
If you have any exposure to millennial politics on the fringes of the internet, then you might have some awareness of how the Boomers royally screwed over our futures for generations to come. The generation that had the most unprecedented first world economic growth, opportunities, relative peace and stability, etc. simultaneously became the most cravenly…
Marvel Trash Theater
Like clockwork the films roll out. The spring Marvel blockbuster. The summer Marvel blockbuster. The fall/winter Marvel blockbuster. If you attend the same theater, you may even see the same people opening night. There are five or so men resembling the Simpsons comic book guy. Your kid rattles off a bunch of Marvel trivia or…
The American Sun 