Ressentiment (redux)
* I said I didn’t think ressentiment is real, but then I quoted Alexander Hamilton on the proto-Democrats as saying, “They have a...
* I said I didn’t think ressentiment is real, but then I quoted Alexander Hamilton on the proto-Democrats as saying, “They have a...
All the supernatural events that have happened to me took place after I disassociated myself from everything around Landian neoreaction...
The United States is governed by the number 5, the number of the planet Mercury. This makes America a mercurial place—it is no surprise...
If you think about the right in scientific terms, in Nietzschean terms, then it seeks to be anti-entropic; and, in this respect, from a...
Women are a conservative force in society—feminists are the exception that proves the rule. Women don’t like to take risks, they’re risk...
The standard conservative defence for Christianity can be described in Machiavellian terms as: [1] The Church is dogmatic, it asserts the...
That’s hyperbole, because there might be some cult in Papua New Guinea that’s worse—but Christianity is the worst major religion, for...
There’s one bit in The City of God where St. Augustine is sensible—he talks about how sin is, in the end, necessary because the world is...
There are about 10,000 Buddhist scriptures, many untranslated into English. These scriptures are not necessarily consistent or true—not...
I know there is a certain limit to historical analysis where you relegate various figures to the categories of modern psychology—a field...
* The etymology for “heretic” is “choice”—a heretic is someone who thinks there should be a choice. Hence you see the connection between...
Wales and Ireland had a similar situation—Celtic lands ruled by English landlords, and yet Wales never had a real nationalist movement...
Christians have to enact two supplemental commandments: (i) you must not commit suicide; (ii) you must go forth and multiply. These are...
I found a website by a guy who said that no real science is done anymore—hasn’t been done for ages; and that strikes me as true—as when I...
* The Democrats were the first error in the US political system—that is to say, the system was intended to have no parties within it and...
There’s no way to say what I have to say straight to you—I put it down straight a few moments ago, but I had to delete those words. I had...
There are some nights when I feel that I am one with every man that ever lived, with Henry Miller and Shakespeare and Saint Augustine. I...
The last words of Jesus end with “Sabachthani”—there is some dispute about what this word means, because it doesn’t seem to appear in any...
I asked the I Ching about the future of European (white) man: “All that is visible must grow beyond itself, extend into the realm of the...
You often hear people say “I’m a different person”—there’s even a song from the 2000s with that very lyric. It’s mostly a female saying,...