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John Stuart Mill put forward a limited socialist vision towards his life’s end—he said that if people wanted to form cooperatives and...

* Clausewitz suggests three means by which to prosecute a successful war against an enemy (in order of preferred goals): first, destroy...

Goethe observes that people make a mistake in that they try to be original—this is especially true with the young but it’s a general...

* The primordial Jewish myth is Esau and Jacob—it’s a story about deception, about how Esau is convinced to sell his birthright for a...

Art and politics (II): it might seem paradoxical to use Dostoyevsky in the previous article as an example counterposed to Christianity as...

The Ark of the Covenant was based on Egyptian religious furniture, as depicted above with Anubis on top. It was an aron—which can be a...

Art and politics: art reflects reality—the better the reflection of reality, the better the art. There is no such thing as “right-wing...

* “And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned...

You can tell a lot about a person by their avatar—in Aella’s case it’s a decaying face, because that reflects her internal state. Decay....

* Welcome to National Socialist film club, draw yourself up on Uncle Adolf’s knee, help yourself to some pretzels and a beer stein...

Contrary to popular belief, we live in the darkest of dark ages. Our technology has never been better, but our quality has never been...

In the land of Canaan: the Palestinians, as it happens, aren’t really Arabs—or are only culturally so. They’re really Canaanites—as are...

* I saw an online conversation where one party said, “Surely, you accept there are good Jewish people—you can’t just blanket condemn...

Civilisations and death: civilisations are born, mature, grow old, and die—and so do sub-units in civilisations, such as nations. I think...

* There’s a common propaganda line taken by the radical right online, even has an X account dedicated to it, that says, “What would our...

Ideology (II): as noted yesterday, the concept “ideology”, in its modern sense, derives from Marxism—and the irony is that Marxism is...

You might as well reject everything post-war; indeed, you might as well reject everything after 2,500 BC. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is...

While Campbell was a great scholar and a genial man, his basic message contains an error. Campbell told people to “follow their...

Ideology: I don’t like the term “ideology” and generally avoid it because it derives, in its modern sense, from Marxism—so to use it...

In the Bible, Eden is said to be in the East—except the word in Hebrew can also mean “from time out of mind”, so that Eden is not a...