Month: December 2012

culture

Mencius on the Fall

Mencius addresses the question:  Does today’s US resemble the late Roman Empire in the west, or the late Roman Republic, in his usual wonderfully cryptic, long winded, and obscure fashion. Mencius’s proposed solution to our crisis, oligarchy or military dictatorship, assumes that America is analogous to the late Roman Republic.  The people have become too …

culture

The watchmaker is dead

When the religion dies, so dies the empire.  Europe is the faith, the faith is Europe, and the faith is no more. Everyone who resents the destructive, self indulgent, and self destructive rule of the ever more left wing Cathedral, regrets the passing of Christianity, everyone including the secular right, perhaps especially the secular right, …

economics

Kill their leaders and convert them to … progressivism

Ann Coulter famously said “Kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”.  Regrettably, all the versions of Christianity that once upon a time would have been capable of implementing such a program have replaced the worship of Christ the Redeemer with Jesus the community organizer. The “Arab Spring” was the Cathedral deluding itself that it …

culture

The left singularity versus the technological singularity

Lately this blog has largely been about the left singularity:  That leftism leads to more leftism, which leads to even more leftism even faster, until everything goes to hell. The best known singularity, however is the information technology singularity, the rapture of the nerds What of the theory that information technology leads to more information …

economics

Derivatives did it!

Bernie Madoff steals from his depositors. An evil Jew did it! Punish the evil Jew Bernie Madoff. Jon Corzine, pillar of the progressive establishment, senior financial regulator, steals from his depositors. Derivatives did it!. Poor Jon Corzine. We must punish derivatives by regulating them further.

politics

Recent posts on Urban Future vanished

Recent excellent posts on the excellent blog “Urban Future” have mysteriously vanished. Perhaps the bitbucket ate them, but I suspect the problem was that he said “the Left”, instead of saying the US Government. Edit:  In the comments, Nick Land reassures me that they were merely eaten by the bitbucket. He was discussing the left …

culture

As in Britain, maintaining order is being criminalized

As you know, another photo has come out showing that five foot eleven athlete Trayvon Martin beat the stuffing out of  five foot seven overweight George Zimmerman, while Zimmerman never hit back, until he finally shot Martin. And when I say “come out” I mean that Zimmerman’s new lawyers extracted it by a year of …

culture

Moldbug’s mission completed

Moldbug has a new post of substance, but not a whole lot of substance. That a significant proportion of votes are fraudulent, disproportionately in the most critical states, such as Ohio, and everyone piously turns a blind eye to voter fraud on a scale that makes the difference between one presidential candidate winning, and another …