It is to be noticed that many a modern mind educated in the modern fashion has lost the ability to think backward, that is, to correct a false premise when it reaches an absurd conclusion. The column will offer a … More
Will the Post-Scarcity Robot-Driven Economy be the End of Capitalism or the New Libertarian Utopia? A few weeks ago, the excellent Brian Garst, on this very website wrote an article on the robot-driven future and why people shouldn’t fear robot … More
The power of the leftist worldview and political movement, which has imposed a reign of terror over the majority of the world for the majority of the Twentieth Century, rests entirely on falsehood. More
In some intellectual circles in the Spanish-speaking world, namely that very tiny minority circle that consists of free-market proponents and anti-Marxists (which in the Spanish-speaking world is a bit like being a punk fan at an ABBA concert) the accelerating … More
Neoprogs are seeking to turn Marshal McLuhan’s concept of the global village (AKA the Internet) into a passive community in which nothing challenging or uncomfortable can happen. More
Many readers have asked me how my several columns here are using the term ‘Leftist’? How is it defined? For example, does this include a garden variety member of the Democratic party or something else? This is not an odd … More
It is traditional at year’s end to look back at the great issues of the last twelve months and see how our world has changed, and to ponder what the next year might hold. Being a science fiction writer, my … More
Last week, I gave an introduction to the philosophical and ideological schools of thought that comprise something which can be categorized as Cultural Marxism and its most prominent present-day iteration: Postmodernism. That is, the philosophy that personal experience of the … More
When setting out to write this, I had been intending to name this piece, Cultural Marxism. What a phrase to start an article with! It’s hard to get more ideologically loaded than an invocation of the Red Menace, especially in … More
To continue from our episode of Talking Past Each Other of two weeks ago, we were discussing the immunity of the Leftists to fact and evidence during debates, trying to discover why they have no arrow in their quiver aside … More