Letter to the UK Government On the Proposed Replacement of the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Modern Bill of Rights
“This is the story of a duel.
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Philosophy
A collection of 491 articles
Canadian Conviviality vs. Global Helplessness
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The showdown between Trudeau and the truckers has shown the real nature of a war that is by now quite obviously not about a virus.
On 17th February, in an article at Brownstone Institute, David McGrogan described the Trudeau-trucker stand-off as not only ‘the single
5 Labels You Should Never Use to Define Yourself
Let’s be honest, everybody uses labels.
The Fear Not to Be
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This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the theologian Paul Tillich’s famous book, The Courage to Be. Widely read in the days when an educated public read books, it is long forgotten.
In it, Tillich surveys the history of anxiety and fear and
Slow Boil
Everyone knows by now the analogy often tossed about these days describing a frog in a pot of water on a stove.
The heat is turned up so slowly that the frog has no idea that if he (or she) doesn’t jump out he will be boiled alive.
Seems
China: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril
(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release the imprisoned Tibetan monk and religious philosopher Go Sherab Gyatso, Human Rights Watch said today.
George Soros, where is my money?
How the psycho-social mind gets intensively manipulated by the use that media makes of ideas and the object that these ideas recall on the society as a whole
Nostalgic for the Future
Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated with treacly sentimentality, defeatism, and spurious spiritual inclinations.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, the Biblical writers, and their ilk would demur, of course, but they have been dead for a few years, so progress’
Are You Tired of Being Alone? Consider These 8 Uncomfortable Truths
As we’ve covered many times before, being alone and being lonely are two different things.
Communing with Camus in 2022
Albert Camus, Michel y Jeannine Gallimard by Antonio Marín Segovia (source)
The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply.
The Age of Intolerance: Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech
“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.”
George Carlin
Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media
Harmless Untruths
In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the deadpan realist from the Midwest–the 20th century’s Mark Twain–delivers an instructive review of the way in which Americans hold scientists in exceedingly high esteem—and the perils therein.
One of his characters is scientist Felix Hoenikker. Hoenikker
10 Sobering Life Lessons to Learn from Adversity
Life is not fair, nor is it easy.
The Covid narrative is insane and illogical…and maybe that’s no accident Maybe forcing people to believe your lies, even after you admit you’re lying, is the purest form of power.
“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.
5 Philosophical Questions That Will Blow Your Mind
Some philosophical questions are so difficult you could tie yourself up in mental knots trying to understand them.
