I was gonna write something..but the desire disappeared….
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Attack the System- Lyceum Round-Table #42: Anarchists, Libertarians and History 20th September 2021Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the tortuous relationship libertarians and anarchists have with history.Keith Preston
- Top 10 Experimental Towns and Communes 20th September 202110. Arcosanti 9. Auroville 8. Findhorn Ecovillage 7. Pullman, Illinois 6. The Harmony Society Communities 5. The Federation of Damanhur 4. The Farm 3. Israeli Kibbutzim 2. Oneida Colony 1. Brook FarmKeith Preston
- Afghanarchism: What American Radicals Can Learn From the Pashtuns 20th September 2021By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotypes, this one comes with a cornel of truth. After all, the people of Afghanistan […]Keith Preston
- Lyceum Round-Table #42: Anarchists, Libertarians and History 20th September 2021
- Samizdata
- The carers 19th September 2021I am not usually one for issuing trigger warnings, but this video of an unhappy two year old child is genuinely disturbing: New York, where two-year-olds are forced to wear masks all day in nursery. I have a single memory – a three second “video clip” of my brother’s fourth birthday – that I can […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- California voting – an anecdote 18th September 2021Yesterday, I was chatting to a Californian friend. He described his experience of voting in the recall election. He was sent a postal ballot – a ballot and an envelope to return it in. He had not asked for it and did not want it but got it anyway. His wife was also sent one […]Niall Kilmartin (Stirling)
- Ctrl-F “frack” 0/0 18th September 2021The government has published this UK gas supply explainer. There has recently been widespread media coverage of wholesale gas prices, and the effect this could have on household energy bills. The impact on certain areas of industry, and its ability to continue production, has also attracted attention. This explainer sets out the background to the […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- The carers 19th September 2021
- Wisdom Dancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- On Ugly Ideas and IntoleranceIdeas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoes
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem peculiarly enchanting. Certain places resonate with certain personalities. There is, somewhere, a precise scenery that speaks to your soul. No matter how many times I visit Arizona, the city of Tucson has always been an endlessly enchanting landscape. Not a […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break rocks all day long to bring forth a better world in the decades yet to come. Activists for the long-threatened paradise will not leave us alone – these advance-men will harass and hassle us whenever we attempt to enjoy ourselves […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean 19th September 2021How and when did the Ashkenazim come to be?Razib Khan
- The Japanese as a creation of the Christian Era 19th September 2021The traditional model, which I’ve alluded to before on this weblog before, is that Japan is a synthesis of Jomon and Yayoi, with the latter dominant, and bringing rice-agriculture to […]Razib Khan
- The echoes of greater Scythia 18th September 2021I’m reading The Great Indo-European Horse Sacrifice: 4000 Years of Cosmological Continuity from Sintashta and the Steppe to Scandinavian Skeid, since we now know that modern horses come from the […]Razib Khan
- Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean 19th September 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A comment agnostic has not let through under his post on elite overproduction 13th July 2021A sensible moderation policy might involve automatically holding back any comment from a commenter who hasn’t yet been approved. But agnostic holds all new comments under moderation by default and sometimes just doesn’t choose to approve them. Knowing this, I saved a copy of the last one I tried to submit in reply to this, […]teageegeepea
- What technological advantage did Russia have in the Russo-Persian wars? 29th May 2021Every summary I’ve read of the Russo-Persian wars notes that the latter held the numerical advantage (particularly since the former were busy fighting the Ottomans & Napoleon), but the former won because of their better technology. These summaries never say what that better technology was. This is well after the Safavid “gunpowder empire” so it’s […]teageegeepea
- A continuing dialogue with marxbro1917 on famines 12th May 2021While arguing with some other people at Astral Codex 10 about the merits of communist regimes that have actually existed, marxbro1917 started questioning whether famines are actually more common under them. I interjected by bringing up Amartya Sen, citing & quoting a paragraph of his on the subject. I begin quoting after that point, as […]teageegeepea
- A comment agnostic has not let through under his post on elite overproduction 13th July 2021
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Afghanistan cannot fit the mold of white Christian democracy 25th August 2021Afghanistan is not Germany nor Japan. Afghanistan cannot be rebuilt like these nations were rebuilt after world war II, with the Marshall plan. To posit insurmountable cultural, religious ethnic differences is taboo to the point that Trillions (one million million dollars) are spent for impossible fantasies of nation building, to turn Afghans into Americans, Germans, […]Programmer
- Lying by omission, with intent to deceive! #1 Failure to disclose is immoral misrepresentation 24th May 2021Misrepresentation and lack of full disclosure can be serious misdeeds, before the law. Yet leftist’s incessant lies of omission, required by media ethics codes and police gag orders, are tolerated. Even Media and politicians rarely tell outright lies (lies of commission). They spread misinformation by strategically omitting specific relevant details. Deceptively they fail to disclose […]Programmer
- Politically correct DISHONESTY is the root cause of disastrous social and racial policies 7th May 2021A parsimonious explanation to explain the roots of all evil caused by leftist woke policies. Truthrevolution.net’ s Occams razor points to socially accepted and socially required dishonesty and deception as the one singular root cause Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net Do not tolerate the slightest dishonesty. Shun liars, don’t let liars fool you twice! Never […]Programmer
- Afghanistan cannot fit the mold of white Christian democracy 25th August 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- FAQ: Best version of “Einzige” in English 9th September 2021Someone asked: hello! I heard about max stirner and (want to know) best version of that work. I see it is out of stock and was just curious if there was any plans for another run? thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this! We responded: The “best version” depends […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- No Detail Too Small! 8th September 2021This small detail from The Gospel According to Malfew Seklew, published circa 1927, appeared circa 1916 in School Sewing Based on Home Problems by Ida and Myron Burton, published circa 1916. That is all!Trevor Blake
- SA1210 | On Active Service | J.A.Andrews 1st September 2021On Active Service: Items in the History of the People’s Movement in Australia J.A.Andrews 5.5×8.5″, 44 pages, saddle-stitched Stand Alone | SA1210 Available from Underworld Amusements Eccentric Australian anarchist J.A.Andrews writes about his experience with the labor activist groups, including the Active Service Brigade, where he worked side-by-side with Arthur Desmond, popularly known by his pen […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- FAQ: Best version of “Einzige” in English 9th September 2021
damn. hate when that happens.
you must master “the desire” like a well-paid servant! learn to summon it at will and let your bidding be done!