Attack the System- Is Central Banking Really Above Politics? 20th September 2026Dear Keith, The latest issue of The Independent Review is here—and it’s asking some uncomfortable questions about the expanding power of central banks. Can a central bank really claim to be “above politics” when it takes on climate change, inequality, ESG, and other social priorities? Subscribe Now and […] The post Is Central Banking Really […]Keith Preston
- I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening 20th September 2026Caitlin Johnstone Sep 20, 2026 Video reading by Tim Foley: I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to […] The post I Still Believe Humanity […]Keith Preston
- Inside The Houthis’ Revolutionary Creed 20th September 2026Tracing the religious roots and long-term strategy of Yemen’s de facto rulers José Alberto Niño Sep 20, 2026 Share In early September 2026, Ansar Allah—better known as the Houthis in the West—launched its most consequential offensive in years. On September 3, the movement began diversionary attacks against government […] The post Inside The Houthis’ Revolutionary […]Keith Preston
- Is Central Banking Really Above Politics? 20th September 2026
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day – British not English is actually fine 20th September 2026The charge that followed was not that I phrased it badly. It was that my position was racist. I have two children. Both were born in England to British parents who each came here from somewhere else. They are not English either. They’re British. I said this in the very same podcast Sunak pulls quotes […]Perry de Havilland (Prague)
- When geopolitical ‘realists’ do not seem all that realistic… 20th September 2026He is even a bit of a joke by his own metrics.Perry de Havilland (Prague)
- “A costume which critics said was antisemitic”? What do YOU say, Zoe Williams? 20th September 2026“Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics”, writes Zoe Williams in the Guardian. Macklemore, both onstage and in his own statement, has rebuffed the argument that voicing support for Palestinians and criticising Israel and its actions in Gaza and the West Bank is antisemitic. (In 2014, […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day – British not English is actually fine 20th September 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- 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
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]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 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- 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
- Theo Jaffee: monitoring the “singularity” 18th September 2026Monitoring the AI Revolution in real-timeRazib Khan
- Scott Greer: Whitepill and Sunbelt 15th September 2026The rise of the New Right and Sunbelt cultureRazib Khan
- Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack 10th September 2026Nikolai Yakovenko is back on the podcast because of the Hugging Face hack. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player, and was a research scientist at Google, Twitter and Nvidia. With a decade in computer science, Yakovenko has been at the forefront of the large-language-model revolution that has driven to prominence companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and an ecosystem that […]Razib Khan, Nikolai Yakovenko
- Theo Jaffee: monitoring the “singularity” 18th September 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- American Gods 31st August 2026The first time I heard of Neil Gaiman was when I read Good Omens because I was a fan of that novel’s other author, Terry Pratchett. I recall hearing that it was supposed to be obvious who wrote what because their styles were so different, but I never read any other works by Gaiman until […]teageegeepea
- Band of Brothers 18th July 2026More than a decade prior to reading Stephen Ambrose’s book about Easy Company, I had seen the miniseries. That was so good that when I subsequently binged the 21st century reboot of Battlestar Galactica, I enjoyed it far less than most and repeatedly thought that, by comparison, those fictional characters in an existential struggle were […]teageegeepea
- The Monkey Cage is archived 9th June 2026I would occassionally link to the group blog by Andrew Gelman and other political scientists, but at some point it was acquired by the Washington Post and went behind a paywall, and eventually went defunct while I wasn’t reading it. Now Andrew points out that somebody has archived it (or at least much of it) […]teageegeepea
- American Gods 31st August 2026
- 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
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous[note]It’s virtuous to lie, omit, deceive (about “minority” crime & flaws … Scientific Honesty & integrity compromised by PC Antiracist dogma [/note] to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
Category Archives: Philosophy
Modernity and Its Discontents: Nietzsche’s Critique, by Douglas Kellner
Ported over to the Inferno for improved legibility, this serves as a rather comprehensive overview of Fritz’s thoughts on the trends and currents that compose what many call “modernity”. Rewarding reading for those with time to invest, despite the often … Continue reading
S.E. Parker: Ragging Redbeard
Fresh from being flushed down The Memory Hole, here is Sidney E. Parker’s incisive intro to, and critique of, Ragnar Redbeard’s notorious social Darwinist magnum opus, Might is Right. ~MRDA~
Posted in Egoism, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Racial Issues, Religion, Texts of Interest
Tagged Loompanics, Might is Right, Ragnar Redbeard, Sidney E. Parker, Social Darwinism, Vinland Saga
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MRDArous Aphorisms: The Third Salvo
None leave this world unblemished – to try is to self-deny. Pro-bomberventionists: “You can kill all the civilians you want, just not with those.” For some, objectification may serve as something of a shield from the animosity they would accrue … Continue reading
Step Out of My Sunshine! Reflections of a Libertarian Cynic
Kevin I. Slaughter, Satanic Reverend and owner of publishing house Underworld Amusements, expressed this sentiment not-so-long ago: I don’t adhere to any specific political party or platform, but reading comments on the internet underlines the folly of any political system … Continue reading
Posted in America, Amoralism, Anarchism, Atheism, Biorealism, Civil Liberties, Egoism, Fuck Democracy, Libertarianism, Personal, Perspectivism, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Society
Tagged Albert Jay Nock, demagogues, democratards, Diogenes of Sinope, IQ, Kevin I. Slaughter, race, Underworld Amusements
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More MRDArous Aphorisms
Living a lie: the default state of the human animal. “It exists for a reason” is often the end of all reasoning for the person who states it. “Suffering in silence” is beautiful, poetic, and noble—provided you’re not the poor … Continue reading
Posted in Aphorisms, MRDArous Aphorisms, Personal, Philosophy, Quotes
Tagged alienation, censorship, chivalry, Hakuna Matata, humanity, normality, psychopathy, Take Me Out
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MRDArous Aphorisms: A Compilation
Sometimes, concision can make a better incision. If “real men don’t buy girls”, does that make the sex trade a collective hallucination? “Innocence” is merely an adult’s romanticised view of childhood ignorance. Intelligence is no guarantee of decreased fallibility; in … Continue reading
Posted in Amoralism, Aphorisms, Egoism, Gender Issues, Moral Panic, MRDArous Aphorisms, Personal, Perspectivism, Philosophy, Psychology, Quotes, Society
Tagged cynicism, feminism, manarchist, misanthropy, nihilism, Social Darwinism, victimology
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Why, It’s An Anthology of Amoral Asocialites!
So, this plopped through my letterbox on Friday, courtesy of the speedy folk at Little Black Cart. Cheers to Rex Literati at Anti-Culture for alerting me to this tome’s existence… Currently, I’m leafing through it it a haphazard way, but … Continue reading
Posted in Amoralism, Anarchism, Egoism, Personal, Perspectivism, Philosophy, Quotes, Texts of Interest
Tagged anarchy, Anselme Bellegarique, Anti-Culture, cynicism, elitism, ftw!, James L. Walker, John Henry Mackay, Little Black Cart, Meme Myself and I, Renzo Novatore, Rex Literati, Sidney E. Parker
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