Attack the System- What happens when anarchists run a country? History has an answer. 12th July 2020By Scotty Hendricks Big Think When most people hear the word “anarchy”, they think of chaos. It brings to mind images of gangs fighting in the streets, looting and rioting, without a police force to help end the madness. It can be hard to grasp why anybody would ever declare themselves to be an “anarchist.” […]Keith Preston
- How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far 12th July 2020And there is still six more months to go! By James West Davidson History never ends. But history textbooks must. As deadlines for new editions loom, every textbook writer lurches to a sudden stop. The last chapter always ends in uncertainty: unfinished and unresolved. I’ve experienced this many times myself, as a co-author on several […]Keith Preston
- The Never Trumpers May Destroy Him. Then What? 12th July 2020If the predicted future scenario outlined in this article is correct, and I suspect it probably is, the Democrats will be the dominant party in the future, with its leadership being a neoliberal/neoconservative pro-ruling class coalition. The Republicans will be a token Tucker Carlsonized right-wing opposition party, mostly comprised of middle-aged and elderly white voters […]Keith Preston
- What happens when anarchists run a country? History has an answer. 12th July 2020
- Samizdata
- A change of tune 11th July 2020“Brussels moves to preserve access to London clearing houses”, reports the Financial Times. Brussels is to adopt emergency measures to preserve Europe’s access to crucial UK financial market infrastructure after the country’s post-Brexit transition period expires, the bloc’s regulation chief said on Thursday. Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission’s executive vice-president in charge of financial policy, […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day 9th July 2020It is ironic that this Cultural Revolution is being presided over by a Cavalier Prime Minister who is himself the embodiment of Libertarianism made substantial flesh. Boris Johnson faces the grim, unsmiling Roundhead figure of Sir Keir Starmer – perfectly typecast as a finger-wagging Puritan Witchfinder General. Ironic, too, that demands are being made to […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Canadian bank goes in for “struggle sessions” 8th July 2020As several commenters here note, a big feature of the current “woke” cultural revolution is how corporations have been actively going along with the drive towards “diversity” and “inclusion”. As I like to point out, free enterprise capitalism at most competitive is arguably the best way to drive out irrationalism and bigotry – an irrational […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- A change of tune 11th July 2020
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- PARABLE OF THE COMMUTER TRAIN 21st November 2019by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- RAW LAND 11th November 2019by John GrauerholzI love the lonely landscapes, the empty places, the solitary spaces. I am beguiled by the barren scenery that is not quite desert, yet a geography that is still too unforgiving to be farmland. A soil that is not devoid of vegetation, but an earth where all the plants have already turned brown. […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020
- 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
- Wandewring 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
- Wisdom Dancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Knowledge Matters, Too (Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race)With all due respect to the intentions behind #blackouttuesday and other online hashtag campaigns, a lot of online activism is most effective at making people feel good for participating, and showing “solidarity.” It’s low in cost (of time and effort) to post … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Fear is the CrisisFor many years now, my conviction has been that the great undeveloped area of human education is a suitable understanding and appreciation of human nature, especially commonalities of the mind—the ways in which we habitually think, and what each of … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continued
- Razib Khan
- Umayyad invention of the idea of Islam 12th July 2020A few months ago I wrote The Myth Of Arabian Paganism, And The Jewish-Christian Origins Of The Umayyads. Some readers suggested I look at Sean Anthony’s Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. After finishing Muhammad and the Empires of Faith there are no major revisions I would make […]Razib Khan
- Looking to the east: a different secularism than the West 12th July 2020Why Hagia Sophia, Turkey And The Charismatic Figure Of Erdogan Bristle With Resonances For India: The Hagia Sophia reconversion ultimately points to the failure of the Kemalist project of top-down secularism. Much like the state secularism of nationalist authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Iran, Iraq etc had failed to lead to the secularisation of the wider […]Razib Khan
- The triumph of idealism over materialism in the long run 12th July 20201,500 years ago the Justinian the Great had some grand ambitions once he became ruler of the only Roman Empire left. They called him the “Last Roman.” He was the last East Roman (Byzantine) Emperor who grew up speaking Latin as his native language. He was the last Emperor whose vision reflected the polity of […]Razib Khan
- Umayyad invention of the idea of Islam 12th July 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- Robin Hanson and Tomás Pueyo on containment vs mitigation 29th May 2020Regular readers, if there are any, will recall that I discussed Robin Hanson’s proposal of using variolation in response to the coronavirus in anticipation of a debate with Greg Cochran (who was more hawkish on containment) that wound up being less of a debate than expected early in April. As time has gone on Hanson […]teageegeepea
- Randall Collins on the history of musicians vs dancers in American pop 17th May 2020Years ago I blogged some commentary on war from Randall Collins’ “Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory”. Since Agnostic recently wrote a post on music being inextricably linked to dance (Kevin Simler postulated an evolutionary origin of that, which I blogged here), it seemed like a good time to quote from a section near the end of […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020
- Instead of a Blog
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]Unknown
- Real Talk on Guns 9th March 2018It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]Unknown
- Death Wish's Yankee Homo Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves with a Knife 8th March 2018Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]Unknown
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018
- Evolutionist X
- Industrial Society and its Future 11th July 2020All right. It took a while, but I have finished reading Ted’s manifesto, Industrial Society and its Future. In case you are unfamiliar with the story, Ted Kaczynski was a precocious math prodigy who was born in 1942 and matriculated at Harvard in 1958, at the age of 16. He went on to earn his […]evolutiontheorist
- Halfway Through 7th July 2020Since yesterday’s post is behind, I thought I’d just drop a quick update on progress. I’m about halfway through Industrial Society and Its Future; you can read it yourself if you want to get ahead of me.evolutiontheorist
- Further thoughts on spiteful mutants 30th June 2020I’ve had two requests recently, one for opinions about the spiteful mutant hypothesis, the other about Kaczynski’s work. These are related concepts, of course, in that they both deal with the structure of society. It took me a little while to realize that the “spiteful mutant” hypothesis has to do with bioleninism, not just studies […]evolutiontheorist
- Industrial Society and its Future 11th July 2020
- Human Stupidity
- NYT’s rare honesty: 3/4 of mass shooters are Black 5th July 2020Rarely do MSM admit to #RacistFacts. The NYT’s and other Ethics Style Books * explicitly require that media, police, teachers*, and social media users cover up true #RacistFacts in order not to stir up prejudices. Reprinted with Permission from Sincerity.net Over all, though, nearly three-fourths of victims and suspected assailants whose race could be […]Programmer
- Police stand down orders: expose the truth, disobey gag orders 5th June 2020The Truth about police stand down orders must be said openly. Police must speak up in spite of gag orders. Police who are ordered NOT to do police duty must speak the truth, even if ordered to hide that shameful command. Conspire to Tell the Truth, Defy Gag Orders Dishonesty as a Method to Fight […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- ‘Why is this black guy running?’: After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, African Americans reconsider fitness routines 20th May 2020Omitted details in media reports cause grave misunderstandings in the reader. It seems the omissions are intentional, with bias according to anti-racist narrative and #PCGagOrder. a) Anti-white discrimination is compulsory: “White kills Black” is fit to print. b) If the perp were ”minority”, of course, it would NOT be permissible to tell the race. c) […]Programmer
- NYT’s rare honesty: 3/4 of mass shooters are Black 5th July 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- Robin Hanson and Tomás Pueyo on containment vs mitigation 29th May 2020Regular readers, if there are any, will recall that I discussed Robin Hanson’s proposal of using variolation in response to the coronavirus in anticipation of a debate with Greg Cochran (who was more hawkish on containment) that wound up being less of a debate than expected early in April. As time has gone on Hanson […]teageegeepea
- Randall Collins on the history of musicians vs dancers in American pop 17th May 2020Years ago I blogged some commentary on war from Randall Collins’ “Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory”. Since Agnostic recently wrote a post on music being inextricably linked to dance (Kevin Simler postulated an evolutionary origin of that, which I blogged here), it seemed like a good time to quote from a section near the end of […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Karl Marx: The Dad That Failed 1st July 2020The God that Failed is a 1949 collection of essays by men and women familiar with and thereby disenchanted with socialism. While an egoist might prefer to consider individuals as individuals, moment by moment, a socialist will instead visit praise and condemnation on groups based on group considerations. Here, let me try that on for […]Trevor Blake
- Malfew Seklew, Freak Among Reformers 3rd June 2020ON TOUR The Malfew Seklew Egoist-Socialist Propaganda Co. Malfew Seklew, lecturer; Erwin McCall, advertising manager; J. W. Gott, treasurer; W. Barrie, secretary. MALFEW SEKLEW, the New Apostle of the New Gospel, the New Crusader of Egoistic Socialism, the Originator of Immoral Socialism, the Inventor of the New Method of Propagating the New Thought of New […]Trevor Blake
- Why I am a Right-Wing Anarchist by Robert Anton Wilson 27th May 2020Most contemporary writers either think communist anarchism (Bakuninism) is the only form of anarchism; or, if they have heard of Right-wing (individualist) anarchism at all, they have the impression it is a freaky offshoot from the mainstream. Actually, individualist anarchism is the oldest form of anarchism, and, if there were such a thing as […]Trevor Blake
- Karl Marx: The Dad That Failed 1st July 2020
Tag Archives: Chile
Live and Let Die?
It didn’t help my sour mood two Sundays ago to read the story of the Chilean zoo lions killed to save a man who’d leapt into their enclosure in an apparent stab at suicide. According to reports, 20-year-old Franco Luis … Continue reading →
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