Attack the System- The Lesser of Two Evils is a Democracy for Psychopaths 24th September 2023By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump has to be stopped. The man is a menace to democracy with an insatiable appetite for debauchery, a geriatric career gangster with a rap sheet longer than his Freudian phallic tie. The bastard has left a […]Keith Preston
- China: a superpower’s slump 24th September 2023Today’s best articles Where Oscar season stands after the fall film festivals 6 hotels to visit this fall How fees impact your investment portfolio and how to save on them 5 fashionably funny cartoons about the Senate dress code China: a superpower’s slump Biden creates White House Office […]Keith Preston
- TikTok’s hidden ‘Ozempic economy’ 24th September 2023September 23, 2023 A NOTE FROM FORTUNE Tech reporter Alexandra Sternlicht here, filling in for Alyson. The Ozempic craze is sweeping the world, and its success is driven, in part, by a network of health influencers on TikTok. But it’s not just the drugmakers manufacturing Ozempic […]Keith Preston
- The Lesser of Two Evils is a Democracy for Psychopaths 24th September 2023
- Samizdata
- The obesity of the State and its consequences 23rd September 2023In his book, After America (published in 2011, which already seems a loooong time ago), Mark Steyn wrote this: “Any visitor from the Fifties would soon discover, in a bleak comment on the limits of predictive fiction, our brains didn’t get bigger. But our butts did. If DC Comics had gone with the `Super-Ass of […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Samizdata quote of the day – the total state is all around you 22nd September 2023What we are talking about, then, is really political reason on steroids. And it has two necessary consequences. Foucault’s assertion was that political reason was both ‘individualising and totalising’. Again, this is not difficult to understand, but worth spelling out. The state’s impulse is always to atomise the population, such that each and every individual […]Perry de Havilland (Wiltshire)
- Samizdata quote of the day – investment is an expense 21st September 2023Investment is an expense and don’t let anyone tell you different – not even a fashionable professor. – Tim Worstall, who is probably annoyed at how often he has to state the bleedin’ obvious.Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- The obesity of the State and its consequences 23rd September 2023
- 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
- David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya 24th September 20231 in 36 children in the US have Autism Spectrum Disorder, but did you know that 20-30% have a known genetic cause for their condition? Read more about how, for the first time, parents can use Orchid’s whole genome sequencing to screen their emb...Razib Khan, David Anthony
- Facing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023 23rd September 2023How genetics illuminates the rise of Eurasian steppe pastoralismRazib Khan
- Christopher Rufo – America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. 21st September 2023Listen now (88 mins) | The historical roots of radicalismRazib Khan
- David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya 24th September 2023
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Authority 12th September 2023Jeff VanderMeer’s sequel to Annihilation is longer, but I wound up reading it over a much smaller number of days. This is not because it’s a better book, I think it’s worse even if it was still worth reading. It’s just that the Southern Reach as an organization is less interesting than Area X, their […]teageegeepea
- Annihilation 4th September 2023As I noted when I announced my plan to read Jeff VanderMeer’s book, I had already seen the movie on its release and thus comparisons are inevitable. Because it’s the first part of a trilogy, I am going to deviate from my pattern of alternating scifi with non-fiction and continue with the rest of the […]teageegeepea
- Postwar 13th August 2023Tony Judt’s magnum opus on “Europe Since 1945” falls just short of 900 pages, and I didn’t take notes while reading it sporadically over these past months. That’s one reason I’m a less than ideal reviewer for it, another is that period of peace is inherently less interesting than the “interesting times” of Bloodlands. There’s […]teageegeepea
- Authority 12th September 2023
- 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 to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Walt Whitman and Comstock or The Whirligig of Time by Benjamin R. Tucker 17th August 2023Walt Whitman and Comstock or The Whirligig of Time by Benjamin R. Tucker Now that Walt Whitman is sure of his pedestal in the American Hall of Fame, the moment is opportune for harking back to a matter of history almost ancient, though I, who figured in it, live to tell the ale. In the […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Dora Marsden and the Women of Dumfries 10th August 2023Dora Marsden spent the last decades of her life in Dumfries hospital. From March 2023 to January 2024, Dumfries Museum features an exhibit titled “The Women of Dumfries” that includes information and images about Dora Marsden. This information, and much more, is found in Dora Marsden: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit (1882 – 1960) by […]Trevor Blake
- Book Reviews: Speakers’ Corner Anthology by Jim Huggon 9th August 2023Our thanks to the Socialist Party of Great Britain for reviewing Speakers’ Corner Anthology, published by the Union of Egoists. This is a republication (with a new, additional Foreword) of an anthology first published in 1977. It is a collection of excerpts and other written material connected to Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner and there are […]Trevor Blake
- Walt Whitman and Comstock or The Whirligig of Time by Benjamin R. Tucker 17th August 2023
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Protected: The Year Now Past – MRDA Looks Back On 2006
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From Automaton to Autonomous? MRDA Seeks A New Road….
So I started my little foray into finding a means to generate sources of automated income – or at least typed “self-generating income” and “automated income” into my search engine! I think this avenue could prove *ahem* profitable or me … Continue reading
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That Day Once More: MRDA Completes the 25th Chapter!!
Yup – that time again! One MRDA year draws to a close….. ….a new one begins…. How will I script the next chapter? Watch this space….. ~MRDA~
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After the Apocalypse, Only Irony Remains….
I find it somewhat amusing that a significant chunk of ‘80s post-nuclear based visual entertainment (American straight-to-video flicks, Hokuto no Ken et al) derived its setting and most of the other aesthetic touches from the Mad Max movies, when the … Continue reading
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A few Nietzsche quotes I like on the nature of the Noble Man and Vanity…
The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as a determiner of values; he does not require to be approved of; he passes the judgment: “What is injurious to me is injurious in itself;” he knows that it is he himself … Continue reading
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Sanctioning the Era of Death – the “We….” Disease!!
So on BBC1’s This Week program, a Muslim mother came onto the programme to argue against the tarring of all those of her creed as fanatical, frothing-at-the mouth suicide bombers…. …all well and good… …but she herself falls victim to … Continue reading
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Hold Back Nothing to Hold Back the Rain!! The Road to Selfhood Lies Paved with Candour!
What is good? – All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is happiness? – The feeling that power increases – that a resistance is overcome. – Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness ensues from … Continue reading
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Protected: Unbelievable!! My Friends Become Enemies Whilst Enemies Could Become…..Friends ?!?
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The Anti-Hero Re-Emerges!! MRDA’s Multi-Point Reflective Update!
So, after something of a hiatus, I return to this space on the web…. …..thus, without further ado….. It’s very easy to pay more attention to the lives of others, to complain about the state of the world and the … Continue reading
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