Attack the System- “No Gods, No Masters, No Husbands” 28th April 2024Via Freedom News UK from Pikara Magazine. The participation of women in anarchist print culture on an international scale was essential for the extraordinary dissemination of the libertarian movement’s press and editorial production from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. Tags: anarchist […]Keith Preston
- In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer • Leaving the Fold with Dr. Marlene Winell 28th April 2024In Conversation with Frank Schaeffer • Leaving the Fold with Dr. Marlene Winell, Ph.D., exploring her book, Leaving the Fold; a self-help book that examines the effects of authoritarian religion on individuals who leave the faith. In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey […]Keith Preston
- Chile: Interview with Espacio Fénix EN/ES 28th April 2024Via Dark Nights Opening the tensions of dialogue, we present the following section of interviews with individuals, collectivities and related spaces that make up the anarchic body in different parts of the world. The interviews are a valuable contribution to the observation in detail and depth; they come, […]Keith Preston
- “No Gods, No Masters, No Husbands” 28th April 2024
- Samizdata
- Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately 12th February 2024Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s armed forces say served as an important communications center and intelligence hub for the Islamist militant group. Wall Street Journal. ($) Part of a warren of tunnels and subterranean chambers […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Moderate by Rochdale standards 11th February 2024Three days ago the Muslim media outlet 5Pillars expressed doubts about the Labour candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Rochdale: “The troubling backstory of Labour Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali” What was it about Mr Ali that troubled them? The fact that he advised the government on counter-terrorism during the premiership of the hated Tony Blair. […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- “My third leg can be flexible and unbending” 10th February 2024This catchy Chinese-language song “People of the Dragon” by Malaysian filmmaker and recording artist Namewee has had 7.5 million views since it was posted two weeks ago. For centuries the Chinese have used puns and wordplay to poke fun at the powerful, and it seems Namewee’s song is so full of coded uncomplimentary references to […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately 12th February 2024
- 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
- Little Steppe earthquakes: upheavals both demographic and scholarly 27th April 2024Silent all these years, ancient Yamnaya DNA finally speaks in groundbreaking preprint on the origins of Indo-EuropeansRazib Khan
- The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans 25th April 2024And the Hittites too!Razib Khan
- Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C. 24th April 2024On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to George Washington University archaeologist Eric Cline. The author of 1177 B.C. - The Year Civilization Collapsed, Cline has a new book out, After 1177 B.C. - The Survival of Civilizations....Razib Khan, Eric Cline
- Little Steppe earthquakes: upheavals both demographic and scholarly 27th April 2024
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Concluding thoughts on The Voyage of the Beagle 13th April 2024I first blogged about Charles Darwin’s pre-Origin book back in January, and as stated there was only infrequently reading it (I read two fiction books since then, though only one was scifi and thus merited blogging here). I read this first rather than his more famous later works because I thought this order of reading […]teageegeepea
- The Three-Body Problem 30th March 2024After watching the Netflix series last week, I decided to pick up the first book in the trilogy. I had previously been alternating between fiction & non-fiction books (treating the Southern Reach trilogy like one book), but I’ve just been reading The Voyage of the Beagle when away from home. It’s not like I need […]teageegeepea
- Atoms vs Bits: AI imagines reality as screenwriters would prefer it 24th February 2024A lot of mockery has been made of Google Gemini. Zvi has a round-up here, but I’ll also quote from (thus acknowledging her existence for the first time) Grimes’ ironic appreciation: “offensive to all, comforting to none […] Art for no one, by no one”. Of course, anyone aware of earlier AIs knows that actual […]teageegeepea
- Concluding thoughts on The Voyage of the Beagle 13th April 2024
- 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)
- YEAR EIGHT 1st April 2024The Union of Egoists website was announced April 1st of 2016 with the release of Max Stirner Bibliography by Trevor Blake. Happy anniversary to the royal Us. The idea for this site and much else was crystalized in a chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and Kevin I. Slaughter. This chat was printed in our […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- ONLINE TALK: Dora Marsden and the Gospel of Power 4th March 2024Wednesday 13 March 2024 — 1:00 pm GMT Free. Donations welcome. Free online talk, booking is required before 11am on the morning of the talk. The talk will be presented using Zoom. You will receive an email invitation to join a Zoom meeting just after 11am on the morning of the talk. Free ticket at… […]Trevor Blake
- Announcing Der Geist, Issue 6. A Braille Stirner for Helen Keller and Ragnar Redbeards secret Canadian life! 23rd October 2023An anthology of rare and never-before-seen essays and images from the history of egoism. Over two hundred pages of original translations, bibliographies, art, ephemera and more. Discover rare photographic glimpses of pioneering egoists such as Dora Marsden and Benjamin R. Tucker, and delve into the visionary project to produce a Braille edition of Max Stirner’s […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- YEAR EIGHT 1st April 2024
Tag Archives: self-affirmation
This is a good ‘un!
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.) ✓ I miss somebody right now. (“Oh ______!!!!!”) ✓ I don’t watch much TV these days. ✓ I own lots of books. (I’m building an army) ✓ I wear glasses … Continue reading
The Great Becoming
I’ve placed too much of myself right here, along the cable Too much remains erratic or, better yet, unstable You moved me like a puppet yet I gave you the strings the ones you used to pull me bound on … Continue reading
Posted in Egoism, My Poetry, Personal, Poetry
Tagged creative writing, egoism, evolution, musings, philosophy, poetry, pride, self-affirmation, self-respect, thoughts, writing
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Vicious Veritas!
A choice excerpt from Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard: Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed without pity and without regret; for under the dominance of a inconvenient falsehood, no nation can … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Texts of Interest
Tagged civil liberties, enlightenment, Might is Right, philosophy, Ragnar Redbeard, self-affirmation, slave morality, thoughts, writing
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Insidious Danger!!! Tread carefully lest you fall into the Reputation Trap!
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. – Iago, Othello Sometimes I wonder if people value external proprieties over naked honesty…. I planned on writing about this subject at some point, … Continue reading
Posted in Amoralism, Egoism, Moral Panic, Personal, Perspectivism, Society
Tagged censorship, double standards, employment, gender, musings, self-affirmation, self-respect, slave morality, stupidity, thoughts
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Ruthlessness & Detachment: Further Reflections Upon Saturday Night
I think I made some gains, as well as the obvious losses, from that incident on Saturday night….. Firstly, I think I’m starting to get a handle on the technique of willed detachment (or vicious detachment as I like to … Continue reading
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Tagged egoism, evolution, gigs, musings, philosophy, pride, self-affirmation, self-respect, thoughts
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Big Brother Britain: Episode 23,655,656,989 (aka The Case of the Fucked-Up Fine)
There should never…ever…be a ban on cursing…fucking ever… – Mistress Strangelove (aka Meli) It amazes me what a little conversation between friends brings up…. As my friend Al Dogg and I returned from seeing Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (which comes … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Moral Panic, News, Politics, Slave Britannia, Society
Tagged big brother, big government, censorship, civil liberties, musings, news, politics, repression, self-affirmation, stupidity, terrorism, thoughts
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I roll my eyes in regards to Valentine’s Day; yet this quote strikes me as fitting…..
Some people contrast love with selfishness. They surely cannot mean sexual love. Te quiero is translated either “I love thee” or “I want thee.” By common understanding love that is not selfish enough to break some law in order to … Continue reading
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Tagged egoism, philosophy, quotes, relationships, self-affirmation, self-respect
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MRDA the Amanojyaku
An ‘amanojaku’ [sic] is a devil beneath the guardian deities of a temple. The term is sometimes used to describe someone who is deliberately contrary. – Footnote from The Erotic Animé Movie Guide Overfiend – I’m the kind of guy … Continue reading
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Tagged egoism, evolution, musings, pride, self-affirmation, thoughts
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On the Ethics of the Anti-Hero
Chaotic Neutral A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn’t strive to protect others’ freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. The chaotic neutral character … Continue reading
Posted in Amoralism, Ethics, Moral Panic, Personal, Philosophy
Tagged egoism, meme, self-affirmation, self-respect, thoughts
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Experiment!! MRDA’s Themes for 2006!
For all its strengths, 2005 resulted in getting very little done. I don’t really wanna go into a retrospective fucking breakdown, except to say that I marked the year with the biggest lull in activity and creation yet (and hopefully … Continue reading
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Tagged egoism, musings, pride, self-affirmation, self-respect, thoughts
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