When will your imaginary life end and your real life begin?

Crush your stories into pieces and build something new from them.

on growing older and infinitely more tender.

For Earth Day

In Honor of Cicero's Birthday!

A Celebration of Virtue

WHAT USE is "measured rationality" when to be Reasonable means to dying quietly, all the time? Notes from the text, “How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind."

Adults that say “you’ll grow out of your radicalism when you have bills to pay” do so to make themselves feel better for selling out. LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE.

One of them sees his station as tied to the common good

Reading Pirsig now

Peer Review

The Process in Review

During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audiences with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purposes of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn’t they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls, they didn’t happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners.

In today's episode: The Regime scores a pyrrhic victory on Net Neutrality US troops are asked to leave Chad only days after plans are announced to leave Niger African drone bases and the Regime's setup to rig Chad's elections Antony Blinken attempts to exert leverage on Xi

Can math predict our future? Not really. While it can model our likely prospects as a steep downward vector (as it currently does), mathematical prediction is trumped by free will.

Want a decent, humane education for your children? Then get them out of whatever ultradiversified hyperinclusive equity-pimping CRT-ridden US public school is viciously extinguishing their potential.

In a landmark decision handed down today, the Supreme Court ruled that the use of race in college admissions violates the 14th amendment––effectively ending “Affirmative Action” overnight. For some, this is a shocking step backwards. For others, it’s a long overdue endorsement of color-blindness and non-discrimination.

A Reply to Nathan J. Robinson

The much discussed wave of men opting out of traditional life paths is just the tip of the iceberg and an increasing number of women are below the surface.

A guest appearance on an excellent and growing new podcast project by the Gattaca baby creators and hipster eugenicists themselves.

Nine modest pearls of wisdom that might be useful moving forward

Practical Wisdom podcast, episode 34

On private joys

On what makes perfect days

My commentary on the social media influencer's remarks about Stoic philosophy

A Psychological Biography

I have been thinking about work lately, as my relationship with it has always felt uncalibrated. To explore this topic, I am reading a book by philosopher Raymond Geuss called A Philosopher Looks at Work. Geuss examines the modernist notion of work, positing that there are six criteria for defining it, with the first three constituting its essence:

Some say we are in a spiritual warfare, while others would respond that this claim is quite dramatic. One thing is true, broadly speaking: the following living ontologies are in tension—the timeless and the timely. Those who primarily operate within a timeless ontology—the “timeless”—live feeling as if time does not exist. Of course, they may see it as a useful fiction, but they have no embodied sense of time. It is an illusion, ultimately not real.

The Alchemy of Manifestation: Turning Beliefs Into Reality

A Freudian take on power dynamics + my psychoanalyst's interpretation of my recent dream

The secret to getting what you want - right now

Have a clear idea of the person you want to be

Channeled Messages - Timeless tarot reading with runes, shufflemancy, divination, channeling, meditation, oracle cards, tarot cards, earworm, and numerology

We take a look at Trajan’s Column, Gaelic, Kingdom of the Dog, The Story of Oisín, Climate, Advanced Pre-Flood Technology, The Central Banking System, Egyptian Granite, and more.

And This is Also a Tragedy

A Guide to Who Will Inherit the Earth

Also, I'm sharing the juicy stats that are often kept secret. And the rather interesting results of an experiment I did with payments.

A deep dive into the murky waters of money and spending habits, and how it can come between friends...

Would Jesus be a Christian Nationalist?

Tradwives, Non-Religious "God", a Spokane Detour, and Social Media Blues

by James Lindsay

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 89

Below is an outline of how to efficiently run your life at the mid-level in high finance. It assumes you’ll be working in the realm of 60 hours a week and you want to maximize… sex and money. 7:15am: Alarm goes off. Check email do 10 push ups, shave, shower and change.

the only way is OUT

Jana Harmon

By Douglas Groothuis

From Du Maurier to Beckett

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Dare I say, the only guide for them that you'll ever need?

What's been pruned in the last 6 months, and what has grown in its place?