I had only read Dostoevsky back in my teenage years. I can’t recall now if it was for a school assignment or just part of my voracious reading habit. Such are the effects of my faulty memory, and as I work my way through yet another decade of life a seemingly common occurrence. Recently, the... Continue Reading →
It is important to begin with the fact that all political discourse in Western civilization can be divided into two distinct camps; individualism and collectivism. Regardless of what political label you identify yourself with and or what labels you apply to others, the basic political ideologies can always be divided down to individualism versus collectivism. ... Continue Reading →
An open letter to the former media. I know this has been a very trying time for you lately. Your pundits and pollsters failed you. Your preferred political party failed you. Your panels of similarly minded media and movie star personalities failed you. The candidate you hated and actively campaigned against won and now treats... Continue Reading →
What is the greater good? The source is from the philosophy of Utilitarianism developed by Jeremy Bentham and later expounded upon by John Stuart Mill. Bentham’s approach was one of “act” utilitarianism where one avoided pain and sought pleasure, thus what was useful was that which could provide the greatest good for the greatest number. ... Continue Reading →
Narcissistic Nannies - the Moral Narcissism of Collectivists Does what you claim to believe define you as an individual and makes you smarter, rather than what you do or the result of your actions? Do the values you promote, regardless of their actual truth or reality, signal that you are a virtuous person? Do you... Continue Reading →
The Myth of Society Ok, we’re going to wade into some muddy waters now. Let’s begin with this statement. The concept of society is a myth. It is smoke and mirrors. An abstract. Creating abstracts is merely a method humans use to group and categorize individual things to simplify our view of the world. For... Continue Reading →
What does it mean to have a government described by Webster and Lincoln as having been derived “of the people, by the people and for the people?” Explicitly it means that the power to govern the people is and should be derived from the consent of the governed as our founders stated in the Declaration... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/gS8WWdXS5uI As much fun as it is watching the main stream media fall all over itself to explain away the historic loss of the recent election, the discussion regarding the supposed “hacking” of the election is a very dangerous turn in a series of very dangerous accusations. Consider the danger of the government silencing voices... Continue Reading →
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It has been interesting watching the progressives and party establishment types along with their academic and media acolytes striving to come up with a plausible answer as to why they lost the past election cycle. I am not just referring to the election of Donald Trump, but also to the complete evisceration of the left’s... Continue Reading →
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