Category: Civilization and its Discontents
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Sartorial Incongruity and TDS
There’s President Trump in his expensive bespoke suit with a ridiculous red cap on his head, a “prole cap” — one size fits all! — emblazoned with “Trump was right about everything.” Gaucherie, braggadocio, exaggeration. Lefties and never-Trumping righties are ‘triggered,’ albeit in different ways, by these low-class characteristics and hate him in consequence. Their…
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The Lion Rises and Roars
It's about time. Expert analysis.
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Will a Perfect Storm Soon be upon us?
Anthony Flood thinks so. Here is how his piece begins: The dictionary defines a perfect storm as an “unusual combination of events or things that produce an unusually bad or powerful result.” The latter, as I see it, is life as we’ve become accustomed to enjoying it. Four years ago, I stated my grounds . . .…
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Civilization Versus the New Nihilists
Victor Davis Hanson Put the question to your friends and acquaintances: Which side are you on? If they are not on the side of civilization, cut them off. Make them pay a price for their willful self-enstupidation. Why should they get the benefit of your friendship? If enough of us ostracize enough of them, this…
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Seven Causes of Civilizational Decline and Fall
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. Will Durant Caesar and Christ, epilogue As it went with Rome, it may well…
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Jews, Muslims, Science and Technology
Which group has contributed more to science and technology? Jews or Muslims? And why? Question prompted by this: Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently].
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Up on the Roof
Not "The Drifters" version. Given the pronounced 'libertine wobble' of leftists, it is passing strange that they would support Islamists who are anti-libertine and anti-liberal in excelsis. The loons of the Left appear to have lost their minds so much so that they care not whether they lose their heads. Tony Flood, who sent me…
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Wolff on Israel
Robert Paul Wolff, 30 October 2023: I have found the series of comments on the Israeli situation interesting and helpful. I have not responded to them because I am so upset by what is happening that I can barely watch the news reports of it anymore. Let me make one small observation. There has been…
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Asian Family Harrassed by Three Black Teens on NYC Subway
Leftists have something like the Midas touch. Everything King Midas touched turned to gold; most of what leftists touch turns to crap. NYC and San Fran are prime examples. No surprise that these crapholes are bleeding population 'big time.' The Asians, bien-pensant 'liberals' apparently, blamc 'society' and not the racism of the black teens. More…
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American Restoration
Substack articles by Bruce Abramson. From his About page: Suppose you think that it’s wrong to discriminate based on race. To the Woke, you’re a racist. Suppose you say that humans are either male or female. To the Woke, that’s dehumanizing. Suppose you champion free speech. To the Woke, you’re promoting hatred. Suppose you think…
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Islam and Civilization
The following just over the transom. I thought I was being appropriately critical of what is undoubtedly the worst of the great religions, "the saddest and poorest form of theism" (Schopenhauer), but apparently I haven't gone far enough for one of my readers. Balanced and reasonable positions don't have much of a chance in this age…
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Christianity has Civilized Us. But Islam?
Has Islam played any role in the civilizing of the peoples in the lands where it has held sway? Yes, of course. But when we consider Islamic penology, it is positively barbaric compared to that of the West. Of the five great religions, Islam seems to have had the least civilizing effect. Here: Iran’s judicial…