Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Dark Thoughts

  • Moral Community and Civil War

    Substack latest.  An exchange with Malcolm Pollack.

  • Dark Moods

    Like dark thoughts, dark moods are more or less oppressive depending on the hospitality with which we entertain them.

  • 2024: The Last Year of the Republic?

    A New York friend of mine writes, When I settled in Jackson Heights after leaving Mom's Bronx nest almost a half-century ago, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Great architecture, uncongested sidewalks, a police presence, and elderly ladies taking a stroll in the early evening were among the first things that struck…

  • The Ultimate Replacement

    The ultimate replacement, I fear, will not be the ethno-masochistic self-replacement of whites who have lost the will to preserve and defend Western culture, but the replacement of humanity itself by soulless robots. I fear the robotic erasure, not just of human animals, but of humaneness, of spirit, of the imago dei in and around…

  • Why Won’t Leftists Enforce Existing Laws?

    A reason, perhaps the main reason, may be gleaned from the following graphic: The above stats are clearly in the ball park according to every study I have read. Heather Mac Donald has done outstanding work on this topic. I refer you to her. One reason why leftists won't enforce existing laws is because (1)…

  • The Accelerationist Option

    I wrote recently that the only way out is through, but Malcolm Pollack's most recent offering is much better; it is indeed brilliant.  It divides into three parts. There is first a litany of what ails us. The second part explains why the ills listed are upon us. The general answer is that . .…

  • How to Leave a Call Back Number on the Eve of WWIII

    Don't make me re-play the message a dozen times. Pronounce the string slowly, clearly, and distinctly, numeral by numeral. You are not in a competition to see how fast you can spout it. And then repeat the string.  Don't say 'o' if you mean 'zero' (0). 'o' is a letter, '0' is a numeral. Confusing…

  • The Ultimate Replacement

    I am not referring to the ethno-masochistic self-replacement of whites who have lost their 'mojo,' but the replacement of humanity by soulless robots. I speak not merely of the replacement of a uniquely clever species of land mammal. I speak of the erasure of spirit in the material world by the elimination of those spirits…

  • Diversity Worth Having

    Diversity worth having presupposes a principle of unity that controls the diversity. Diversity must be checked and balanced by the competing value of unity, a value with an equal, if not greater, claim on our respect.   Example. ONE language only in the public sphere makes possible MANY voices to be heard and understood by…

  • Dark Nietzschean Thoughts

    The serious thinker is self-critical: his examination of life, without which his life is not worth living, is a self-examination, even unto a painful thinking against himself.  He has the courage to entertain, which is not to say endorse, dark thoughts. He is not an apologist for a ready-made worldview. He toes no party line.…