Category Archives: Politics

Our Empty Overlords

Posted on September 20, 2021 by JC

“We know of periods in the history of many nations in which profound upheavals in cultural processes led to a surge of the merely talented into leading position in communities, schools, academies, and governments. Highly talented people sat in all … Continue reading →

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Dated Relevance

Posted on September 11, 2021 by JC

Idiocracy is a film by Mike Judge who is well known for the animations Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill and his other cult classic film Office Space. I was only vaguely familiar with these properties and only came … Continue reading →

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The Last Seemingly Legitimate Election

Posted on August 31, 2021 by JC

The last few years have highlighted just how little control most Westerners have over their governments. There are plenty of examples in the past though, most notably with immigration where governments either ignore popular opinion or pay lip service to … Continue reading →

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Physiognomy and Public Health

Posted on July 31, 2021 by JC

There is a saying among dissident thinkers that “physiognomy is real.” It is something of a meme as the phrase usually accompanies a picture of an ogreish female or effeminate male saying or doing something absurd or ridiculous. This generally … Continue reading →

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The Latin Mass has been restricted because my feelings

Posted on July 18, 2021 by JC

A year ago to the day by coincidence, I did a fisking on an article I found which had been published in late 2019 but was so outrageous, I felt compelled to respond. Here we have something more recent from … Continue reading →

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Skin in the Game in Education

Posted on July 16, 2021 by JC

The idea of cameras in classrooms has come up recently in the US as part of the ongoing discussion of Crititical Race Theory (CRT) anti-White racism. Here is a short article from Breitbart by John Nolte responding to an article … Continue reading →

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Seeing Black America – Part 2

Posted on June 24, 2021 by JC

I wrote Part 1 last month and this will be the second and final part. Before I get into this part, there are a couple of asides I want to add for context. My early upbringing was in rural Australia … Continue reading →

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Seeing Black America – Part 1

Posted on May 31, 2021 by JC

The last two years have been especially turbulent with regards to race relations in the United States. I have written a couple of posts on aspects of this but never really anything much directly on the topic. What I write … Continue reading →

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The Fake Rebels of the Music Industry

Posted on April 30, 2021 by JC

It seems almost inevitable as a teenager growing up in the times we live that you would be heavily into music. For whatever reason, music has long been important to the identity of teenagers and the kind of music you … Continue reading →

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The Unchanging Nature of Mass Media

Posted on April 14, 2021 by JC

The above video was recorded after the Gulf “war” which ended in early 1991. The first time I heard it was in 2003 when the second Gulf “war” was hourly news and knowing Bill Hicks died in 1994, I was … Continue reading →

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