Hot news: America is no longer a rich country for 90%+ of us, except in the somnolent imaginations of pugnaciously ignorant citizens and foreigners. I recently drove 4400 miles round trip from Upstate SC to Las Vegas NV. I didn’t set foot in any casinos and had no wish to. I did see some cool […]
Author: vitruvius1
Formerly an integrated marketing and customer experience consultant. Writer on moral philosophy and current affairs.
“Fuck the government,” is now a better maxim than is, “Tear down the borders and let the experts decide.” If more people adopted the former in daily life, especially in a nonviolent way, we’d have generally better outcomes than if they remain convinced or ignorant in the face of power concentration, as is now the […]
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My favorite bit of gear these days is a national match Springfield M1A,.308. It’s a version of the 1930’s Garand, which George S. Patton described as the greatest battle implement ever devised. At 100 yards it will shoot clean through a cinder block wall or a car engine block. It will discharge 20 rounds as […]
Jules Verne was an inveterate promoter of scientism and the fantasy that once a technocracy ushered in world government all strife and disharmony would cease. This idea was later championed by H.G. Wells. The monumental movie of his “Things to Come,” is a stunning example of the trope as fictional propaganda for the masses. However, […]
“Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring […]
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