thoughts in and out of season
Keeping abreast of the times:
Liberal media bias is obvious to most people but usually invisible to liberals. The media bias basics assembled by the Media Research Center includes surveys and whatnot and are worth bookmarking in case the point comes up.
Brigitte Bardot and her publisher have been fined 5,000 Euros each for being on the wrong side of current social issues. The immediate basis of the fines was publication of a book some people found objectionable on acccount of its comments on immigrants, in-your-face homosexuals, and whatnot. Judging by excerpts, the book was no less … More ...
The Pew Center has put out an interesting survey of people’s news habits. The survey confirms that:
How are things now and what do we do about them?
The disappearance of politics in today’s world reflects the disappearance of resistance to rational hedonism. “Give ’em what they want” has become the grand principle of what passes for public life. To put it formally, only a few crazies now dispute that the final goal of … More ...
The attempt to base social order on human will dominates public life today to the point that objective moral order has become unthinkable. Technological hedonism, the rational organization of all things to give each man what he wants, is universally accepted as the guiding ideal.
The current situation has grown up in stages. The First … More ...
The goals and ultimate destiny of the European Union have been variously explained. The uncertainty is not altogether accidental, since the plan of the EU Founding Fathers was to bring about European unity by indirection. The strategy is a good one; it is hard to criticize what has no accepted description. Those who favor the … More ...
Thomas Chittum, a former rifleman in Vietnam, the Rhodesian Territorials, and the Croatian Army, has written something of an underground classic that predicts the devolution of an increasingly multicultural America into racial partition and bloody civil war.
The analysis is … More ...
A correspondent asks:
What should the mainstream conservative movement be doing (that it’s currently not) that would help society? How might Buchanan and paleocons become formidable?
My reply:
… More ...I don’t have any magical solutions. It seems to me the most important battle the paleocons and people like Buchanan should carry on is at the level