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We’ll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
We’ll Either Rise As A Collective Or Perish As Individuals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Everyone who’s freaking out about wokeness and identity politics can relax. Liberals are 100 percent certain to get bored with that schtick and forget all about it without having […]
Young People Turn To Collectivism Because Of These Psychological Disparities
Young People Turn To Collectivism Because Of These Psychological Disparities Are Americans changing with the times, are the times changing with Americans, or, has nothing really changed at all in the past century? Before we dive into this discussion it’s important to understand one thing above all else – There is nothing new under the […]
Conservatives Must Now Draw A Line In The Sand And Stop The “Great Reset”
Conservatives Must Now Draw A Line In The Sand And Stop The “Great Reset” There are many millions of Americans today in the post-election environment that feel uneasy about the fate of the country given the rise of a Biden presidency. And though I understand why this tension exists, I want to offer a possible […]
Be Outwardly Collectivist And Inwardly Individualist
Be Outwardly Collectivist And Inwardly Individualist Individualism could theoretically work as a political system, in a hypothetical world where nobody is ever helpless and the planet has infinite resources and the ecosystem is infinitely robust. But we do not live in such a world. No, we live in a world where every single person is […]
Rugged Individualism Cannot Save Us. Only Enlightened Collectivism Can.
Rugged Individualism Cannot Save Us. Only Enlightened Collectivism Can. Individualism cannot save humanity from the crises it faces. It’s not the right tool. There is a widespread belief that if we just eliminated all collectivist impulses within our society, we could eliminate all our problems. That the government which causes so much bloodshed and oppression […]
Language: The Indispensable Fundamental Actuator of False Orthodoxy
Language: The Indispensable Fundamental Actuator of False Orthodoxy In Ayn Rand’s penultimate magnum opus, “The Fountainhead”, there was a minor antagonist by the name of Ellsworth Toohey whose raison d’etre was to undermine Rand’s ideal man and protagonist, Howard Roark. Although Toohey considered his parasitical power as having a major stifling effect on capitalistic society, […]
The Real Difference Between Left & Right
The Real Difference Between Left & Right QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have worked with politicians worldwide and both sides. What is your opinion of the politics that has emerged post-Great Depression? LM ANSWER: The major difference between the socialism supported by the Democrats/Labour in Western Society is that to them the individual has no value, it […]
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State
Fine-Tuning the Surveillance State We have been watching the shift of society and all of its components to collectivist thought and action in preparation for the step into a full-blown totalitarian state. Already the Constitution and our rights enumerated within it have been relegated to impotency and practically abrogated. The key to this has not […]
Message from Planet Japan: The good times never last forever
Message from Planet Japan: The good times never last forever After having traveled to more than 120 countries in my life, the only person I know who’s been to more places than I have is Jim Rogers. Jim is a legend– a phenomenal investor, author, and all-around great guy. (His book Adventure Capitalist is a […]
What We Can Do…
What We Can Do… Until enough people’s minds are changed about coercion and collectivism, resistance is futile. The debate will continue to be about how much should be stolen from whom and for what purpose – rather than about whether anything should be stolen by anyone for any purpose. As things are, many people believe […]
A System Problem for Democracy
A System Problem for Democracy In 1956 William H. Whyte published a book entitled The Organization Man. Basing his findings on a large number of interviews with CEOs of major American corporations, Whyte concluded that, within the context of modern organizational structure, American “rugged individualism” had given way to a “collectivist ethic.” Economic success and individual […]
Even Advanced Technology Cannot Explain Human Action or Predict Markets
Even Advanced Technology Cannot Explain Human Action or Predict Markets The logic of the human mind will prevail over paternalist dictates and the hubris of the social engineers. For more than a century, the world has been caught in the grip of social engineers and political paternalists who are determined to either radically remake society […]
Social Destruction by the Abuse of Money
SOCIAL DESTRUCTION BY THE ABUSE OF MONEY In Britain, the top 1% of earners pay over a quarter of all income tax collected, and while super-rich British residents perhaps don’t have the tax breaks the Macklowes enjoy, the bulk of the burden falls on lawyers, bankers, company executives and owners of successful private enterprises. And […]
Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away
Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away I have written many times in the past about the singular conflict at the core of most human crises and disasters, a conflict that sabotages human endeavor and retards critical thought. This conflict not only stems from social interaction, it also exists within the […]
Ludwig Von Miss on Collectivist Fallacies and Interventionist Follies
LUDWIG VON MISES ON COLLECTIVIST FALLACIES AND INTERVENTIONIST FOLLIES For more than a century the world has been caught in the grip of social engineers and political paternalists determined to either radically remake society from top to bottom in collectivist directions, or to use various government regulatory and redistributive policies to try to modify existing […]
