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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 […]
A tale of two civilisations
A tale of two civilisations In recent years, America’s unsuccessful attempts at containing China as a rival hegemon has only served to promote Chinese antipathy against American capitalism. China is now retreating into the comfort of her long-established moral values, best described as a mixture of Confucianism and Marxism, while despising American individualism, its careless […]
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 […]
The Paradox of Individualism and Hierarchy
The Paradox of Individualism and Hierarchy In the early 1970s, Geert Hofstede discovered something interesting. While analyzing a work-attitude survey that had been given to thousands of IBM employees around the world, Hofstede found that responses clustered by country. In some countries, for instance, employees tended to prefer an autocratic style of leadership. But in other countries, […]
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 […]
Lockdown #2 Begins
LOCKDOWN #2 BEGINS In Europe, several places (cities and entire regions within a number of countries) have already locked down for a second time, and many others have returned to stricter rules (masks, quarantines and forced testing when coming from abroad, etc) barely a couple of weeks after having relaxed those rules a bit. They […]
Gathering in groups as society falls apart – by Vicki Robin
Gathering in groups as society falls apart – by Vicki Robin “Everyone wants community. Unfortunately, it involves other people.” I used that line in lectures on frugal living when talking of the loneliness of consumerism and the benefits of sharing resources. We idealize the good old days of people helping people out. But can we live […]
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 […]
In Praise of Hayek’s Masterwork
IN PRAISE OF HAYEK’S MASTERWORK Friedrich von Hayek first published The Road to Serfdom in 1944. His book was subsequently popularised by a condensed version in The Reader’s Digest. This article re-examines Hayek’s theme in the context of today’s economics and politics to see what lessons we can learn from it, and whether personal freedom […]
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard We seem to be heading into a confrontation between the two forces of Modernism: the primacy of the individual versus the increasing technological and economic might of the central state. In Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” (May 7, 2018), I wrote about Kafka’s vision of […]
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, […]
Liberal Capitalism as the Ideology of Freedom and Moderation
LIBERAL CAPITALISM AS THE IDEOLOGY OF FREEDOM AND MODERATION Nowadays, many along the political spectrum seem to agree that America increasingly has become a polarized society. Ideological and public policy discourse has been gravitating more toward the extremes: progressives and the Democratic Party with a more explicitly socialist rhetoric and proposed government agenda, and conservatives […]
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 […]
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 […]
