Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind. The text reads Get Your and then On Board, placed so …
Toward an Archaeology of Anger
Last week, Brownstone Journal published an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment, titled: Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry Forever?
In this piece Ponesse treats, in a refreshingly well-rounded and down-to-earth way, the complex subject of anger. Few …
Lessons from Poland: Elites and the Bonds We Forge
One of the great gifts of my life was wandering into a class on Contemporary Poland in college taught by a humane and deeply knowledgeable man named James T. Flynn. There, for the first time, I was forced to address …
The Stasi: Masters of PsyWar
From 1950 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi, operated as the main security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR). In terms of …
Science, Society, and Stability
The various approaches to education differ according to ideology – liberal, communist, and so on – and depending on what discipline is dominant at any given time. So, for example, in the 19th century, there was a time when the …
Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry, Forever?
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.
Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief
Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it.
—Shakespeare, MacBeth
I don’t know if you’ve noticed …
Freud is coming for your kids
According to an old joke, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are enjoying some pastries in a Viennese coffee shop. The younger analyst hesitantly asks the elder: “Tell me, Herr Professor Freud… vat lies between fear und sex?”. With furrowed brow, …
The Dark Arts of Psychology: Nudges
During the Covid crisis, nudging emerged as one of the primary psyops tools used by globalists, governments, NGOs, and “security” (intelligence) forces against us ordinary folk.
Recently, a number of peer-reviewed papers have come to light, exposing just how pervasive …
Why Denial Persists
We recently returned from a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent several days after the event’s conclusion exploring this beautiful city and its environs. While there, walking Lisbon’s famed ‘seven hills,’ mostly surrounded by throngs of other visitors – …
Elite Envy as a Civilizational Toxin
It will be recalled that, in my previous two posts, I wrote about nihilism having to do with a belief in ‘nothing,’ and a concomitant, wanton destruction of (everything valuable in) society, and about two kinds of nihilism (passive and …
Is Wellness a Gateway to Right-Wing “Fascism?”
I know the Guardian is a left-wing socialist rag, but even for them – their article titled “Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline” is so over the top obnoxious and bigoted that I can’t help …
Nihilism Strikes with a Vengeance
We live in what is probably the most nihilistic era in the history of humankind. Most English-speaking people have probably heard the term, ‘nihilism,’ but I’m willing to bet that not many know its precise meaning. The term comes from …
Low Expectations Plague the Air Force Academy
During their final year at the Air Force Academy (AFA), cadets choose the specific jobs they will be assigned while on active duty. This crucial decision, made in the nascence of one’s career, has far-reaching implications with regard to career …
BLM Versus Lockdowns: Four Years Later
Beginning in March 2020, Florida attorney Daniel Uhlfelder dressed as the Grim Reaper to shame parents who brought their children to local beaches. Instead of questioning his sanity or explaining that sunlight killed the virus, liberal news outlets celebrated this …
The world belongs to late bloomers
Lots of people don’t believe in second acts, second lives, mid-life resurrections. As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it in The Last Tycoon, published in 1941: “There are no second acts in American lives.” But his absolutism was being embarrassed at …