Author Archives: Mark Gullick

Mark Gullick

A Note on the Engineer’s Fallacy

Detail, Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, ca. 1550.

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I had been aware for some time of the phrase “the engineer’s fallacy,” but unaware of its provenance and exact definition. I struck lucky on the ‘net, because this gentleman claims to have invented the phrase, and this short piece repays inspection.

Mr. Kelly’s definition of the Engineer’s Fallacy is pleasingly simple: Read more …

Published: March 3, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, constitutionalism, Dante Alighieri, Florence, Forms, Jacob Burckhardt, leftism, logic, Mark Gullick, modernity, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, republicanism, statecraft, technology, the engineer's fallacy | 8 Responses

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Them’s the Rules

Mark Gullick

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Don’t use the rules.
They’re not for you,
They’re for the fools.
And you’re a fool
If you don’t know that.

So, here’s the rules
You stupid fool.

— The Clash, “Cheat” Read more …

Published: February 11, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, chess, institutions, language, law, linguistics, Mark Gullick, meaning, norms, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 14 Responses

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The Certainty of Chance

Mark Gullick

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“I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as yet unwritten? Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? All of us will look back on our lives and find at least one incident that changed Read more …

Published: September 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, censorship, chance, Costa Rica, England, espionage, fate, life, Mark Gullick, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, writing | 7 Responses

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Changing the Whip Hand

Mark Gullick

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Football players in England resumed their interrupted season in front of empty stands this month. Before the first game, each player, in addition to their name, squad number, and advertising slogans (including the now-sainted NHS or National Health Service symbol), wore the slogan “Black Lives Matter” on the back of their shirts, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, censorship, ethnomasochism, football, Mark Gullick, mass psychology, North American New Right, optics, originals, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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A Huge Children’s Party: High-Rise

Mark Gullick

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High-Rise (2015)
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Screenplay by Amy Jump, based on the novel by J. G. Ballard
Starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, & Elisabeth Moss

The numbers are never consistent, but there is a general consensus that given a complete, Venezuelan-style financial collapse and the subsequent loss of order and infrastructure, any Western society is just a few days from anarchy. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, collapse scenarios, J. G. Ballard, Mark Gullick, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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The Politics of Dunning-Kruger

Mark Gullick

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DSM V is the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The book first appeared in 1952, and the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes DSM, calls it “an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment and research.” The glib might call DSM V the psychiatrists’ bible. The cynical might view it as a retail catalogue for the big pharmaceutical companies.

Comedy as Occupied Territory:
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

Mark Gullick

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Few outside England and under 50 will have noted the passing last month of one of Britain’s great comic character actors: Windsor Davies. Although born in North London, he was actually Welsh by parentage, gifting him an accent he made much use of, delivered in a timber-shaking baritone. Read more …

Published: March 1, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, blackface, British comedy, cultural Marxism, Mark Gullick, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, television reviews | 10 Responses

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Oborne Again:
The Triumph of the Political Class

Mark Gullick

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Peter Oborne
The Triumph of the Political Class
London: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Some books are born again. Every book with a political theme aims to be prophetic, and only time can reveal their success or otherwise. Orwell’s 1984, Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, Faye’s Convergence of Catastrophes are all books whose time has arrived. Read more …