So, then. The first month of 2023 has passed, and Britannia’s New Year’s resolution is clearly to become even more nuts than she was last year. On the crazy scale, she is moving from being mad as a wet hen to being mad as Tucker Carlson’s laugh. We’ll start on the streets of London . . . (more…)
Author: Mark Gullick
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We, a select group of human beings . . . — John Kerry speaking at Davos
In this life, one thing counts.
In the bank, large amounts.
I’m afraid these don’t grow on trees,
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
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I routinely summarize what people have said to me, and ask them if I have understood properly. — Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
Don’t talk to me that way. — Patti Smith, Break It Up
Jordan Peterson is not, as we English used to say, everyone’s cup of tea. Many on the political Right don’t know what to make of him, while the Left see two things they don’t understand and therefore don’t like: intelligence and a high-profile opinion divergent from theirs. (more…)
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I am the last of the famous international playboys. — Morrissey, song of the same name
Reggae music is vile. — Morrissey, 1980s interview
It began as one of those pub conversations about culture and art. You know how it is: Four or five guys (no chicks, please; they tend not to know much about music, and they are a distraction) not so much shooting the breeze as machine-gunning it. (more…)
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For media junkies like myself, the blessed week between Christmas and New Year’s should be rehab. It isn’t, of course. We can’t quit the needle. We spend the week watching myriad round-ups of the year that has just left us from around the media globe, as well as the other side of the two-faced god Januarius’ gaze: the media’s prognostications as to the year ahead. (more…)
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Christmas in Costa Rica was its usual low-key affair. What I like most of all is its simplicity. There are Christmas trees in the courtyards and bunting in the store opposite, but none of the materialistic vulgarity I remember from London. Nicest of all are the children’s toys in the shops, dollies for the girls and dinosaurs and trucks for the boys, with plastic farm sets for the little ones. Woke just never made it to Central America, and God knows what monstrosities are on the shelves of the United Kingdom. (more…)
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Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as [A Christmas Carol]? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray, Fraser’s Magazine, 1844 (more…)
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The man . . . has equipped himself with many things for his journey. — Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”
While I have life and strength I shall never cease from the teaching and practice of philosophy. — Socrates, Plato’s Apology (more…)
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Advanced robotics
Brassneck was a cartoon robot schoolboy from a popular comic I read as a young lad in the 1960s, The Dandy. Older British readers will also remember this comic’s great rival, The Beano, and Dennis the Menace (which was very different from the American Dennis). (more…)
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The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don’t work on AI is lunacy. — Marc Andreessen, Twitter (more…)
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Counter-Currents is aiming to raise $300,000 by the end of this year. Thanks to those of you who have kindly answered the call, we currently stand at $202,881.51, which is 68% of the way to our target. For the rest of you, please bear in mind what Greg Johnson tells us in his special Black Friday article, “It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas,” namely that there are other ways of expressing generosity towards your loved ones than by giving your hard-earned cash to evil corporations who want to banish white people and our legacy from the world once and for all. (more…)
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This is my art. This is the game I never cease to play. I turn the wheel that spins. — Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
The wheel also appears in alchemical texts as a symbol of spiritual ascent and descent. — Richard Cavendish, The Tarot (more…)
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The United States of America and the United Kingdom are both, as you might expect in these transvaluative times, disunited realms. Remaining loyal to Yuri Bezmenov, I believe this disunity is entirely manufactured and intentional, and the main point of interest is the marginally different approaches taken to destabilizing two once-great nations. One major difference in disruptive operations lies in the two countries’ undermining of the power of the police. (more…)