Tag: the Leftist mind

Hieronymus Bosch, The Last Judgement (ca. 1482)

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To return to Bosch & his tableaux of the end of the world — namely, The Last Judgement — one sees the guitar playing ape — the mammalian sentinel in the foreground — ahead of the picture — abreast of these developments — abandoned of an arrested fate: shirking his duty: not to be foretold — an unhallowed promontory of Hell-cat witches — the Christian Agape reversed and stood upon its head — with a fellow mammalian excrescence — not a lion or a sheep — a beast of God — staring at the ground — the sub-text of the picture — its border and foreground — tucked away in the corner. (more…)

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The new upper-class culture is different from mainstream American culture in all sorts of ways. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart

And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? — Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”

Charles Murray
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
New York: Crown Forum, 2012 (more…)

Image courtesy of Bybyk on GoodFon.

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Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of fiction of all time. Written in two parts by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the early seventeenth century, the book tells the story of the comedic adventures of a bumbling knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha. (more…)

Trial of Affection, an illustration from Richard Hildreth, The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (1852).

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One of the trump cards the Left has over the Right is how it asserts the absolute equivalence of slavery and evil. This is an axiom for the Left, and a holy axiom at that. Leftists will not allow this axiom to be questioned because it is one of their prime sources of power. Like the Ark of the Covenant, it represents Man’s intersection with his egalitarian god. (more…)

Alejandro Mayorkas helps us by showing just how ridiculous the Left’s positions really are. (Photo from the Department of Homeland Security website.)

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Missouri Senator Josh Hawley grilled US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the crisis on the Mexican border on February 2, stating in part that Mayorkas’ performance was “despicable” and that his unwillingness to provide answers was “absolutely atrocious.” Mayorkas attempted to deflect blame by stating that he is the child of a holocaust survivor, thereby implying that he, and by extension most Jews, should be above criticism.

It was hard to tell if he was being devious or if this is what he actually believes. Mayorkas’ blunder was so egregious I wouldn’t be surprised if Jonathan Greenblatt gave him a call afterwards about feeding “problematic anti-Semitic tropes.” (more…)

An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month.

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It’s 2016-2020 all over again, it would seem. Those were the years when the German mainstream media did not go one day without publishing at least one headline telling us how dumb, dangerous, and insane Donald Trump was. (more…)

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The words of this language are to refer to what only the speaker can know — to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot understand the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (more…)

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There are many reasons to think that we are living in the world of Atlas Shrugged. Doesn’t it seem today as if literally everything is broken or in freefall? Manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure, public safety, the justice system, housing, education, the food supply, journalism, the arts, and more — these are broken in our world of today, and broken in the world of Atlas Shrugged. But how they got broken is, in many ways, quite different from what Rand depicts. (more…)

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It can be amusing to observe how Leftists get “triggered” by a line of argumentation, a phrase, or merely a naughty word. All it takes is a brief utterance, and they come unglued. Granted, some of that is probably play-acting, and some is imperious bluster, but there are times when they really do flip and trip because their brains are unable to cope. (more…)

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1. Introduction: An Extremely Impious Book

Perplexed, as so many of us are, by the utter mindlessness and malevolence of today’s Leftists, I decided several years ago to undertake an ambitious project: developing a comprehensive theory of their psychology. I assembled an extensive reading list, including Dostoyevsky’s The Devils (which delighted me). When I reread Friedrich Nietzsche, however, I realized that I had almost nothing to add to what he had already said. (more…)

Ted Kaczynski teapot by Charles Krafft

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The following is an edited transcript of the conversation between Greg Johnson and Richard Houck on the subject of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, that was broadcast on Counter-Currents Radio in April 2021. You can listen to the recording here.

Greg Johnson: I’m Greg Johnson. Welcome to Ted Talk. I am joined here today by Rich Houck, and we’re going to be talking about Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and Its Future. Rich, welcome to the show. (more…)

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My samples may not be representative of the whole. I can only tell of what I have seen.

Mainstream Leftists

Mainstream leftists care primarily about being seen as good people. Some of them really are, but some of them are not. (more…)

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NOTE: All names in this memoir are fictional.

Last year I went to a Christmas party in St. Louis, given by a communications group: a catch-all for filmmakers, directors, actors, screenwriters, and the usual wannabes. Having written an award-winning screenplay some years ago, I’m more be than wanna, but the candle of my fifteen minutes of local fame has long since burned out. (more…)