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Perceived Intelligence Verses Actual Intelligence

Fascinating.

Speaker Mike Johnson Sets Record Straight on Church and State

You Must Trust the $cience!

Feminism

Of Muses, Mentors & the Quest for Peers

Just as beauty and emotion are mutually driven by each other and the perception of beautiful muses inspires further emotions towards the creation of beauty, and just as reason is driven towards truth and truth tends to be as reasonable as it can be, with mentors showing and teaching both the path of reason and the path towards truth as one and the same, the good needs a community of peers to be fully comprehended, and a public perception of it to be rightly spread and understood.

Subsidiarity as the Answer to the Beast and the Whore of Babylon

In a recent paper published on the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), authors Jonathan Pageau and Jordan Peterson assign the familiar characters of Revelation to the prevailing mindsets of the modern world. The Beast is “civilisation and its leaders, the… Continue Reading →

The New Sanfedists

If Cardinal Ruffo could transition from leading forefather of a fanatic reaction against Jacobinism to a skillful agent in service of the different powers of his time, ultimately not serving his faith but its institutional church, then why would his contemporary equivalents do otherwise now, when they can play the academic and political games as long as there is someone to serve?

Acton & Byron in Vienna

If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupt absolutely, then what happens with passion? Does passion also corrupts, and absolute passion would also corrupt absolutely? Or can passion be a different kind of drive, one that creates a sense of trust and direction towards higher ideals?

On Passion, the Sublime & Limit-Experiences

Our passion, derived from love, would make us suffer in search of the sublime. And the sublime would be nothing but what already is beautiful but expanded to the same extreme perceptions that are already hurting and making us suffer. Enter the realm of limit-experiences.

Theodore Dalrymple on Communist Propaganda

The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the… Continue Reading →

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