Not long ago I discovered a video of a young David Suzuki, Canadian environmental radical, expatiating before a group of friends whose appearance and demeanor clearly identify them as counter-cultural cool. His message is interesting. We are all, he says, maggots; regular people, First or Second level Maggots, Capitalists, Tenth Level! Such a lovely expression …
Monthly Archives: September 2020
This was Perfectly Predictable
The Neo-Romantic notion that Reason and The Rule of Law are inherently “oppressive” has been morphing through our culture for over 200 years now. While it is undeniable that slow but steady progress in the realm of social justice has been made throughout the post-War West within the framework of its democratically mandated institutions, it …
The Dumbest Generation
At Stanford U. in 1980 Jesse Jackson introduced the chant “Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture’s got to go.” Over the last 60 years, based on the assumption that it has violated and oppressed both many of its own citizens as well as much of the “third world,” Western Civilization as a core requirement has …
Thank God [natural selection?] for Reason
Jay Stephens is a young Black woman who says her four years at a prestigious Liberal Arts College in the U.S. turned her into a committed “conservative.” Hoping to be confronted with the great ideas that had shaped history, seeking solutions to the very real socio-economic problems beleaguering her people, she was appalled to be …
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