One of my favorite Kipling poems: AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left…
All posts in reality
Over on Gab, a recent post [https://gab.ai/judgedread/posts/1057976] by Judge Dread @judgedread encapsulated a point I know I’ve made in the past: > Cities breed liberalism because cities are the only place where you can survive with absolutely no contact with the realities of the natural world, and liberalism is above all else a denial of nature. #Science [https://gab.ai/hash/Science] What I find funny is that it’s liberals who insist on passing on trite stories about how helping a butterfly…
The Didact recently brought up yet another recent case of “flash mob” violence [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/10/guess-ethnicity.html] where the article is strangely…. quiet… about describing the perpetrators. Short version, 50 or so “youths” were arrested , with hundreds running around in groups from 20 to 50, ganging up on and beating up people in northern Philadelphia over the course of an evening. Just from the headline alone one would guess, based on who actually does these kind of…
Free Northerner has some interesting thoughts [http://freenortherner.com/2016/10/14/chronic-kinglessness/] on how today, nobody has power: > This is the secret of politics and modern society: nobody is in charge, no one has power, and nobody is running the show: not the people, not the corporations, not the politicians, not the bureaucrats, not the courts, not the military, not the journalists, not the bankers, not the white male patriarchs, not the SJW’s, not the Jews, not Davos, not the Bild…
Well – NYC is disabling web access [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/after-lewd-acts-nycs-free-internet-kiosks-disable-web-browsing/] on the “free” internet kiosks provided (at great expense) to allow people to look at maps, make calls, and browse online. > The tablets will still offer free phone calls, maps, and access to emergency services. New Yorkers can also continue to connect their own devices to LinkNYC Wi-Fi hotspots. But browsing on the publicly accessible tablet…