Warning for America

| August 29, 2010

Warning For America From South Africa By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came […]

Descartes’ Error, Part 2

| August 24, 2010

Review of Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Motion, Reason, and the Human Brain, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. Science has devalued emotion because scientists believed emotion clouded reason or played no part in reasoning and was a function of the “lower brain.” Damasio is correcting this view by showing that feelings allow minding of […]

Descartes’ Error, Part 1

| August 21, 2010

Brain science is flourishing, but it is yet in its adolescence, with many researchers offering wildly differing theories of the brain/mind connection. This is understandable because there is no such thing as scientific interpretation. All interpretation comes from existing worldviews projected upon data. As brain studies progress, many theories will be discarded, but at the […]

One nation under Marx

| August 17, 2010

This post is a bit repetitive, bear with us. We want to have a summary and review before we present new material on identity cleansing. We don’t have the feeling that any of our students are so good that they can just skip a class. As we noted in our post The racial integration con […]

U.S. isolated and bankrupt

| August 13, 2010

“There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” Ludwig von Mises Today […]

Paradise Lost

| August 9, 2010

The high Tibetan plateau is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It is a vast and rugged landscape. You can’t farm at these high altitudes, the entire economy is based on yak-herding. Tibetan Buddhism has overlooked its prohibition against eating meat because yak-herding is the only sustainable economy on the plateau, and […]

How they fool you with science, Part 2

| August 4, 2010

Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. If you were excited by our summary of critical state theory in Part 1, today’s post should sober you up. Everything in critical state theory is a load of bullshit.