Category: ESSAYS

“All our problems are related” reads the Occupy Wall Street poster I have seen in a half dozen college dorm rooms. Indeed, all our problems are swirled into one massive enterprise, a beast by a thousand names, and so every strand of fur or piece of claw is an opportunity to attack the entire thing.… Continue reading Against the Cathedral

There’s a new realignment taking place in American politics. Because of shit like this, this, this and this, being socially liberal is now the authoritarian and in-group socially policing position that being conservative once was. The new conservative kids, if they think conservatism has any future at all, have to adopt a neutral stance toward… Continue reading “I’m socially conservative but fiscally liberal.”

It is no secret now that the United States is accelerating toward the dissolution of its founding principles. The contradictions, so blatantly obvious at the moment the foundation was set, have failed to resolve. I, like, many others, dismissed the battle between Antifa and the alt-right as a kind of cosplay, a fake politics conducted… Continue reading August 13th, 2017: An Autopsy of America

“The philosophers have interpreted the world. The point is to change it.” -Karl Marx “This whole act’s immutably decreed. ’Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.” -Captain Ahab I really need to dissect and compare these quotes, because they’re the crux of so much seriously meaningful shit that needs… Continue reading Marx vs. Melville

“It’s time to abandon this Jungian notion of a balanced, whole, natural humanity that we must return to.” This is the concluding line of an excellent video by Zero Books, critiquing Jordan Peterson and Carl Jung from the left. Unfortunately, I think this line is also indicative of the spiritual immaturity of the left, which… Continue reading Is Jordan Peterson Wrong About Human Nature?