#9. Revolt of the Elites
Alabama Many years ago, I bought Christopher Lasch’s book, “The Revolt of the Elites and The Betrayal of Democracy.” He thought that “democracy” had been […]
Month: August 2011
#8. Kunstler’s Project Confrontation
New York It has been amazing to watch James Howard Kunstler’s ongoing “Project Confrontation” with the establishment over the past several years. That man was […]
NYT: Watch Your Southern Flank
Alabama The New York Times has written an amusing article called “Race to the Right.” If I keep working on this “metapolitical project” to “restore […]
#6. Washington’s Plantation
Alabama I knew there was something familiar about the world in the year 2011. It has started to resemble a world that is very familiar […]
#5. Symbolic Power – Edmund Pettus Bridge
Alabama When I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I realized that it was no ordinary bridge, but it was something much more significant. Why […]
#4. Symbolic Power
Alabama Symbols have power over millions of minds. Stories have power. Narratives have power. Identity has power. Myths have tremendous power. Insofar as the U.S. […]
#3. Your Two Cents
Alabama Don’t let anyone ever tell you that your “two cents” isn’t valuable. Opinions are quite valuable. Ideas have real value. More value than currencies […]
Confederate Gold
Alabama Everyone with noble qualities sees themselves as being on some kind of mission. It means having some kind of purpose. There are often “breakthroughs” […]
#1. Eureka Moments
Alabama Eureka moments can often be overwhelming to people. They are points when “insights” start coming together. It is always exciting to be an analyst […]
BRA’s Grand Bargain
USA There was a complete separation between fantasy and reality that had been building for centuries. Everything had been torn apart. Literally everything: races, families, […]
Tim’s Rewrite
Tim’s Terror Tim Wise is a clear example of a cultural termite, a communist sympathizer, who is trying to rot our public discourse because he […]
Great Moments In BRA History: Tim Wise’s Love Letter To America
Flashback to BRA, 1965-2011 Last year, Tim Wise sang an ode to hatred on CNN with thousands of people on Facebook, accused the Tea Party […]
SPLC’s Bizarre Turn
Bizarre World You can “pivot” back to reality now too. It is the “pivot” heard around the world. Smart people are talking. The Bruce Springsteen […]
To: Larry Auster
VFR Having read your blog post, I can see that you are only looking at it from one angle. Sincerely, View From Reality
To: Trainspotter
Virginia I spotted your “train” a long time ago. It was called “communitarianism.” There were a lot of people who were interested in that project. […]
True Story
Alabama In the mania of 2008, I had a stroke of genius (duty and rights, labor and capital, truth and passion – these things complement […]
Party Like Its 2011
Television It was “Project Confrontation” that worked. Everyone agrees now that the unsettling world of the past is over. Out with the New World. In […]
Hello, Vulcan
Alabama Would you like to talk? I’ve done a great service for you. Come on, I want to join the Mile High Club. We can […]
To: The Conservative Establishment
Alabama How much it is it worth to “change the tone” in Washington? How much is it worth to “restore sanity” in Hollywood and MSNBC? […]
Merlin vs. Stalin
Alabama Food for thought: suppose the defunct Soviet Union had a secret weapon, witchcraft. It had a group of sorcerers who could cast a spell […]
The Establishment’s August 5, 2011 Call
Alabama A phone is ringing in the White House … will Al Gore and Hillary Clinton answer it? George Wallace is on the batphone. In […]
A Delicious Thought
District of Corruption A delicious, irresistible thought … we succumb to the mania enrapturing the Heartland and … understood as fantasy ideology and metaphor, having […]
American Exceptionalism: Chris Matthews
MSNBC There is nothing really exceptional about Chris Matthews. This man is the epitome of the arrogant Yankee hypocrite who has lost his mind. The […]
The MLK Bubble
Wall Street LOL, the Hobbits are practicing non-violence on BRA’s liberal establishment, and I am sure investors and business owners could be persuaded to do […]
Lawrence O’Donnell: The Last Word
MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell is the Captain Janeway of cable television news. All he does is sit in his New York studio and sanctimoniously denounces people […]
Vulcans Enter Orbit
Vulcan Spaceship, High Earth Orbit As BRA’s crisis unfolds on MSNBC, as the Money Power collapses in New York City, the Vulcan historians have arrived […]
To: Mitt Romney
District of Corruption Listen up, Mitt. Karl Rove is dead in the water. The liberal establishment is dead in the water. He doesn’t understand White […]
Barack’s Crisis
BRA’s Freedom Ride What you are seeing on television (unfolding before our eyes) is what it is like to be the President of the United […]
Jefferson’s Great Contribution: Sage of Charlottesville
Virginia Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson and the Old Republicans (the rightwing anti-government domestic extremists of their time) were wise enough to insert the […]
Role Models: Augustus
Rome As someone who understands the mechanics of myth and fantasy ideology inside and out (what it is like to retreat for years into a […]
Luther’s Great Contribution
Germany What was Martin Luther more famous for than anything else? Well, let’s see. It was outside-the-box thinking. Being a heretic. Standing up to the powerful. […]