What is especially hilarious about the idea that "evolution has stopped" is that this is so plainly the belief of prosperous people living in peacetime, and ones with such a poor grasp of history that they imagine their current condition to be eternal when it is in fact that of merely a few generations at most ( Read more... )

"Why I Hate Technologically-Static Fantasy"

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by

Jordan S. Bassior

TV Tropes is a lovely site, in part because it has terms for almost everything one encounters in fiction.  One such term is "Medieval Stasis," which it defines as being
a situation in which, as far as the technological, cultural, and sociopolitical level are concerned, ( Read more... )

From ANSAMed "Arafat:  PNA commission says Israel is the sole suspect" (Nov 2nd, 2013):

''We believe Israel is the sole suspect in the death of Arafat'', Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi and commission member told reporters at a news briefing ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I knew a crazy man who wanted to abolish automobiles.

He wasn’t really crazy, of course, and he didn’t want to “abolish” automobiles in the sense of destroying every car in existence and forbidding their further manufacture.  He was an supporter of the “car-free” movement, which advocates a return to living in the urban cores ( Read more... )

Expanded a bit from my comments to redxcrossehere.

Why is it that, given that

... the Chinese had plenty of technology including the fact they invented all the technology Francis Bacon listed as the great achievements of humanity TYVM and also the Chinese were the inventors of Western Civilization plus they discovered America and sailed around the worldwhy ( Read more... )

The Dissident Frogman has broken a long silence to comment on the results of our election, and this article, "The Frogman's Prophecies," should be read in full.  Because of the strong logic and utter beauty of its last few paragraphs, and its relevance to many I know who want to be purist libertarians (or even anarcho-capitalists) I think the ( Read more... )

The modern American Left likes to call itself "Progressive."  But "Progressivism" is an inherently meaningless term by itself, as "progress" merely means "forward motion."  By definition we all "move forward" into the future:  the question is, "In what direction?"

The European civilization of the 19th century "progressed" technologically from 1815 ( Read more... )

Clarice Feldman, in "Tea Party Unbound" (American Thinker, August 5th 2012), observes

For several years now it seems to me that voters throughout the country in a perfectly peacable way have demonstrated their revulsion at the ruling class's political, academic and media elites, and the media's disparagement or utter refusal to cover this civil ( Read more... )

Some news items just make you want to laugh. Case in point:

Gil Rorien, "Arab Rage: Putin Recognized Jerusalem's Jewish Past," first published 06/28/2012,

Arab Muslims are enraged by remarks made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kotel, recognizing Jerusalem's Jewish roots ( Read more... )

Noted economist Thomas Sowell makes the key point that Obama's economic policies are actually less "socialist" than they are fascist.

In "Socialist or Fascist," up at Townhall on June 12th 2012 ( Read more... )