Un mot qui revient souvent en France, le choix de société. Sous-entendu, Je choisis, tu es la société. Car bien sûr le rhéteur s'empresse de donner des conseils sur ce que devrait être ce choix imposé à tous par la force -- le choix s'entend comme terrain pour nos chers êtres supérieurs, cependant que le commun des mortels n'a qu'à opiner. Un ( Read more... )

I had read other articles by Theodore Dalrymple before (thanks to MiF), and they were all good. So when GNXP announced this one, I read it at once, and I relished: An imaginary scandal.

... is exactly what dominates the Intelligentsia in France and other countries.

You do not endorse Stalin. You do not call yourself a communist. You do not declare your love for the regime. You do not call on people to support the Soviets. Ever. Under any circumstances. You claim to be an independent-minded idealist. You don't understand ( Read more... )

I had submitted a variant of my Black Magic text to the essay contest conducted by The Better-World Project. The results were just published on Build Freedom, and I only got a consolation prize. That was well deserved: the other texts were much more inspiring. I invite you to read the actual winnersThanks again to Frederick Mann for being such a ( Read more... )

Ali describes black magic thinking pretty well.

At the ITA movie night this week, we watched Mulholland Falls by Lee Tamahori (1996). A good film noir on the Evil of Power. Synopsis: little evil meets Big Evil and gets a glimpse of what Evil is. The philosophy of evil is randianly summarized thus: "The cornerstone of civilization is human sacrifice."

I wonder what is the class of statements ( Read more... )

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Petit extrait du lavage de cerveau insidieux effectué par les rédactions télévisées soviétiques francophones (RTBF, TF1, F2), ce dimanche soir.
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While in the States, I had an argument with, of all persons, a French man ( Read more... )

Les couloirs du métro annoncent Pharaon à l'institut du monde arabe, à grand renforts de sponsors étatiques et para-étatiques. Pourquoi pas Dalai Lama à l'institut du monde chinois? Chef Hutu, à l'institut du monde tutsi? Inca à l'institut du monde ibérique? Roi Champa à l'institut du monde vietnamien? Hannibal à l'institut du monde romain? ( Read more... )