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10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.13
As soon as I finished the works by Burnham I could get my hands on, I immediately turned to another mid-20th-century political scientist: Bertrand de Jouvenel. His work On Power: The Natural History of its Growth is monumental. Its lofty aims are mad...
9 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.11
Started “The Housekeeper and the Professor” last December and finished it today. If I had concentrated fully on it, I could have finished it much earlier but you know, life happens. It’s a testimony to the power of Yoko Ogawa’s storytelling that I kn...
7 Apr 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.17
‘A Simple Act of Gratitude’ has a fascinating premise that catches me by the horns. John Kralik was down on his luck - no matter how you look at it - and he thought he had nothing to lose by starting a 365-day project in which he wrote a thank-yo...
5 Apr 2023 13 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat $0.25
Big Sister is watching you.In my post on Monday, the third of April, I explored why the power shift from a capitalist to a managerial society occurred according to James Burnham. What I did not make clear was who the managers were or are. In today’s...
3 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.02
Why did James Burnham believe that a social revolution occurred after WWI? Over the past several weeks, I’ve taken the time to read Burnham’s essential works. I started with Suicide of the West, proceeded to Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom, and...
31 Mar 2023 14 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.04
Looking at what people do and have done tells us more about them than listening to what they say. This rule partly defines the essence of Machiavellian Political Science. To express this concept, Burnham turns to Pareto’s theory of Residues and Deriv...
27 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.24
This past Friday, I began reading a book by James Burnham, published in 1943: The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. The Machiavellians, compared to Suicide of the West, is a little shorter but is very interesting. This book roughly begins in Medi...
16 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Bastien Scellier $0.01
"Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to a particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, serves the universe, and deprives his wife of an authentic man who c...
15 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Bastien Scellier $0.02
Know your real advantage and do not pretend. Every man has an advantage over others, something that sets him apart from the majority and makes him superior to others in this business. You have to know this asset in you and above all fully assume it a...
13 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Bastien Scellier $0.01
Live as if your father were dead. Unconsciously in the father-son relationship, there are strong expectations that the son feels towards his father. We try to make our father proud as he should be our representative of masculinity and he makes us fe...
