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5 Apr 2023 13 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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...
5 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo
The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into self-Mastery is a short book written by Brianna Wiest. Overall, this is a good self help book that challenges you to look in yourself for issues in your life and find the resolutions. However, the...
30 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
I don’t usually enjoy reading Haruki Murakami’s stuff. Obscure imagery and cryptic storylines do not a satisfied reader make. But ‘Birthday Girl’, a short story released in celebration of his 70th birthday, was engaging and easy to read. All the more...
18 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Hope E Davis
As the new year approaches, it is time for many individuals to begin to ponder what goals they should set for themselves in the new year. There is also no time but the turning of the calendar to set yourself up for a new set of books to read. If you...
