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14 Apr 2023 32 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Throughout this week, I’ve been reading de Jouvenel’s On Power: The Natural Growth of Its History. On Monday and Wednesday, I covered the first four parts or books of de Jouvenel’s work and today I will be reviewing the last two. The last two section...
14 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Spacehaul
In this series of posts, I will be featuring some of my favourite drummers and musicians. In my humble opinion, these soloists are pursuing something akin to groundbreaking within their own specialism. Be sure to follow them and help direct the direc...
12 Apr 2023 19 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
"For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm." - Conan On Monday, the 10th of April, I covered the metaphysics and history of de Jouvenel’s Power. Today, what I will endeavor to cover is Power’s essence or character a...
11 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Abhijoy Sarkar
GM, GN, WAGMI, HODL, DYOR, probably nothing, ser – do these terms sound familiar? They are part of an ever-growing thesaurus of crypto-speak. A lexicon that the skeptic’s guide to crypto says is reflective of a cult. And not in a good way. Like Jones...
10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
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...
7 Apr 2023 14 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Do the Progressives worship the gods of chaos? Maybe. The Managerial Revolution was primarily driven by ideology put into praxis. While I think James Burnham does a much better job explaining how ideologies work in Machiavellians, I also think he do...
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...
29 Mar 2023 13 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Every great society is defined by only a few great men whose character is so exemplary that the majority must align themselves with them or falter. On Monday, the 27th of March, I began reviewing Burnham's work, Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom....
