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21 Apr 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Floating through the void, we reach out for a hand that's not there... and if it is, we will wish we didn't reach out at all. In an anonymous interview conducted in the Spring of 1980, Michel Foucault claimed Philosophy wasn’t so much the study of wh...
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...
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...
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...
8 Apr 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Sdom
This way,the beatifull shiny coin, started an exciting journey. Unfortunately, unlike this coin, seven other double eagles didn’t have such a luck,, and were seized or voluntarily turned in to the Secret Service, in the first year of investigation, t...
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...
1 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
Cannibalism in the 20th century? Kanibalizm w XX wieku? The underrated Sumatra belonging to Indonesia has Lake Toba, which is the world's largest island freshwater lake. But on this island, i.e. in Sumatra, there is another island lying in L...
29 Mar 2023 1 minute read 3 comments marianomariano68
Not every traveler knows that the island of Java is perfectly connected. The network of trains, for example, is very extensive and you can get as far as Banyuwangi, a place where there are cheap ferry crossings to the island of Bali. Nie każd...
28 Mar 2023 5 minute read 5 comments SimpleSwap
As we all remember, the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), appeared in 2008. It made a path for other projects like Ethereum (ETH) or Tether (USDT). But if you search the Internet for information about crypto history, you can also find mentions of...
24 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
“Sepideh Qolian” is a young Iranian activist who has become one of the symbols of resistance in the 2022 Iranian revolution This unbelievably brave woman, who was arrested during the labor protests 5 years ago along with several workers, has been...
