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1 Aug 2023 2 minute read 1 comment VVoytila $0.06
A fistful a chestfull a fitful was I and the voice cocked its head and said something or other. Shutsh! I murmured, and almost vmited from the strain. The voice said nothing, but it was still there. I knew it can sai'n no no. As sane as I am I cannot...
12 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard $0.01
She looked at the parking lot full of cars, at the people scurrying around and through them to get to the church door. All that polyester and wool. Men and women are tightly bound by conformity. It all came together. She looked down at her own formal...
19 May 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark $0.20
Stack Exchange: A network of Q&A sites for miserable fucks whom take rules too seriously and are devoid of a sense of humour and/or fun, where questions that attempt to inject some of it get not just closed, but deleted. I found that out, to my annoy...
12 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.16
Despite knowing what we are, what do we hold onto that drives us? Reading Faust has been, I think, a rewarding challenge. Goethe’s work is akin to a musical fugue. Especially in Faust II, he develops a final form, built upon preceding structures,...
12 May 2023 2 minute read 1 comment LearnMeGood $0.09
Hello, True Believers, and welcome once again to a ridiculously silly post by yours truly, The Crypto Idiot. If you like my posts, or at the very least are not outrageously enraged by them, please consider telling all your friends, your family membe...
10 May 2023 12 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.28
Between struggling in pain to creatively manifest new forms and contenting yourself with pleasure while generating nothing, which would you honestly choose after arduously thinking through what both entail? As I stated on Monday, the Eighth of May,...
8 May 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.03
Has Man ever asked himself why he’s worth saving? This weekend I started reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The version I’m reading has been translated into English by Stuart Atkins and has a brief introduction by David E. Wellbery. Wellbe...
5 Apr 2023 13 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat $0.24
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...
29 Mar 2023 13 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.01
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....
27 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat $0.23
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...
