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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...
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....
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...
24 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
The Liberal is disturbed by grass. That sounds ridiculous but rings true when you think about it. I am coming to the end of James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, and it’s clear that the Liberal is plagued by his inability to detach from the abstract,...
22 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
The Left know who they are. As I was eating lunch the other day, I forget if I was listening to a podcast or if there was a T.V. on in the background, I overheard someone say that the Left and Right do not know who they are. I am very skeptical of th...
20 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
What if I’m done conversing? I’ve been reading James Burnham’s work Suicide of the West, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. He concisely states what I’ve been feeling for at least a year. I'm fascinated by his explanation of the Liberal obsession with “...
17 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
James Burnham attributed the self-annihilation of the West to its adoption of Liberalism. He would not say it was the cause of the West’s contractions, but rather that it was the worldview preventing it from recognizing that it was contracting. Liber...
15 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
"Dig Deeper" A woman is an adult human female. I do not need to be an accredited biologist to answer this question. Dylan Mulvaney, full stop, is not an adult human female. He is a man, an adult human male, who pretends to be a woman. However, I th...
