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Author Archives: Max West
FNC 2.0
For years, I have been wondering why there’s not a competing conservative cable news channel to Fox. Wouldn’t a non-shouting conservative channel be great? Like virtually every other conservative I know, I watch FNC holding my nose. The non-stop shouting … Continue reading
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True Detective
The new HBO series True Detective, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, is outstanding. I began watching the series after reading this excellent analysis of the series, where the author points out the Lovecraftian and other American Gothic influences … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Film, TV
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The Wolf & The Cohen
A powerful section of Yuri Slezine’s The Jewish Century (2004) is his discussion of Poland’s struggles after Soviet takeover of the country after WWII. Slezkine presents evidence that, within Polish communist party factions, the Polish-heavy communist faction favored a blend … Continue reading
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Oscars 2014: Big Picture
As predicted here earlier, for the most transparent of sociological reasons, and as Ellen Degeneres herself said in her opening monologue: Option #1: 12 Years A Slave wins Best Picture. Option #2: You’re all racists. Random thoughts: Best Actor goes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Wars, Hollywood
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Gay Rights, Civil Rights, And How Freedom Dies
Unlike the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1964 Civil Rights Act completely upended the constitutional right to freedom of association, for whites that is. It’s still perfectly fine to have, for example, BET, an entire television network devoted to blacks, … Continue reading
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The Future of the (Scared, White) GOP
While every liberal in the country has figured out the implicit whiteness that increasingly (and necessarily) comprises the GOP (given how quickly the U.S. is becoming majority non-white), guess who hasn’t figured this out. The GOP. The same can be … Continue reading
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Competing Nationalisms in China
Ah, the joys of multiculturalism. See a pattern? BEIJING – More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in a southwestern city in what authorities called a terrorist attack by ethnic separatists in western China, and police … Continue reading
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Competing Nationalisms in Ukraine
If you want to understand the psyche, so to speak of what’s taking place in the Ukraine, read Kevin MacDonald’s “Competing Nationalisms in Ukraine“. What is happening there now is a good case study of MacDonald’s longstanding thesis that multiculturalism … Continue reading
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Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy centered around the increasing rootlessness, and subsequent alienation, endemic to modernity. Newly released Heidegger notebooks have ignited a debate over whether Heidegger was an anti-semite, when the real debate should center on Heidegger’s perspective on the ‘rootlessness’ … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Jewish, Philosophy
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Paul McCartney & Bruce Springsteen – I Saw Her Standing There; Twist & Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAMRMQr48g
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