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Author Archives: Max West
The Professor & The Student
I refer to Thomas Nagel often in this blog, and his seminal “What Is It Like To Be A Bat? article singlehandedly launched the New Mysterians movement in philosophy of mind, but my absolute favorite New Mysterian philosopher is Colin … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Cultural Marxism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
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Breaking Bad – Finale (Redux)
Within uber-liberal Matthew Yglesias’s review of the Breaking Bad finale is this reflection on a theme I previously wrote about here: More generally, I found something troublingly reactionary about the Walt-on-top conclusion of things. Simmering beneath the surface of Walt’s … Continue reading
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Americans’ Declining Reading Proficiency
From the LA Times: The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. What’s more, over the last two decades Americans’ reading proficiency has declined … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, National, Sociology
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The GOP Keeps Getting Whiter
If there’s one thing we paleoconservative/dark enlightenment/race-realists find increasingly irrefutable with each passing day, it’s that, socio-economically speaking, the races will become increasingly polarized along HBD lines, and such polarization will be proportionately more acute in the more politically-correct, multicultural … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Enlightenment, Republican Party, Secession, White Identity
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Krampus
On still-existing Pagan rituals in Europe: The Krampus, a two-horned, hairy creature, is the first folkloric beast photographer Charles Fréger encountered during his two-year journey through 18 European countries documenting still-practiced pagan festivals. The Krampus, a legend in Alpine countries, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, International, Religion
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D.H. Lawrence
James Longenbach has nice article on the poetry of D.H. Lawrence. While I’ve yet to read one of Lawrence’s famous novels (The Rainbow; Women In Love; Lady Chatterly’s Lover), I do have a collected volume of his poetry, which I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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Just Another Day
Another black-on-white hate crime (the true color of crime) that will be forgotten in a week’s time: Police today said the stabbing death of a white Army soldier allegedly at the hands of a group of African American comrades was … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Black, Crime
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Ode
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Music
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All In A Name
Foseti goes through the remaining 31 NFL team names to determine which “will eventually be deemed too-politically-sensitive for hyper-hysterical sports writers.”: Dallas Cowboys – Cowboys were not nice to Indians, excuse me, Native Americans. If you can’t name a team “Redskins” … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Wars, Humor, Political Correctness
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Breaking Bad – The End
Of the tons of post-finale Breaking Bad analysis in circulation, Jef Costellos’ articles are the only ones I’ve come across that really get to the heart of the matter. I’ve long believed Breaking Bad taps into a deeper, collective anxiety … Continue reading
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