The Dangerous Business of Goring Someone Else’s Ox – Mainstream Media Getting the Manosphere Wrong Over and Over Again (The Aurelius File, 11)
Let’s begin with an axiomatic truth: Republic, like Empire, can tolerate a limited left-wing identity politics, but Republic, like Empire, cannot endure a right-wing identity politics. Like the element iron to a burning sun – right-wing identity politics will dissolve and devour the tenuous strands of unity that cohere post-tribal...
After November 2014 – a Future for the Blue Dogs? – Part I
Despite my headline (ehhhh, Blue … dog … talking) I’d almost didn’t notice. For one thing – my candidate won. But it has managed to intrude on my awareness that November, 2014 did not go well for the dwindling political collective I’ve placed so much hope in, the Blue Dogs....
Dear Conservatives – to Fight the Cultural Wars – forget Ayn Rand and Teach English Common Law
Thesis: current conservative approaches to fighting the culture wars inevitably result in setback or failure. You cannot cure people who have drunk the Orwellian Koolaid of left-wing Identity Politics – but you can inoculate people against it in the first place – by teaching English Common Law. Teach it long,...
The Ghost of Karl Marx Lectures on Your Imminent Replacement with a Robot
Bluedog is not a Marxist. But then again Bluedog isn’t a libertarian either and though I am not a libertarian, well: I think you should read and understand your John Locke. I think that’s very important. Actually: both John Locke and Adam Smith – oh, and while your at it,...
The Aurelius File (10) – Erdogan, Kobani, ISIS and the Turkish Point of View
One need not agree with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s position not to intervene to reverse the advance of ISIS in the Syrian city of Kobani – but one should still be able to place himself in Erdogan’s shoes and understand it so I don’t know why people are so puzzled...
![Look closely - do you see (r(θ) = A eθ cot α) in there (hint: Google "Spira Mirabilis)? If it's there and there's no conscious being to recognize it, what does it mean about what we see in these swirling mists? The more rudimentary [(x−h)2+(y−k)2=r2] can be seen pretty clearly in there too. You've heard the expression before that "if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it ...", but consider: the mathematical expression (r(θ) = A eθ cot α) is in these mists - it is there - and that expression, means something - so what do we make of the expression, or the mists - if they exist without someone to perceive them? ... On the other hand - and more importantly: if the expression is in there and there is a conscious being to recognize it (i.e.: you) ... then what does that tell suggest to you about what meaning is?](http://bluedogtalking.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iStock_000002828815Small-211x300.jpg)
