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Cultural Revolutions Freedom is not a goal, but a direction Edward Snowden For a long time now, I’ve wanted to write to you, but found myself unable. Not from illness—although that came and went—but because I refuse to put something in your inbox that I feel isn’t worth your time.  The endless stream of events that the world provides to remark upon has the tendency to take on an almost physical weight, and robs me of what I can only describe as origination energy: the creative spark that empowers us not simply to do something, but to do something  new . Without it, even the best of what I can produce feels derivative and workmanlike—good enough for government, perhaps, but not good enough for you.  I suspect you may know a similar struggle—you can tell me how you fight it below, if you like—but my only means for overcoming it is an aimless wandering in search of the unknown catalyst that might help me to refill my emptied well. Where once I might have had a good chance of...

A fun read... That ends with the realization that we'll keep doing it until we can't! So... Nothing new then! The Post-Partisan Emporium's  Purpose and Standards This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s writing which has yet to be published. We understand that tempers flare during heated conversations, and we're wil...

Eight Reasons Scarcities Will Increase Rather Than Evaporate Charles Hugh Smith Who knew it would be so easy? All we have to do is collect urine and we'll be flying our electric air taxi tomorrow! While the private-jet crowd is busy selling a future of 1 billion electric vehicles , 1 billion windmills, 1 billion solar arrays, hundreds of thousands of electric aircraft, thousands of new nuclear power plants and trillions more in "wealth" accumulating in their bloated ledgers,  reality is intruding on their technocratic fantasies. The primary assumption of the private-jet crowd is that the developed world will continue to have a free pass to strip developing-world nations of their mineral wealth  at the low, low cost of a bribe to the current kleptocrats in power and low, low wages paid to local workers. The profits will naturally flow to the private-jet crowd--it's  the Divine Right of Capital . Knowledgeable readers assure me that the technologies of extracting resour...

Shallow Century, Deep Trouble   In discussing current technological drifts, it may be vital to remind ourselves that we survey not the fruits of recent breakthroughs but the cashing in of 20th century innovation. John Waters Ground-level study of public sculpture, Cloud Gate (‘The Bean’), Millennium Park, Chicago, created by computer technology and using 168 stainless steel plates, welded together into a multi-directional bean-shaped mirror. There was a moment close to the beginning when the then emerging ‘millennial’  generation seemed like it might bring a waft of freshness. These early indications suggested the young were beginning to question and spurn the destructive ‘freedom’ ideologies of the 1960s and carve a new path of their own, drawing on the residual wisdoms of the ages and striking out in a new direction. Alas, it has come to nothing. Anyone who witnessed or saw images from Dublin Castle on May 26th, 2018, as the young people of Ireland celebrated the arrival of ...

Where has BMJ editor Peter Doshi, a vaccine sceptic, been hiding until now? By Kathy Gyngell I WOULDN’T say it exactly went viral, but this tweet by one Reuben de Herdt, retweeted by Dr Anthony Hinton, saying: ‘Here is the editor of the  BMJ  raising the questions many of us have asked for over a year’ did receive a lot of attention across social media last Friday. The film so far has had more than 50,000 views.  Here is the editor of the BMJ raising the questions many of us have asked for over a year.  https://t.co/GF48Qy7Tbp — Dr Anthony Hinton (@TonyHinton2016)  November 4, 2021 It is hardly surprising. Suddenly someone we haven’t heard an awful lot from is given a proper platform. Peter Doshi PhD, editor of the  British Medical Journal . used it very effectively.  November 4 found Dr Doshi giving evidence to at an expert panel on Covid ‘vaccines’ held by Senator Ron Johnson in Washington DC. Ivor Cummins in a...

From the Article: " It is almost comical that the human race is caught within the tale of a virus which is not a virus, verified by science which is not science, detected by a test which is not a test and resolved by a vaccine which is not a vaccine which, in itself is mandated but not really mandated? " A comical Herd of Modern Moron Slaves indeed What a time: to watch the peoples of this world bicker and divide themselves as the 'social' constructs of this existence are torn apart piece by piece and the very survival of humanity lies in the balance. To witness, as I foresee, the extermination of the human race through the leverage of ignorance; death by narrative in the Age of Stupidity. I always knew that I feared the masses far more than the so called 'rulers' of this realm. I could see, throughout the years, their animosity, their disdain for each other, their lack of trust all growing; the evisceration of courtesy, consideration and common sense ...