Wednesday The mass departure from reality currently manifesting on Planet Earth is symptomatic of people returning to the pre-Gold money era. It was a time of tribalism, superstition, fear (both rational and irrational) and ignorance on a grand scale. The 17th - 19th century search for true understanding and wisdom has been abandoned in favour of crazed conspiracy … [Read more...]
The Future of Christianity
A Comment on Fred Reed’s ‘The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without’ Mr Reed is one of my favourite authors, and not just because he is a fellow cigar smoker, or because his cigar has the scruffy look of the wonderful cigars that I used to hand-roll in Colombia, but because he is a good thinker and writer. That said, I think that in this instance it is most … [Read more...]
The Great Instability
Tuesday We are entering the time of the Great Instability. The order forged in the post-WW2 period, is collapsing. That is to be cheered. In a fast-changing world, the order has become sclerotic; rigidly defending a time that has passed. To do so, it has been forced to rely on ever-increasing personal surveillance with ever-diminishing human rights. It has become the … [Read more...]