Imagine telling Konev and Zhukov,
as they awaited to enter Berlin
and finish off the nazis:
'Look, you’ve basically won the war already.
Don’t go in Berlin, as more Germans will die.
Take this good deal that Göring put on the table,
giving impunity to the Nazi leadership,…

Circa 2017, I started my application for a lectureship at a west coast big prestigious uni.
Had to provide a statement on how my research
would promote diversity for EIGHT different 'marginalized groups'.
I ended up not applying at all, as I had nothing to say that wouldn't be…

Thank you Milton Friedman, Martin Anderson,
and Ayn Rand for doing so much to end the draft.
The original 60s radicals.

'Nature still remains a realm of ethical vacuity (…).
No nonhuman organism ‘respects’ ‘Mother Nature’ -
or even knows that ‘she’ exists
as anything more than a habitat.
Wolves would devour that last caribou alive
if they were hungry (…)
We as species are the sole ethical…

If being the most famous economist in the world,
having a Nobel prize,
a speed-dial access to FED chairmen & the POTUS,
and a national TV show watched by millions
are NOT enough to change the culture
and have a lasting impact, then what will it take?

Evaluating Milton…

Why I remain optimistic about the inability
of modern ‘radicals’ to have any significant impact...

Yesterday I compared them to the early 20th century communists. A different species, almost.
The history-makers vs the vulnerabilists searching
for protection.

Today I’ll…

I think about the 1917 revolution, Petrograd workers
layering blankets and rags(!!) inside their jackets,
to absorb the inevitable blows of the ferocious Cossacks who’d face them at the barricades.

I think about the 1930s German Communist Party rugged militiamen, many of them…

Dugin, in a nutshell, took the worst aspects of:
-nazism
-communism
-AND postmodernism,
mixed them, and created the worst of all possible ideologies.

He explicitly names liberalism, modernity, and the idea of individual as an end in himself, as the enemy.
‘We must strike the…

I’m very interested in the anthropology of haters.
Not only of Lebron, but of all greats: Messi, CR7, etc.
Let’s try to follow a hater's ‘thought’ (for a lack of better word):

Let’s say Lebron isn’t the GOAT (questionable, but ok).
Let’s say Lebron isn’t even top-5 (ludicrous,…

One of the first political discussion I can recall
was me asking my mother ‘what is fascism’.
Her reply, that stayed with me, was sth like
'the essence of fascism is collective responsibility’.
You suffering for something your group allegedly did.

Studying the history of…

A reminder:
anyone telling you the greens are 'communists'
doesn't understand neither environmentalism
nor communism.

The New Left and the environmental movement
are the historical defeat of Old Left and Marxism.

In the place of the old Left's prometheanism,
greens introduced…

I had an epiphany on this reading
Elan Journo's 'What Justice Demands' circa 2018.
He calls it the 'underdog principle'.

It's good to show solidarity to the unjustly suffering.
But the mere fact that someone is weaker doesn't mean they deserve our solidarity or sympathy.
Some…

Seeing many such posts, hinting dark forces
are behind the protests.
They are missing the point.
And undermine the power of ideas.

These students have spent hundreds of hours in class, in school and in uni, being taught that
wealth and success=privilege.
That wealth and…

This book came out in 1982.
For years I considered the title and the central claim over-dramatic. Recently, I’ve changed my mind.

Book’s theme is: what gave rise to Hitler was not politics, but a ripe ideological and cultural environment.
A philosophical leitmotif.…

You have created the coolest product in history.
You’ve revolutionized 5+ industries.
You’ve created god knows how many new industries.
You have benefited the lives of billions.

And yet your message to the world is constantly ’apologies for producing, here’s how
we are…

Jordan Peterson vs self-interest: why cleaning your room is selfish (and it's ok) Nikos Sotirakopoulos

youtu.be/npKOHp4gKGY

We’re at the point where Alex Jones
has to clarify that Hitler was no good,
and he takes a lot of heat in the comments
by angry wackos.
This comes after other culture warriors call to
‘re-examine the WW2 narrative’.
How are so many in the new Right descending
to the darkness of…

I have questions:
1.If thinking about myself=bad,
then who cares if I’m miserable?
2.If I should disregard myself,
why pick a good wife? Why not a psycho one?
Or why not live loveless? Didn’t we condemn trying to be happy as selfish and, thus, bad?
3. So it should be…