Sunday, June 04, 2023

Saturday, June 03, 2023

Being Grounded


Wally Bock reviews "The Practice of Groundedness."

It is now on my list.

Classic

 


The British Government Did It Too

 "A secretive government unit worked with social media companies in an attempt to curtail discussion of controversial lockdown policies during the pandemic, The Telegraph can reveal."

- From "Exclusive: Ministers had 'chilling' secret unit to curb lockdown dissent" by Investigations Team and Tony Diver, Whitehall Correspondent, The Telegraph, June 2, 2023

The Diversity Myth

There’s a latent premise in this line of questioning. When you observe, as we did, that what’s going on is both very evil and very silly, it sounds almost self-contradictory. How can something be both very silly and very evil at the same time? The answer is that what’s going on is very silly, but the silliness is distracting us from very important things. That’s the nature of the evil. Diversity becomes a kind of divertissement, distracting our attention from the things that really matter.

Read all of Peter Thiel's speech in The New Criterion.

Busy Little Bees

 


Friday, June 02, 2023

On My List

 


They Are Legion


The ministers or rabbis who don't believe in God. ~ The lawyers who regard the law as a mere tool to be manipulated. ~ The literature professors who would rather explore the defects of writers than celebrate their work. ~ The journalists who choose to shape the culture instead of objectively reporting the news. ~ The teachers who would rather indoctrinate than educate. ~ The museum professionals who love their museums but not their customers. ~ The citizens who respect every country but their own. ~ The artists with a disdain for art. ~ The students who value grades over knowledge. ~ The human resources professionals who regard employees as nuisances. ~ The civil rights advocates who promote new forms of discrimination. ~ The parents who eagerly contract out parental responsibilities. ~ The business executives who promote business but shy from its defense. ~ The revolutionaries who rail against "inner circles" but love their own. 

Glenn and John