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There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Ukraine war among Western commentators because there is failure to understand ‘endless war’. Over and over again, I hear dissident observers all over Europe explaining how absurd and irrational European policy is. From senior to junior commentators, this is repeated ad nauseam. They do not stop to consider that this is absurd. A policy that is sustained cannot be ‘irrational’. It merely means that the true policy itself is misunderstood. Even the…
Many people in England have a self image in respect of their behaviour that does not meet with reality because they never get a reflection back. For most of them, they can define their relationship with ‘others’ in society. ‘Living on the Hill’ is a series aimed at putting up a mirror of sorts. Did I say unbiased mirror? No! Hopefully, it will be full of my own quirks and the devil’s humour. But a mirror nonetheless. In this…
Here the two themes of world changing ideas (philosophy and history) come together in a surprising manner. There is an idea that it is rational to pursue one’s self interest which became a cornerstone in a culture war. It is a strange fact that what was originally almost mystical – ‘light of reason’ – has become a matter of calculation. A coldly rational man is culturally today a person who subjects everything to calculation. In Adam Smith it is…
Philosophy There is a unique role that the word ‘rationality’ plays in Western culture. According to the standard trope rationality is a mystical quality. It has the following virtues; Ancient Greek philosophy, it is claimed, was the birth of the first attempt to understand the world using rationality. One author writes: “Ancient Greek philosophy brought Logos to fore and defined it as the crucial problem and the postulate of the human. We translate the Greek term Logos in English…
Generally speaking I would resist discussing emergent ideas until they were more thoroughly worked out. This case is a little different. These ideas are not recent but over 50 years old. When I first had them 50 years ago and discussed them I was met with ‘ that is quite interesting … but beyond my area of speciality.’ In my eyes these ideas would upturn all contemporary history on the one hand and all contemporary philosophy on the other….
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart’ Blaise Pascal ‘Pensee’ There are aspects of life that as a writer I feel need sharing. Our dominant culture often makes communication difficult because it embeds assumptions that are the devil to root out. That is the basis of my series ‘Life on the Hill’. I take every day events but hope to shine a light…
Enough is enough. However much one might admire some of the outspoken views of Douglas Macgregor his outspoken racism must be called out. Macgregor’s interview All the problems of the US are caused by the massive influx of non-Europeans into the US. It is these people who assist in totally rigging elections in large cities for the Democratic Party. In large cities , according to Macgregor, all the voting is fraudulent. Even the Tech entrepreneurs who came to the…
My heart cries out in rage when I hear stories of the gang rape of Palestinian prisoners. We hear such dreadful stories and the people of Israel are openly supporting this descent into moral hell. (select link) Jonathan Ofir has written: ‘The level of sadism enacted upon Palestinians really defies description. Palestinians are now coming forth with the most graphic details about their sexual torture, like this victim on video (trigger warning): “I’ve been shocked by electricity through my anus….
‘‘The world diplomatic front is a screen on which appears the apparent struggle between the Free World and the Communist camp….Behind it the real struggle goes on …’ Henry Kissinger (1955)1 This conflict in Ukraine has exposed the underlying features, previously hidden, of the contemporary world. Europe’s condition as a vassal state was expertly hidden but is now thoroughly revealed. This generates a question: what was the Cold War truly about? What were the US ambitions in Europe? To…
One of the first issues when reviewing critical commentary on the Ukraine war that must be noted is that among these critical parties in the West the context and behaviour of the neo-cons are described as either delusional or irrational. Their politics are seen as based on post-WW2 rhetorics. Col Macgregor repeatedly describes the Europeans and neo-cons as ‘crazy’, ‘delusional’, and full of ‘complete folly and disaster’ in his webcast:1 Two issues arise. First is that claiming the other…