Monthly Archives: October 2024

“Snowflake, buttercup” apoplexy

Coming soon- My take on the real “clear and present danger” to our liberal democracies. Apoplexy- My definition: Internal rupture and hemorrhaging with irrational fury. Countering Snowflake or Buttercup syndrome, Wendell Krossa (we used to call this “spoilt brat syndrome”, … Continue reading

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“Feelings, nothing but feelings”, Morris Albert

“Feelings, nothing more than feelings” was the Baby Boomer mantra. This will make sense later, below. Apparently, according to commentators like Christian Parenti, us Baby Boomers started this “feelings first” pathology in the modern era. These articles from Ruy Teixeira … Continue reading

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They walk among us

See new material below- “Next level hatred”, Elon Musk A neighbor’s NDE, Wendell Krossa I was just out for my daily walk in the early dark of approaching winter mornings, expelling my usual fake coughs and throat clearings to give … Continue reading

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“It’s coming on Christmas…. singing songs of joy and peace… Oh, I wish I had a river to skate away on…”

See new material just below– i.e. summary of site topics for new visitors A bit of auto-biography, Wendell Krossa It’s a Philippine tradition to start celebrating Christmas early in the Fall, around Septemberish. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-in-the-Philippines-start-celebrating-Christmas-in-September-It-is-beyond-all-reason-and-the-exact-opposite-of-tradition-in-the-rest-of-the-world-What-is-wrong-with-Filipinos-Almost-everything-there-is I picked that up from my … Continue reading

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Bad ideas deform human personality and then entire societies

The “behavior based on similar belief” relationship: “If your God uses force, then so may you, to get your way against your ‘enemies’”. Preface: Probing further the ideas that validate the impulse to dominate others, to re-establish the destructive “elite/commoner” … Continue reading

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Why we believe what we believe, especially as it relates to validating domination of others

Pre-notes: More on the still puzzling abandonment/rejection of Classic Liberalism by many Western liberals… Trying to understand what happened. People like to believe that they are well-intentioned, and they often are, but being well-intentioned does not prevent us from causing … Continue reading

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Classic Liberalism is the best that we have come up with to protect our societies from the destructive elite impulse to dominate

See below “An inside job: Western liberal rejection of liberal values and policies”, and much more on elite domination of commoners… The comments below probe the endless struggle against the elite/commoner divide in human societies. Classic Liberalism was created to … Continue reading

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