Monthly Archives: August 2025

More below on the human shift from “gradualism” as the approach to improving life and society (i.e. the democratic processes of liberal democracy), to the approach of “instantaneous violent transformation” through destructive revolution as we have seen in Marxist/socialist crusades. … Continue reading →

Further below- Threat theology, as in apocalyptic mythology, deforms human personality with (1) fear, (2) anxiety, (3) shame, (4) guilt (i.e. ‘bad to the bone’ people blamed for causing the decline of life toward apocalyptic ending, God angry at humanity … Continue reading →

This site probes the root contributing factors to the endless eruptions of crowd madness and violence, specifically the narrative themes that incite, guide, and validate such madness. To quote my friend Bob Brinsmead, “It’s the narrative, stupid”. We know the … Continue reading →

New material below on the Jefferson/Tolstoy project to distinguish between the two most prominent and influential archetypes in Western narratives, consciousness, and civilization. Historical Jesus versus Paul’s Christ myth. This from “The Rubin Report” “My Red Pill Moment, Blaming Boomers … Continue reading →

See quotes below from David Redles on the profoundly apocalyptic millennial nature of Nazism. The very same complex of myths that fueled Nazism have also incited, guided, and validated Marxism, and today are repeated in environmental alarmism. We will continue … Continue reading →

See below Shellenberger’s latest on the doubling down of European elites on censorship, and Hannan’s presentation of the basic principles of liberal democracy that we need to reassert. See also below the recent Megyn Kelly interview of Walter Kirn that … Continue reading →

New material below on the “stunning new theology of Historical Jesus”, a theological breakthrough that was buried under Paul’s Christ myth. We have had the answer, for two millennia now, to the military guy’s urging us to deal properly with … Continue reading →

This below by Taibbi and Kirn on AI propagandizing us through news media. “We are the most propagandized people and we don’t know it”, sage Jimmy Dore. And some new stuff with Douglas Murray commenting on Trump’s playing with a … Continue reading →

More below on “History’s most profoundly humane insight/discovery”. A stunning new theology that was “his greatest contribution to the history of human ideas” (James Robinson). Ongoing eruptions of the totalitarian impulse across Western liberal democracies, (illustrations) Wendell Krossa This below … Continue reading →

See below notes on Plato’s influence on Paul and his Christ myth- This world just a shadow pointing to the Real. As Grok added: “This Hellenistic lens, as you note, shifts the focus from improving the material world to preparing … Continue reading →