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Iraq — Let us not forget those who were right: the case for a national day of mourning

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by Gus

As we observe the ten year anniversary of the Iraq War we should not forget those who opposed this catastrophic and evil action. Not a single terrorist on 9-11 was Iraqi and it has become clear to all interested in … Read more

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Appendices

Posted on June 1, 2020June 11, 2020 by Gus

Here are the appendices for Faultlines

Mythos and time

The Roots of Religious Nihilism

Masculine Boundaries: a bar fight

Science and the Feminine

The troubling case of eugenics

The Corporation, American Nihilism and Mafia Capitalism

A Brief … Read more

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Strange Bedfellows: The Christian Right, Radical Islam, and the Hindu Right

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by Gus

Radical Islam easily finds common ground with the religious right on women’s issues. This point ultimately led Dinesh D’Souza to blame American cultural freedoms for the Islamic radicals’ legitimate dislike of us! D’Souza is an important conservative writer, biographer of … Read more

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Seeing and Feeling Energy Fields

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Some otherwise sympathetic readers will suspect my description of Sacred amounts to wishful thinking. The world really is meaningless. Ultimately everything is simply an object in relation to other objects. So it seems to many minds thoroughly socialized by the … Read more

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Science and the Feminine

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

In the seventeenth century, Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the new English Royal Society, wrote the society sought “to raise a Masculine Philosophy . . . whereby the Mind of man may be ennobled by the knowledge of solid truths.” [1]… Read more

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Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European. It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more

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Mythos and Time

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Mythos and Time

Albert Einstein was asked by a friend “Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?” Einstein answered “Yes, it would be possible. But it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning – … Read more

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Masculine Boundaries: a bar fight

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

The masculine emphasis on boundaries helps clarify classically male behavior many women say they find inexplicable and many men have difficulty explaining. To take an example from my own life, during the 60s I was active in organizing protests against … Read more

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The Highway to Serfdom

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Gus

COSMOS + TAXIS | Volume 8 Issue 1 2020

Gus diZerega

Abstract: F. A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom argued central planning in lieu of market economies inevitably resulted in a new ‘serfdom.” A similar dynamic arises within the capitalist variant … Read more

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What is “Left Hayekianism”?

Posted on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 by Gus

Words like “left” and “right” no longer have any clear meaning. But if there is a central theme, historically, people “on the left” have focused on issues of inequality of power. This has been interpreted in many ways, sometimes contradictorily, … Read more

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