Editor’s Break 112 has Skyler reading and adding commentary to an essay he wrote in May of 2007 titled, “Public Shootings and Self-Defense”.
Day: November 20, 2018
On Colonialism
Mine is an admittedly amateurish review of the history of colonialism, but two themes stick out: 1) colonialists primarily desire the physical resources and additional tax cattle of those they are colonizing, and 2) colonialists sell this to its useful idiots (nobles, priests, peasants, and soldiers) as a moral obligation to bring their obviously superior…
Intelligence, Knowledge, and Self-Respect
Intelligence without ego-strength, a vibrant knowledge base containing various ideologies, and self-respect means little. It will largely mean you are a calculator, an emotional reactionary, or an eloquent parrot.
No One Owns a Culture
One may have preferences about culture. One may have affections for or aversions to a culture or particular elements of a culture. But such preferences do not entail any rights of ownership.
Where Would You Stop?
One of the querulous problems of today is the differential in wealth and opportunity between one human being and another. The richest man in the world, right now, is Jeff Bezos. Where should he stop acquiring wealth?
Rep(rehensible) Eric Swalwell
That congressvermin who said that if you think you should keep your guns to fight tyranny, it would be a short fight because the government has nukes… Yeah, he was probably “joking”. So? It shows how he “thinks”. It shows him as a government supremacist at the very least.
Feeling Progress vs. the Pride of Having Progressed
One of the healthiest feelings in the world is the feeling you get when you are growing toward a goal, toward unity, toward integrity, toward excellence, truth, and beauty. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is the feeling of having progressed. Choose the former.