A cautionary tale, and a plea for change “But are you strong enough now for a truly big fish?” —The Old Man and the Sea Have you ever had a Big Idea—an idea with the potential to transform the way people think about their society and culture? Imagine that you had such a Big … Continue reading "THE IDEA THAT GOT AWAY"| Thoughts of Stone
Is the USA in a Flight 93 situation? United Airlines flight 93 was the one that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11/01, instead of being flown into the US Capitol. The reason it crashed into a field in Pennsylvania was that a group of passengers, ordinary peace-loving Americans, put aside their fears … Continue reading "“IF WE DON’T, WE’LL DIE”"| Thoughts of Stone
The Right’s “sympathy for the devil” has weakened it at a crucial moment The sanctions against Russia—both the official economic sanctions and the unofficial, often petty-seeming sanctions such as banning Russian owners from cat shows—arguably represent the first great “geopolitical cancellation” of this new feminized era in the West. This cancellation obviously goes far … Continue reading "PUTIN AND THE FALL OF THE WEST"| Thoughts of Stone
The West’s—and the Right’s—shame World War II ended less than two decades before I was born, yet I’ve always felt that it belonged to much more distant age—set off from modern existence by its different ways of thinking and doing, different patterns of speech and dress, grander scale of horrors and heroism, even the … Continue reading "I STICK MY NECK OUT FOR NOBODY"| Thoughts of Stone
The influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women's rights.| Mother Jones
Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" is often cited as the progenitor of the censorious left, but its real ideological heirs are now on the right.| OUTSIDER THEORY
The ‘most feminist government’ in the history of Spain abandoned women, and Sunday's election doesn't look like it will change things. The post Spain’s leftist government may be renewed, leaving women’s rights behind appeared first on Feminist Current.| Feminist Current