In last week’s post, I referred to what I call the Dogma of Money as one of the three main drivers of modern Western civilisation and its reign of quantity (as Rene Guenon termed it). It’s worth expanding on this idea somewhat because many of the enormous problems facing society at the moment revolve around … Continue reading "Monetising Everything"| Simon Sheridan
The current status of Western civilisation is that we have absolutely no idea what we’re doing, but we’re certain that we must do more of it, and faster. You almost get the impression that the lust for speed is there to prevent a moment of reflection occurring in which the question “why?” was answered by nothing more than silence.| Simon Sheridan
I’d never seen any of Charlie Kirk’s work prior to this week, but, I suspect like many people, I decided to check it out following his assassination. So, I did a search for Kirk’s name in YouTube and scrolled through the list of videos. It won’t surprise long-term readers to learn that the one which … Continue reading "The Dogma of the Oppressed"| Simon Sheridan
Life intervened this week, and I haven’t had time to write the post I thought I was going to write. Instead, I thought I would jot down some brief thoughts about the three Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity, which is in line with the New Testament theme I’ve been exploring the past couple … Continue reading "Faith, hope, and charity"| Simon Sheridan
It is one of the seeming paradoxes of modern Western culture that never before have there been so many stories told, and never before have we taken stories less seriously. Of course, in some sense, the economic law of supply and demand explains this. When supply increases but demand stays fixed, the price goes down. The more stories told, the less value they have. To change the metaphor, it’s like the nutritional content of food were to drop the more you ate. You would keep eating, trying t...| Simon Sheridan
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16| simonsheridan.me
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16| Simon Sheridan
Non-Fiction| simonsheridan.me
If you’d told me a year ago that I was going to write a book about Nietzsche and Wagner, I’d have said you were mad. I stumbled ass-backwards into the whole concept about nine months ago when I realised a correspondence between Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamzov and Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal. Thinking that I’d finally cracked the code of Parsifal (famously Wagner’s most difficult story), I remembered that Nietzsche had hated the opera and went back to see what he wrote ...| Simon Sheridan
Humans have a cognitive bias for linear functions. One of the ways in which this manifests is that we expect the magnitude of the cause and the magnitude of the effect to be equal. This expectation works well in everyday situations. If you throw a rock, the more effort you put into the throw, the further the rock will travel. The larger the rock, the heavier you expect it to weigh etc. Linear functions, or at least what we perceive us as linear functions, form the basis for everyday life....| Simon Sheridan
I had intended to continue releasing excerpts from my upcoming book for the next few weeks, but this idea has been derailed since I’ve had to do a fairly significant re-write of the opening chapters on account of the fact that the book refused to end in the manner which I expected. Given this will be my ninth innings, I really should know by now that a book is not over until the fat lady sings, and she has a habit of belting out a different tune to the one in my head. In any case, this is a...| Simon Sheridan
It’s one of those synchronicities that happens to me quite regularly that just after I had finished writing my blog post from about a month ago explaining why we are in the middle of a period of mass inflation that is not counted by the official statistics, I stumbled across a news story which suddenly made clear exactly why the government is lying about inflation. The lies are not just the usual propaganda that greases the wheels of politics. There’s something much more fundamental going...| Simon Sheridan