Just as in most other Western nations right now, the centre-right political party here in Australia, called the Liberal Party, is going through an existential crisis. That crisis is particularly relevant because the Liberal Party was founded in 1944, and the demons that beset the party are very largely the same ones threatening the entire post-war paradigm at the moment. | simonsheridan.me
Just as in most other Western nations right now, the centre-right political party here in Australia, called the Liberal Party, is going through an existential crisis. That crisis is particularly relevant because the Liberal Party was founded in 1944, and the demons that beset the party are very largely the same ones threatening the entire … Continue reading "Robert Menzies’ Education System"| Simon Sheridan
I’m prepared to be wrong, but my present best guess is that the “AI” bubble has now reached its peak and is about to unwind. It’s not out of the question that this will trigger a GFC-like financial crisis given the stupendous amounts of money that have been poured into it. If so, the underlying … Continue reading "Could “AI” end the post-industrial economy?"| Simon Sheridan
Recently, I stumbled across the following line on my internet travels: | Simon Sheridan
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
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
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