Saturday, July 11, 2026

Reflections LXIX - Tabulating Thought

 Sometimes I think that the story of history is a tale of recovery from bad ideas implemented.

Every leader given enough time will come crashing down from their pedestal.

The function of bureaucracy in the modern state is to protect the power structure from radical change and thereby circumvent reform. Democracy is the illusion sold to the public that the change is possible.

The best way to violate people’s rights, and do so with their consent, is to rebrand it under the labels of safety and security. The Covid lockdowns typified this.

The greatest apocalyptic threat isn’t war, famine or disease but the embrace of bad ideas by the population who have been coerced to forgo common sense.

Marvel Comics consistently blurred the line between Science and Magic in its narratives (look at the origin stories of Spider-Man and the mythical basis of Thor). Over time the distinction became indecipherable7 until the writers were given no choice but to rescue themselves with alternative universes. By that time it was too late. Credibility had collapsed.

The fertile ground for Islamism in the west is the post modernist platform that has elevated indifference into the zeitgeist of the liberal democracies.

The agenda of the elites has always been about the control of information. Artificial Intelligence is merely the latest phase in the application of this philosophy.

Christianity would never have enjoyed the success it has had without its skillful manipulation of pagan iconography.


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