The Left Are Throwing Everything They’ve Got in the Counter-Attack to 2016. Andrew Breitbart coined the dictum that politics is downstream from culture. The left might sneer at Breitbart for being a wicked conservative who founded the right-wing nutjob fake news hub that bears his name (conveniently forgetting, of course, that he also co-founded the …
Victoria’s Descent into Medically-Induced Tyranny
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” - W. B. Yeats Daniel Andrews is using the Wuhan plague to plunge Victoria into a police state. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Photoshop: Lushington Brady I have often wondered what it must be like to watch from the sidelines as a society descends …
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Illuminatus!
Or How the Law of Five Inoculated Me against Conspiracy Theories The Great Seal of the United States: a case of the Illuminati hiding in plain sight. A Devil's Curmudgeon. It’s an old cliche that’s no less accurate for being hackneyed that the books that most profoundly affect us in adolescence, like the music we …
The Lies of Black Lives Matter
They Can’t Handle You Knowing the Truth. Black Lives Matter is the biggest, dumbest, most vicious conspiracy theory since the Tsarist secret police faked up the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its entire narrative is, as Jim Goad writes, “moored in lies and rampaging innumeracy”. It’s paramount, of course, to distinguish at the outset …
Humans Really Are That Important
We Think, Therefore We Matter. “If the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than what kills him” - Blaise Pascal. I have previously examined the contradiction at the heart of environmentalism: the denial that humans are in any way unique. The idea that humans aren’t that special is a fashionable one. …
The Contradiction of Environmentalism
Are humans the crown of creation, or just another animal? It seems to me that there is an unresolved contradiction at the heart of environmentalism: are humans special, or not? That may seem like a pretty basic question, but from it there flows a raft of challenges to environmentalist thinking. If humans aren’t special, then …
Is It Time to Spit on Teachers?
Child Abusing Chalkies Escape Public Scrutiny. Teachers are more likely to be pedophiles than priests are - so why aren't they held in the same contempt? A Devil's Curmudgeon. A generation or so ago in Ireland, a priest was a figure of respect, if not awe. Not any more. Priests have become publicly reviled in …
Even Viruses Are Racist Now
Why Think, When You Can Blame Everything on “Racism”? In a classic The Simpsons episode, Lucy Lawless hand-waves away every plot hole in Xena: Warrior Princess with the flippant excuse, “A wizard did it”. Every objection is shouted down with, “Wizard!” “Racism” is the “Wizard did it” of the left. As Thomas Sowell observes, in …
On Statues: A Reply
Ignorant vandalism has no place in civil society. Spot the Difference. L-R: Communists in Spain, Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution; Marxist vigilantes today. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Insight writer Chris Trotter caused quite a stir last week, when he wrote in defense of the sudden, violent craze for destroying statues. Particularly galling to many readers, …
What Should We Cancel Next?
Due to their racist, imperialist, homophobic past, all of these have to go. A Devil's Curmudgeon. We Must Erase EVERYTHING “Problematic” to Achieve Social Justice. Like all bullies, continually giving in to the Cancel Culture inquisitors does nothing to satisfy their lust for power. On the contrary, the more they get away with, the greater …
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