“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
Our very thoroughly drunken Scottish friend recently posted up a long-form video essay, as it were, looking at a forgotten classic film from the early 1990s. It starred Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall, and was, for its time, considered to be shockingly violent. But...
I do not think anyone around here seriously argues against the view that the West is currently is a state of free-fall, and headed toward total collapse. While living standards in the West remain high by international standards – trust me on that one, I know...
The latest episode of the Didactic Mind podcast is back, finally, with a look at the collapsing Western empire. I discuss the ways in which the West is getting worse and worse – to the point where Western nations can barely figure out how to keep the lights on...
Now that the dust has settled from the Israeli strike on the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus, the Iranian response with drones and missiles, and the Israeli counterstrike with a drone attack on Iran, it is worth taking a step back to understand what happened,...
The Didactic Mind podcast is FINALLY back, after a long hiatus due to… well, sheer laziness, mostly, and a real lack of desire to talk about much of the craziness around us. Nonetheless, recent events in the West and Russia have made a podcast necessary to...
Exactly two years ago today, we all woke up to discover the Russian Federation, under the orders of President Vladimir Putin, had launched a powerful invasion of its much smaller neighbour, Ukraine. It was a dark and terrible day, one that I will forever remember...
This latest Domain Query comes by way of LRFotS Randale6, who asks a pertinent and germane question about the difference between natural and artificial, or “learned”, charisma, with examples provided as reference points: Didact, what are your...
The news has been streaming in since late last night that Ukraine’s military high command has ordered the full evacuation of the “Ukrainian” – that is to say, temporarily occupied – large township of Avdeevka, to the northwest of Donetsk...
As I pointed out shortly after it dropped, #BasedTucker’s interview with The Putin was a tremendous public service, which has now reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. Tucker Carlson has done what almost no one else could, or has ever even...
#BasedTucker’s interview with The Putin was, perhaps, the most highly anticipated video release of recent years. It dropped yesterday night, my time, and I finally managed to finish watching it this morning. The full interview is, as of this writing, still...
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