“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.”
In ancient Norse mythology – specifically, within the Heimskringla, written down in Old Norse by the legendary skald,Snorri Sturluson, some 800 years ago – there is a very interesting section about the Aesir-Vanir War. This epic conflict between the two “classes” of...
It is not an exaggeration to say that the global geopolitical scene is changing at a speed and with a violence that we have not seen since the early 1990s. In eras past, people were fortunate to see one landscape-changing redrawing of the global order in a lifetime,...
The Domain Query series is back, with a new episode inspired by a (lengthy) request from LRFotS Randale6, about how to achieve some degree of fiscal and geographical independence from the long, and increasingly corrupt and decrepit, arm of Uncle Shmuel: By...
For those of you paying attention to global politics at the moment, you may be at least vaguely aware of some sort of “peace summit” that will take place in Switzerland, starting tomorrow. The idea behind it was to gather various Western and Global South...
Fresh off the news that the FUSA has just launched a raft of new SANSHUNS!!!!, which inevitably will WERK REEL GUDDER ‘N’ SHIET!!!!!!!!, the Russians have responded with an almighty shrug of their shoulders. The Central Bank of Russia simply announced that...
As you may have noticed, it is getting harder to write about anything meaningful these days. The impetus really is not there. Things have become so insane, so out of control, that it seems almost pointless to comment on any of it. The “guilty” verdict...
For those of you who have been keeping up with the news around the Banderastan War, you will be aware that the FUSA has now officially authorised 404 to use American weapons to strike targets deep within Russia. This comes at around the same time as reports of some...
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...
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