The philosophical and historical roots of the present insanity, from Doug “Uncola” Lynn at theburningplatform.com:

I believe people are as they think. The choice we make in the next decade will mold irrevocably the direction of our culture… and the lives of our children.
– Author and theologian Francis A. Schaeffer in 1976
The picture at the top of this article shows one of America’s founding fathers according to Google’s Gemini image generation tool. Pursuant to complaints about the blatant inaccuracy and the ensuing maelstrom of negative press coverage, Google claimed it was “actively working on a fix”. Nonetheless, there remain claims that Google is “not telling the truth” and the company will never give up on its “desire to reshape the world in a specific way”.
Indeed. It appears artificial intelligence, woke relativism, and Orwell’s “two plus two equaling five” are here to stay. And the “memory hole” first conjured by Orwell has increasingly manifested in The Borg’s nearly completed Simulacrum – as misinformation, false flags, and propaganda daily populate our collective screens.
With that in mind, amid the absurdity of Western culture in the twenty-first century, I will often seek credible information and insights where they are more surely found: in the printed past, and by the words of authors and researchers mostly forgotten.
Having written previously on the prescient prognostications of twentieth-century thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Augusto Del Noce, another book was recommended by a commenter in the thread of my last article. The book was said to have predicted the decline of empirical science, the rise of technological science, and a frightening future.
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This is excellent. Thank you.
Some great French philosopher said everything has been figured out except how to live.
Another one said that hell is other people.
Dante would love a Mob Rule chapter of the Inferno?
Underrated Saturday HBO NYC matinee with Hostile Waters featuring Rutger Hauer and Martin Sheen as boomer Skippers, be of good cheer the Magic Soil will produce a Fani-Fetterman faculty lounge brain trust for the next Cuban missile crisis.
Nikita is banging out we will Barry you to a hip hop beat.
More fun than Marilyn Mozzarella and heavier than the weight of Tittanica that is Clown World.