There is much talk and many words being spoken or written about elites, those who are destroying what was once good in the West and who have concentrated much wealth in their hands. These are the famous 1% or even 0.1% or still smaller groups of the ultra-wealthy and ultra-powerful. Some serious thinkers in academia … [Read more…]
For nearly 30 years, I’ve been writing novels and nonfiction, having sacrificed much of a chance of a good life of the normal sort, largely while deluding myself that some modest, or even substantial, financial rewards were coming in six months or, at worst, a year. Though I had personal problems and inclinations that led … [Read more…]
I might be adding 1 to 1 and getting 5, but… In recent years, I’ve been reading a bit about human ancestry, especially that of those peoples with languages and cultures and at least some substantial amount of genes which came from some (proto-)Indo-European people. These peoples include Europeans, Iranians, northern Asiatic Indians, and some … [Read more…]
I take knowledge seriously. I take seriously the problems we human beings have in gaining data, checking it, putting it into some sort of shape where it can be considered information and maybe even knowledge. After all, we human beings as individuals and communities are finite creatures biased to survival and reproduction; our individual and … [Read more…]