Tagged: culture

In Pursuit of Utopia #4: “Common Sense”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-4-common-sense/: Today we take a look at the aims and ideals of the American and French revolutions as well as the results. How’d they go? France quickly descended into headlessness, and the USA...

In Pursuit of Utopia #1: “From the Top Down”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-the-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-one-from-the-top-down/: This is the pilot episode in a new monthly historical series with Daniel McCarthy. Danny is a 24-year-old SSP listener, blogger and researcher, and the author of an upcoming book on the...

Destroy the Mad Brute, Part 2: The Rulers of Men

“As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, and hides the ruin that it feeds upon, so Sophistry cleaves close to and protects sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its defects.” -William Cowper,The Progress of Error...

Mystery Babylon: The World According to Bill Cooper

***While I am not in the business of disclaimers, as I respect my humble reading audience enough to presume that they understand that great rarity of our age, nuance (the devil is in the...

The Importance of Myth: A Preface to Plato

All cultures that I am aware of are laden with myths. In his best-known work, the old philosopher Plato argued that the rulers of the ideal society would contrive myths to encourage perfect public...