Apr 10, 2010

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Paranormal Activity

I recently watched the 2009 film, Paranormal Activity. This is a haunted house horror film that employs a hyperrealist approach reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project, where the actors do their own filming using a digital video camera, the acting is virtually improvised, and the result is presented as “found footage.”The story is simple: a twenty-something suburban couple,...

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Mar 23, 2010

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Acéphale

The Headless Monster of “Modern” MasculinityIn 1936, while staying at the coastal village of Tossa de Mar with artist André Masson, George Bataille envisioned the Acéphale, pictured above. The Acéphale was a headless monster who symbolized man’s rejection of hierarchy and God and his escape from the boredom of civilization into a life lost to the pursuit...

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Nov 20, 2009

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Twilight: New Moon Doesn’t Suck

The news is: the movie of New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, doesn’t suck—in the vulgar, colloquial, non-vampire sense of the word—although all the signs were certainly there.First, the book of New Moon is terrible: nearly 600 pages of pedestrian prose, glacially paced, padded to excruciating lengths not with fluff, but with damp, insipid,...

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Oct 26, 2009

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Straw Dogs

I have suggested in previous articles, as well as in my dystopian novel, Mister, that the longer we allow our enemies to carry on as they are, the harsher the measures that will be required to extricate ourselves from the present mess.This is not a profound insight; it is something every schoolboy learns in the playground. When a challenge is allowed to pass without a forceful...

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Aug 27, 2009

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Edgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative

From The Brussels Journal, August27, 2009Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics: strangled by political correctness and by contempt for form and etiquette, it eats away like acid at what remains of courtesy and memory.  But the past of popular culture – in literature and the movies – has much nourishment to offer.  One of the most popular authors...

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Aug 15, 2009

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The Last Sane Nation

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in Chinaby Frank DiKötterNew York: Columbia University Press, 1998Francis Galton said that the first country to undertake a dedicated program of eugenics would conquer the world.  It shouldn’t be surprising that a country ruled by the most intelligent race in the world would realize that he was right. ...

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Aug 7, 2009

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They Don’t Make Them Like they Used To

From The Occidental Observer, August 6, 2009On occasion of my 39th birthday, my wife organized a holiday in the Lake District in Cumbria, in the North East of England. While there we visited England’s Pencil Museum, where we learnt much about the invention and manufacture of the pencil, a tool that spawned a huge industry in the region during the Victorian era. One of the...

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Jul 19, 2009

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Feminism and the Destruction of the West, Part II

My goal isn’t to depress my readers.  However, I feel the need to share some thoughts I’ve had as a result of reading Roissy’s blog. I thought  I was pretty tough for believing in eugenics and a meaningless universe but some of his insights are hard even for me to swallow, and not because of lack of real world evidence.  Take this post about a 64 year-old serial killer who...

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Jul 18, 2009

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Feminism and the Destruction of the West

The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Societyby Steve MoxonCharlottesville, Va.: Imprint Academic, 2008 Most of my readers would agree that the West’s modern political correctness regarding race and gender is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has given any thought to human nature and its evolutionary source.  So the...

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Jun 6, 2009

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Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West.The Dark Side of the SunSince World War II, the West has forgotten the Shadow soul of...

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