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“The average human is a fallen animal. And all animals are driven by instinct. Thus man being in a of state laziness or prolonged mediocrity is at the hands of idol temptations. A most dangerous affair.” P. Christopher Shelton Modernity denies man his inborn duty of adventure. Indeed, men grow soft in their long periods
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Painting: The Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell) by Eugène Delacroix, 1822. “Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.” – Murray Rothbard With the advent of the handheld computer, everyone thinks himself a doctor, physicist or
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Painting: Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens, 1610. A world classic. The Golden Bough” describes our ancestors’ primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is
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Painting: Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer. “He who hath always much-indulged himself, sicketh at last by his much indulgence praises on what maketh hardy!…This hardiness is needed by all mountain-climbers” – Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche A society that lacks an enemy will inevitably turn inward and begin
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Painting: Pavel Bryullov – Spring “Our blustering civilization has completely robbed us of a concentrated inner life, dragged our souls out into a bazaar, whether of commerce or of party politics.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A politically “progressive” atmosphere is transformative to the artist because this means he is confined to the straight jacket of approved language and motions. Therefore, it is my assertion that the true artist can never be
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Pigrum quin immo et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare. At the heart of any civilization is how its citizens can conduct themselves within financially praxeological means. Indeed, it has always been the case that the more access to the marketplace one has the more liberty he also holds. It is in this context that we can begin to draw the
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Several months ago, I became aware of a book entitled, “Unrestricted Warfare” written by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, a highly influential major general and a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army. When divulging to people that I had ordered this book and that they should too, I was greeted with a look like
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Over the course of the last few years, the concept of ideology and ideologues has become a topic of much interest. To lay the groundwork, let us establish what ideology is and what it can become. Ideology can be easily defined as a set of somewhat coherent but not always rational, belief systems that a
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“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
The Fountainhead 