Sublime

counter-Enlightenment credo of that clutch of related concepts—degrowth, anti-consumerism, catastrophism, technophobia, localism and small-is-beautiful limits—that so dominates in contemporary culture.

The term “racist” has many meanings, ranging from “someone who regards certain races as inherently inferior” all the way through to “someone who happens to be against progressivism.”

More fundamentally, the War is doomed because neither the methods of war nor the war metaphor itself is appropriate to a complex social problem that calls for compassion, self-searching insight and factually researched scientific understanding. The pertinent question is not why the War on Drugs is being lost, but why it continues to be waged in the

if you even try to make an effective critique of communism, Republicans will call you an anti-Semite just because you’re criticizing Jews so frequently.

It is ironic, given the injustices of humanistic law, that men declare God’s law to be “barbaric” and “primitive” and affirm the validity of modern humanistic law. Greek law was brutal towards all save the limited number of elite, and Greek society was a slave society in which the elite few regarded their will as justice. The idealization of the

Criticism culture attacks the idea while cancel culture attacks the person

Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.