Not Above the Laws: Supra-Naturalistic Egoism
Gold is unchangeable in the air and doesn't rust. “But the thing which confronts the worker has now become the true community, which he tries to make a meal of and which makes a meal of him.”
Bonapartism in John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success"
In Puritanical times, sport was under suspicion, and accepted only if it served a rational purpose, i.e. the recreation necessary for physical efficiency. How did such an ordinary man as John Wooden reach the highest pinnacle of competitive success in modern America and then stay there like Zeus? “There is no substitute for work.”
The Law of the Stronger Survives
It’s always very fashionable to preface economic treatises with talk of the general conditions of production that promote commodity-making in general to a larger or smaller degree, as with Adam Smith’s progressive and stagnant states of society.
Drowning in the Ideology of Debt: The Right to Property
In large-scale industry and competition the entire mass of conditions of existence, limitations, biases of individuals, are fused together. Lukács: “Philosophical terrorism frightens off the materialism of natural scientists and prevents them from thinking through the conclusions that follow from their own discoveries.”
Is North America Still the Country of the Future?
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said that “the French Republic is no more in need of recognition than the sun is.” As norteños that really is enough to occupy our attention.
