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Mark Avis
The ideology of Wokeism makes a fetish of the victimisation of minorities, ensuring a perpetual victim culture for the benefit of the ideologues...
The Light and Silence of the Room touches on considerations of Christian theology, inspired by the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov...
In Defence of Death, part two, is the continuation of an essay with the same title. It explains why we need religion to build...
The British and Western values that we have inherited and which have created such a tremendous civilisation are once more under attack. Radical Left-wing...
Philosophical meditations from the month of April 2022, touching on nihilism, faith, loss of faith, Satre's view on God and the duty of intellectuals,...
The Western far-Left's radicalism (the actions of the neo-communists (Woke), neo meaning the added element of race supremacy) is creating a new brand of...
God is dead. So we were told. Nature is dying. So we are told. Communities are vanishing. So we are told. Where then can...
A bilingual article in English and Romanian which aims to shed light on these concepts four concepts: nation, state, nationalism and patriotism | Un...
The essay explores the meaning of the Cross within the theological framework of Easter, in a philosophical, psychological and social way, stressing three meanings...
A short story inspired by the songs of Leonard Cohen and the paintings of Edward Hopper, of love and loneliness in the era of...
A bill is before the New Zealand parliament that proposes that the Rotorua district will have an ethnically divided electoral system...
It is very dangerous for a society to be blind to its dark side. As such, reading "dangerous" books like Mein Kampf, The Communist...
What does it mean to belong to a nation? How did God create us? Such questions and more are explored in this month's philosophical...
mmartija
A guest post from an American delivery driver who loves and wants freedom...
Isaiah Berlin stressed that the Russian authors were primarily concerned with moral questions. This case study provides an insight into the moral questions related...
How will the world look after the Ukranian invasion is over? This is an essential question we need to ask ourselves...
"...it is life that scares me…it terrifies me. So long and troubling only to end so quickly and bizarrely..."
This is an essay on moral relativism and its link to nihilism. “Can slavery be good?”, “Is human experimentation good or evil?”, “Is rape...
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"This is the nature of language; we become what we speak. And if we speak in meaningless idioms and expressions, our minds become feeble...
Leaving aside the irrational political extremes, the majority of people in the West, as they proved during the pandemic, are sane and want to...
The Russia - Ukraine war is full of propaganda, as any war is. As such, it is crucial to be able to think rationally...
A brief report onr religious persecution under communism in Eastern Europe. The publication includes a summarised but important context about the philosophical origins of...
Philosophical reflections for the month of February 2022. “In the darkness of my heart, I have found the mercy of Light”...
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has sent all of us in the West a clear message: Wake up! Wake up from our comfortable, delusional slumber...
This publication looks at how Critical Race Theory (CRT) is used to reshape the Western mind, in the light of the re-education process under...
A short story about war, depicting the speech of the general and the vision of Christ that he has before charging into battle...
The Experiment from Pitesti was a brutal example of Marxist re-education under the communist regime of Romania. It provides important lessons for us today...
"We should be brothers and sisters, united by the moment of death, rather than standing divided, trembling in fear and greed. Look up at...
A report from Ottawa, Canada. The truckers are protesting government mandates and want a return to more freedom. The media and politicians have portrayed...
Here are five essays on the most destructive ideology ever to be created, an ideology that diefies man and enables perpetual devastation for the...
Do you believe in equality is the stupidest question of my generation because equality is almost never defined. What does it mean to believe...
"...if existence would end when I am with you, I would feel no fear but an immense joy and overwhelming pride that I, Octavian,...
The Chinese Communist Party’s Censorship and Surveillance Apparatus involves a wide range of tools and goes far beyond national borders...
In a conversation with Jordan Peterson, Stephen Fry focused on the issue with suffering and God, stating that like Ivan Karamazov he rejects God's...
Why global corporations back this Marxist organisation that has delivered chaos and propaganda in an attempt to divide the people?
The first philosophical journal for 2020, touching on matters of morality, the wrong of the Right and the illegitimacy of the Left...
ESG investing is political. But this is not the real issue with this approach to capital allocation. Rather, the problem is that ESG...
"[...] in that unusual calm, surrounded by stillness, Emil understood what the words of the greatest philosophers and of the holiest monks could not...
Establishment of Communist Regimes in the 20th Century was done through force and violence and not via a free, democratic vote. Download a PDF...
Can the Western civilisation be secular? Can religion and God be replaced by manmade alternatives like humanism and socialism? This essay traces the recent...
Orwell noted in 1944 that English intellectuals rejected Hitler at the cost of accepting Stalin. Hitler remains a symbol of evil and justly so....
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was written by Japanese author Yukio Mishima in 1956, a few years after Kinkakuji was burnt down by...
Those who sell themselves to please the fashionable ways of the world shall find a fate worse than death for they shall have no...
"To return to the glory of risk, pain and death is no longer possible for the modern human...". Philosophical musings, December 2021...
Veronica, a prostitute, meets her high school love in the staircase of a Soviet-looking apartment bloc. They talk about love, evil and freedom under...
Looking for like-minded individuals to produce content on topics that matter and touch upon: history, theology, economics, art and more...
How does the CCP treat its citizens and the neighbouring areas? Is the "economic miracle" really a miracle? These are some of the questions...
"[...] I will never forgive those who sold out love for their mortality." Cherry Blossom is a short story about a man mourning the...
The Aftermath of Tiananmen Square 1989 massacre left immediate and long-term scars on China and the world...
A priest of the Oxford Blackfriars is asked by a young man for his inspiration about the moving words during a sermon: Nihil Sine...
This is a review of Yukio Mishima's book, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. I have never encountered a more sublime...
"[...] when two lines of martial law troops drove their tanks from either side into the square, they were going well over 60 miles...
The star shines again, but the dead remain dead. A short story of war and loss, painted with words of aesthetic significance...
The context in which he Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 must be viewed: China has over 100 years of history of pro-freedom protests...
The last days of shepherds were upon the world. A new dawn had arrived, a new civilisation built on illusions and emptiness had spawned...
Today I am launching a new page of this website, part of the Project 1989. As the title of this blog suggests, the page...
“It is often those who dwell in the darkest abyss that can shine the brightest light.” Philosophical reflections during the month of November in...
Mr. Abramović died his apartment in Zagreb. The police officers find his body and next to his bed a note on which the deceased’s...
A soldier and his wife are saying their goodbyes before he will leave for war, during the turbulent years of 1940s...
Helena, twelve years old, is a blind girl who wants to know what colours are. But how can we explain what colours are to...
A review of Fear and Loathing in Aspen, a drama-documentary which follows Hunter S. Thompson's campaign for the sheriff of Aspen in 1970. It...
Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, "Lucifer, old friend", is a story of man and angel discussing God's love for his creation after the Apocalypse....
The interesting birth of Japanese butoh dance, its link to Yukio Mishima's work and the important role of tradition in maintaining alive our unique...
As humanity approaches a new age of space exploration, this essay argues that reason, imagination and intuition are not enough for us to explore...
In the darkness of the far future, only war awaits us. A war with our own creations, with our children, with the machines that...
“Between feeling nothing and feeling something, even terrorising pain to the point of fainting, I choose the latter. This is the essence of human...
"Grimes might have made an innocent joke that attracted the attention of newspapers and the social media crowds, but the prank was an echo...
"...I am tired now and cancer is eating my lungs. I thought you should know that you died in vain on that cold and...
The quality par excellence of the last man is equality: all of the last men are equal in their miserable mediocrity and cowardness...
"We worked tirelessly towards achieving sustainability. Equality, love and peace. Colourful days and smiles on people’s faces. Candies and nukes..."
"Erebus has devoured the bird and with it the entire history of the old world of angelic chants and barbaric faith in the limits...
Exergy is the key concept for understanding the current energy crisis and the ones that will follow. However, the mainstream analysis does not account...
"I must leave this room, this city, this earth and fall deep beneath the abyss of my own soul. I need wine for the...
"I want to drown in philosophy, but only in the philosophy of a few minds, of those who understood that there is nothing worthy...
This is the best non-satirical political satire you’ll ever read: the story of Joseph Stalin the university professor, not the communist dictator...
In this essay, we will look at the complex underlying forces of inflation. The analysis focuses on Psychological factors and Non-Psychological factors (Monetary and...
It is 1776. Old school Japan. A woman faces the death of her lover, a samurai buried under a tree in the middle of...
Evergrande’s liquidity problems are a symptom of a much bigger issue that China is facing: how to deal with its high level of debt...
We are now like stray animals, retrogressed from primeval men, lurking in nothingness. Days, trapped between what it was and what it will be......
Elisabeta Rizea was tortured and put in prison by the communists for her political views. “They hanged me by my hair from a hook...
August’s philosophical diary brings ideas on socialism, soulmates, destinity and fate, criticism and more...
A vignette in a lost roll of film. Its margins are narrowed by black fog. Nothing peers through it, nothing escapes it. A short...
Roger Scruton FBA FRSL (1944-2020) was a writer and philosopher who published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics, and politics...
Abstraction is a mighty tool to explore reality as life imitates art. A short story about time, identity and imagination...
Three actors discuss the past on a street in LA in 1992 under a patch of pine trees. Los Angeles Pine Trees is a...
July's philosophical diary brings ideas on the group and community, possession of things, reason, morality and death...
A short story about two gay lovers discussing truth, reason and intution...
“Wild and free”, “wild nature”, “into the wild”, “wild spirit”, “wild animal”, wilderness [...] a world of overwhelming beauty that deeply speaks to each...
It may not seem like much but naming your child with a name that has a story that inspires, a name which fits their...
June's philosophical diary contains thoughts on nihilism, history, romanticism and whether ideas are dangerous or not...
"The duty of an anti-establishment movement is to keep opposing whatever the status quo is: there is never a settling down with the current...
"...no civilisation can hide the truth forever: it is in the inevitable collapse of all civilisations that humanity should celebrate its achievements for then...
As long as democracy functions, we should look to preserve and use all the mechanisms it offers to change those in position of power...
Loneliness is wide spread in the modern world, affecting men and women of all ages. Despite having a lot more than any other civilisation,...
Effective propaganda doesn’t use big lies because there is the risk of people discovering that they have been lied to...
Philosophical thoughts during March of 2021. On the future, chaos and order...
This is the first article in a series of three that depict how the communists in Romania plotted and attempted to destroy the Catholic,...
"Beauty helps us transcend the human condition, opening the doors of an unlimited and universal world of here and now"...
"The torture left scars on their skin and a deep, bleeding wound in their souls. Because they knew that pain and fear were real,...
This is the second blog in a series of three, detailing the horrors suffered by 1,000 students at the hands of the communist regime...
Philosophical Diary – February 2021: "Aiming to change the world for the better, whatever that means, is severe delusion".
This experiment was started by the communists in the name of “liberating the people”, but it was nothing but the slaughter of innocent young...
Philosophical Diary - January 2021. Thoughts and reflections from the first month of this year. All ideas are my own.
"The prisoners spent three years in that labour camp. The only way to survive that was to accept that there was a higher power...
This article is a continuation of "The Arrest", which you can read in the Project 1989 page, The Stolen Church: 16 Years of Detention....
Alexandru Ratiu was arrested on 29 October 1948. He spent 16 years in the communist prisons and gulags in Romania. This is the first...
A review of On The Silver Globe by Polish movie director Andrzej Żuławski. Vice called the movie "the best Sci-Fi movie never made". It...
A collection of photos that celebrate how twilight beams fall on buildings in Chelsea and South Kensington...
Because I did not diversify my investments well, I lost £10,000. While the sum may not seem that much, it represented about 50% of...
Orville Peck - the masked cowboy in glamorous clothes - is a rising country music star. This is a review of his work so...
This is a short romantic story, unfolding on a balcony in California at the edge of the infinite, where all ends and begins at...
Here are my five short lessons I took from 2020. I hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.
What you need to stay or get fit without a gym: the equipment, nutrition plan and training routine I use when training from my...
Ten of the best free blogs, newsletters and podcasts for investors that can help with research of current and future opportunities.
A short review of Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb, a documentary that follows Hunter S. Thompson's campaign for the sheriff of Aspen...
Should you consider moving to London in 2021? In this blog, I want to provide you with a personalised overview of what is like...
How do you figure out what a business may be worth in order to deduce if the price is the right one? In answering...
With my physical disabilities, I shouldn't be going to the gym. But I am. I found ways to work around these limitations. This mindset...
“What the day owes the night”, screened by French director Alexandre Arcady, is based on a story written by Algerian author, Yasmina Khadra. The...
The individual is the most important unit in society. Without the individual, our civilisation cannot exist. As such, defending...
Conspiracies are not new phenomena – they have existed for centuries and touch on every aspect of society, from sciences to religion...
The Hydra is an ancient concept, charged with all the fears and frustrations that are wired in us as creatures of stability, order and...
We burn ourselves to hell for the future, and the hippies saw that. Congratulations to us on our evolutionary advantage over everything except ourselves.
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The notion of investment return, quantifiable and financial, is in dire need for reform. It has become too rigid...
A review of one of the greatest movies ever made, which celebrates the squalor and beauty of human life. La Grande Bellezza is a...
“Meaning is meaningless to me. I do not care for symbolism and I paint what I paint without meditating on a story.” Zdzisław Beksiński...
Money is the nervous system of the world’s socio-economic order. But there are money for the real economy and then money for the financial...
Is there a need for tomorrow? In other words, is there a need for us human beings to act on this driver to “progress”?...
"Trust is a fundamental element of social capital – a key contributor to sustaining well-being outcomes, including economic development."
In this essay, I explore the differences between economic growth and economic development. Focusing on development rather than growth is better over the long-term.
The key forces that will put a limit on just how accomodative monetary policy can go (and for how long) are a) inflation and...
In part I, we looked at the role of innovation in driving economic productivity. This essay is a continuation of that discussion. It assesses...
Productivity is the most important long-term driver of economic prosperity. However, for the past several decades, it has been declining across the world...
“The determinants of economic health are timeless and universal” – Ray Dalio, How the Economic Machine Works
Decades of unproductive monetary [and fiscal] policies have encouraged tremendous misallocation of capital, as evidenced by an estimated underinvestment gap of c.$400trn in the...
