Category Archives: social sciences

Rape and Mythology (Updated)

Perhaps the most disturbing part of modern mythology is about rape. First, let’s review the basics. We have a certain amount of our human nature which is hard-wired from Creation. Further, the curse of the Fall adds some other features. … Continue reading

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Justice over Rights

You have no rights. The fantasy of rights comes chiefly from Germanic cultural mythology. Originally, it was more a matter of the rights of nobles and royalty, issues for which there would be no accountability to anyone else. This was … Continue reading

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We Get Stories

What can you believe? Steve Quayle and a handful of echoes are telling some wild story about Chinese troops, or at least Chinese forward battle equipment storage, just south of Laredo, Texas. Supposedly a truck driver delivered a load of … Continue reading

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Battling Your Boys

Review the fundamentals: We have a huge layer of mixed cultural mythology, running against a hidden undercurrent of predation taking advantage of the buried facts. Then, off in another realm entirely is the actual truth of hard-wired human nature. The … Continue reading

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The Trauma of Teenage Daughters

Humans are more instinctive, hard-wired, than most folks are prepared to admit. America in particular suffers from social schizophrenia about human nature. On the surface, we have a broad cultural mythology. Since it comes in several flavors, most people see … Continue reading

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BYOC

Bring your own conclusions. All I have are questions and some tentative answers, plus plenty of additional information folks try to hide. To me it’s more important we dig up the stuff everyone is trying to hide. Claim and counterclaim: … Continue reading

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Management: Delphi Politics (Updated)

Good evening, readers. Tonight’s lesson falls under the headings of Organizational Theory and Systems Analysis. (I offer a Christian spiritual version of this same material on my other blog. Edit: that blog has been shut down.) Every collection of humans … Continue reading

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Manhood and Intimidation

We are all on the path, and I would hope I’m not the same man I was even a week ago. To be human is to be variable. It does no good to envision truth and reality as somehow objective, … Continue reading

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Post-Victorian Feminist Mythology

Misty asked me to expand on the idea of Post-Victorian Feminist mythology. Victorian Literature and the underlying cultural assumptions are the core mythology behind current Western Feminist orthodoxy. Most people who’ve read much in English Literature are familiar with the … Continue reading

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Game and Lasting Satisfaction

Most people really don’t know what to look for, because they don’t know what’s possible. There’s no accounting for some people’s taste. As my wife and I walked into the supermarket today, a very attractive young mom (kids in tow) … Continue reading

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