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[Contains spoilers for Blindsight (Oct 2006), Nightflyers (1980), and The Thousandfold Thought (Jan 2006)] So, I was reading Blindsight the other day, and guess what it reminded me of? Neuropath? No – I mean yes, that too – but there’s a much earlier book with much more direct similarities. Twilight? No! Nightflyers! The TV show?Continue reading “Amazing Grace”

[Contains spoilers for The Thousandfold Thought (many), and The Judging Eye (a few).] I. Everyone wants things. Many of these things are mutually incompatible. Given this fact, what determines who succeeds in getting what they want, and who fails? The answer is that the one succeeds who has the most power, almost by definition. PowerContinue reading “Love is a Burning Thing”

[Contains spoilers for Billy Budd, Atlas Shrugged, and The Thousandfold Thought.] This short story by Herman Melville is about a young sailor, Billy Budd, who is impressed into the British Royal Navy. He was quite popular on the merchant vessel where he was previously employed, and his good-natured personality lets him adapt to life onContinue reading “Book Review: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd”

[Contains spoilers for the Ancillary series and Atlas Shrugged.] Let us begin with the Amazon summary for the first novel in the series, Ancillary Justice (not quite where I began, but close enough). Ignoring the part where other people praise the book, and the filler only there to build suspense, the plot summary boils downContinue reading “Book Review: Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Series”

[Contains spoilers for The Thousandfold Thought.] In response to Coronahell, the US government instituted two main rules (besides the lockdowns, which at least in the US, have mostly ended). These rules are: 1. Mask requirements 2. Face-to-face meeting limitations The stated purpose of these rules is to prevent the spread of disease. But assume, forContinue reading “We Are All Ainoni Now”

[Contains spoilers for Philosophy in the Bedroom, Atlas Shrugged, and The Thousandfold Thought.] In case you didn’t get it from the title, this is a book review of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom. All quotes are from the Seaver and Wainhouse translation. I. How much of Socrates’ success was actually due toContinue reading “Yet Another Effort, Libertines, If You Would Become Philosophers”

I. A historian, a psychologist, a biologist, and a business student walk into a bar. They find Mother Nature already sitting at the counter, reading. They’re all joyously surprised to see her, and eager to show off to her their superior understanding of Natural Law and their practice of its tenets in their lives. TheContinue reading “Trampling Out the Vintage Where the Natural Law Is Stored”

[Contains spoilers for White Fragility and Atlas Shrugged.] I. It is a timeless story: one woman, alone in her awakening in the midst of sleeping lemmings, opens her eyes to gaze upon the true nature of the society she finds herself in – and sees something she wasn’t expecting, something she wasn’t supposed to see.Continue reading “Book Review: Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility”

In light of recent events, I find it is necessary to put in my word on that subject which so enthralls the current imagination. Long have I kept my silence, but at this point I feel compelled to give some comment upon that most burning question of our times – that is, of course: “Do angels have government?”

Consider the quote:

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Such an august authority as James Madison himself cannot be doubted. But does this then mean, that angels necessarily have no government? By no means!