The State of Politics in the West Table of Contents Introduction The role of expertise in society . 1 Purity, sexuality and gender 5 Environmental issues . 16 Immigration, nationality and the rights of all 18 Individualism as the only ground of volition and the sole approach to personal and communal advancement? 24 ‘Wokeness’ and cancel culture . 28 Trump, isolationism and radical right populism. 38 Conclusion . 44 Bibliography . 44 Introduction It is evident that there has been a lot of civil conflict and general instability in most Western societies of late and this is such as to have challenged and stressed the liberal democratic underpinnings of our states inasmuch as this has, in particular, allowed various populists and demagogues to make productive use of the notable hot button issues involved so as to further their sordid and feckless careers. If then we might escape the further rule of people without sincerity or any decency, and fend...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: a short essay based on a Joe Rogan podcast in which the examinee is interviewed.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: a short essay based on a Joe Rogan podcast in which the examinee is interviewed. RFKJ seems to aim at a comprehensive and exhaustive theory of all medical reality which would account for all of the high chronic disease burden (including specific conditions like autism) that is indeed very regrettably observable in the world today, and do so by proposing vaccines in all their various forms as the single and truly integrating cause. This would be an astonishing intellectual achievement if true, for if there are fields of study that seem to be beyond the capability of single minds to wholly grasp, one of them surely is that which deals with the utter intricacy and complexity of the part of us that is biomechanical, and even more so in terms of how this also, in so many ways, relates to various contexts, such as with what is mental, personal, social, physical, pharmacological, etc. Regrettably indeed there is much chronic disease about, and yet mains...