Grasp Historical Initiative

Grasp Historical Initiative

Western Civilization is at a tense point in history. The current economic arrangements are heavily parasitized, running low on feedstocks like cheap oil, can’t grow any more, and are in irreversible contraction within the current global economic paradigm.
The Henry Ford inspired industrial capitalism of the postwar years, where workers could afford the Fords…

The Global Rejection of CBDCs

The Global Rejection of CBDCs

The Biden administration and the Federal Reserve are taking steps toward the potential roll-out of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In attempting to do so, they are ignoring serious concerns about consumer privacy and heavy-handed government control in the U.S. and abroad. Everywhere around the world, powerful heads of central banks and…

Propaganda 101: a book review

Propaganda 101: a book review

How do we parse out propaganda in our fast-paced, digitally dissolving, ‘post-truth’, fake-news world? Michelle Stiles’ ambitious and beautiful book can help. She began working on One Idea to Rule Them All in 2018, and her topic of choice has proved prescient. More than ever, now we must be able to identify propaganda and sift through stories for grains of truth…

How politics can destroy your soul – confessions of a former Tory candidate

How politics can destroy your soul – confessions of a former Tory candidate

Enoch Powell’s (quoted) words ring truer every day: ‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. Watching the Andrew Bridgen saga, it seems we have reached Biblical levels of sin. One man out of 650 in parliament is now able to speak the truth and he is shunned for it. Most have no idea how this kind of thing can happen…

Why Are Intelligent People So Easily Tricked?

Why Are Intelligent People So Easily Tricked?

‘As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better educated, the easier it has been to mystify him.’ So said master illusionist Harry Houdini. He said it during his spat with Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over the latter’s belief in seances and fairies. Despite being a literary genius, Conan Doyle nevertheless had some foolish ideas…

The Killing of Common Sense 

The Killing of Common Sense 

Covid was a killer. The evidence is clear. SARS-CoV-2 was a scientifically devised virus designed to kill. Its victims were many. The science in question here, though, is social science. And the intended victim was common sense. Covid expanded our daily vocabulary. “Distancing,” “tracking,” and “masking” – above the nose – all became common parlance…

The Great Reset for Dummies

The Great Reset for Dummies

The psychological reason for the Great Reset is the fear of losing control of property, the planet. I suppose, if you own billions and move trillions, your perception of reality gets funky, and everything down below looks like an ant hill that exists for you. Just ants and numbers, your assets. Thus, the practical aim of the Great Reset is to fundamentally restructure the…

Propaganda Toolkit #1: Ad Hominem Attacks

Propaganda Toolkit #1: Ad Hominem Attacks

Commonly known as “name-calling,” an ad hominem attack “shoots the messenger” in order to deflect from the substance of an issue. It generally means that a criticism of one’s character has been made, rather than a criticism of the issue. Name calling, or the ad hominem attack, is perhaps the most well-known and easy to identify…

Human Rights

Human Rights

The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has been signed and ratified by 173 countries, including the US. It recognizes that the “inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family [are] the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” It then specifies the rights of all peoples: “All peoples have the right…

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