HeyJaredThe Appalachian Gorilla
My writings and thoughts about proper solutions to the side effects of modernity and the enlightenment.
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Liberalism is Utilitarian Christianity (opens the original)
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Life has been so busy the past couple of weeks. Between homeschooling my daughter, working 12 hours a day, and trying to be a human, writing has become a costly time commitment.I have been hopping into Discord VCs more often the past couple of nights. I have been hanging with my boy Dantevita, who is a half-Jew, half-Italian Christian right-winger from Boston. He has no kids and spends his free time playing pool. His father died of bladder cancer, and mine is currently suffering through the same
Diesel Shortages (opens the original)
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How to Fix This Mess (opens the original)
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I apologize for not writing much this week. Work has been available, so I pulled out that inherited immigrant grind mode and turned the dial to 11. Plus, I just got custody of my oldest daughter and had to deal with her school, and my father has a new lung tumor, so there’s that lol. I often write about commodification. I define capitalism using George Monbiot’s definition as the commodification of land, labor, and money. This is a structural definition of the system. We don’t often talk about w
The End Of The Merchant Anglo Republic (opens the original)
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There was a conversation I was listening to from on Youtube. Auron was having a conversation with a republican political strategist named Christian Heiens. They mostly spoke about the conservatives who have never read any actual political philosophy or even the Founding Fathers’ writings, works, or correspondence, while constantly citing them (incorrectly). The guest Christian had made a game out of quoting the Founding Fathers without naming them and watching the right-wing or conservative acto
Western Civilization is Anglo Cope (opens the original)
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I was just reviewing some Herodotus. I watched the movie 300 and was wondering whether the concepts it put forward were ones the Greeks actually understood or believed in. I am always fascinated by how ancient texts sound very modern. Of course, I am not a classicist and cannot read the original Greek, so I am probably attributing more to the translation than to the text itself. Molon Labe actually isn’t in Herodotus. It comes from Plutarch, and the phrase “we shall fight in the shade” is attrib
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