Miscellany: On the Cosmic Mountain, Human Nature, the Threefold Soul, Genomic Identitarianism, the Logic of Mask Mandates,

On the Earth as a Cosmic Mountain: The Earth itself embodies the Cosmic Mountain archetype in the same way as every individual mountain on its surface. In respect to the planet as a whole, the further toward the poles one travels, the more one will notice a rarefaction of plant life. The Arctic Circle is…

Miscellany: On freedom and authenticity

I understand the inclination to equate freedom with arbitrariness but I don’t think it’s right. Suppose someone is attempting to communicate his thoughts on freedom to another person. It is simply not the case that it would be an exercise in freedom not to conform to standards of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In this way,…

Miscellany: On V for Vendetta, vaccination, moral phylogeny and other topics

A personal vignette that I hope is not representative of any wider trend: I was obliged to obtain a PCR test. I noted that in the results, there was no indication of the cycle threshold (CT) count so I contacted the agency to inquire after the value: “We do not report CT values on our…