Darshana & Itihasa: The Civilizational Gaze

Everything that you have ever learned is a lie. The trick to remaining sane in a world full of falsehoods is to find the lies that are worth...

The end of World War II marked not merely the collapse of European colonial dominance, but the reconstitution of global power around two ide...

Just finished reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public...

On one side is the Western ideology of socialism which claims that all means of production are controlled by the people (which is a euphemis...

The recent decision by President Donald Trump to initiate the United States' withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) has spa...

The Hegelian “end of history” and the neoconservative “clash of civilizations” are two sides of the same ideological and mythological coin. ...

You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being religious. It is natural for human beings to be both.  Reason, which is the driv...

Intolerance of uncertainty is the major problem that modern society faces. People have been brainwashed into believing that with modern scie...

Creatures living in their natural environment tend to procreate at a high rate resulting in a rise in their population. When deer, lions, wo...

Human beings are incapable of developing anything that will always be perfect, moral and useful. Every system, technology, process, product ...

Truth, far from being a mirror of reality, is often a mythology—a story we tell ourselves to make sense of the universe and our place within...

In his social media platform Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump has warned BRICS nations that they should not deal with any currency...

The truth is not something that humans can discover through observation and study of reality, as the materialists claim; it is a point of vi...

“As we have seen again and again throughout history, in a completely free information fight, truth tends to lose. To tilt the balance in fav...

I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s book: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future . The book is full of interesting lin...

The grand Western experiments of capitalism and socialism, for all their claims to rationality and moral superiority, are ultimately unworka...

Capitalism and socialism are good at accumulating power, wealth and information. But they are not successful in acquiring wisdom. Being bere...

I highly recommend Professor Gad Saad’s book The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense . Here are five quotes from t...

In The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, Michael Pillsbury—a seasoned China schol...

One of the most revealing ways to understand a civilization is to examine how it measures time. A culture’s sense of history is, in many way...

Scientists estimate that there are between 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. The number of humans on earth is m...

“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!” ~ Michael Crichton, State of Fear I agree with Michael Crichton that false fears are a modern p...

The belief that human beings are rational is a myth. Everything of which we are certain is not based on reason and is not verifiable. The be...

“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species cap...

Trump survived the assassination attempt. The assassin was killed. This makes me think of the book by Frederick Forsyth that I read decades ...

The purpose of taxation is not merely economic or collecting revenues for the government. Taxation is also a tool for achieving certain poli...

Winston Churchill’s political career extended from 1900, when he entered politics at the age of 26, to 1955, when his second term as Prime M...

None of us actually lives as though there were no truth. Our problem is more with the notion of a single, unchanging truth. The word 'tr...

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance” : ...

Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction is a mirage and a myth. It is a mirage because it creates a vision of a utopia that is governed by the ...

I am reading Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I am not a socialist but I am not a capitalist either. Both sy...

In his book Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet , Klaus Schwab makes the case that the large...

A bullshit job is usually one that does not create any value for society. Mostly it is socialist governments that are accused of employing m...

The most important drivers of nations are not the economic and political realities but the collective hopes of the masses that in the future...

My negative opinion of Bill Gates has been confirmed by my reading of Tim Schwab’s book The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of t...

Environmentalism is founded on the idea that whenever men create material things, they destroy nature. But nature is indestructible. No powe...

The theories of economics are not definite and provable like the rules of mathematics and physics—they are mythologies (lies and fiction) im...

The belief that a perfect society can be brought into existence through communism is, at its core, a modern secular mythology. Yet capitalis...

When a civilization becomes obsessed with preserving the ruins, records and artifacts of ancient civilizations, which fell and disappeared c...