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Desire and Fate
One of the paradoxes of the contemporary obsession with gender identity is its radical anti-sensuality. Because it is about ideology, it is…
Mar 18
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Desire and Fate
Every generation parses its existential unhappiness in its own unique way. And sex and gender is how today’s young express it. This, rather than some…
Mar 17
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Desire and Fate
Has there been an identitarian politics before our own that so mistook its own solipsism for solidarity?
Mar 11
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Desire and Fate
For capitalism, the politics of atonement, which when all is said and done is what identitarian progressivism is all about, has turned out to be a…
Mar 4
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Desire and Fate
The ongoing destruction of women’s sports brought about by the refusal to exclude trans women who, no matter how they “identify” themselves, are much…
Mar 4
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Desire and Fate
Both in the West and in Latin America, which is many ways are the marshlands of the West, we are watching the moral life revise itself (the expression…
Mar 3
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Desire and Fate
A reader of this Substack commented that what the DEI world is engaged in is, to a large extent, the mainstreaming of a political and moral Munchausen’s…
Mar 2
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Desire and Fate
“As society grows more corrupt, notions of morality become increasingly refined,” Proust wrote. What he did not anticipate was that, much in the way…
Mar 1
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February 2024
Desire and Fate
Though it was genuinely prophetic in a way that, with the key exception of the idea of ‘Newspeak’, Orwell’s 1984 was not, what Huxley did not anticipate…
Feb 29
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Desire and Fate
The therapeutic knows no limits, and as we have learned it can be all but infinitely repurposed. An example of this how one of the key concepts of the…
Feb 29
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Desire and Fate
Sympathy for Hal. The Google Gemini image generating fiasco has been an object lesson in how deeply wokeness is now all but inscribed on the DNA of…
Feb 28
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Desire and Fate
Nils Bohr once said that while “opposite of a correct statement is a false statement,” that “the opposite of a profound truth may well be another…
Feb 19
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