FrSheehy

The Christian Position

A reader writes: Hi Brian, I thought you might be interested in the story of one Father Sean Sheehey, who recently returned to his native Kerry from years spent in Louisiana. He made our national media for having a sermon this week where he fiercely attacked sodomy, transgenderism, and the…
November 3, 20221 Comment
Self-Help

Self-Help

If you've read a self-help book, been to therapy, or attended a motivational seminar, you may be familiar with the locus of control concept. Someone with an internal locus of control is self-directed, whereas someone with an external locus of control sees himself as being at the mercy of outside…
September 16, 2022
JaimiesIsland

Jaimie’s Island

Jaimie Mantzel is a toymaker and inventor who got out of the rat race, sold his Vermont house, and moved his family to a secluded Island in Panama. You may be familiar with the small but growing trend of people bugging out of America to do homesteading abroad. But Jaimie…
May 16, 20226 Comments
Conservative Creatives

Conservative Creatives

A reader on Twitter asks: Starting a parallel cinema scene is becoming an ever-more feasible option for conservatives and dissidents. It's easier and cheaper than ever to make your own movie. An enterprising director could crowdfund a slick little indie film. Professional grade editing software; even high-end hardware like a…
January 12, 20229 Comments
Modern Art

Modern Art Is No Object

We've discussed before how Millennials and Zoomers suffer from a peculiar aesthetic disability. Unlike past generations, many of them seem unable to engage with artistic works on anything but a subjective level. A Big Brand X viewer from Generation Y on back would say, "I want to be devoted like…
January 10, 202213 Comments
Swearing in Silver Lining

Silver Linings

An occasional reader confided the other day that he finds this blog too black pilled. Frequent readers will be aware that I eschew the whole white pill-black pill dichotomy. What people mean by a "white pill" is a sensible consolation--warm fuzzies, in laymen's terms. In the political life as in…
October 25, 202132 Comments
Calculus

The Moral Calculus

A reader lays out the moral calculus of taking infanticide-related medical treatments, specifically for the purpose of warding off Corona-chan. Here is my take on things: -The vaccines were created using cell lines from aborted fetuses. Some just in testing, others in production. Thus using them constitutes cooperation with evil.…
September 28, 20215 Comments
rollercoaster

The White Pill-Black Pill Rollercoaster

A vicious cycle that tends to afflict dissidents is the white pill-black pill rollercoaster. You see this phenomenon when some news story seems to signal a reversal of--or at least a pause in--the West's long cultural decline. The white-piller gets a dopamine rush that puts him on cloud nine. When…
August 27, 202112 Comments
It's Dangerous to Go Alone

It’s Dangerous to Go Alone

80s parents stereotypically trashed video games as brain-rotting wastes of time. But the best games of that time did contain nuggets of wisdom, one of the foremost being "It's dangerous to go alone!" A notorious game mechanic of 2D era adventure games involved starting the main character without the main…
July 13, 20212 Comments
demoralized

Don’t Be Demoralized

By this point, even the most oblivious have started to notice that our elites' ever more irrational dictates aren't meant to help anyone. Instead, cruel farces like Drag Queen Story Hour, mandatory intersectionality indoctrination, and Zimbabwe-style land transfers are humiliation rituals intended to demoralize the occupied nations. It's only natural…
May 26, 20217 Comments