Benefits of an analog education

The world you were born in no longer exists.  When I was a child, thousands of years ago, the world was still mostly analog.  I listened to vinyl records and tapes.  I had a walkman. That was considered a great innovation back then. Sometimes the tape got stuck and you needed to rewind it with…

“AI” killed the Internet star

You know what, I miss the 1990s. All the way up to the early 2000s. And not just because I was young in that period. It’s not just nostalgia. Those years were objectively better. There were great movies (too many to list), great music (many great bands from the 1980s still active and many good…

“Everything is allowed”

There’s a lot of doom in the Internet, especially among the alternative news crowd. People can’t get enough of the “end of the world/end of the West” type of thing. While I do understand that we are living in highly worrying times, with war expanding everywhere, economic downturn, birth rate collapse, mass migration, and radical…

Notes from the end of the liberal order: Spain

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I haven’t written much here. I spent the past couple of weeks visiting family in Spain, reading Brothers Karamazov1 on the beach and trying to forget about the state of the world. I was staying on a smaller location, about 20 minutes by train from downtown Barcelona, in a coastal…

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose

For several weeks, protests against Israel’s campaign in Gaza have been ongoing at several American universities and a few European ones. It’s basically the same crowd of leftist students that protested for Black Lives Matters, for abortion or for other popular causes (but not against Covid lockdowns). But while those protests were accepted and even…

Traveling with Vigée Le Brun

As the world moves closer to WWIII for reasons no sane man can understand, I prefer for the moment to write about travel. I am still reading Vigée Le Brun’s memories about her travels in Italy, and finding them pretty interesting. But then again, I usually like to read diaries or travel journals, even by…

Santa Fina and miracles for unbelievers

We live in an age that, for the most part, doesn’t believe in miracles or in any form of transcendence from the material world. Some believe in the miracles of “science” — although I suppose that has also taken a hit in the recent “Covid” years — but, other than that, I think most people…