The last blog
“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”
Oswald Spengler
3/22/2026
"Optimism is cowardice."Thus writes Spengler in his famous conclusion to Der Mensch und die Technik. It is unlikely -- though not impossible -- that Spengler could have foreseen that the "technics" he was describing would allow us, the last generations, to stare directly into the setting sun, the final descent of Helios over the ruins of what was once Western culture and civilization.
3/24/2026
In his 1927 masterpiece, Notes on Democracy, H. L. Mencken described the state of learning among the masses. His observations hold true today, in spite of the technology in the hands of those masses, and they might be made with even more strength and assurance. Click MORE to read his inimitable words.
3/28/2026
From Google's AI tool:
"The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a bipartisan, 501(c)(4) non-profit organization lobbying for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, representing over 6 million members. It supports pro-Israel candidates through its PAC and United Democracy Project Super PAC, spending heavily in 2024, yet faces criticism for influencing Democratic primaries and aligning with hardline policies."
3/30/2026
Ambrose Bierce
Born: June 24, 1842
Died: circa 1914 in MexicoHis Devil's Dictionary is a masterpiece of the highest order. It is philosophy, cultural criticism, politics, and many other fields of thought, all presented in the form of a dictionary.Here are some of our favorite definitions from this wonder:
3/22/2026
It is beyond all doubt, though, that even he, the prophet of Pessimismus, could not have envisaged the technology-fueled utter savagery into which we, the last denizens of this culture (in the ruins of which we play with our toys, speak with and heed our machines) would have descended before the last End came and crushed the remains of the whole tragic nightmare.
3/24/2026
Thus Mencken:It is a tragic but inescapable fact that most of the finest fruits of human progress, like all of the nobler virtues of man, are the exclusive possession of small minorities, chiefly unpopular and disreputable.Of the sciences, as of the fine arts, the average human being, even in the most literate and civilized of modern States, is as ignorant as the horned cattle in the fields. What he knows of histology, say, or protozoology, or philology, or paleontology, is precisely nothing. Such things lie beyond his capacity for learning, and he has no curiosity about them. The man who has any acquaintance with them seems to him to be a ridiculous figure, with a touch of the sinister. Even those applied sciences which enter intimately into his everyday existence remain outside his comprehension and interest.Consider, for example, chemistry and biology. The whole life of the inferior man, including especially his so-called thinking, is purely a biochemical process, and exactly comparable to what goes on in a barrel of cider; yet he knows no more about chemistry than a cow and no more about biology than its calf.The new physics, in the form of the radio, saves him from the appalling boredom of his hours of leisure, but physics itself remains as dark to him as theosophy. He is more ignorant of elementary anatomy and physiology than the Egyptian quacks of 4000 B.C. His knowledge of astronomy is confined to a few marvels, most of which he secretly doubts.He has never so much as heard of ethnology, pathology or embryology. Greek, to him, is only a jargon spoken by bootblacks, and Wagner is a retired baseball player. He has never heard of Euripides, of Hippocrates, of Aristotle, or of Plato. Or of Vesalius, Newton and Roger Bacon.The fine arts are complete blanks to him. He doesn't know what a Doric column is, or an etching, or a fugue. He is as ignorant of sonnets and the Gothic style as he is of ecclesiastical politics in Abyssinia.Homer, Virgil, Cervantes, Bach, Raphael, Rubens, Beethoven - all such colossal names are empty sounds to him, blowing idly down the wind. So far as he is concerned these great and noble men might as well have perished in the cradle. The stupendous beauties that they conjured into being are nothing to him: he sticks to the tabloids and the movies, with "Hot Dog" or its like for Sunday afternoon.A politician by instinct and a statesman by divine right, he has never heard of "The Republic" or "Leviathan." A Feinschmecker of pornography, he is unaware of Freud.
3/28/2026
But where does all the money come from?Thanks to Track AIPAC, we can find out. There are lots of interesting names and patterns to be found here. The #1 donor is Ukrainian and #2 is Israeli. Please go back and review Mel Gibson's (drunken) remarks from 2006, which included the famous dictum: "[T]he Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world..."
3/30/2026
ABBESS, n. A female father.CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.HONORABLE, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.