Mary Eberstadt makes a pretty detailed analysis of how the absence of fathers in the lives of children, especially boys, has affected culture and society.
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Germany Announces National Lockdown for Unvaccinated
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Health, Losing Freedom, Vaccine, Western CivilizationBoggles the mind. Why not get out the brown uniforms and Star of David badges? mrossol The Epoch Times, 12/3/2021
Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Coronavirus, Losing Freedom, Totalitarianism, Vaccine, Western CivilizationUnHerd 12/1/2021 by Freddie Sayers https://unherd.com/thepost/paul-kingsnorth-why-i-changed-sides-in-the-vaccine-wars/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=af947e1540&mc_eid=0ff3e7ea29 ==== Here a comment from this piece. Great. Galeti Tavas 20 hours ago Yawn…. really not seem like it had much to add, another Liberal/Lefty mugged slowly by reality and beginning to see the cracks in his cosmology. He seemingly comes from some University Protest mindset, He says (paraphrase) ‘I never thought we would have to argue against... Read more
‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy – WSJ
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Censorship, The Left, Western Civilization, WokeWSJ, by Garry Kasparov The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused, part of a struggle to define one’s political opponents in the harshest possible way, to dismiss ideas as not only wrong or harmful, but intolerable. As a nonnative English speaker, I am content to avoid rhetorical fashion and use... Read more
School Makes Unmasked Students Wear a ‘Yellow Badge’
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Europe, Losing Freedom, Totalitarianism, Western CivilizationSchool Makes Unmasked Students Wear a ‘Yellow Badge’ By Jon Fleetwood 11/18/2021 QUICK FACTS: Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson reported on Wednesday a U.K. school is instructing students to “wear a Yellow Badge” in order to identify those students from other students as having received a mask exemption.Pearson tweeted a screenshot of an email she says is from the school explaining the school’s... Read more
Inside the Austrian lockdown – UnHerd
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Europe, Losing Freedom, Ruling Class, The Left, Totalitarianism, Western CivilizationWhat the ruling classes and the ‘Left’ have come to, or perhaps better, are now showing their true beliefs and character. mrossol By Freddy Sayers, 11/18/2021