Technocracy is not Socialism
Technocracy is not Socialism It’s soul-destroying for me to record that this meme has received 15 thousand likes on FB. I have explained...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 19, 20229 min read
THE FUTURE FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY THE FUTURE FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARY ABSTRACT This study engages in strategic and systematic...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 14, 202215 min read
The Revolution that is Eating Itself
The Revolution that is Eating Itself I will begin with this scathing review of Douglas Murray's "The War on the West" by Patrick Deneen....
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Peter Critchley
Jul 13, 202219 min read
Psychic Force, Manipulation, and Rationalisation
“Giving teenagers mindfulness lessons at school to boost well-being is largely a waste of time, a major UK study has found… Hundreds of...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 202214 min read
Dante: He Hath Seen Well
Dante: He Hath Seen Well The painting is “Dante (He Hath Seen Well)” by Jean-Leon Gerome I've seen some get this title wrong as "He Hath...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 21, 202213 min read
The Catholic underpinnings of Rational Freedom
The Catholic Underpinnings of Rational Freedom “The Politics of Hell By Urban Hannon https://thejosias.com/2022/06/16/the-politics-of-hel...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 202216 min read
Rational Freedom and Happiness in contemporary culture
In face of a movement which takes some of your own themes, reduces and relativizes them by way of arbitrary, self-chosen standards, and...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Politics is the worst religion
The reason people get angry when they hear a contrary view is that, deep down, they suspect that that view may be right. The main reason...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 202284 min read
The ‘Green’ Agenda that is not about saving the planet
The ‘Green’ Agenda that is not about saving the planet The green agenda that is about accumulating money and power, not saving the...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 20222 min read
When Truths are Lies
It is well-nigh certain that when someone refuses to answer a question and ducks a challenge that that person is peddling a lie and...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 7, 202228 min read
Excommunication
Excommunication from the Ecomentalist Cult I was commenting on a green "friends’" post when I found that my comments had been removed, as...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 7, 20221 min read
The Last Farewell
This drawing has a certain wistful charm. One of the highlights of my life was seeing the Queen in Queen’s Recreation Park, St Helens,...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 6, 202221 min read
The Dark Ages to Come Have Been Here a Long While
The Dark Ages to Come Have Been Here a Long While The Dark Ages are already upon us and have been for some time. “This time however the...
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Peter Critchley
May 26, 202268 min read
BUILDING, DWELLING, AND BEING
BUILDING, DWELLING, AND BEING To Build a Home This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is...
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Peter Critchley
May 23, 202268 min read
The Coming Lockdown Reckoning
The Coming Lockdown Reckoning Introduction This essay articulates the growing scepticism which has come to define my position with...
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Peter Critchley
May 20, 202243 min read
Avoiding Traps and Snares - Words with Meaning
Finally, at long last, and not before time, there are signs, here and there, that parts of “the Left” are beginning to see identity...
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Peter Critchley
May 3, 202251 min read
Metaphysical Reconstruction - Foundations, Reason, and Reality
The fundamental question of the age Can a society sustain itself if its members aren’t willing to nurture the roots that gave birth to it...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 26, 202214 min read
Revaluing Democracy through a Deeper Freedom
Authoritarianism is what you get when STEM people try to do politics. In truth, their politics is a non-politics or even an...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 20, 20226 min read
Inner Growth as against External Force
I shall begin with this quote from Lewis Mumford in 1964 “I would not belittle, still less deny, the many admirable products this...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202244 min read
Being Essential, Essential Being
Being Essential, Essential Being I write as a philosopher who went out on a limb in the 1990s by arguing forthrightly for an essentialist...
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