Sunday, October 30, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
The Privleged Lie
by Ragnar Redbeard
"Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought!
"Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought!
Too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted
by false prophets!
No creed must be accepted upon authority of a
"divine" nature. Religions must be put to the question. No moral
dogma must be taken for granted - no standard of measurement deified. There is
nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago,
they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!
He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom.
The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to
determine its liberties, to lead it towards material success - to rend the
rusty padlocks and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion.
Theories and ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our
ancestors may now mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us!
As environments change, no human ideal standeth sure!
Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,
let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of
an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper.
Let established sophisms be dethroned, rooted out, burnt and
destroyed, for they are a standing menace to all true nobility of thought and
action!
Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by results to
be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer
darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other
useless lumber and wreckage!
The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified,
the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. It is the
fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. It is a hydra-headed
tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a social cancer!
The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but
the lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to
contend against than a creeping pestilence!
Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of
personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them out, to the
very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch. Annihilate them,
or they will us"
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Discrimination Against Men in the Justice System
Ideally
men and women should receive the same sentence for the same crime.
In today’s world that is not the case. A recent study by
Sonja Starr, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan
found that men receive sentences that are 63% higher than their
female counterparts.
The
gender gap in sentencing is 6x higher than the racial gap between
white people and people of color. Furthermore women are 2x as
likely to avoid incarceration after a conviction. This is
clearly an area where science and reason are absent from the
institutions that govern us. In many states we spend
twice as much on each woman in prison as we do on each man. To
achieve real gender equality discrimination against men and women
must be identified and remedied. Neither gender should have to
do more time in prison because of their biological sex.
What
is the resolution to this problem?
Certainly
non-violent drug offenders and wrongfully convicted people should not
have to do prison time. Defendants often do not have enough
resources to defend themselves properly. Efforts should be made
to make our legal system more equitable.
Since
1973 the prison system has grown by more than 2 million people. Why does the Land
of the Free have more people in prison than any other nation?
For
more information regarding this issue you can check out these
articles from the University of Michigan and the Huffington Post:
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Grabbing Some Attention
This group of women went around grabbing men’s penises to raise awareness about prostate cancer. (not recently)
In this video a nurse examines men's testicles in the middle of a busy city:
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
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