The Blind Arcade
Dec 30, 20242 min read
Tom Brady
Amid several other issues, the NFL is dealing with a quarterback crisis. The retirement of Tom Brady after the 2022 season closed the...
The Blind Arcade
Dec 6, 202411 min read
Red Rooms (2024)
There is a concept within occult esoterica known as the egregore. Put simply, an egregore is an entity birthed into the world by means of...
The Blind Arcade
Nov 8, 20243 min read
That Old Song and Dance
In his 1977 essay "Entertainment and Utopia," film studies academic Richard Dyer wrote of the musical as the most potent utopian cinema...
The Blind Arcade
Oct 10, 20243 min read
Natural Disaster
In November of 1970, British weather outposts in India found a disturbing weather system in the Bay of Bengal. The storm formed into a...
The Blind Arcade
Sep 19, 20242 min read
Attempt
Recently I wrote about the role of chance and magic , and their connection to the cultivation of leadership. In essence I claimed that...
The Blind Arcade
Sep 12, 20244 min read
Springfield, Ohio
There is a phenomenon where the major media outlets hide a story, and then when it manages to pop into the mainstream — say, in a widely...
The Blind Arcade
Sep 10, 20242 min read
Magic and Chance
During the 12th Century, it was said that England’s Richard the Lionheart could change the course of a battle just by being on the field....
The Blind Arcade
Aug 27, 20243 min read
Profilicty
Contemporary philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller writes that we have entered an “Age of Profilicity.” By this he means that the reality of...
The Blind Arcade
Aug 12, 20242 min read
Dissent
In Book 5 of his Politics , Aristotle wrote, “Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with...
The Blind Arcade
Aug 6, 20242 min read
Paris Syndrome
The Paris Olympics has been going on largely without incident, but reports from the Paris streets have been touched by a strange air of...
The Blind Arcade
Jul 8, 20243 min read
The Last Debate
As 2020 careened toward its end, the first presidential debate matched the energy of the cities that had burned over the summer. The...
The Blind Arcade
Mar 1, 20243 min read
Gemini
Google rolled out a new AI image creator called Gemini, and users quickly found that it all but refused to generate images of white men....
The Blind Arcade
Feb 13, 20247 min read
War and the Political Form
When the First World War kicked off in 1914, cavalry charges were still considered a potent weapon of offensive warfare. All sides tried...
The Blind Arcade
Jan 24, 20243 min read
Wounding
As the war in the Ukraine grinds on toward a Russian victory, many videos have emerged in which drones zero in on and then kill hapless...
The Blind Arcade
Jan 10, 20242 min read
Yockey on Europe
Some consider the postwar American philosopher Francis Parker Yockey a fascist. He’s more nuanced than that, but let’s just say you won’t...
The Blind Arcade
Dec 23, 20232 min read
Humiliation
Of the many lessons to take away from the COVID saga, one should be that your political enemies will do irrational things just because...
The Blind Arcade
Nov 3, 20233 min read
Untethered
“But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary...
The Blind Arcade
Oct 18, 20233 min read
It's Always Like That in Onitsha
In the 1950s, the Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski visited the Nigerian city of Onitsha. He hired a truck to take him into the market,...
The Blind Arcade
Aug 3, 20231 min read
Homebound
I’ve been away from this site for a time. An opportunity arose to move back to my hometown, and the move itself along with the mental...
The Blind Arcade
May 23, 20232 min read
Envy
It’s for good reason that envy is one of the seven deadly sins while jealousy is not, though many conflate the two. Envy is a more...