Category: Thought

The untold story mothers the lie.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994).

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the trouble with women, too.

Joanna Russ, Existence (1975).

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), chapter 22.

Socialist states like North Korea, China, Vietnam, Cuba and others consider feminism to be petit bourgeois and as a consequence give women few roles in life- mother or whore. For example, red light areas in Vietnam the left claimed during the war were there because of GI’s being there, have grown to incredible miles of streets. Cuba has all ages prostitution to make up for the lack of upward mobility for women in society. Once you go socialist, women are the first losers. So why would women in any society want socialism?

Because like “fascist,” they make up their own meaning of what socialist is.

Michael Flores, “Trump’s Populist Moment,” Substack: Civil and Global Defense (February 15, 2025).

Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, “here and now” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-​blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.

José Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University [Misión de la Universidad (1930; translation © 1944, first published 1946), p. 73, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand. 

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), Vol. X, “Political Morality.”