academia - Devils' Lane, Hollywood, CA

The Need For New Laws Dealing with Frivolous And/Or Malignant Scholarship

Outlawing Critical Race Theory and other "divisive concepts" in the education system is a welcome step, but it doesn't address the much bigger problem underneath. "Divisive" doesn't necessarily mean "bad", intellectually-speaking: Galileo and Darwin were divisive; debates divide at the end to discover the result. For sixty years, academics have

religion

Liberationism: The Counterfeit Gnostic Pagan Gospel of the Critical Social Justice Religion

Liberationism, n: A gnostic pagan Millenarian religion centred on the worship of the self, and its place in a hypothetical transhuman utopia achieved through collective abandonment of social conventions. The 60s and 80s were an orgy of self-congratulatory "liberation" back to primitive existence in the pursuit of escapist mysticism. Humans

film

Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting

Art is not about activism; drama is not about deconstruction; stories are not sociology; plots are not about propaganda or "power dynamics"; arcs are not "analysis"; ideas are not ideology; teleology is not "theory"; juxtaposition is not about "justice"; characters are not low-resolution caricatures; nature is not about "narratives"; writing

USSR

Reanimating the Corpse of the Alternative Society

What do you do when you don't have any ideas? You reanimate the old ones other people had, and give them a new name. Internationalists and activist political groups are relying on nobody noticing their source book is the old USSR. Journalist and author David Satter, Senior Fellow at the

foucault

Michel Foucault: prolific, serial paedophile rapist of children

Foucault is the most cited scholar in the humanities. His homosexual proclivities, and subsequent death from AIDS in 1984, are well-known. It turns out his nature was much worse than San Franscisco BDSM bathhouses: whilst working at the University of Tunis, he paid 8 year-old Tunisian Arab boys to sodomise

politics

Reform & Reclaim: The Lion Takes a Stroll

Laurence Fox is on his way to becoming a man of history, if he can build an alliance with numbers and a structured ideology. The UK may be led by Prime Minister, but it follows Nigel Farage. Both men have realised there is a huge population of classical British liberals

communism

A Compendium of Communist Dirty Tactics

Amongst communism's many, many problems is the one searing elephant in the giant empty room: why the proletariat never show up and come along. From Lenin, to Gramsci, to Mao, the same issue has dogged generations of activists; how to carry out the revolution if the incitement doesn't work. The

academia

The Academic Virus Deliberately Designed for the Corruption of Everything

"We're trained Marxists", says Patrisse Khan-Cullors into a webcam recently. "We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao, learning all types of global critical theory and about different campaigns across the world", she responded two years ago, when asked "How did you build the BLM movement?

history

Re-Print: Anonymous Letter From the Department of History, UC Berkeley

The following letter was sent by a black history professor to 2 academic colleagues: Wilfred Reilley (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kentucky State University) and Thomas Sowell (Professor of Economics, Stanford University). It's re-printed here in its entirety. Just over one hundred years ago in "My Larger Education" (1911), Booker

marxism

The Ugly Spectre of Marxism Raises Its Medusa Head Again

If you're a Marxist, say you're a Marxist. Don't use the unjustified killing of a black man by abusive police officers as a cynical proxy for your attempts to succeed Comrade Lenin. Don't pretend you had any feelings for the man or his family over the excitement of the opportunity

hollywood

Toxic Tropes & Hollywood Economics

That Hollywood sees itself as a vehicle for social engineering is no secret. Whether it's the countless pro-America military extravaganzas (Top Gun, anyone?) or the mockery of it (Team America: World Police) or the ever-pervasive America Saves The World Again schema, the perception of Tinseltown as an engine for manipulating

blockchain

Censorship-Proof Blockchain DNS Systems

The Blockchain is many things. It's undoubtedly a work of genius to a problem most people don't realise even exists because we take it for granted so often. It's provoked an unstoppable wave of idealistic innovation, mostly from libertarian ideologues and tech oddballs, on top of curious sharks in the

academia

Dedicated New Site for The Devils' Glossary

With dozens of new entries, one of the most popular posts on the site - and the reason for a ban from a popular writing website bombarded with activist trolls - is now available on its own subdomain in a new format for easier browsing. You can access the recently-updated

drugs

Illegal Chemistry Vol.2 - New/Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)

Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803 new substances of abuse had been reported onto the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Early Warning

political correctness

Sandbox Theory: Silicon Valley's Matrix Experiment

The notable increase of globalism in the 1990s, particularly the Internet age, has yielded a realignment of our politics in the Western world to a re-emergent paradigm of individualism vs. collectivism. Not since the Industrial Revolution and its Communist Manifesto has there been such a pronounced dynamic of the people

mathematics

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) For Adventurous Types

It's a deceptively complex mathematical conundrum. You have 5, 10, or 20 destinations you want to batch together into a road trip. You need to find the fastest and/or most efficient - i.e. optimal - between them, geographically-speaking. Our brains work so fast, so effectively, we barely notice

education

How did we get here? A primer guide to understanding unreality

It can often feel as if the world has gone mad or turned upside down. How did we get from the age of reason to barely knowing or caring what truth is anymore? The answer is complex. But mostly, half a century of academic imposters who couldn't work out the

political correctness

The Devil’s Glossary of 2019 Newspeak

Ever wonder where that fashionable nonsense crazypeople preach all over the media and internet comes from? Where that bizarrely-Orwellian academic phrasing originated? Confused about internalized hegemonic patriarchy-centric-discourse over heterobinaries? Who came up with all this crap? A lot of imposters trying to pass themselves off as academics. With too much