On partial hiatus: This blog is on partial hiatus until 2025. I’ll be posting occasionally if the mood takes me. For regular weekly posts, you can find me over on substack where I have started a new series of posts called the Archetypal Human. Check it out here – https://simonsheridan.substack.com/
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- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
- On hiatus (sort of)
- Midwife’s Advice
- The Uninvited Guest
- Trump and Luther: Unlikely Bedfellows
- The Key
- The Hitler Complex strikes again
- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
- The Presidential Myth
- Power and the Esoteric
- Livin’ in the Past
- Zero Sum Mythology
- The Three Pillars of Enabling
- The Trump Comedy
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 8: The Modern West as Cultural Holon
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 7: A Quadrant Analysis of Corona
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 6: Quadrant Fundamentalism
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 5: Wilber’s Quadrants
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 4: Wholes and Fields
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 3: Organisms and Civilisations
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 2: The Levels of Being
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 1: Introduction
- Patrick White’s “The Vivisector”
- From Alma Mater to Edax Mater
- Taking a Break
- The Universal State of America: Book Now Available
- The Universal State of America Part 5: Once more on pseudomorphosis
- The Universal State of America Part 4: Trade Wars and Psychic Battles
- The Universal State of America Part 3: The Civilisational Oedipus Complex
- The Universal State of America Part 2: The Unity of Microcosm and Macrocosm
- The Universal State of America Part 1: Coming Soon
- Tabula rasa squared
- A little bit of history repeating
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 2: The Hidden Fortress
- Monstrosities R Us
- Intellect vs Will
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 1: Sanjuro
- Welcome to the Machine
- The Religious Crisis of the Modern West
- The Encounter with the Soul
- The Hyper-Masculine
- King Lear’s Soul
- No post this week
- Shakespeare and the Archetypes
- Hamlet: The Tragedy of the Orphan
- To Lawn or not to Lawn
- Once More on the Esoteric
- The Great Levelling
- Can we afford that?
- A Theory of Everything
- The Intellectual Proletariat
- Exchanging Value
- Govern me harder, mommy
- On Solar and Lunar Knowledge
- Sabotage
- Get behind me, Technocracy
- Imperialism 3.0
- Play it again, Sam
- Christian Existentialism Part 6: The Rise of the Irrational
- Christian Existentialism Part 5: From Luther to Feynman
- Christian Existentialism Part 4: The Boiling Point of Water
- Christian Existentialism Part 3: Necessity vs Faith
- Christian Existentialism Part 2: The Worship of Idols
- Christian Existentialism Part 1: The Confrontation with Nothingness
- The Devouring Mother 2.0
- In Search of the Sacred
- Dictators and Deep States
- Poverty vs Subsistence
- What Lurks in the Shadows
- The Death of a Chicken
- The Nuremberg Defence Mark 2
- The Shadow of Innocence
- A Quick Note
- I want to trust the science
- The Inverted Maslow Hierarchy
- The Complexity of Social Systems
- Some thoughts on The Voice
- Divination, Intuition and the Irrational
- The Tyranny of the Minority
- The 4-Day Work Week
- On Keating and AUKUS
- Accidental Ornithology
- Egomania
- Something Different
- Re-thinking Spengler Final
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 10: The USA (Universal State of America)
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 9: Escape from the Tyrannical Father
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 8: Kings and Commoners
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 7: A Pop-Culture Interlude
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 6: Rogue Priests and Rebel Commanders
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 5: On Elitism
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 4: Bourgeoisie vs Romantics
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 3: The Problem of the Magian
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 2: The Psychology of Pseudomorphosis
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 1: Morphological Thinking
- The Unconscious Empire Final: Benevolent Totalitarianism
- The Unconscious Empire Pt 4: Becoming the Other
- The Unconscious Empire Pt 3: A Prison for your Mind
It’s interesting, I think you can extend the American thing to the entire Anglosphere. Monty Python made a great point…
Skip – I’ll have to go back and try and figure out who was the brains behind neoliberalism. The parallels…
I posted on diaspora https://diasp.org/posts/24495453 Some peoples disagree with your point of view
There does seem to be a fundamental difference between Anglo cultural mores regarding housing and Continental approaches. This was actually…
Maybe that’s why continental Europeans are a bunch of communists 😛 There is no reason for Australia to have to…
@Simon In Europe, apartment living for the masses is a pretty much an inevitable consequence of the population density. If…
Irena – even if you own an apartment, you’re still beholden to the whims of the body corporate. The old…
@Simon At least in the Czech Republic, landlords generally deal with renters directly. This is also true in Serbia (which…
Skip – it’s a curious thing to walk around the areas of Melbourne where the high rises are. They are…
One more thing occurs to me: buying a house/apartment to rent out is a safe and easy option only as…
Simon: “Apparently, 25% of Australians now own an investment property, so there’s no chance of the system being changed til…
Yeah I very much doubt the big cities can be saved. Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Perth may hold onto some…
Yes, but will it happen before we turn Australian cities into Beijing and Shanghai clones? I suspect Australia and the…
This has all happened before on a lesser scale. The usual result is reactionary blow back. It’s already starting to…
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Skip – I think it was Bill Bryson who wrote how when two British strangers make acquaintance on a train,…