New Fears
Fear is proven to lower intelligence (due to hormones which are released which cause a fight-or-flight response that channels energy away from the brain to the limbs). Governments have...
Fear is proven to lower intelligence (due to hormones which are released which cause a fight-or-flight response that channels energy away from the brain to the limbs). Governments have...
When Michael Faraday described magnetic fields in the 19th Century, he was ridiculed by the Scientific community. They said that he was describing “influence at a distance,” which they equated with...
The United States has a “mixed form of government,” based on the three classical forms (namely, monarchy, aristocracy and republic). We based the Presidency on monarchy, senate on aristocracy...
Natalism is from the Latin word for “birth” [natalis], and refers to a movement whereby people assert the dignity of human life and the importance of children and families....
The Jesuit sect operated as a sort of early proto-intelligence agency for the Catholic Church. How did they set the template by which other secular intelligence agencies evolve? DISCLAIMER:...
The philosopher Blaise Pascal described God “as a sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”. Jorge Luis Borges noticed that several other thinkers had had this...
In this episode of Under The Iceburg, Author Jason Reza Jorjani tells all on his new book “Closer Encounters”. It’s a work inspired by the government’s recent half-hearted disclosure attempts...
According to Montesquieu, when a tyrant fears an external threat he promotes masculinity and strength among the youth. When he has no external threat, and instead fears a possible...
This week began with Labor Day . . . an awkward time for a government who, for the last two years, has been telling you that workers are non-essential...
A republic requires an active populace. A despotism, by contrast, requires a passive populace. One relies on citizens, whereas the other has subjects. What kind of people is our...
China’s government prints up its own money, rather than borrowing it from a central bank at interest . . . just as the United States is enjoined to do,...
G.E. Moore said that an error in judgment was merely an error in fact, whereas an error in taste was really an error in value. What values do we...
It’s important to remember that most media is about marketing, rather than truth. As Walter Cronkite said, “The media is not there to reflect public opinion; it’s there to...
More and more people are noticing that new labels are being created and placed on people as a method of control. What’s behind this? DISCLAIMER: Views and opinions expressed...
When computer programers first worked on A.I., they studies how animals learned to leverage this for machine learning. One of the discoveries was that the brains of frogs enacted...
After World War Two, an empire fell into America’s lap after all the European powers had destroyed themselves. But what did this mean for the republic? DISCLAIMER: Views and...
This is a special statement on the previous video “Foreign Troops on U.S. Soil”. Consider it a post-script to that subject. ...
Under the Iceberg is a podcast dedicated to deliberation about various famous . . . and not so famous . . . conspiracy theories. Its’ panel takes apart celebrated...
In life, a pitfall exists for those enacting permanent solutions to temporary problems. Institutions have a bad habit of doing this. In many cases, their life-spans outlast their original...
Many people are deploying the talking points that vaccine passports can be required by businesses, because something-something-something property rights. But the logic underpinning that assertion is not unassailable. For...