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JAMES THE OBSCURE

essays on culture, politics and technology

Author: JtO

WHAT THE WEST HAS LOST

16 April 202519 April 2025 JtO

Notes on the disappearance of Western ethnonationalism

A QUANTUM OF DESPAIR

14 December 20247 February 2025 JtO

What if science is becoming toxic to human society?

electorate packing

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: THE “ELECTORATE-PACKING” PROBLEM

4 November 202418 December 2024 JtO

a short history

BY THE HORNS

20 July 201628 October 2021 JtO

Thoughts on tauromaquia.

culture and anticulture

CULTURE AND ANTI-CULTURE

22 November 201529 October 2021 JtO

Why they hate our freedoms

motherland

MOTHERLAND

16 June 201428 October 2021 JtO

Why has America changed so dramatically over the past fifty years?

Jeremy Clarkson

THE DEMISE OF GUYTHINK

27 December 201125 October 2021 JtO

Empathy, political correctness and the feminization of Western culture — and why we should worry

Why a Poltergeist Won't Hurt You

WHY A POLTERGEIST WON’T HURT YOU

28 July 201124 October 2021 JtO

a ‘network hypothesis’ for psi phenomena

Celebrities: a Modest Proposal

CELEBRITIES: A MODEST PROPOSAL

1 June 201123 October 2021 JtO

A Modest Proposal for curbing the cult of Celebrity, and for making better social use of existing Celebrities.

ACTORS AND ADDICTION

12 February 201122 October 2021 JtO

Some thoughts on the “celebrities’ disease”

Jacques Vallee

JACQUES VALLEE AND THE PROBLEMS OF UFOLOGY

20 January 201121 October 2021 JtO

A few close criticisms of the constructive kind …

MY SWEAT FOR YOUR SINS

15 July 201020 October 2021 JtO

What ancient logic lies behind our modern endurance-for-charity events?  

THE BANDWAGON EFFECT

12 March 200819 October 2021 JtO

A mental contagion that afflicts our politics more than ever.

CAN WE HANDLE THE QUANTUM TRUTH?

10 March 200819 October 2021 JtO

What Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin did to disturb our self-centered view of the universe was nothing compared to Hugh Everett’s theory of quantum reality.

THE ROBOT MENACE

4 December 200717 October 2021 JtO

The subtle threat from smart machines.

Al Gore

AL GORE: STILL PHONY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

7 July 200716 October 2021 JtO

Thoughts on the recent Gore re-inflation…

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