John C. Wright's Journal

Rumor has it that somewhere outside of the Empire of Lies is the Island of Sanity. There, little girls learn about the difference between girls and boys the hour they are told where babies come from. Here, where you and I live, it is not so.

The experience of young athletic ladies misled by modern lies into thinking themselves equal in strength to young men is not rare.

Not once, but twice, ladies of my acquaintance told me stories of their shock and surprise the hour they discovered the casually overpowering strength of boys.

That these ladies could be so deeply deceived on a point so obvious was my own first exposure to what is now commonly called gaslighting, that is, lies that contradict the obvious.

The first chapter of one of my novels has a scene where my heroine makes this selfsame discovery her teen years, when the physical differences first are seen. It is the first thing, not the last, a girl should learn about womanhood when she enters that estate.

This column from Snapper’s Domain (a realm of gaming, music, religion and wooden weapons) touches on a similar theme and point. Reprinted here with the author’s permission. The words below are his.

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The Based Fall Book Sale went live yesterday and runs through Tuesday, September 13. The sale offers about 150 books for free or $0.99, including about sixty works new to the sale. In addition, Terror House Press has offered their entire catalog of ebooks for only $0.99 each.

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Here is a montage of prominent Democrats questioning the legitimacy of election results, alleging fraud, and calling elections stolen. It goes on for nearly a quarter of an hour. It is by no means an exhaustive list.

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Let us pay no attention to the planned assisted suicide of Ghislaine Maxwell nor the damning answering machine message showing the Biden crime family corruption. Our media masters have decreed a more important story now heaves its leviathan bulk roaring into view.

I am one of many devoted brain-slaves of the God-Emperor Trumprifficus the Supremanator, who is even more awesome than known before.

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In case anyone is curious, let me explain my view on the topic of the mind-body paradox.

Oddly enough, I am of that rare school who thinks mechanical determinism and final indeterminism are mutually compatible.

I hold that a neurobiologist examining the chemical and molecular actions of my brain could give a complete description of the mechanical effects and causes without once making reference to any final cause, that is, he need not say the purpose of these actions, or say what they means, in order to describe their physical properties. He can measure my high blood pressure without knowing whether it is caused by fear or anger, lust or malice aforethought.

Likewise, if I were found in a witness stand or confessional booth, the prosecutor or priest could give a complete description, if I were candid, of the purposes and meaning of my state of mind, using wisdom to understand whatever I said about my ends and means. Neither need ever once refer to any measured property of any material of my nervous system or environment. He can draw firm conclusions about my malice aforethought, cowardice, concupiscence or wrath without once measuring my blood-pressure.

The biologist knows the science of what I am, the father confessor knows the theology, the lawyer knows the law. These are different aspect, different dimensions, if you will, of one reality, but they neither clash nor confirm each other.

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Ask an exorcist about the current political clime, and you make get a shocking answer:

The insightful Rawle Nyanzi pens an observation about the deconstruction and disenchantment of the modern horror story, and the ancient fairy tale. Well worth the read. (You may also follow his links to L. Jagi Lamplighter, my beautiful and talented wife, who holds forth on a similar topic.)

https://rawlenyanzi.com/why-the-fairy-tale-is-fractured/

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I have friends in the area, which is a beautiful spot with ancient churches and handsome Civil War statues and monuments.

https://youtu.be/iKg1Ui2SjSQ
For tomorrow, Friday 9/4, BLM are promoting a demonstration, encouraging violence, fire, war.

We in Virginia have a Democrat governor. I fear nothing will be done. The criminals are openly organizing and announcing their intent to riot.

Unless a throng of bikers, gunowners, or other rough customers willing and able to form a militia to defend Fredericksburg, I am not sure what will happen to my friends, their home, their church, their beautiful neighborhood.

Prayer is called for. Let the innocent be vigilant and safe.

UPDATE 9/4: Three different sources, including the Fredericksburg BLM Chapter, and the Fredericksburg Park Authority, say this article is fake, the work of an agitator.

This is a false alarm.

There are only three means of forming a government: by birth, by conquest, and by covenant.

Clans and tribes forming a kingdom by electing or acclaiming a chieftain or high king from their midst is an example of the first. Such groups spring from a common ancestor. The Normans ruling the Saxons in England after William the Conqueror, or the castes of India are an example of the second: the children of the conquerors rule over a lower class of the children of the vanquished.

In history, there are only two examples of government formed by covenant: the first is the USA. The other is ancient Israel.

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