Thursday
November 10, 2005 |
  They Worship Death
by Marcus Bachler
The sad fact is that fundamentalist religious zealots such as Osama bin Laden, while claiming to practice a religion of peace, will not rest until every last country in the world is an Ayatollah-run dictatorship composed of veiled submissive women, violent bearded men and dead infidels. However, the battle to preserve our “love of life” in the West can and must be won, as it was against Communism and Fascism, by not giving an inch to the anti-life ideology that is shrouded by the terrorists’ political demands. (Read more...)
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 The Non-Art of Objectivism
by Marcus Bachler
There has been much criticism, on this website and elsewhere over the years, of the moralizing and cultish behaviour of Objectivists who digest and regurgitate Ayn Rand’s opinions and her philosophical pronouncements. I always believed that this dogmatic adherence to Objectivist doctrine was quite a recent phenomenon, probably encouraged by Ayn Rand herself and continued by her protege Peikoff. However, I’ve had to revise that opinion, because in The Art of Non-Fiction, I found exactly the same type of Objectivist cultish behaviour being criticized by Ayn Rand herself. (Read more...)
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 Who Wants To Live Forever?
by Marcus Bachler
It has been my dream since a young age to find a cure for aging. However, the idea of human immortality can be frightening for some. (Read more...)
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 A Sick Type Of Nostalgia
by Marcus Bachler
Nostalgia is a seductive and sentimental lie. (Read more...)
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Taking Responsibility
by Marcus Bachler
A current news item from Carlisle, a city in the North West of England, is a breath of fresh air against this pervasive modern-day “nanny knows best” mentality. (Read more...)
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 The Incredible Mystics Amongst Us
by Marcus Bachler
There was recently film released called “the Incredibles” that clearly favours “mysticism of the spirit” over reason and yet has been touted by SOLOists here as celebrating “Objectivist morality”. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 17, 2004 |
The Wide World
by Marcus Bachler
Can you remember the days when men were still men and women were still women? No? Well, neither can I. But don’t despair, help is at hand. (Read more...)
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Rediscovering Leonardo
by Marcus Bachler
This is an “individualist” rebellion against social conventions and restraints. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 23, 2004 |
Out-Foxing Animal Rights
by Marcus Bachler
Last week the pictures of pro-fox hunting protesters breaking into the houses of parliament in London went around the world. So, what’s all the fuss? What is the argument for the rights behind legislation that prohibits cruelty and suffering to animals? (Read more...)
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"Capitalism" - Is it time for a change?
by Marcus Bachler
Capitalism can be made the scapegoat of whatever it is that they happen to hate about the economy at the time. It can stand for corporate corruption and greed, unfair trade with third world nations, excessive profits or the exploitation of workers. Capitalism has become a general smoke-screen for the criticism of avarice and the ultimate in left-wing “woolly” thinking. Is it time for a change? (Read more...)
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Damn Statistics!
by Marcus Bachler
Remember Benjamin Disraeli? That 19th century British Prime Minister and champion of classical liberalism, and his now infamous quote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"? (Read more...)
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 THE LITTLE RED HEN SHRUGGED
by Marcus Bachler
This “Little Red Cock” still wanted to bake his own bread, and thereby not be accused of Little Red Hen-freeloading. So, he modified The Modern Little Red Hen quite radically in order to make its criticism of modern welfare statism more from an Objectivist viewpoint. I call it, The Little Red Hen Shrugged. (Read more...)
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The Paradox Of Choice
by Marcus Bachler
The central “Blur” is the famous “third way” politics that is supposed to advocate a blurring between right and left-wing choices. Now, Blur has found his new academic “single-choice” Knight in Shining “one size fits all” armour. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 14, 2004 |
 The Simpsons (Doh, Simpletons)
by Marcus Bachler
"The Simpsons" is a TV program that gets right up my nose! It is a satire that draws most of its humour by poking fun at the Homer Simpson's stupidity and incompetence. It glorifies the trivial and mundane in life – with nothing better to offer. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 19, 2003 |
The New Con
by Marcus Bachler
I have always assumed that Conservative parties were more the friends of individual liberty, at least in their rhetoric if not in content, than their left-wing counterparts. At least they have always claimed to want to encourage free markets and profits in business, reduce government spending and lower taxes -– and to some extent they still do. Yet lately there has been a shift in this old style rhetoric from Conservative parties in opposition. And I believe that this change has been the result of a shift in strategy of modern day left-wing politics. (Read more...)
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George Orwell: The Fight Against Totalitarianism
by Marcus Bachler
This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell. Therefore it seems an apt time to review the life and ideas of the author whom I considered from the age of 16 onwards to be my favourite author of all time, and this just based upon the reading of his two most famous works. (Read more...)
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The War on Words (Big Brother 2003)
by Marcus Bachler
George Orwell was born exactly 100 years ago today and his masterpiece novel "1984" continues to be an influential best-seller. The nightmare vision of the novel is a description of the ultimate in repressive state control. This story is as relevant to the state politics of today as it has ever been. (Read more...)
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Who are the 100 Greatest Britons?
by Marcus Bachler
Who is the greatest Briton of all? Cromwell? Churchill? Nelson? Robbie Williams? (Read more...)
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The Turd Way
by Marcus Bachler
About a year and a half ago I noticed a book prominently displayed in a bookshop in Oxford, UK. It was called "The Third Way" by Anthony Giddens. (Read more...)
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Here's the Dope
by Marcus Bachler
The British Home Secretary has announced that cannabis will be reclassified from a class B to a class C drug from July 2003 onwards. (Read more...)
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God Save the Queen!
by Marcus Bachler
If the monarchy is ever abolished, it will not be based upon any principles, but due to some scandal or lull in popularity. (Read more...)
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