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Tweet Participants march against sexual assault and harassment at the #MeToo March in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) What we are observing in our feminized and “socially correct” culture today is a prurient obsession with sex—in particular, an inverse preoccupation with matters sexual, as if exemplifying the puritanical perversity of condemning that which one secretly desires. It’s as if we are now living in some febrile Na’vi world, our progressivist reformers having embarked on a vendetta against sexual desire and ro...

Evasions Of Responsibility: The Positivist Mindset  Share   Share Trending By 1919, Paul Valéry believed that the scales which had once tipped in Europe’s favor were shifting. Its technology could now be imitated and produced almost anywhere. This was presaged by the rise of ambitious new powers, such as Germany and Japan. Once born, once tested and proved by its practical applications, our science became a means of power, a means of physical domination, a creator of material wealth, an apparatus for exploiting the resources of the whole planet – ceasing to be an ‘end in itself’ a...