The Last Autonomist Article: [02/18/08 ] The Autonomist is not dead. It has been reincarnated as the Independent Individualist, transported to a higher level of existence. If you look within the Independent Individualist, you will find the soul of The Autonomist lives on.

Firehammer, Rand, and Objectivism [01/25/08 ] First let me say, I really do not care what anyone calls me, or thinks I am or supposes I believe or think, even if what they call me, think I am or suppose I believe or think is untrue. Those who know me personally know the truth—as for the rest, I don't really care at all.

DOD's Complicity in the Islamization of America [01/09/08 ] Perhaps it should not be shocking that a highly respected U.S. military specialists on Islamist law should be fired from the Department of Defense (DOD) at the behest of a Muslim. Paul Sperry's 2005 book, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington, alreaady documents the extent of Islamist influence and infiltration in US prisons, the military, universities, and key government agencies such as the FBI, the Pentagon, the State Department, and even the White House. We already knew that, but there is something much more frightening about this story.

Freedom of Press and Speech Sacrificed to Islam [01/07/08 ] The world's governments, especially those that pride themselves on being secular, are being used to force religious compliance on everyone. When an Ideology is given special status, so that any speech, article, book, or commentary is repressed if it is unfavorable toward that ideology, it has become the state religion, in this case, the "state" is comprised of most of this world's governments.

Concepts—Simple: Basic Principles and Nature of Concepts [12/11/07 ] In the brief introduction to concepts I explained that a concept is a complex consisting of two components, a word and a definition, and that its only function is to identify something which is isolated or indicated by the definition. What a concept identifies are existents, and existents can be anything: entities, events, qualities, relationships, or other concepts; concrete or abstract.

Firehammer a Spiritualist?: If so, firehammer doesn't know it. [12/07/07 ] If someone had not pointed this out to me, I would never have noticed it. I have no interest in what anyone says about me or attributes to me, personally. I'm an independent individualist, and what anyone else thinks or says about me is of no interest to me. This is not about me, but about an idea.

Psychology's Anticivilizing Influence on the West: Part 1, How it Began and Where it's Going [11/12/07 ] In, "Roots of Revolution," I identified six major threads of influence destroying every aspect of Western civilization's society and culture: : 1. Cultural Marxism; 2. Post Modernism; 3. Psychology; 4. Sociology; 5. Education; and 6. Humanism.

The Building Blocks of Knowledge [11/02/07 ] Not all our knowledge is absolutely certain, but much of it is, and all the knowledge we must have to live successfully and happily in this world we can know with absolute certainty. One barrier to knowledge is not knowing what knowledge itself is. The purpose of this introduction is to clear up from the beginning one major problem with all attempts to understand the nature of knowledge which is the confusion that surrounds the terminology that must be used in any discussion of knowledge or epistemology.

Perception: The Validity of Perceptual Evidence [10/31/07 ] Knowledge begins with consciousness. I do not mean that consciousness is itself knowledge, but that if we are to know anything we must first be conscious of it. It is not enough just to be conscious, however, if it is to be capable of providing us knowledge. If what we are conscious of is not totally reliable and valid, no certain knowledge is possible.

Consciousness: The Metaphysical Nature of Perception [10/29/07 ] In philosophy, the study of the nature of knowledge is called epistemology. It is the most important branch of philosophy because it answers the most important question of all: what is knowledge? If that question is not answered correctly, all knowledge is in doubt, including all other philosophical knowledge. A better way to put the question, then, since knowledge must be assumed, is what do we know and how do we know it?

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 4 [10/15/07 ] There is something else Gramsci and Hume had in common—they are both thoroughgoing collectivists. Gramsci's Marxism is obviously collectivist but it may not be as obvious that Hume was an unabashed collectivist, as well.

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 3 [10/12/07 ] The first of Hume's two destructive concepts referred to in the previous part of this article is found in "Section V, Sceptical Solution of These Doubts, Part I" where he introduces what he calls a "principle" that is his explanation and justification for believing in cause and effect. "This principle is Custom or Habit. For wherever the repetition of any particular act or operation produces a propensity to renew the same act or operation, without being impelled by any reasoning or process of the understanding, we always say, that this propensity is the effect of Custom. ... This hypothesis seems even the only one which explains the difficulty, why we draw, from a thousand instances, an inference which we are not able to draw from one instance, that is, in no respect, different from them. Reason is incapable of any such variation. The conclusions which it draws from considering one circle are the same which it would form upon surveying all the circles in the universe. But no man, having seen only one body move after being impelled by another, could infer that every other body will move after a like impulse. All inferences from experience, therefore, are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 2 [10/11/07 ] Hume's reduction of ideas to nothing more than fuzzy remembered images of actual perceptions is wrongly called empiricism. John Locke is the father of true empiricism, which is nothing more than a denial of innate (or a priori) knowledge and philosophical rationalism (the belief that knowledge can be derived by reason alone without reference to the perceived world) and insistence that all knowledge is derived and based on conscious experience of the world. For Locke, the world we are conscious of is objectively real, and it is our conscious perception of that objectively real world and our reasoning about it which is the only source of true knowledge.

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 1 [10/10/07 ] Postmodernism, according to the Public Broadcasting System, is:

A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, knowing always that the outcome of one's own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative, rather than certain and universal.

The Roots of Revolution [09/17/07 ] In the opening article to this series, "Marxist Revolution of the West," I explained that the revolution that has all but destroyed Western civilization, and is in its final stages in every aspect of Western society and culture, though explicitly planned and initiated by avowed Marxists, it was contributions of other individuals, movements, and institutions that made it possible for the revolution to be so spectacularly pulled off. The interrelationships between these various contributors to the revolution is very complex. There are six major threads of influence which I have identified and in terms of which all the complexity of that revolution can be explained.

American Decadence—Part 4 of 4: The Characteristics of an Uncivilized People [06/29/07 ] There is another feature of declining cultures, such as ours, which to many is quite bewildering—the sexual exploitation of children which I've documented in this article. The bewildering aspect of this is not just the horrors it inflicts on young boys and girls, which are bad enough, but what kind of people could be part of that horror and what attracts them to it.

American Decadence—Part 3 of 4: The Characteristics of an Uncivilized People [06/28/07 ] Civilized people have a certain look. It's a reflection of that dignity that comes from their values and their knowledge of what is and is not appropriate to human nature, that is, the kind of being a human being is—the way one dresses and presents himself is a reflection of who and what he is, of his values, and his sense of the importance of decency and integrity, of being the best he can possibly be.

American Decadence—Part 2 of 4: The Characteristics of an Uncivilized People [06/27/07 ] Only a Savage Society Savages its Children What are we doing to our children? "The average age a child is first exposed to pornography online is 11 years old. Nearly all (90 percent) of kids aged 8-16 have viewed porn online." What kind society does that to their children?

American Decadence—Part 1 of 4: The Characteristics of an Uncivilized People [06/26/07 ] In describing the character of the people who dominated the society of the 50s I used words like courtesy, decency, respect, reverence, and dignity. None of these words can be used to describe the last two or three generations except in the negative. Today's society can only be described as discourteous, indecent, disrespectful, irreverent, and; well, there isn't a word that captures what those with no sense of personal dignity truly are, graceless, or despicable, or contemptible, perhaps.

American Decadence—Part 1 of 4: The Characteristics of an Uncivilized People [06/26/07 ] In describing the character of the people who dominated the society of the 50s I used words like courtesy, decency, respect, reverence, and dignity. None of these words can be used to describe the last two or three generations except in the negative. Today's society can only be described as discourteous, indecent, disrespectful, irreverent, and; well, there isn't a word that captures what those with no sense of personal dignity truly are, graceless, or despicable, or contemptible, perhaps.