Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Identity politics | Monday – February 23, 2026 The preponderance of what has been labeled "identity politics" or "identity discourse" seems to have reached a kind of crescendo in the Western world , particularly within the dying American Empire , which seems curious in light of the supposedly " enlightened " and individualistic ideals of that society; more about that in my post about the "American Empire" that I linked to above. If you're also interested in understanding identity then I direct you to my " Collectivism & Individualism series ", where I dwell on the concepts of identity and collectivist politics in greater detail. So, I do not intend on rehashing or repeating what I have stated elsewhere in this post.     What is identity politics and has it really reached a peak? Well, I will start by dispelling the last part of that question: I do not believe that the phenomena of identity discourse...

Bedouins ( بَدْو ) in the Hejaz ( ٱلْحِجَاز ), 16th century Notes on Polygamy | Sunday – February 22, 2026 P olygamy as the moderns refer to the otherwise normal practice of a husband taking more than one wife, which is really referred to as polygyny, is the source of some controversy and confusion, and really it must be stated that the practice of taking more than one wife is often considered something quite  reprehensible by these same moderns, and again this moral confusion is really particularly expressed in the West . Excuse my usage of the neologisms "polygamy" and "polygyny", for these words are entirely modern in origin and it's really quite clear from the prefix "poly" that the modern obsession with measurement, number, and quantification is what can be described as the source of the confusion in this connection; from this point onward I intend to only rely on the word polygamy to mean essentially what the more precise word polygyny refers to...

Soviet cosmonauts ( космонавт ) By Pavel Neznanov The Big Lie | Saturday – February 21, 2026 If you're familiar with this side of the internet, I'm sure you've heard about how the world, at any rate in its current state, really is a big fat lie? And sure, this wouldn't be a false description of the current state of affairs, but this kinda blasé and unskillful attitude towards the larger picture really isn't helpful either; apart from that the lack of knowledge that this attitude tends to carry is also not very helpful, since this tends to make people very open to more liars and more charlatans. See, you're suspicion that the banking sector, for instance, probably isn't very " Godly ", for lack of a better word, isn't not entirely misplaced, and further your suspicion of the whole rotten structure of the entire system is also quite righteous, but then again you lack skills and you lack insight. It would be perfectly right to label the war , w...