Ethereal Insights

"No stupid people" by Jordan Tallent Notes on stupid people | Tuesday – February 24, 2026 I am someone who doesn't like to deal with stupid people, because stupidity works on my nerves and that in turn makes me unable to properly do what I am supposed to do, namely write this blog post for instance. Of course, due to democracy , stupidity is at the forefront and anything really skillful must always be pushed aside, and this is even true in the domain of " reason ", because of course reason isn't the means by which democratic "discourse" is propagated; democracy is always propagated through sentimentalism . This means, essentially, that yes, modern people are both profoundly stupid and ignorant, ignorant because they've been made stupid. Who in this particular iteration of time is really capable enough to receive any kind of divine mandate? None, because those old social distinctions have been erased and the victim of so-called "cyberbully...

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...