Category: Commentary

Ideology is a process accomplished by the so-called thinker consciously, indeed, but with a false consciousness. The real motives impelling him remain unknown to him, otherwise it would not be an ideological process at all. Hence he imagines false or apparent motives. Because it is a process of thought he derives both its form and…

Being Nietzschean (seemingly as a condition of birth), ideas like selfless devotion and blind faith always seemed like someone else’s means to an end, a will to power that wanted to sweep me up. Now it strikes me that statism and superstition are life threatening conditions. If humanity wants to survive we mush hang on to…

The graphic above is from a discussion on a UK website called The Student Room. Chicago Fog believes this is a good representation of the parameters of political beliefs reflected in contemporary society: communism on one end and fascism on the other. Clearly, the maker of the spectrum must be from Canada, but this graphic…

President Trump? Sweet Christmas! The Cubs in the World Series and the end of world must be near. The GOP managed to keep the Senate and the House, making for an absolute disaster for the Dems. Hillary Clinton is done as a politician, and the press is beginning to reveal just how incompetent her campaign was.…

“Classical liberal” is just a better brand of statist. Here’s to hoping democracy will be the final form of government in history. In the U.S. corporate media, democracy is revered in holy tones. It is the cure all of any nation’s ills. It is sacred. The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are…

Political futurism: The state’s devolution will only better humanity. What could the next 100 years look like? I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can…

The kettle boiled but then cooled pretty damn fast. What happened? An analysis of the short-lived Tea Party movement. The “Tea Party” movement received intense media attention when it emerged in early 2009. Derided by popular media but coddled by conservatives, the movement shaped the outcome of the 2010 midterm elections and has since lost…

The inevitable, painful march of developed economies and emerging markets to equalize standards of living. Paul Kennedy’s “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers” that’s central premise was every empire in history fell due to economic weakness and an over burdened military. The fact is this country is still the only super power (despite media…

Syria, Anarchism’s Bad Brand, and Libya: Early experiments in essays for which Chicago Fog begs the reader’s forgiveness in advance of reading.

The Arab Spring, frustration about political arguments, and Nietzsche: Early experiments in essays for which Armchair Mutineer begs the reader’s forgiveness in advance of reading.