totalitarianism /təʊˌtalɪˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m,təˌtalɪˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m/ noun a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. "democratic countries were fighting against totalitarianism" I have been critical of the left's diminution of the English language for a while. The wanton re-definition of words such as 'hate' and 'violence' threaten to sneak into the laws of the land, weakening areas of human rights such as freedom of speech and association. For example, certain types of speech now qualify as 'violence', opening an obvious contention ..read more

I need not preamble on the COVID pandemic too long. I'm sure by now all of my readers are tired of the word. I certainly am. But there are beasts raising their ugly heads in consequence to the pandemic, and those are the subject matter of this article. It has been difficult to watch the federal and state governments descend steeper and steeper down a slippery slope of blatant overreach and constitutional disregard. Yes, many of the measures put in place have been necessary, credit must be given where credit is due. However, any man who has read anything of the political history of the 20th cen ..read more

Everyone has seen it. The list of instructions for the 1950s housewife to make her husband happy, and keep him happy. The kind of stuff we're supposed to be offended by. The kind of stuff that the modern woman should detest (though if you read the list it describes a loving and conscientious wife who cares about her husband and is empathetic towards his struggles and pressures he faces in daily life). But what about men? What are the expectations placed on men largely the same as they always were, but yet much less stigmatised than those placed on women? Men are still expected to participate i ..read more

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury I have written about reading before, and I will continue to write about reading. It is not an exciting subject, but I hope to convince, at the very least, how critical reading is, not just individually, but as a society. There is a great fear among thinking people in the west that this 'information' age may be more detrimental than helpful to the minds of young people. You only need to be under 30 to see or be a part of the damaging effects of instant access to information. The digital vic ..read more

”For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” - Romans 3:23 The apostle Paul said that the dividing line between good and evil is not between Jew and gentile, nor is it between male and female, nor bond servant and free man (Galatians 3:28). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, found that the dividing line between good and evil was not between captor and captive. Viktor Frankl, his life daily at risk in Auschwitz, found that the line wasn’t between Jew and German. Martin Luther King Jr proclaimed that it’s not between black and white. The widespread resounding fai ..read more

When I was a kid, motivational speakers and inspirational posters were still a thing. Now, conventional knowledge has moved on from trying to be motivated all the time and adopted discipline as the key to success. It's now accepted that waiting for motivation, inconsistent as it is, will not go as far as disciplined action despite lack of motivation, and rightly so. But, discipline has proved just as hard to adopt and maintain. Discipline comes easy to few. I especially do not have an easy time with it, and short of, "just do it", the people who practice it well never seem to be able to instru ..read more

What it means to be a man is one of the most debated questions of the 21st century, and probably for good reasons. Rarely are two answers to the subject ever the same and rarely can it be posed online without emotions dominating. Still, it is a question in desperate need of a solution. As a teenager, I was lured into a false belief about manhood by various publications that target young 'modern' men. I remember reading men's lifestyle magazines on my phone as a 16-year-old and thinking that if I dressed this way, or drove that car, or spoke like him, or had that haircut, or wore that cologne ..read more

The great question is, "how can I qualify my son to help society?" Not, as we have so frequently thought, "how can I qualify society to help my son?" If human homes are to fulfil their destiny, then we must have frugality and saving for education and progress. - Robert Menzies, May 1942. During 1942, former Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies broadcast a weekly series of essay's collectively titled, 'The Forgotten People'. They dealt with a range of topics from passing events to "matters of pertinent interest." What they presented to the public was a summarised philosophy which, in a time of ..read more

"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them..." - Psalm 127:4-5. A New Awareness The mind of a father is different to that of a man who is not a father. This I have learned in the first six months of fatherhood. While it satisfies a part of you that nothing else in the world can, and brings what sometimes seems like limitless joy, it also comes with something sinister. You at once have a new awareness of the evil that exists in the world. Perhaps it is the male instinct to protect the helpless little fellow, perha ..read more

If you've read this blog before, you might be aware that personal responsibility is one of the primary features of its content. The words 'personal' and 'responsibility' when put together have political connotations that often turn people away from their user's message. They're words often met with sighs of, "ugh more conservative cliche's", but not enough people take these words seriously, and it shows. There is a lot of noise amid this Covid 19 pandemic relating to the messaging of government and health agencies being vague and inconsistent, that the government isn't doing enough to keep us ..read more