Bruce Charlton's Notions

We cannot plan stuff and stick to that plan (force it through if necessary), except to make it worse.  Maybe there was a time when good stra...

Some scholars claim this is an image of Mediocrites Socrates's older brother, Mediocrites (c 485 BC-?), is regarded by most modern Weste...

  Gollum in reflective mood At my Notion Club Papers blog ; I give three favourite passages from The Lord of the Rings, in which Gollum'...

The ending of Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner* is one of my absolute favourite pieces of music; for its dramatic complexity but also the un...

What follows is an attempt to explain that we are profoundly mistaken when we try to picture God's creation as an objective and unavoida...

In the past, it was a reasonably effective way to become a Christian (or a better Christian) to learn and practice Christian knowledge syste...

If we have concluded (perhaps from reading the IV Gospel ) that it is true that Jesus came to save sinners; then Christianity is neither a d...

One of the reasons that so many deeply-dissatisfied atheist-materialists are repelled from Christianity; is that Christianity means picking ...

It embarrasses me when anti-Left bloggers use the word "Marxist" to describe modern Western governments and society.  There are no...

I can understand why negations such as obedience, service and humility became popular things to advocate (including in Christianity - but al...

The question of motivation is one that has occupied me since before I began blogging; because I regard the modern West as a profoundly demot...

As a teen and young adult, I wanted to read books - especially fiction, especially novels: so I did.  I read a lot of books even when I was ...

Functionality is taxed, parasites are subsidized and enforced - there, in a nutshell, is the reason why the globalist totalitarian project h...

There are many situations in the modern world where people are in a situation that they know something, but cannot explain it; they cannot j...

Hobbits have Big Hands: the argument is presented at my Notion Club Papers blog .  

I have often written about the twin ultimate-problems ( ineradicable insufficiencies ) of this, our mortal life; under the headings of Entro...

The Occult Revival in the West (esepcially the UK, spreading to Europe and the USA) began with Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society...

Just an observation.  It is striking that the Leftist Westerners who support the ideals of bureaucratic totalitarianism - I mean mostly thos...

The Old Left in Britain was largely rooted in the self-interest of unionized skilled workers, who strove to protect their pay and conditions...

In relation to today's earlier posts, the following may help concretize and clarify the nature of the argument. It picks up on the pub d...

One thing about the Litmus Tests of our era is that they are learning opportunities : but more emphatically they are opportunities to learn ...