Bruce Charlton's Notions

Why do people still have faith in inverted institutions? Why, that is, do people still assume - and live on the basis that - institutions/ o...

There has usually been, and commonly, a yearning for a Messiah - a deliverer or saviour of a people or the world.  The deep problem is not ...

People apparently have difficulty understanding (or explaining to themselves) just why post-November 2022 "AI" is qualitatively wo...

The problem with the most prevalent forms of mainstream, normal evil - such as the Litmus Test issues - is that they are invited into the h...

I have long been sceptical about the benefits of arguing ; because the result of any significant argument is settled in advance by fundament...

If I am correct that the ruling class are divided between - on the one side - totalitarian bureaucrats with the aim of omni-surveillance and...

A message for all my loyal readers: Pinch Punch First of the Month!  (No returns.) It's really no big deal in the scheme of things, a sy...

A significant minority of people are, and more claim to be, naturally psychic - spontaneously in touch with the occult world of spirits.  Th...

I am impressed and convinced by the way that the Fourth Gospel always describes Jesus's love in terms of specific and inter-personal lo...

My prediction for 2026 is that "AI" will continue to subvert self-identified Christians (as well as everybody else); in particular...

Because we live in a materialist and incoherent society; from the nihilistic despair of which we crave temporary alleviation - we are contin...

I often got confused during my very first reading of The Lord of the Rings, because I was mixing-up Sauron with Saruman.  So how was it that...

The Massacre of the Innocents , by Pieter Breughel the Elder; this is the subject matter of the Coventry Carol  Many people's favourite ...

Britain is plagued by Christmas Song anthologies that get replayed every year in places like supermarkets - most come from pop novelty recor...

Real bottom-up nationalism was a phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th century - it was, indeed, the first attempt by developing natio...

Anyone who has a (more-or-less) coherent religious basis; can observe that the high level global ruling class is pursuing some kind of cover...

He bore him up, he bore him down,  He bore him into an orchard brown.  (Chorus)  Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!  The falcon has borne my make...

We live in what must surely be the most calculatedly untruthful society and civilization in world history - where dishonesty is expected and...

Many of us are, or have been, nostaligic and indeed envious of the remnant tribalisms of this modern world; because we European-descended pe...

I regard the Winter Solstice as a phase of the year lasting about a week, rather than today specifically. Because day length barely changes ...

FC Letters, JRRT For those of you who have only begun reading this blog within the last dozen years - here is a reprise of my particular fav...