Bruce Charlton's Notions

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-lay-of-aotrou-and-itroun-tolkiens.htm l *

* There are some really foolish people around. I mean those who look-forward with a positive relish to the collapse of the West sometime ...

* http://the-doosra.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/saeed-ajmal-is-as-good-or-better-than.html http://the-doosra.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/what-woul...

* Probably not much - because we are not in any reversible pendulum swing such as has happened before in history, but off the chart. The...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/was-jrr-tolkien-pessimist-no-not-really.html http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/201...

* The modern  mass media is not in its essence propaganda: it is participation. It is engagement with the mass media that is pernicious...

* I think Christianity is supposed to display both sweetness and strength, which combination is the consequence of love; as shown in human...

* Of course slavery is certainly a bad thing in the narrow sense that nobody would want to be a slave all else being equal . But in real...

* Just a note to give a name to what the media does all the time with big visceral impact news stories - stories about atrocities, particu...

* Suggestions at: http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/if-you-were-including-tolkien-in.html *

* Total resistance to the modern mass media is impossible in The West - because the mass media is pervasive and omni-seductive. So power...

* Although I have been reading Middle English for forty years, on and off, including the Gawain poet - and more recently Langland's Pi...

* Having spent several years proving - to my own satisfaction, at least - the innate corruption of the modern mass media; the question ari...

* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/animal-spirits-akerlof-shiller-review.html *

* As of a few minutes ago, I noticed that the blog has passed a million page views - specifically it had one million, forty-four thousand ...

* Yes, pretty much correct. It turns-out that 'everything' is, pretty much, explained by sex - at least so far as secular modern...

* In the year 161 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ascended the Julian throne. Under that strenuous and ethical rationalist, persecution [of the...

* In the mid-seventies, as a mid-teen, I discovered Classical Music, and of course wanted to buy as many vinyl LPs as possible, so I could...

* The early Leftists, Fabians and Bolsheviks, for example, were very keen on central planning and 'rational' decision making in th...

* A long time ago, mainstream Leftism used to be utopian - and to re-explore that era I began looking through my old copy of News from Now...

* The following excerpted talk from one of the Mormon leaders (an Elder of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) demonstrates to Mainstream d...