Christopher Buck Robertson – Page 14

Real Journalism

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:November 1, 2018
Post category:Media People
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I'd be willing to bet that many people are kind of sick of hearing people like me bemoan the decline of journalism, how the media is generally partisan garbage, and…

Carhartts and Blackbelts: On the Symbols of Mastery

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 31, 2018
Post category:Philosophy Psychology
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When I was in martial arts, we were taught that the old Okinawan belt system was not what it is today, where dyed belts in white, yellow, blue, orange, purple,…

Sleep Walking Elite: An Analysis

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 27, 2018
Post category:Art Literature
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I enjoy writing about music from time to time, whether it's about a particular song, or a band, or the nature of music in general. Like many people, I listen…

Word Bombs

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 25, 2018
Post category:Culture Politics
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What seems most pertinent in this whole pipe-bomb story is the fact that they were described as "crude:" A sudden wave of pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack…

Gold Enough

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 20, 2018
Post category:Literature Poetry
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Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…

More Peterson Shenanigans: An Autopsy

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 20, 2018
Post category:People Philosophy
Post comments:6 Comments

I have no desire to get into the Thunderf00t game of beating dead horses, but sometimes an illustration is so illustrative that it is worth illustrating how illustrative it is.…

Caveats on Orwell

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 18, 2018
Post category:Culture Literature
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From almost six years back, Ed Smith has some interesting insight on the subject of deceptive speech and Orwell's Politics and the English Language: Orwell argues that “the great enemy of…

Politics and the English Language

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 18, 2018
Post category:Literature Politics
Post comments:3 Comments

By George Orwell Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we…

News That Makes You Stupid

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 17, 2018
Post category:Media Psychology
Post comments:2 Comments

I perused through an old article this morning, a special from The Atlantic on Andrew Anglin. The piece was written more than a year ago, and I had neglected it at the…

Proclivity to Degeneration

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:October 15, 2018
Post category:Culture People
Post comments:2 Comments

Reading the comments of my recent video about Jordan Peterson, I was reminded of something: KangaRude Media Vox was not right, hahahaha more soy boys Getting in touch with the…