Rape Culture Carping
By Olivia Piersonhttp://www.oliviapierson.org/b...A few years ago, when my 90 year old grandmother was still alive, I told her to make sure she kept her ground floor windows shut to discourage any...
View ArticleTo Doug Bandler
Aloha Doug and anyone else who may be interested. I don't know how to contact you, so I'm going through SOLO. In the past you have expressed interest in my old blog "The Dougout." So, I just wanted to...
View ArticleSupaDupa Band!
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra had a lot of competition in Wellington last Saturday—the CubaDupa 2017 weekend was on, meaning most of Cuba St was cordoned off to vehicular traffic so that sundry...
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High-Quality Videos
I think it would be nice if there was a place here for high-quality videos, such as films, t'v' shows, and video shorts. Watching well-made videos is one of the great pleasures of life. Perhaps the...
View ArticleHager Trying to Mess with the Big Boys Again. Yawn.
By Olivia Piersonhttp://www.oliviapierson.org/b...I have learned with the New Zealand media, that whenever a story gets sprayed out in a one-sided fashion from almost every single media orifice known...
View ArticleMario, Mark and Johannes—Glory Lives!
Australian tenor Mark Vincent, who won the Australia's Got Talent competition at the age of 15, has just released a CD called A Tribute to Mario Lanza, the latest in a long line of tenors to do so. It...
View ArticlePassing By
"What the hell is going on here?"Zal looked at the creature and pondered."Beats the shit out of me."Remyulak looked at Zal defiantly. He refused to repeat the question."You tell me," said Zal, just as...
View ArticleThe Harry Potter Syndrome in Objectivism
Soon after I became active in the FB Objectivist circles about 3-years ago, I realized that Ayn Rand’s philosophy of reason has transmogrified into a system of revelation. Many Objectivists believe...
View ArticleSay It Ain't So Donald, Say It Ain't So
Trump's secretary of state has said the USA is working on a plan to remove Assad from power.There are rumors that there will be an attack on Syria soon.I supported Trump because I thought he would have...
View ArticleMartin Fröst Played ... and the Earth Moved!
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (the NZSO, hereinafter to be called TWBB: The World's Best Band) was in fabulous fettle last Friday night when its gig at the Michael Fowler Centre comprised Mozart's...
View ArticleThe Revelation: The Cult of Orthodox Objectivists Exists
There was a time when I used to vehemently reject the idea that the cult of “Orthodox Objectivists” could ever exist. I thought that the phrase “Orthodox Objectivist” is a figment of the imagination of...
View ArticleThe Assad Regime is Secular, My Foot.
By Olivia Piersonhttp://www.oliviapierson.org/b...Right now in media circulation, a big lie is doing the rounds: that Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is a secular regime. This is not true. The same...
View ArticleThe Confessions of an Orthodox Objectivist
I have a confession to make. For two years I was an Orthodox Objectivist. On any usual day, I used to make nice and reverent comments in the social media about some Objectivist God or demigod (I will...
View ArticleMake New Zealand Great Again!!
MAKE NEW ZEALAND GREAT AGAIN MEETUPEvent to be held at the following time, date and location:Friday, 21 April 2017 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (NZST)Amano, 66 Tyler Street, Britomart, Auckland 1010 New...
View ArticleAn American Theocracy? Peikoff's prediction in The DIM Hypothesis
When I read Dr. Leonard Peikoff's book "The DIM Hypothesis", I thought is was a very valuable take on the influence of a civilization's primary epistemological methods on the resulting culture and...
View ArticleIt's Le Pen Versus Macron!
There's no joy in Irvine. Mighty Yaron has struck out!Western civilization lives to fight another day!
View ArticleCharity
"My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy...
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Islamophobia! .... versus an actual conversation.
Hello people,Step 1. to opening up the public conversation on Islam, is to attack the name-calling trick.The use of words like "Islamophobic" and "Racist" all serve to shut down the conversation on...
View ArticleThe Current US Government is Evil
Andrew Atkin repeated a sentiment common in Objectivist circles. He said the following:Maybe I should have said "We know better" not "We know best".Yes our current civilisation has gone weird (and...
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