seanessay.com My week has been productive, but not blog-wise, because I’ve been on holiday, then working on a piece for my “Creative Nonfiction” class. Derek Sivers e-mailed me from New Zealand to ask about the class, but it was too hard for me to describe without oversimplifying and thereby misleading. So I sent him an […]
Flower Child Angrily Told to Go Take a Hike
seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday No, I’m not nostalgic for the sixties. OK, for some of the fashions, maybe, but mostly it was a big hoax. Someone came across a girl by some park bleachers, perfectly looking like a hippie in a buckskin jacket, headband and so forth, a girl with a clear complexion. Turned […]
Barbarians At the Campus Gate
seanessay.com I already knew about unbelievable student barbarians gathering at certain Canadian campuses: Trying to silence Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson when he is invited to campus to speak, even though he denies being transphobic. Now, this week, I see it happening over in England, with students trying to get Professor Kathleen Stock fired. At least […]
Sue is Boggled, While Jung Extricates Her
seanessay.com The strange civilian was struggling to speak. “I, har… I.” Jung knew the signs instantly. “He’s had truth-tell, like for interrogations.” The girl said hesitantly, “Yes?” “Look: He’s got the blue lips of oxygen loss, a side effect; the stammer and the quivering lips of the main drug acting; and he may start talking […]
Marxists infest the Prairie Campus
A fellow Albertan, Professor Jordan Peterson, makes an amazing claim: Professors who believe in “postmodernism” and/or “Marxism” (communism) make up much of the humanities faculty. Hard to believe, in this day and age, that professors still believe in Marxism, or in NeoMarxism. Is Peterson mistaken? Maybe not, hence I am reprinting part of my essay […]
Moving Ideals and Ayn Rand
seanessay.com Datelined September 22: “The Chinese government, under his leadership, has started putting the Communist back in the Communist Party, at least to some extent.” (BBC) “Well I really liked this movie when I first saw it as an idealistic, hopeful, spiritual teenager. I watched it again recently and realized what a cynical, skeptical, pessimistic, […]