seanessay.com Today my blog has a short “bright” thingy… and then a long “boring” thingy, which—although super important— you will merely skim over, trust me. First, the bright: Have you ever sung, in the Beatles song, for Get Back, “Lady Modern” instead of Lady Martin? Or, for their LSD song, “The girl with colitis goes […]
Jung and Sue Face the Future
Jung and Sue sat silent in the still darkness. Jung said at last, “If we are to get a message to the king, show him Hardspear’s ring, then we can’t travel openly… We can’t stay at any inn. Can’t use public transport. It will be rough. Doable, but rough… I can do it alone, but […]
Social Media Obscures like Pond Scum
seanessay.com I often think of social media in the “long form.” For example, the stories that caused Europeans to burn cell towers, or the villagers in India to kill strangers, including a government man who had been sent to tell them not to kill, or, in America, causing a man to take a rifle into […]
How Everyone But Leftists Learn
seanessay.com From yesterday’s Free Fall Friday comes this a poem. Ignore my poetic license; Sir Winston Churchill did not exactly fail school, but he had his troubles. He started writing as a young man, and I am privileged to have several old volumes of his personal essays. Journalists may recall Strunk and White’s advice to […]
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 […]
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 […]