5 days agoFailure of the secularAppendix to “The Battle of Woke Hill” And now I say to you, stand back from these men and leave them; for if this movement or this work is from men it will be destroyed; but if it is from God you will not be able to destroy them; you…Secularism42 min readSecularism42 min read
Mar 15Fishing famIt’s 21 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now. Clear, with the Southeastern treeline painted orange and salmon as the sun’s drawn up out of the horizon. The snow outside warmed to 34 yesterday. It’s refrozen now and cracks underfoot. Today is the Ides of March, for you Shakespeare fans. …Fishing10 min readFishing10 min read
Feb 26The Battle of Woke HillA stupid person is a real thing. — Haitian proverb I write this not as a righteous man, but as a sinner. You can apply that confession throughout. I’m also a presumptuous and un-pretty man, a philosophical and theological novitiate — a dilettante were I less serious about what I…Catholic92 min readCatholic92 min read
Feb 19Stand by, pleaseI know I took a break in putting out the Desire book, and I’ve been on radio silence for a bit. Working on a long piece on the Woke Wars, which has turned into a wrestling match with a graphomanic anaconda. Thanks for your patience.1 min read1 min read
Feb 2Microchip AnnihilationWhen you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger. — General Mike Minihan On January 27th, a leaked memorandum came to light from General Mike Minihan, Commander of the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, in which this man…6 min read6 min read
Jan 12DesireCopyright © Stan Goff 2023, All Rights Reserved an online freebook NOTE to readers: I’m posting this book on chapter a day, each day adding a new one . . . hopefully. Some days will get dropped, because that’s how things are. My goal is to get the whole thing…Desire216 min readDesire216 min read
Jan 10Germany takeawaysSome first reflections for 2023 We haven’t been on a plane together, Sherry and me, since we returned from Costa Rica in 2011. In my winter years, I’ve come to hate air travel . . . or I should say airports and commercial aircraft. My rather substantial hearing loss is…Germany11 min readGermany11 min read
Dec 24, 2022Fusion! Humbug!Techno-utopian hope springs eternal. Ooooo-aaaahhhh, fusion is here! We really can keep making shit using energy slaves forever! The myth of progress has been renewed! Am I just a curmudgeon? An ill-tempered Schopenhauerean naysayer? A hopeless misanthrope with a compulsion to urinate on our most venerated dreamscapes? Fusion energy (not…Fusion2 min readFusion2 min read
Dec 12, 2022Pandemic revelations (and confessions)I’ve not posted about Covid for quite some time. This time I’m going into radioactive territory. I’ll start with a confession. I was wrong about some things I thought and said in the early days of the pandemic. …Covid-1961 min readCovid-1961 min read
Nov 29, 2022Soteriology of the impersonalWe’ll be saved until we’re out of date. Meanwhile, we’ll be incompetent, benumbed, and addicted in the cold embrace of our idols — education, medicine, finance, factory farms, studios, technology, think tanks, and therapists. How’s that for a metanarrative? You and I, we’re the feedstock of institutions, the tail having…Efficiency2 min readEfficiency2 min read
