John C. Wright's Journal

The Election results are in. Virginia lost.

The Dems retains control of the state senate, and regained control of the House of Delegates.

Meanwhile in Ohio, prenatal infanticide was enshrined as a right in the state constitution. Dems outspent GOP 9-to-1 on propaganda, and the corrupt matriarchy voted enthusiastically for Moloch.

That there are still a majority of voters sufficiently motivated to vote for openly self-destructive and irrational policies confirms fears of civilizational suicide.

Or perhaps there is still a majority of citizens insufficiently motivated to curtail voter fraud. In the modern age, which historians will one day call the Misinformation Age, truth is impossible to discern from fiction.

From Twitter aka X:

Upon a time a few year’s back, I saw a skit or commercial where the female characters from the television show MAD MEN, secretaries and office girls from the 1960’s, were confronted by the time traveling ambassador from their future, our present, portrayed by Ellen Degeneres. She is an untalented celebrity of some sort but known to me only because of her widely publicized sexual degeneracy.

In the little skit, Miss Degeneres exclaims to the benighted damsels of the allegedly remote past that women in the future have full equal rights. She includes “the right to get married” as the crown in the list of such civil rights enjoyed by the future women.

The writers of the skit intended this to be a triumphant rather than a ridiculous statement, and intended it to mean that women of the future have the civil right to get married to each other, that is, to have an unnatural lesbian liaison with one of their own sex called marriage, and treated with solemnity and legal recognition.

As I watched in awe at the perfection of tonedeafness parochialism involved in retrofitting modern Lefty echo-chamber sentiments to the generations of our mothers and grandmothers, I could not help but wonder: by what means have we come to this?

Whether the time traveling ambassador of female emancipation also mentioned the woman’s right to alter their bodies with carcinogenic chemicals to produce temporary sterility, or to kill their own beloved offspring in the womb, and to compel the public coffers to pay for both abominations, that I do not happen to recall, and I am unwilling, due to my delicacy of digestion, to move my finger the half-inch it would require to lookup the matter on the worldwide computer system we enjoy here in the future.

I felt a moment of vertigo as I contemplated the immensity of the gulf that stretched between (1) the rational creatures of the universe and (2) the creatures that had, in all seriousness, conceived and wrote and produced this skit and aired it to the public.

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Net worth before his term as president and after.

• Trump—3B to 2.3B, loss of 700 million
• Obama—1.3M to 70M, gain of 68.7 million
• Bush—20M to 40M, gain of 20 million
• Clinton—1.3M to 241.5M, gain of 240.2 million

Notice who profited the most.

3 USC 102: Compensation of the President of the U.S. Code reads, in part: The President shall receive in full for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected compensation in the aggregate amount of $400,000 a year, to be paid monthly, and in addition an expense allowance of $50,000 to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties. Any unused amount of such expense allowance shall revert to the Treasury…

An updated reprint of a column from 2016, still pertinent today.

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Ours is the Age of Willful Blindness.

We live in a time of utter corruption of the thought process. It is so bad that perfectly obvious looming threats are routinely ignored, whereas non-issues like Global Frauding occupy the full attention of our elite leaders.

It is regrettable that I cannot begin the discussion of how best to survive the coming collapse of the West without devoting an entire column to saying what the danger is.

Safety precautions are not meant to be perfect, merely to be worth the trouble. Wearing a safety belt in a car will not protect your life in every case, merely in enough cases that it is worth the minor trouble of buckling up.

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This is a reprint of a column from years ago, perhaps still pertinent to the modern day: 

This is more like a guest commentary than a question, so you, dear reader, will experience two opinions for the price of one. Let us hear first from Carl Sagan, then from the reader, then I will offer my own comment, and then, finally, the comment from an Roman ghost seen in a dream.

Unfortunately this is print, so I cannot wow you with my powers of voice impersonation. I do a pretty mean Carl Sagan, as well as an excellent Phil Silvers or Hans Conried.

Therefore, readers,  I ask you to use your powers of auditory imagination, and to hear in your mind’s ear Mr. Sagan pronouncing the following words with his signature explosive b’s and sibilant s’s, and the slight pauses before each adjective, as if Mr Sagan savors the taste on his tongue of the precision of his words.  Imagine a voice vibrant with good humor, almost joy, and the ever so slight musical pomposity of tone.
Carl Sagan:

“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines…every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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