They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1984 was supposed to be a warning, but now it is playing out as a movie in the real world. In the wake of the Christchurch shooting last Friday, New Zealand has completely transformed into […]
Read more "Freedom and Security"Driving in Auckland during peak hours is a serious patience lesson everyday. New Zealand is known for its natural beauty and nice people, we have a unique culture of tolerance for other people’s quirks and no patience for people’s shenanigans. I have noticed that foreign people and people who have not assimilated into our culture […]
Read more "On the Road"The recent backlash to Gillette’s ad campaign should come to no surprises to anyone. The 1 minute 48 seconds ad was full of the most obvious form of propaganda available, it depicted “toxic masculinity” in the form “men” behaving badly, specifically Caucasian men behaving badly which according to the ad, is very common. The notorious […]
Read more "Go Woke and Go Broke"Guess what? Ayn Rand’s warning against the New Left is making news again, this time in the form of Dr. James Watson, a renowned geneticist who was known for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule. It’s important to know that Dr. Watson believes in the collectivist concept of environmentalism, but that doesn’t stop him […]
Read more "In Defence of Science"Gone With the Wind easily and instantly became one of my favourite books upon reading it. I enjoyed the style, the themes, the writing, the characters and the symbolism. The romantic realism depicted in the book makes me classify this as an Objectivist literature. Katie Scarlett O’Hara– The heroine of the novel, a Southern belle […]
Read more "Fiddle-dee-dee-Review: Gone With the Wind"My paternal grandmother died, I had to go to Taiwan for a week for the funeral. The death didn’t really affect me as much, but two things made me think really hard about my life since I went back during the turning point of 2018 to 2019. One thing that I thought hard about was […]
Read more "Finding Myself"It’s been a distressful morning. I watched the video of a young woman getting raped and beheaded which has been circulating around the internet, I cried. I was not crying because of the content of the video, no, I was crying because this was a preventable incident, yet it still happened. The background of the […]
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