The Hot Air Machine

            W e can all agree that ethnic slurs aren’t really nice to say, right? They are words created for the sole purpose of giving a demeaning label to a certain group and are altogether words of depravity. Anyone who uses them in malice does not have good intentions in their heart. These are statements we can agree with, right? For the ethnic groups that these terms exist for, so basically every ethnicity in the World, they should be especially agreeable. In social and political circles, those who use these words for malice and denigration usually make themselves hard to associate with and toss themselves into disrepute; how many careers have been ruined in recent   years by people who were outed for speaking slurs?             Yes, this is an opinion that most can agree on. Racism, bad; slurs, bad. However, this opinion seems to be hard to understand by an ideologi...

U p to five city blocks occupied. Dozens if not hundreds of participants. Enduring for three entire weeks. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) seemed to be an ambitious creation by anarchists and far-leftists within the United States. It riled up fervor even more during the coterminous Floyd protests that it was a by-product of. So, did such an ambitious and radical demonstration teach us anything? What can we learn from it? Haha, absolutely nothing! The CHAZ was an embarrassing failure that proves nothing except that everything it stood for, as we already knew, was wrong. As if it needs to be stated, anarchy is unsustainable due to human nature, which is corrupted by hedonism and greed. Such has been the way of things since the Fall of Man. The basis of Western liberal-democratic philosophy, along with my own philosophy, lies with the legendary John Locke. Per his philosophy, which most notably shaped America’s political origins, human society originated from the State of Nature...