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Jefferson's Autochthon
The Jeffersonian Autochthon: Pre-Civil War The USA is/has a colonialist culture. When Native American land is/was taken, the Anglocentric...
Kurt Heidinger
Mar 13, 20239 min read
1911 "and of the races of men"
> We love the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, no question. It has a trove Social Darwnist archives that will be learned...
Kurt Heidinger
Feb 26, 20231 min read
Bronze and Iron Age Autochthons
The central character of the Western Blood and Soil myth is the autochthon, the person born from the soil. The autochthon is indigenous,...
Kurt Heidinger
Feb 26, 20235 min read
Blood and Soil: An Anglo-American Timeline
It is possible that every nation has a blood and soil myth because the myth serves to legitimize a nation’s claim to land. The Nazi blood...
Kurt Heidinger
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Humanism & the Cell Phone
What is it to be “human”? A most basic question. The answers—bullseyes on dartboards, all hanging from kites. 1) Humus is topsoil, rich...
Kurt Heidinger
Jan 6, 20235 min read
Industrialism and Liberalism: the Evolution and Fate of Both
There are trillions of problems that humans confront and deal with daily; but industrialism is the root cause of most of them. Our...
Kurt Heidinger
Jan 3, 20233 min read
What is Reality?
The word reality denotes "the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them."...
Kurt Heidinger
May 28, 20221 min read
Lake Powell Is Drying Up
How does the world appear to a child who is living in the USA through these first years of the anthropocene, on a planet that has been...
Kurt Heidinger
May 3, 20223 min read
How Neoliberals Destroyed the "Environmental Movement"
Industrialism is a religion: eugenics its key tenet. I've been an environmentalist since ... I vomited chicken noodles all over the...
Kurt Heidinger
Oct 28, 20215 min read
New Canaan: Light the Woods on Fire
Long before there was one in Connecticut, there was a New Canaan where Quincy is, in Massachusetts. This, land of the Wampanoags, is...
Kurt Heidinger
Oct 29, 20203 min read
New Canaan on Indigenous Day 2020
> previous, related posts: New Canaan, Connecticut Old Canaan New Canaan, IBM and the Holocaust For the indigenous people who lived...
Kurt Heidinger
Oct 12, 20203 min read
New Canaan, IBM and the Holocaust
> previous, related posts: New Canaan, Connecticut Old Canaan When I grew up in the '60s and 70s, New Canaan was an IBM town. A large...
Kurt Heidinger
Oct 3, 20205 min read
Old Canaan
Calvinists named "New Canaan", the town I grew up in. As a lad I read the New Canaan Advertiser. Every week at the top of the front...
Kurt Heidinger
Sep 27, 20202 min read
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ann Coulter makes me wonder about New Canaan, the pleasant white upper middle class town we grew up in. Ours was the class of 1980, New...
Kurt Heidinger
Sep 25, 20201 min read
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