Immanentize the Eschaton

Went to Fred Reed’s blog, and to my dismay I find that he’s retiring his website! He has several reasons, but this speaks volumes:

“…the hope that, however minor my voice might be, in combination with thousands of others it might engender pressure for slowing the rush into the high-tech medieval twilight that the culture has undertaken.

This by now is clearly quixotic. The civilizational changes we now see are both irremediable and beyond control. The peasantrification and empty glitter of society, pervasive hostility to careful thought, onrushing authoritarianism, and distaste for cultivation are now endemic. I do not know where these lead, but we are assuredly going to get there. Fuming buys nothing.

I have just turned 63. Judging by familial history I have ten to fifteen years left on the planet. I have no intention of spending them railing against the inevitable.”

While I didn’t agree with everything Fred put out there (see my rant here), he writes with a style I much admire, and he is spot on (IMHO) when he takes on the educrats and their failures, as well as the innate differences between men and women. Surfing the intertubes was usually rewarded when I spent an hour or so reading Fred’s columns.

So long Fred. I hope all goes well at Johns Hopkins, and that you return to writing ASAP!