If you read only one VJM Publishing essay this decade, make it this one: my entry to the Berggruen Prize Essay Contest 2025. The best argument for the primacy of consciousness I can manage!
Some people have big muscles
Some people have knives
Some people have guns
Some people have brains
Intelligence is just a weapon. That's all it's ever been. There is nothing moral or spiritual about it. The intelligent are no more closer to God than the restarted.
Anyone asking why white people are doing so badly need only consider one factor: our mainstream religion glorifies in the destruction of our own culture and history
The truth is, early Christians behaved very much like a woke mob or Islamic extremists.
They demolished, vandalised, or melted down a staggering amount of art. Statues were routinely knocked down, defaced and defiled, torn limb from limb by frenzied fanatics. /1
