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RidingTheTiger.org Discussion forum

29 January 2012

At the request of some of our readers, RidingTheTiger.org has opened a discussion forum. The discussion forum will serve as an area to discuss politics, current events, religion, philosophy, and science from a Traditionalist and Third Position perspective. Registration is free, and forum members will be able to post as soon as they are approved by the moderating team. We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity, and we hope to see you at the forum. You can click on the link below to reach the forum:

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RidingTheTiger.org remembers Bobby Fischer

16 January 2012

Robert James Fischer, known to the world and as “Bobby” Fischer, the world chess champion, passed away on this day in 2008. He was 63 years old. Widely known as one of the world’s best chess players, he was remembered as perhaps the man who revolutionized the game of chess more than anyone else in the 20th century. As a child prodigy, Fischer defeated Byrne, then twice his age in the now-famous ”Game of the Century“. By the age of 14, he was playing in United States Championships, winning each by at least one point. And by the age of 15, he was accorded the title of grandmaster, and became the youngest candidate for the World Championship up until that time. He won the 1963–64 U.S. Championship 11–0, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament.. In 1972, he became [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr: A False Idol

16 January 2012

Today and tomorrow, children all over America, will likely spend some portion of the day eulogizing a modern-day saint, who has been canonized by the media. Assemblies will be called, guest speakers will be brought in, and even others will be “mobilized” in memory of this supposedly greater-than-life hero. Likewise, on this day (an honor not even accorded the founder of the United States) the media, on this day, will whip themselves up into a frenzy of praise for the so-called “Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.” But like all icons of modernity, who are held to lofty heights by the sycophantic politicians and spineless media, let’s take a closer look. Who was Martin Luther King, and is there more to this man than meets the eye? Let’s start with his titles, “Doctor” and “Reverend”. According to many sources, [...]

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Seeking Truth and Rejecting Seductive Lies

26 December 2011

Deus Vult! It is significant to mention that even though we may be by admission considered to be “reactionary”, it is also important not to be aligned with many movements and individuals which label themselves as such. While many movements claim that they represent conservatism or even “paleoconservatism,” their actions and actual creed can speak volumes for their true intentions. Tradition is a perennial set of principles which are eternal and ancient rather than a merely romantic yearning for dead past. While pride in one’s own past and ancestry is a positive trait, and, indeed, a healthy one, traditional ideologies must show that they are living instead of frozen in time. The web of espionage and controlled interests is thick, successful, and all too real. There are many people who wish to wage a heroic, defiant, masculine, and aristocratic [...]

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Christopher Hitchens Dead at 62

17 December 2011

Glória in excélsis Deo. The life-long, unrepentant Trotskyist polemicist and warmongering atheist known as Christopher Hitchens has died of esophageal cancer. Hitchens was a man of his time, an insignificant son of a World War Two British war criminal, who was catapulted to fame through his absolute hatred and intolerance of all things religious, while his younger and more conservative brother faded into obscurity. He blasphemed against God, castigated the Pope, and openly brandished hate against the Catholic Faith (and to a lesser degree Islam), but was a fanatical and follower of modernism down to its last detail, and tolerated no dissent from its orthodoxies and doctrines. In short, whilst those around him praised him as an unconventional and brave man who “dared to speak out,” nothing could be further from the truth. Despite his associations with the New Left, [...]

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Reflections on a visit to the Middle Kingdom

16 December 2011

During the past few months, I have had the opportunity to travel to several countries and speak to many audiences in an various settings. These travels have been most enlightening, because the attitudes I received have been markedly different. In Europe, I was greeted mainly with suspicion and disdain: this was the 21st century, not the 19th, one Frenchman told me. He said with a sort of triumphant disdain, that my ideas were dying out, and soon there would be not even “a single person who remembered what they were”. In Asia, the reception was actually much more pleasant, for at least they had the politeness to “hear me out”. One of the more surreal experiences occurred at a university in China. After I had delivered my scheduled lecture, the floor was opened to questions from the audience. Several Chinese students [...]

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Post-Peak Oil America: Why I’m not Afraid

06 December 2011

Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. This concept has been a concern for some scientists, politicians and economists for a while now, mainly because of the vast implications it may have on the world economy and society at large. According to a National Geographic report, the world may have already passed their peak in oil production (although individual countries may have a decade or so). A 2010 American military report suggested that for the United States, ”By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day.” Of course, this is speculative, as there maybe other sources of oil that have yet to be discovered. [...]

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The Dalai Lama: Not so special after all

03 December 2011

As far as world religious leaders go, there are probably who are held in higher esteem by the Western media and Western intellectuals than the Dalai Lama. His cause is given much sympathy in the West, with numerous Hollywood celebrities and academics joining together to promote the independence of the mountain kingdom. Having been a former Buddhist, I myself once had a great deal of respect for the man who calls himself Tenzin Gyatso, otherwise known to the world as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Although I was not a Tibetan Buddhist, I had regarded him as a person to look up to, because I viewed him as a person to be respected. Despite the Dalai Lama having only a few million followers, as compared to the His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama has received media coverage which is [...]

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History as Myth and the Cult of Victimhood

21 November 2011

Napoleon Bonaparte was reported to have once said, “History is a set of lies agreed upon”. In essence, he was correct. History is generated by consensus of individuals. The generally accepted narratives of what happened at any point in the past, and their relative importance to one another are not universal and vary from place to place. It can be said though, that written history, is not merely an objective record of events. In a deeper sense, history is myth. In this context, myth does not imply that the narrative is completely false. Homer’s Iliad is considered to be well within the realm of myth for its larger than life characters, even though the Trojan War is regarded to have been a historical event. Such myths, which the Greeks referred to as αἴτιον (cause), serve a deeper meaning than [...]

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