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Conmunities Redux
Dealing with a small health condition, I was recently led to wonder if I should make changes to my diet. Should I eat more vegetables? Should I eat…
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January Diary
Hello, Obligatory shilling. This month I wrote for my Substack subscribers about Colin Wilson and consciousness, Jim Cornette conservatism, Lex…
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Jan 30
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Is Japan Stuck In the Past?
I have no plans to ever leave Poland but if I do — which is far from impossible — I hope I won’t sit down and pen an op-ed laying out its good and bad…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 25
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Remembering Mum
My mother died two years ago today, at the age of 59, as a result of cancer. It was terribly unfair for Mum to die of cancer. She never smoked a…
Jan 23
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WEF? WTF?
Some readers might remember when the slur of choice among opponents of the governments of the US and the UK was “neocon”. Neoconservatives were an…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 16
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In Defence of My Irritable Mental Gestures
I had the pleasure of meeting the excellent journalist and commentator Fred Skulthorp in Katowice this week. During our conversation we spoke about the…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 13
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How I Learned to Respect the Ancient Egyptians
When I started university in London, as a troubled young progressive, our tutors took us to the British Museum as some kind of bonding exercise. It…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 11
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WHAT ABOUT THE ARTS!?
When the papers started to report that Rishi Sunak was planning to extend maths teaching throughout secondary education I was very much amused. Bills…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 10
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Lex's Reading List
Who on Earth is Lex Fridman? I don’t know! I feel like I woke up one morning and was expected to have some kind of deep acquaintance with him — like the…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 2
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Jim Cornette Conservatism
My podcast tastes are niche. Joe Rogan? I stopped listening. I don’t have Spotify and somehow can’t be bothered to download it — even when I know it…
Ben Sixsmith
Jan 2
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December 2022
Colin Wilson and Consciousness
When I was a young teenager I wasted a lot of time and money reading the NME. It was the mid-noughties and British music journalists were wetting their…
Ben Sixsmith
Dec 29, 2022
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Why I Don't Eat Animals
“People come up to me,” said the great stand-up comedian Emo Phillips, “And say, “Emo, do people really come up to you?”” I think about this joke…
Ben Sixsmith
Dec 27, 2022
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