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William Hunter Duncan
Jan 09, 2024
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Snake

William Hunter Duncan
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March 9, 2023
Snake

I heard this morning my friend “Snake” Craig Bloomstrand died. He had lymphoma 10 years ago, went through treatment into remission, then this past summer the cancer returned. This second round, he was going through treatment, but then somehow the cancer made it to his brain, and there is no treatment for such. He went home, on hospice, only about two we…

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Trans

William Hunter Duncan
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September 14, 2023
Trans

[post too long for email] I’ve been very hard on the Trans movement on this Substack. I was hardly aware of the Trans movement until 2020. At first I was supportive, this is America, the land of the free, be who you feel called to be. I watched the first two seasons of the TV Series

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Modernity, Not

William Hunter Duncan
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June 9, 2023
Modernity, Not

One of the most hollow and empty ideas of the religion of progress is the electric automobile. If we take progressives to be the primary adherents of the religion of progress, of sheer faith in progress, then we might assume, as progressives care so much about the poors, then they will want all the (minority) poors to have electric vehicles. Without goi…

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On the Problem of Evil, Part One

William Hunter Duncan
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August 24, 2023
On the Problem of Evil, Part One

About 30 years ago my mother asked me to attend an overnight weekend gathering in Fergus Falls, MN. The focus of the event would be about addiction. My mother was convinced I was addicted to cannabis (despite that I wasn’t smoking a tenth of what some others I thought were addicted were smoking.) The gathering would be held at a former mental hospital. …

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On the Problem of Evil, Part II

William Hunter Duncan
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August 27, 2023
On the Problem of Evil, Part II

There seems to be a revival of devil worship in America. Some might recall Sam Smith’s performance at the most recent Grammy’s (the Grammy’s were sponsored by Phizer, you might recall as well.) Lil Nas takes it from behind from the devil, then kills the devil and takes over hell.

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Scientific/Technological Conceit

William Hunter Duncan
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March 24, 2023
Scientific/Technological Conceit

A friend of mine who used to manage tech for one of the TBTF Banks and then started his own business white-hat hacking mainframes to find vulnerabilities, once called me a Luddite. I was like, I’ve built websites, I have maintained many blogs, I have used computers to write books, what makes you think I am hostile to technology? Because I like to go on …

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On Character

William Hunter Duncan
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October 24, 2022
On Character

I stayed up late Saturday night watching two Russel Crowe films, Robinhood (2010) and Gladiator (2000). It has been awhile since I watched a film, Hollywood doesn’t make much anymore that isn’t ideological preachy woke or dumb down retread, so despite that I have seen both previously I watched them again. Both films were directed by Ridley Scott. Both f…

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Straight White Men Will Lead Again

William Hunter Duncan
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October 24, 2023
Straight White Men Will Lead Again

It seems there is an anecdotal effort to drive straight white men out of American Institutions, if left leaning Bloomberg research is correct, stating that only 6% of corporate jobs in 2020-2021 went to white people. White people is a broad category not defined in the article, but it is probably safe to assume that most of those white people hired are w…

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The Way of the Sword

William Hunter Duncan
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October 17, 2023
The Way of the Sword

[post too long for email] Have you ever wondered why so few people train with a sword anymore? Conventional thinking, to the degree that anyone thinks about it at all, suggests that once the gun came into common use the sword was obsolete. Others might say, the sword is a tool of violence and those who know how to use it would cause much violence in soci…

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Bio-phobia

William Hunter Duncan
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February 10, 2023
Bio-phobia

I’ve been re-reading John Michael Greer’s “The Eco-Technic Future” as research for a novel. This quote stands out: C.S. Lewis pointed out many years ago in a thoughtful study, The Abolition of Man, and with much greater force in his science-fantasy novel

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Imagining the Death of the Regime

William Hunter Duncan
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October 2, 2022
Imagining the Death of the Regime

A couple days in civilization and I find myself going gonzo again. Off to the 80 later today, to cut more trails and winterize, rebuild my deer stand. I had to eat a big bowl of ice cream to cool down my thoughts after reading this piece from A Midwestern Doctor

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Transhumanism I

William Hunter Duncan
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October 31, 2022
Transhumanism I

Android Legacy :: Messenger II on Behance I started writing this after reading a piece from Mike Hind called You Can’t Push Back on a Wraith: Successor ideology will not name itself, and speculation from Mathew Crawford as to

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Pollinators

William Hunter Duncan
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September 8, 2022
Pollinators

[again, a post too long for email] I’ve mentioned several times in this substack how few pollinators I have seen this year. This despite that I have spent more time outside this spring into fall than I have in a long time, and much of that time travelling through the parks and wild places of Minnesota and Wisconsin. I have seen maybe a dozen monarch butt…

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God and Science

William Hunter Duncan
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October 16, 2022
God and Science

(Substack 250 years ago) Sage Hana and Margaret Anna Alice of Through the Looking Glass led a most stimulating conversation on Sage’s substack, on the nature of the Covidian true believer, how many came to be the zealots they are. The consensus seemed it is a combination of psy-ops and the appearance of the jabs in the midst of the fear campaign, though …

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Republican and Democrat Are Contraries Without Progression

William Hunter Duncan
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November 2, 2022
Republican and Democrat Are Contraries Without Progression

[writers note: I said I would offer a poem. In the spirit of elections, in this very divisive time, a reminder of our shared destiny and the necessity of the other. I structured this like a poem, but substack word processing is rudimentary, like it’s the 80’s, and it takes the poem form and throws all the lines together as standard text paragraphs, so I…

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So You Say You're an Anarchist?

William Hunter Duncan
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July 6, 2022

Everything most people know about anarchism, which isn’t much, they learned from people who despise the concept. Surely you have heard all your life that rioting in the street and the absence of law enforcement is anarchy. Anarchy is chaos. Anarchy is unchecked violence. Anarchy is every man for himself. If there is one thing the Marxist/Socialist/Commu…

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