This is the modern history of America as told by Hannah Arendt: www.facebook.com/share/v/18to...

The USA does not have a government. Instead, a gang of murdererous predators are gang-raping the country and they’re looking at each other wondering whether anyone is going to stop or if this is going to go all the way

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Nietzsche, The Will to Power.

Oh the dead-eyed children. Beware them beware.

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters

Heijo relaxing, rain outside

About the meeting of American generals yesterday, the American media are missing a word. The word is Mortified

Out now! www.amazon.com.au/Divorcing-Je...

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I am every person in a film. I know all martial arts and can leap from a building onto a lower one catching the ledge with my arms and hang there for minutes with somebody hanging off my feet.

Establishing your personality on the unreliable reports of a single human life lived in ancient Palestine is no basis for a program of self improvement. True self improvement comes from a mandate from the self alone, not from some farcical antiquated morality…

Atheist sprituality - yes please ! williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-13

California Uber Alles

‘So where do you get your morality from?’ open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

The Guardian have misspelled this headline. It should read ‘American President links foreign policy to his emotions’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The USA elected morons to government and now acts surprised every time a moronic thing happens! Oh no! What an outrage! Dumbfcks

Elon Musk thinks he’s Zaphod Beeblebrox but is very obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz

I hear a lot of Americans lamenting and bellyaching about their fascist government, but I don’t see them doing anything much about it. It’s as if America has no history of industrial action or mass protest. Organise a general strike!

Person from last relationship hated having my “smelly old books” in the house. New lovely person asked me to build this…just finished

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

Good people are everywhere. The right people are vanishingly rare.

In which we consider Christian objections to knowledge and God as a hermit: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

Happy NZ New Year all x

… in which we consider the value of the narrative, the authorship of the self and the failure of God to future-proof his message … open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

Again, 80% of white American evangelicals voted for the decrepit orange nonce soon to be king of the USA. At the risk of appearing to single it out in a very poor field, I'd like to say that American Christianity stinks. And when I say it stinks…

A poem for my American friends:

Now I love a good cat picture as much as the next man, but can I get some love for a reclaimed, repainted $60 vice? (Or vise if you are an American)?

This place is a Trump-free zone for me. Apologies in advance for tending away from posters or reposters of US political outrages

FYI I guess edinburghuniversitypress.com/bill-angus

I was driving as a cloud descended on Auckland with the kind of droplets that long obscure the windscreen as much as the roadside dandelions seemed to surge towards it. Dry in my slow vehicle, I thought of the necessity of love in that warm moment guarding against the

In Chapter 2 you'll find Rievaulx Abbey, the Garden of Eden, the Heaven's Gate cult, Sir Isaac Newton, and the beginnings of an escape route...

For those among us still harbouring vague religious beliefs, I suggest you’ll be happier without them. See here - open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

New book on Substack: Over the Wall: Vague Belief to Confident Atheism - open.substack.com/pub/williamjohnangus