Evolution took 2.5 million years to shape our reflexes. Civilization has lasted barely five thousand. We are lions’ prey trying to navigate HR departments. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

Ireland went from Europe’s poorhouse to “Celtic Tiger” glory—and then let sudden wealth melt its common sense. Prosperity erased memory, politics went insane, and reality will eventually drag it back to earth. notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/i...

Shale was supposed to die at $40 oil. Instead, it’s surviving at $55–60 in 2025 dollars. Industrialized drilling changed the game. If it can live at these prices, imagine what happens if oil hits $100 again. The “dead industry” might outlive its undertakers. www.pemedianetwork.com/petroleum-ec...

Applause is sugar water. Sweet, empty, addictive. It fattens the ego and starves the soul. Stop performing. Start building. www.grimwright.com/the-applause...

Most ocean plastic doesn’t come from the West—it pours out of Asian and African rivers, well over 90%. Ban all the straws you want; it won’t change that. Track pollution by rivermouth, tariff the worst offenders, and use the money to clean the seas. www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...

Brits were promised sanity after Brexit. Instead they got more chaos, more lies, and a political class that thinks pain has no consequence. Labour was elected knowing it was madness; the Tories were punished for pretending they weren’t. Now Reform is the wildcard. youtu.be/8CaVvglG8MA?...

We replaced saints with consultants and priests with project managers. www.grimwright.com/the-cult-of-...

Trump was never a reformer. He cracked the political beast’s mask and exposed some of its ugliness, but he never intended to dismantle it. The system stayed bloated, corrupt, and self-serving. Real change won’t come from a savior on a podium. www.masterresource.org/maize-kenned...

Norway preaches green virtue while living off oceans of oil cash—basically a northern Saudi Arabia with better PR. EV subsidies, moral lectures, and petro-funded “purity” can last a while, but nothing is infinite… amgreatness.com/2025/12/14/n...

Applause is sugar water for the soul — sweet, empty, and fattening. It feels like food but feeds nothing. The more you taste it, the more it owns you. Build for yourself, not for the crowd. www.grimwright.com/the-applause...

As a kid I watched valuable fruit rot on trees because there was too much of it at the wrong time. Renewable power is the same: when nobody needs it, it’s not a gift—it’s a costly mess to dispose of. wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/11/t...

New York passed laws reality refuses to obey, and instead of admitting failure, politicians want courts to stop doing their jobs. The honest fix? Go back to the legislature, repeal fantasy legislation, and tell voters they were sold lies. wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/12/n...

In Rome, triumphant generals were cheered through the city as slaves whispered “Memento Mori.” Remember, you’re mortal. Today, no one whispers that anymore. The whisper was replaced by algorithms, metrics, followers. www.grimwright.com/the-applause...

The manager’s creed: take credit for success, form a committee for failure. www.grimwright.com/the-cult-of-...

MBS knows how to bait Trump: drown him in bling. But behind the gold parade lies Saudi panic—shale rising, recession looming, China’s demand fading, even fields running low. Real wealth needs a long-term plan. Real estate thinking won’t cut it. www.pemedianetwork.com/petroleum-ec...

Europe could dominate LNG markets—huge storage, big hubs, flexible pipelines. But instead of leading, it hides behind “Russia did it” excuses and fattens on subsidies. China’s demand drop opens a door, but Europe seems too broken to walk through it. globallnghub.com/report-prese...

Our ancestors feared silence because they thought it hid demons. We fear it because it hides ourselves. www.grimwright.com/the-lost-art...

Stupidity is harmless; idiocy is fatal. Stupid people just have different strengths. Idiots—often highly credentialed—are frozen in one idea, unable to evolve. Stupidity can contribute. Idiocy only destroys. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

China isn’t wobbling—it’s decaying. Ghost cities, fake population stats, markets that don’t want its goods, and a debt bubble bigger than America’s. It’ll limp on for decades, but the juggernaut is dead. The sick man of the century needs less of everything. www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-ma...

The problem? Managers don’t create. They administrate. They measure, audit, and optimize until the structure collapses under its own procedures. www.grimwright.com/the-cult-of-...

Everyone loves the smell of their own farts — scientists too, except they call theirs “models.” When reality disagrees, they silence reality, not their theories. Brain farts elevated to gospel. www.wmbriggs.com/post/58963/

Coal done right is reliable, clean, affordable energy — not elite fantasy. It protects forests, saves wildlife, avoids rare-earth devastation, keeps food prices sane, and delivers power on demand. It gives our kids a fighting chance. The heresy is simple: coal works. www.earthday.org/coal-must-go/

Fear used to mean run or die. Now it means obey or else. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

2040 — the cowards’ deadline. Kick the crisis far enough down the road so today’s “leaders” can retire before the bill arrives. If they dealt with it now, they’d have to admit economies can’t run on unicorn fumes. Bring it on now. notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/e...

Experts know everything—right up until they screw up. A friend had a simple bladder procedure. They botched it, crippled him, and suddenly every “expert” claimed they weren’t responsible for that part. Their knowledge is endless; their accountability not. www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

When Orwell warned of tyranny, he pictured boots and banners. What he missed was the spreadsheet. The new Inner Party came wearing ergonomic shoes and brand values. Civilization didn’t fall to barbarians. It was audited to death. www.grimwright.com/the-cult-of-...

Stop waiting for robed saviors. The Supreme Court isn’t a cavalry charge—it’s a priesthood that sometimes helps and often doesn’t. If we want a future worth living, legislators need to write clear laws, end lawfare, and punish abuses of the legal system. wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/07/s...

Floods aren’t new—our record-keeping is. For 10,000 years they wrecked things unnoticed because no one wrote them down. In the last 50 years we’ve created more data than all prior history, so the “increase” is just increased documentation. climaterealism.com/2025/12/from...

They don’t conquer—they optimize. They don’t build—they benchmark. The modern manager has replaced the tyrant, the priest, and the entrepreneur, all while pretending to “lead.” Civilization was suffocated not by force, but by compliance. www.grimwright.com/the-cult-of-...

Fear was once our greatest ally. It made us jump at lions, flee from fire, survive the night. Now it makes us panic over tweets. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

1989 taught a simple truth: when systems crack, the ones who open early survive; the ones who resist get crushed. Hungary adapted. East Germany was shoved aside. Romania held out—and got shot. There’s always a price for fighting the tide once it turns. www.politico.eu/article/what...

We’re only seeing the tip of a decades-old money-printing iceberg. Developed economies coast on hopium until the bubble cracks—then inflation robs everyone for years. This isn’t the meal. It’s the welcome drink before we’re served to the system. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

A society that refuses to punish abuse is like a body that refuses to run a fever. The infection spreads—quietly at first, then catastrophically. www.grimwright.com/the-age-of-u...

Servers in space? Heat only dissipates by radiation in vacuum—the least efficient method. Massive radiators, massive power, massive cost. Even Earth’s priciest electricity is cheaper. This isn’t engineering. It’s PR theatre. www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...

“Tax the rich” is a fantasy. The truly wealthy are mobile, shielded, and untouchable—and even squeezing them dry barely dents a national budget. So the system turns, as always, to the Middle Class. The real target isn’t the rich. It’s you. www.masterresource.org/net-zero-fal...

The amygdala—our internal alarm bell—has been ringing for 200 million years. It was built for predators in tall grass, not algorithms in Silicon Valley. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

A country burning over half the world’s coal gets hailed as a green savior because it makes the right noises. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Totalitarian regimes and apocalyptic climate cults always find each other—they speak the same language. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/17/w...

Protesters railing against conventional energy while living off its comforts is peak incoherence. If their dreams came true, all our modern luxuries—including theirs—would vanish. But maybe they imagine they’ll be in the elite bubble while everyone else toils. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Stillness is the last luxury. Everything else is noise. www.grimwright.com/the-lost-art...

Argentina keeps chasing quick cash, but Vaca Muerta could be the foundation of real recovery—if there were long-term vision and courage. The country has the land, the rivers, the resources. What it lacks is nerve. worldoil.com/news/2025/12...

Peter got this one right: the U.S. shale boom happened because America is the only place where you can own what’s under your land. That incentive turbocharged innovation. Will the world copy U.S. subsurface rights? Not a chance. youtu.be/1rsdHTjYJsc?...

Every century finds its witches—heretics, communists, viruses, CO₂. The choreography never changes; only the costumes do. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

Woke capital vs. “regular” capital? Cute idea. Wall Street has no politics—just profit. It’ll wear any costume that moves money: woke today, MAGA tomorrow, whatever the wind demands. Momentum isn’t conviction; it’s just the shark circling. Conviction is irrelevant. nypost.com/2025/11/21/o...

Africa keeps chasing “empowerment” through the same old extraction-and-export game. A giant continent reduced to an economic minnow. Stop digging and selling. Start building domestic economies that actually create value instead of enriching a tiny elite. globallnghub.com/report-prese...

Three hundred years ago, Salem hanged its witches. Today, we just deplatform ours. Fear hasn’t vanished — it’s evolved. What once triggered survival on the savannah now fuels compliance in the digital village. www.grimwright.com/the-gospel-o...

We’ve mistaken motion for meaning. The world twitches, scrolls, reacts—convinced that perpetual motion equals life. But the quiet, the pause, the refusal to dance to the algorithm’s drum—these are acts of rebellion now. www.grimwright.com/the-lost-art...

If there’s one race I’m glad to lose, it’s EVs. Let China have the whole mess. Without subsidies, sales fall like someone leaping off the Burj Khalifa. Factor in road wear and fire risks, and the economics collapse entirely. Best to walk away. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Has Trump learned since 2020? Maybe. He’s gone from chaotic outsider to chaotic-but-calculating politician. Sharper, tougher—and now part of the machine he once rattled. I’m not mad. Seeing how momentum rules everything cured me of hope and resistance. I enjoy the show. www.wmbriggs.com/post/59198/

To endure solitude without collapsing is the first taste of freedom. www.grimwright.com/fortress-of-...

Britain could still tap plenty of North Sea oil & gas if it actually wanted to. It’ll need it when the fantasy economy finally collapses and manufacturing must rise from the grave. Politicians won’t act until every stupid option is exhausted. notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/b...