Haydn 284

Four squared years short of three centuries ago today^*, Franz Joseph Haydn was born.

* There apparently seems to be some uncertainty as to what the exact date was.

Ten Years on the Blog

Today is the decennial anniversary of this weblog. Ten years ago today, this blog was launched. It's the tin anniversary.

Change and Progress

Tony Robbins has said:

Change is automatic. Progress is not.

Bertrand Russell has said (quoted with the image in my LinkedIn essay):

Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

These quotes address the dogma of progress; the belief that progress is inevitable – that we are always progressing. The Whig Theory of History is a theory that history marches onward towards ever higher levels of progress. The theory is misconceived, misguided, and a fallacy!

Book Soon to Be Released

The forthcoming book of which I am editor is just a few weeks from due release.

The book is titled Grunnlov og frihet: turtelduer eller erkefiender? (translated title: Constitution and Liberty: Lovebirds or Archenemies?).

I have an essay on LinkedIn reflecting on change and progress on the occasion of opening for pre-orders this week.

More links for the book:

• website (in Norwegian)
• F***book
• Twitter
• crowdfunding for marketing (in Norwegian)

Kaiser Karl at Feldkirch

98 years ago today, the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Family arrived at the Austro-Swiss border in an Imperial train and departed Austria – under the protection of the icon of this weblog, Lt.-Col. Edward Lisle Strutt.

Achtundneunzig Jahre Interregnum sind ganz mehr als genug!

Leaving Eckartsau

Two years short of a century ago today, the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Family departed the hunting lodge at Eckartsau, where the Emperor-King and his family had been in internal exile since the end of the war, under various protection, the last three and a half weeks led by this weblog's icon, Lt.-Col. Edward Lisle Strutt.

A Century of Russian Interregnum

A century ago today, the Emperor of Russia was forced to abdicate.

Defectors

A century ago today, several Russian regiments defected to the revolutionaries.

Uprising in St. Petersburg

A century ago today, the February Revolution broke out in the Russian Imperial capital.

Misogynism?

Today is Redstockings Day.

Are you a misogynist for not wanting to send women to the front? Are you a misogynist for being a gentleman and walking closest to the road? Are you a misogynist for not wanting your kid to spend his days in a daycare center?


Previously: Redstockings...

Twitter

I am on Twitter.

Bertrand de Jouvenel Passing at 30

Three decades ago today, Bertrand de Jouvenel passed away.

Over at LewRockwell.com, Bionic Mosquito has a series of articles on the late Bertrand de Jouvenel:

• The Problem With Equality
• Democracy be Damned
• A Hideously Immoral Phenomenon
• Culture and Liberty
• Monarchy Without the King
• The New Nobility
• No Imaginary Evil