Michael Edward Arth, professionally experienced in building design, residential construction, and fine and commecial art, moved to DeLand, Florida in 2001 in order to rebuild a small slum neighborhood, today known as "The Garden District." Together with his daughter Sophie and his wife Maya, this is still where he lives today. Michael Arth is currently active with a new movie, "New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism," addressing a complete reconstruction of the architectural design of the modern urban society.

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A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.

The only way to end invasive privacy violations is to reach cultural consensus, and maintain that through a separatistic community. That way you'll reduce the number of internal fears and establish an organic unity among people. In pluralistic societies like America, that same consensus is political (and hardly that, thanks to democracy), which means people don't trust one another and develop individualistic attitutes toward society ("Mind your own business"), leading to an increase in corruption and criminality.

The federal government's long-term financial obligations grew by $2.5 trillion last year, a reflection of the mushrooming cost of Medicare and Social Security benefits as more baby boomers reach retirement.

Taxpayers are on the hook for a record $57.3 trillion in federal liabilities to cover the lifetime benefits of everyone eligible for Medicare, Social Security and other government programs, a USA TODAY analysis found. That's nearly $500,000 per household.

When obligations of state and local governments are added, the total rises to $61.7 trillion, or $531,472 per household. That is more than four times what Americans owe in personal debt such as mortgages.

The consumer fantasy for America is over. We should be thankful for this, because it means that the welfare state is breaking down and taking all the parasites with it. The sooner the system breaks down, the sooner smart and creative people will be able to re-organize locally, and set up and maintain their own communities where people work and contribute. Building a nation's strength on cheap labour, brainwashed lumpenproles, and a debt-based economy is suicide.

Meanwhile, the public continues to read about what they already know. And they hang out only with like-minded people. There are huge cadres of people who are practically duplicates of each other. They all think alike, dress alike, and go to the same group-approved places.

With the slow death of newspapers, this beehive-like behavior is only going to get worse. And schools are not helping; they tend to have a political agenda and seem to limit, not enhance, world perspective. This is worsened by a de-emphasis on actual learning and an over-emphasis on personal self-esteem. The self-esteem movement in education has fostered underachievers who are now out in the world of business, taking on jobs as clerks and cashiers. They can't add. They can't spell. They have no idea where Chicago is located on a map. They can't read a map, in fact. They are seemingly stupid and mostly incompetent. But hey, they think they are winners just because they've been told they are winners. It was drummed into them.

These people eat up information from the Internet and they believe everything they read. They pass along gossip as fact. They fall for every hoax under the sun (especially the very old ones). You wonder when some Nigerian is going to fleece them. I have no idea what is going to happen when it dawns on this crowd that they are useless boneheads.

Media is streamlining our opinions and filter out all the inconvenient parts of reality that we don't like (death, drugs, war, famine, inequality). The product is exactly what John C. Dvorak is describing here; a narrow-minded, zombie-fied crowd of people who can't think independently of the social acceptance constructed by the media empire. "But I saw it on TV!1!!" they say, and people believe it. It's time we cut through the bullshit of modern society and examine things for what they really are. You can separate yourself from the zombie-crowd by remaining critical, using your brain, and rejecting ideas that are taken for granted simply because they're socially popular.

WHEN IT COMES to the huge and persistent gender gap in science and technology jobs, the finger of blame has pointed in many directions: sexist companies, boy-friendly science and math classes, differences in aptitude.

Women make up almost half of today's workforce, yet hold just a fraction of the jobs in certain high-earning, high-qualification fields. They constitute 20 percent of the nation's engineers, fewer than one-third of chemists, and only about a quarter of computer and math professionals.

Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.

These "experts" are surprised to find that women are not political robots, but actually carry personal preferences. Oh, what are we going to do with all our neat theories of how women are underrepresented in science jobs because of discrimination and social inequality? Here, I have a suggestion: trash them. The truth is that a lot of these gender differences are rooted in genetic differences and we have a tons of studies that support this, two of them presented here and here.

Equality isn't just failure within the educational system; it's failure in any system where we apply it, because it doesn't correspond to reality. Corrupt is here to point out the cognitive dissonance created by beliefs that's not realistic, and point people to a path out of that psychological disorder. Welcome to reality - and happiness!

"I think the help is triggered by seeing victims, imagining oneself in the situation, so basic identification and empathy," said Frans de Waal, a psychologist at Emory University and the Yerkes Primate Center, where he studies the evolution of human behaviors through primate research.

He added, "I doubt that we would be willing to help if we didn't have images, didn't have anything to hang our human response system to, which is geared towards emotionally loaded images."

Research has shown that helping others, either through donating money or time, makes a person feel good.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche pointed this out a long time ago: decisions based upon morality are often times simply justifications to experience a sensation of feeling good. This is one reason to why many westerners are crazy about charity: they probably know that the state in Africa won't change noticably because of their donation, but they feel good inside by giving something away to people who are worse off than themselves. Altruism is egoism in disguise.

We should help people when it fits a positive ideal and if the help is effective. Charity is not effective. Third world aid is not effective. Creating a religion around helping people is not a good idea, especially since it's rarely helpful at all to those who actually need the help.

Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools.

South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority. Foreigners were attacked because they are seen as competing for scarce resources — and because they were the closest targets at hand for the poor.

"The South Africans are fighting the foreigners. Now the foreigners are fighting back," Letsoso said. "Everyone is suffering."

We've said it before and we'll say it again: multiple ethnic groups can't co-exist within the same society, without conflicts, racism and exploitation as a result. Pluralism doesn't work in America and won't work in South Africa either. The European people in South Africa need to move back to their original homelands and independent ethnic communities need to be established in the area. Do we really need more of this violence and chaos, simply because we have a silly belief that we can all magically go along together?

The Earth's natural resources must be shared more equally between rich and poor nations, Germany's environment minister said Monday at the start of a UN biodiversity conference.

"The industrialised countries must recognise the need to share natural resources with those with those who have safeguarded them," Sigmar Gabriel declared.

"It is a question of principle, a question of justice," he said. "The developing countries are right to speak of "biopiracy", when the industrialised world use their resources without authorisation and without paying a penny," he said.

Greenism today is really a leftist belief in worldwide equality. "Industrialize the third world and we'll save the planet," argues UN "experts." As we've already proved here at Corrupt, the main problem is not unequal distribution of resources - we're still too many people on this planet. Of course the West should leave the resources in the third world - we should even stop sending them aid in the first place. But what the UN here embarks on is a typical capitalist construction. It wants to turn the third world into an industrial paradise, if only a superficially "green" one. Racism and globalism - here we come!

Related reading: Global warming, global stupidity

He reflected under what circumstances the theatre ministered to one's pleasure. It was amusing to see children, especially sons, defrauding their parents, more particularly when the parents were thrifty, good- hearted, and sensible; it was amusing to see wives deceiving their husbands ; especially when the husband was old and required his wife's care. Besides this he remembered having laughed very heartily at two old men who nearly died of starvation because their business was on the decline, and that to this day all the world laughed at it in a piece written by a classical author. He also recollected having been much amused by the misfortune of an elderly man who had become deaf ; and that, together with six hundred other men and women, he had shouted with laughter at a priest, who tried, by natural means, to cure his insanity, the result of self-restraint; his mirth had been particularly stimulated by the hypocrisy displayed by the wily priest in order to gain the object of his desire.

Why does one laugh? he wondered. And as he had nothing else to do, he tried to find an answer. One laughed at misfortune, want, misery, vice, virtue, the defeat of good, the victory of evil.

This conclusion, which was partly new to him, put him into a good temper; he found a great deal of amusement in playing with his thoughts. As the management still remained invisible, he went on playing, and, before the lapse of five minutes, he had come to the following conclusion: In a tragedy one weeps at just those things which in comedy make one laugh.

This cited passage comes from "The Red Room," written by one of Sweden's greatest authors, dramatists and painters of all time, August Strindberg. The book is a poetic revue through the heart of late 19th century Stockholm, as seen through the perspective of the young stroller Arvid Falk. Together with Arvid we get to meet a variety of characters, each one representing a political, artistic or philosophical ideal. Strindberg, through a masterful naturalistic literary style, investigates the mechanisms of the modern society, waging an intellectual war against class capitalism, Christianity, bureaucracy, commercialism, and state patriotism.

"The Red Room" is partly a pun on the wave of socialism that struck Sweden at the time, actualizing the need to protect the worker's rights during an age of economic exploitation. Strindberg was sympathetic with the workers and shunned the corporate elite who fooled their stockholders and manipulated the media for their own selfish ends. He reveals the hypocrisy behind the charity work of the Christian church, and defends the originality of true artists, launching an angry attack on the commercial copy-cat industry. The whole book is an intelligent, sharp critique of the exact same society we are living in today. To say the least, Strindberg was heavily influenced by Nietzsche. In fact, they regularly exchanged letters, and Strindberg was one of the few people who was still in contact with Nietzsche during his insanity.

It is hard these days to find an English hard copy translation of this book, but an older translation is still available as etext, following the link above. It is a highly suggested read for anyone who's interested in the man who was a consistent influence on the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. In this book, Strindberg is possibly at his sharpest, intense mood ever, and his societal reflections encompass an entire modern worldview, bankrupt to its very core. August Strindberg is still today an internationally recognized artistic genius, and this is one of his greatest works ever made.

We - and by this I mean people throughout the industrial world - have to make the transition to a Third World lifestyle. There's no way to sugar-coat that very unpalatable reality. Fossil fuels made it possible for most people in the industrial world to have a lifestyle that doesn't depend on hard physical labor, and to wallow in a flood of mostly unnecessary consumer goods and services. As fossil fuels deplete, all that will inevitably go away. How many people would be willing to listen to such a suggestion? More to the point, how many people would vote for a politician or a party who proposed to bring on these changes deliberately, now, in order to prevent total disaster later on?

John Kenneth Galbraith has written a brilliant, mordant book, The Culture of Contentment, about the reasons why America is incapable of constructive change. He compares today's American political class (those people who vote and involve themselves in politics) to the French aristocracy before the Revolution. Everybody knew that the situation was insupportable, and that eventually there would be an explosion, but the immediate costs of doing something about it were so unpalatable that everyone decided to do nothing and hope that things would somehow work out. We're in exactly the same situation here and now.

All trendy hippie greens assume that we can continue living this lifestyle, as long as we buy the right green products and demonstrate for world peace on sundays. Here's a wake-up call for ya'll: it won't work. We need to live a much more simple lifestyle, and how simple will depend on how many people we are on this planet. As we've mentioned before, It's impossible to offer an industrial lifestyle for 6,6+ billion people, even so for the number of people currently living in the West. If we don't change our lifestyle, AIDS, hurricanes, ice ages, and viruses will take care of the rest.

Since Arizona's local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers. The effects have been far-ranging. Commuters are reporting fewer vehicles on the freeways, shortening their rush-hour commutes. What had become a serious transportation problem in Arizona is losing its urgency. English Learner Language (ELL) students started dropping out of school. This helped end a confrontation between the state legislature and a liberal federal judge who had ordered the state to spend more money on ELL classes.

Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March. Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared, ending months of confrontation between illegal immigrant sympathizers and protesters. Desert lands near the border are returning to their pristine condition and the wildlife is coming back. Identity theft and car thefts are decreasing. No one showed up on May 1 to march in immigrant rallies.

Immigration in large amounts, regardless if it's "illegal" or not, is destructive to any society that wishes to maintain its communitarian values. But it's uninteresting to talk about immigration without mentioning pluralism, and pluralism is uninteresting unless we understand it within the context of globalization. This is about creating a global class of cheap labour for the multinational corporations. It's destructive to all societies, including those of African, Mexican and Chinese. The solution is what we espouse here at Corrupt: local, organic societies based on ethnicity, culture, and shared values.

The young women were among the more than 460 children taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado by Texas Child Protective Services six weeks ago after investigators determined the children had been sexually abused or were at risk for abuse.

That raid and its aftermath cost nearly $7.5 million in state spending during the first 19 days of what is now one of the largest child custody cases in U.S. history, the Austin American-Statesman reported today.

See how much money and resources we waste on trying to keep this pluralist empire together with state law enforcement. What'd happen if we declared all states independent and let people organize communities after ethnicity, culture and shared values instead? Organic societies work, globalist empires don't.

There's no question about it: A new breed of speculator is pouring money into the oil market. What's less certain is whether this new money is responsible for driving up prices or essential to a healthy market.

Many blame record prices on Wall Street investors new to the oil market, saying they're bidding up gas prices to artificially high levels - and soaking drivers.

As oil nears $130 a barrel, some say $10 to $70 of that price is due to Wall Street speculation.

The speculation economy only serves the stockholders and the corporate business leaders, not the working middle class, who's actually keeping this entire society going. It's insane to let this continue, especially since it essentially puts a price tag on all our planetary resources, effectively draining them before they peak at high speculation prices and then become rare commodities for a rich elite. Who will afford regular gas in 50 years? We need more long-term planning and better values than simply making profits off of everything we see.

The stereotypical startup dream hire is a 20-something with as little life as possible outside of computers. The one that’ll be happy working 14-hour crunch days for weeks on end sprinting for an ever-shifting target that keeps being 90% done for 90% of the time. The one you can make sleep under the table or please with a foosball table in the center of the room. The one where the company paying for dinner pizza is “awesome”.

I should know. I used to be that gullible and even take an odd pride in being up to the job. But it didn’t take long to catch on to the idea that packing a room full of these people was merely a crutch for shoddy management, lousy execution, and myths like “this is the only way we can compete against the big guys”. And you certainly need the latter if you’re trying to give turds wings, but how about just not trying to make crap fly in the first place?

That’s why I like working with the family man or woman. They come in as a cold bath of reality. When people have other obligations outside of work that they actually care more about than your probably-not-so-world-changing idea, the crutches are not available as an easy way out, and you’ll have to walk by the power of your good ideas and execution or you’ll fall fast and early. That’s a good thing!

Most family people within the middle class live in a social reality defined by the very basics (family, work, friends, culture/arts). Many of them are hard-working, creative people who want to do good unto others, but right now they constitute the segment of our population that's being exploited by financial interests. The very foundation to our current society (the middle class) is threatened and we have a duty to protect it.

Corrupt wants to recreate a stable, safe platform for family people in our society. The change begins here and now, by providing inspiration, education and a source for new values and ideals in an officially bankrupt age.

Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest. The departure of Marina Silva, who admitted she was losing the battle to get green voices heard amidst the rush for economic development, has been greeted with dismay by conservationists.

"She was the environment's guardian angel," said Frank Guggenheim, executive director for Greenpeace in Brazil. "Now Brazil's environment is orphaned."

In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the "lungs of the planet" were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. "Your Excellency was a witness to the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society," she wrote.

This is what we've been trying to say all along: democractic politicians will never be able to save our environment, because they always end up catering corporate lobby interests in order to stay in power. It's a cycle we have to break through if we are serious about saving the rainforests. This is what needs to be done:

- Fewer people
- Reduced consumption
- Leadership that operates on ability and not financial campaigns
- Higher values than money

Democracy has failed on all these accounts. Corrupt points to the solution, which is a local, organic, self-sustaining community based on capable people leading their citizens into a traditional culture-based lifestyle.

Many gifted adults seem to know very little about their minds and how they differ from more "ordinary" minds. The result of this lack of self-knowledge is often low, sometimes cripplingly low self esteem. Most have never been formally identified as gifted, and even those who have may disbelieve the identification or have difficulty incorporating it into their sense of themselves.

Though women are particularly hard-pressed in our culture to recognize and fully utilize unusual intelligence, uncertainty about gifts can affect both males and females, especially those who are not recognized as intellectual achievers. Strangely, even among men and women who are recognized achievers, the "impostor-syndrome" is widely reported. These people go along routinely doing what few others can do, all the while dreading the moment when the world will find them out and discover that they are the fakes they believe themselves to be.

This article reveals a bounty of information.

* Gifted people tend toward low self-esteem because they have no idea they are gifted, and assume others are just incompetent.
* Gifted people tend to like to live with other gifted people, because non-gifted people don't understand them. Formation of a caste system follows.
* Non-gifted people tend to hate gifted people and do whatever they can to sabotage their self-esteem, because non-gifted people feel left behind.

If you substitute "above average IQ" for "gifted," this article provides a rational insight into the failings of democracy, capitalism, liberalism and Christianity.

The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a “college of last resort” explains why.

The bursting of our collective bubble comes quickly. A few weeks into the semester, the students must start actually writing papers, and I must start grading them. Despite my enthusiasm, despite their thoughtful nods of agreement and what I have interpreted as moments of clarity, it turns out that in many cases it has all come to naught.

Remarkably few of my students can do well in these classes. Students routinely fail; some fail multiple times, and some will never pass, because they cannot write a coherent sentence.

As explained earlier, equality is a terrible idea for all parts involved. Obviously some people will always lack the intellectual abilities to pass basic university courses, and most people are not going to become skilled, innovative scholars. Who are we trying to fool?

Hannah's mother Heather went to check on her daughter and found her hanging by a tie from the top rail of her bunk bed.

Why on earth did their daughter — a popular, intelligent and attractive girl — do such a thing?

They could find only one clue: Hannah was what is known as an "emo".

Our society breeds neurotic people, and their children are becoming more neurotic than their parents. Self-pity is the natural product of our unhealthy obsession with the human individual. Now we face the effects of this lifestyle. I don't wish this emo-kid death, but I wish death to self-pity and I believe that we need to build a society founded on a positive, heroic spirit, if we want our children to grow up in a stimulating, creative environment where they feel like they belong to something larger than themselves. Right now they're insecure, fragile and self-centered, which easily leads to cases like this one.