Join Me in the Next Phase of My Writing Career
I'd like to invite you to support my 100% reader-supported Substack with a paid subscription.
This brief post is a little different from my usual posts because I’m writing to ask for your support for the next phase of my writing career.
Over the past four years, my writing has relied 100% on your donations, supplemented by Google Ads on my website. It helped me get my voice out, but I never imagined my essays would evolve into the role of an independent journalist/essayist at the heart of an escalating philosophical war. And yet, here I am.
To maintain a truly independent perspective requires a business model that is 100% reader-supported — no editors pushing agendas or production quotas, no outside grants with an axe to grind, and no ad agencies that can turn off the taps on “wrongthink” — that independence is key to being able to think outside the box and tell complex stories beyond the reach of mainstream media.
In other words, to dedicate myself to this full-time, I need to remove all the filters between you and me. And so, the time has come to change my business model to make this a full-time endeavour to produce the high-quality essays and Deep Dives that you have come to expect from me about the turbulent issues tearing at the seams of Western Civilization.
My friend Trish Wood once said that when one of my essays arrives in her inbox, she likes to pour herself a coffee and find a quiet, comfortable place to settle in for an experience. I don’t think a writer can ask for a better compliment — to create that experience away from all the mind-numbing noise is what I strive for with every Deep Dive.
And so, I’d like to ask for your support in the form of a paid subscription to my Substack. Going forward, I will publish all my essays here on Substack, while my website will be downgraded to serve as a supplemental directory to help you search my essays by topic. My contact form will continue to be active on my website.
Many (but not all) of my future posts will continue to be free because we can’t win a culture war from behind a paywall, while some topics will be reserved for subscribers only. I promise not to overwhelm your inbox — the goal is quality over quantity with Deep Dives that take several weeks to research and put together — interspersed by shorter, easier-to-digest pieces.
I hope you will consider a paid subscription, and I look forward to earning your continuing support.
Warmest regards,
Julius
Julius, this is NOT a culture war, and nothing philosophical about it at all. We are and have been for quite some time, in a very HOT war and thousands if not millions have already been maimed or killed.
This is not a War that almost anyone will or has recognized as such as it is being fought with people's health and state of mind, their very thinking or ways of thinking in fact.
ALL living men and living women are being forced to do what many avoid whether they know it or not, and that is to stand in their claim for what they believe and therein lies the very centre of the problem. What do people actually believe?
A friend addressing a hall of people will ask - 1. hand up who has an opinion about the Christian Bible whatever it may be? 99% hands go up. 2. Who has read the bible fullyu keep their hand up? 3-5 out of maybe 100 still up. 3. How can you have an opinion about a book you have not read? 4. So how did you get your opinion?
It is difficult to impossible to be truly independent minded when many or most of the opinions or beliefs we think are 'us' or our own are not.
With no true ethical core and no morel code we hold next to life itself people are hollow empty vessels and their souls simply blow around with the winds.
People like to thjink they are responsible and accountable. Are they in reality?
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