The Free Thinker

Descartes and the concept of free thought "What if Rene the Learned’s words go beyond our ability to believe in our existence? What if he was also saying, that to exist, to really, truly exist as a human soul, we have to have the ability to think, and think freely? For without freedom of thought, we cannot exist in our full capacity as a human soul." Jonathan Garrett -  The Day of the Heroes The Enlightenment The Scientific Revolution started in the 16 th century and marked the start of modern day science. Through this revolution, people began to realise that the world and life had been created based on scientific principles. This, of course, helped to eliminate superstition from society and interestingly, marked the end of the European witch craze. It also started the period of the Enlightenment which began around the mid-17 th century. The Enlightenment is a period of time where individuals came away from the structured thought of the Catholic church and

The rise of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe “John the second showed us that a free society is possible only for a moral and religious people. Both are required for a society to remain free. Without a religious foundation, there is nothing to anchor the idea of morals.” Jonathan Garrett - The Day of the Heroes Background The USSR was formed in 1922, five years after the Bolshevik Revolution of Vladimir Lenin. This revolution brought in an age of Socialism upon Eastern and Central Europe. After World War 2, Russia increased the influence of its Socialist ideology onto countries in Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe.  Countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, while never part of the USSR, were now directly under Soviet control. The book ‘The Eleventh Arrow’ is a true story and provides a fascinating insight into life under Soviet control in Hungary. The books focus is the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Socialism. For over fifty years af

Understanding Socialism Part 4: Postmodern cultural Marxism From the author of  The Day of the Heroes.  A story about today's culture war in a time of dragons and heroes.  Click Here to purchase from Amazon. This blog is the last of a four-part series on Socialism and looks at how Marxist theory has mutated from an economic focus, to a cultural focus to bring Marxist and Socialist ideas to a Western society and an unsuspecting generation. Domino Theory In March 1947, US president Harry Truman gave a speech to the US Congress. In this speech he outlined his policy of ‘Containment’ in which he stated that the US government would give assistance to any country threatened by Communism, this was an attempt to stop Communism from spreading. The WW2 alliance which included Russia had crumbled when Churchill and Truman realised that Stalin had reneged on the deal to allow Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria free democratic elections. The remaining western allies feared that Sta