Jason Arday did not take his own life. He was murdered by a racist press who hounded him for minor errors in his academic work, based upon allegations made by a racist, Zionist (?!) eugenicist named Nathan Cofnas.

A vigil has been held in Trafalgar Square to honor the memory of a man famous for—well, let’s be honest—being found out. But being found out does not matter. The press, I assume, should have withheld the truth and considered the feelings of Jason Arday. Anyone who considered the fact that Jason Arday was not a very good academic, and should not have gotten the job as a professor at Cambridge, but did because the ethics that have a stranglehold over our educational institutions are racist in their intent to drop standards if the academic in question is Black, has blood on their hands.

But in reality, we all know this is a war. And the Arday case is a battle over truth. One side wants to protect THE truth, the other wants to protect THEIR truth.

Why do I care? Because I’m scared. I’m scared that the ideology propounded by the identitarian left has gotten hold of our educational institutions to such an extent that the respect for Truth with a capital T will be eroded, and in its place will step superstitious ideological dogma where ‘virtue’ trumps Truth.

In reality, all the comforts we find ourselves enjoying at this unique moment in human history are fundamentally based upon the virtue of respecting Truth (with a capital T).

So what is THE TRUTH regarding this current debacle over the death of Jason Arday?

Let’s take the veracity of the first paragraph I opened with here.

No one murdered Jason Arday. If he took his own life, that was his decision. If he could not deal with the outcome of his own actions, I am very sympathetic to the situation he found himself in, and we could blame those who supported his deceptions; but in the end, I give him the agency he deserved, in the hope that others will grant me the same agency.

His academic work is awful. That’s my opinion. I will argue against the academic claims he made because I believe them to be badly thought out, full of plagiarised content, and supported with shaky evidence. Why do I have this opinion? Because I have read his PhD.

Arday tries to make the claim for an educational approach where mentors are replaced with peers because a mentor represents a power dynamic and power dynamics are bad. He supports this with anecdotal interviews with his mates. The rest is bluff—bluff he stole. That is what it seemed like to me. No one challenged his claim because of anti-racist dogma that has infiltrated our educational establishments.

Again, I state this is just my opinion, and I hope you are liberal enough to grant me the agency to have my opinion, and also grant me the right to be challenged robustly by anyone who disagrees.

Now, the academic who outed Jason Arday is a man named Nathan Cofnas. Now, his academic work is far from bland; it is pretty spicy. How do I know? Because I have read it as well.

At the moment, those countering the claims made about Arday by Cofnas are not questioning the truth of those claims; they are trying the illiberal technique they usually use of calling him a racist. ‘Cambridge University sacked him for his racist views,’ they shout, amid accusations of eugenics and ‘race realism.’

This is what Wikipedia says about him regarding this:

“In February 2024, Cofnas wrote a blog post advocating for scientific racism (which he termed “race realism”).[2] He argued that in a meritocratic system, black people “would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment” and “Harvard faculty would be recruited from the best of the best students, which means the number of black professors would approach zero per cent”.[3] Shortly after, a petition called for his firing and prompted investigations by the institutions associated with him.[3] 58 Emmanuel students filed formal complaints against him.[12] The investigations were opposed by prominent academics including Steven Pinker and Peter Singer on the grounds of freedom of speech.[13] The University of Cambridge took no action after finding his post did not amount to discrimination or harassment, but Cofnas resigned after the backlash.[14] Emmanuel College fired him, finding his blog post amounted to a “rejection of diversity, equity, and inclusion” and was inconsistent with the university’s mission.”

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Cofnas

So now you know…

And it is obvious to even the casual observer that this is the same old argument: What is more important? The virtues associated with modern identity politics or the respect for truth?

But having read Cofnas, I think he is making an important point, which has been lost in the clickbait and virtue-signaling. This is in fact the battleground of human difference. Are we all different? And what dictates those differences? Our environment? Our genes? Cofnas makes the point that science, if allowed to pursue the truth (with a capital T), will find out.

And what if there are differences based upon geographical history (I use this term to avoid writing ‘race’)?

Could it be that a true meritocracy will place Black people into the top positions in entertainment and sport, but not into academia because there are in fact differences between races regarding excellence? And that the idea that systemic racism is the reason why we don’t have lots of Black professors is false?

As Cofnas states:

“There is a danger for the philosophical community in putting our credibility on the line over the claim that race differences are entirely environmental. If work on genetics and neuroscience within the next decade produces convincing evidence that differences in measured intelligence among groups have a significant genetic component, there will be no way to conceal this information. The hereditarian explanation will have to be accepted, and people will know that philosophers were on the wrong side of the issue both scientifically and morally: scientifically, because we are supposed to be careful, disinterested commentators on scientific controversies, not activists supporting only the politically popular side; morally, because we did not help lay the groundwork for responding in a moral way to these facts that we should have known might be coming.”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2019.1697803#d1e678

So, in reality, he is not the racist they claim, but someone asking the question of what we should do if we value representation in our universities and science established IQ variances based upon race. And if we do value representation in our universities, what is the solution? I leave that to you to ponder.

In my world, however, with my old definition of racism, this would not matter, because I believe no individual should be judged by their race.

Old-fashioned, I know, but something worth remembering in troubling times like these.

The ‘Blues’ is in reality a construct of the music business. But that does not mean the word points at nothing. We all know what the blues is, or we think we do.

But looking at the history more closely we find that ‘The Blues’ was a constructed concept in the first half of the twentieth century, and it was not fully constructed until Robert Johnson went from a talented local musician to myth.

But the journey there is not straight forward.

It would be my contentious view that what we hold most ‘authentic’ in popular music was really a response by creative musicians to the commercial wants of the music industry, and the shifting of those wants in response to the aesthetic needs of people navigating that momentus century.

But this point cannot be made until we outline the specific details of that history.

This podcast, and it’s attendant video, is my attempt to do that.

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I think I am burnt out. I’m very tired and making a lot of mistakes. I have fallen behind on my main channel videos and I am trying to get ahead of myself.

When this happens my members and patrons suffer as they do not get their special content.

So today I’m lying in bed having a day off.

Once the impending deadlines are put on hold my mind wanders off....

When I was younger I got obsessed with the pyramids. How could they have been made? So I ended up going down that rabbit hole because of this book:

When I was about twenty I purchased ‘A Criminal History of Mankind’ by Colin Wilson. Wilson then became the most important writer to me in my life and creative pursuits. He consolidated the idea of ‘The Outsider’ (also the name of the book that made him famous), explored mankind’s darker side and argued for the Occult to be approached with an open mind.

My creations on YouTube owe a lot to him. I read so much about Mr Wilson and I decided that the reason why he was so compelling was that he was an auto-didact, and so his knowledge did not align with the academic world view, and when he wrote he just wrote, he did not go his notes or research. He pulled the facts from his encyclopaedic mind. So his ideas developed on the page, and you never knew where he would go next.

This was impressive but he did make mistakes, and because of this, he was not seen as a serious writer by the establishment.

He was interested in a thing he called ‘Faculty X’ which was like a creative energy source. He seemed obsessed in finding a methodology where humans could affect change in themselves to achieve a state where Faculty X was more readily available. His work lead me to the teachings of G.I Gurdjeiff

When I got to my mid thirties I struck up an association with the philosopher Gary Edwards (no relation) who was a no nonsense philosopher from what we could call the ‘English’ school of philosophy. Through long conversations with Gary I became educated in a aspect of philosophy which stood in opposition to these mystical ideas I had been invested in. This philosophy also called into question the ideas behind phenomenology, post modernism and modern identity politics.

If Gary had a mystical side, it was the fact that he was an Anglophile, like myself. Our discussions consolidated the idea of ‘The English Aesthetic’ which we saw as embodying a kind of quiet but firm set of ideas upon which enlightenment liberalism had been built.

Gary Edwards

I was not aware of this when I started my Youtube, but all of these ideas went into the conception of my YouTube channel.

My politics channel was created with the idea of sharing, from a creative point of view, some of this philosophy, how it enables creativity and how it challenges so of the ideology that challenges free expression that we see in modern identity politics.

These ideas when applied to music and creativity have been unbelievably successful on my music channel, and I am aware they have made my music channel unlike all the others.

I admit however I have failed on my politics channel. It’s my fault. My knowledge of music enables me to pull information out of my head on the fly, negotiate between English surrealist humour, pragmatic music education and down to Earth celebrations of more esoteric music.

I am a music and art specialist. I am not a philosopher and my ability to pull those ideas together on the fly is not as great. I think some people who are not aware of this way of thinking found my discussions interesting. Some who were more knowledgeable in the specifics found my mistakes frustrating and those adherents of identity ideology rejoiced in my errors as though they discredited the aesthetic principles I was trying to describe.

So my politics channel really has gone. I will now put all my efforts into the main channel and my members and patrons.

So what has this got to do with the Pyramids?

Well I beleive the Pyramids embody esoteric knowledge about our world. And that knowledge is contained with THE RATIO.

So I am lying here trying to get my head out of editing videos, creating thumbnails and coming up with new ideas. And it wanders off and then plop...this idea emerges as i’m thinking as I did decades ago, about the Pyramids.

Numbers cannot transmit secret knowledge. The dimensions of the pyramids are dependent on how you measure them: cubits or feet or meters. But esoteric knowledge can be transmitted by ratios. So if we wanted to communicate with an alien civilisation we could beam them Pi. Pi is a ratio of 22:7. Now what would this communicate? And this is profound to me...

RATIO, WHEN EMBODIED IN ART OR SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY IS EVIDENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This popped into my head this morning.

Musical intervals are also ratio emboddied:

Key Musical Intervals as Ratios (Just Intonation)

• Unison: 1:1 (same pitch)

• Minor Second: 16:15 (half step)

• Major Second: 9:8 (whole step)

• Minor Third: 6:5

• Major Third: 5:4

• Perfect Fourth: 4:3

• Tritone (Diminished Fifth): 45:32 or 7:5

• Perfect Fifth: 3:2

• Minor Sixth: 8:5

• Major Sixth: 5:3

• Minor Seventh: 9:5

• Major Seventh: 15:8

• Octave: 2:1 (frequency doubling)

Key Concepts

• Consonance vs. Dissonance: The smaller the integers in the ratio (e.g., 2:1, 3:2), the more consonant (pleasing/stable) the interval sounds. Higher numbers (e.g., 16:15) feel more dissonant (tense).

• Equal Temperament: Modern instruments often use 12-tone equal temperament, where intervals are adjusted for playing in any key. In this system, only the octave (2:1) is a pure ratio; others are irrational numbers, such as the perfect fifth, which is \(2^{7/12}:1\) (approx. 1.4983:1) rather than a simple 3:2.

• Pythagorean Tuning: A system using only ratios based on 2 and 3 (e.g., 9:8, 27:16, 81:64)

As these ideas started to flood in the idea that Pythagoras thought was the case; that these harmonic ratios were diagramatic of the order of the Universe can be seen as the product of consciousness in the Universe which conscious because it reveals order.

I thought to myself...let’s get these ideas down, and this is what I am doing here, Colin Wilson style. The ideas I have had have been developed here in this little essay.

And lo and behold, we have the perfect Patreon content as well.

The critics of my channel have attacked the idea that my errors are such that rational development of those ideas are flawed, in other words, my pronouncments are IRRATIONAL.

The irrational is against order, and chaos will always end in disaster:

disaster

/dɪˈzɑːstə/

The word disaster literally translates to “ill-starred” or “bad star”. It reflects ancient beliefs that celestial alignments and unlucky astrological events caused ruin.

The etymological breakdown of the word includes:

• Prefix: Dis- (Latin), meaning “bad,” “ill,” or “against”.

• Root: Astrum (Latin) or Astron (Greek), meaning “star” or “planet”.

Historical Journey of the Word

1. Ancient Roots: The Greek root astron traces back to Proto-Indo-European origins connected to the idea of burning. [1]

2. Italian Influence: In the Middle Ages, the Old Italian word disastro emerged. It referred to an unfavorable configuration of the planets or an unlucky star.

3. French to English: The word traveled through Middle French (désastre) before officially entering the English language in the late 16th century

Sometimes I think the esoteric is really the path to a sublime unification of Truth and Beauty...

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One big virtue signal for the elites.

It is the aural equivalent of pissing on the homeless. Most of it is about as relevant as Sade and less groundbreaking. Then we have the UK Jazz scene, that self loathing, failure of a music scene that no one cares about except a tiny contingent whose only real pleasure is a agreeing with each other that common people are racist, whilst another bunch of jazz musicians sit there with their mouths shut, terrified that they will be excommunicated if they say the bleeding truth which is there is no systemic racism in the UK Jazz scene unless you happen to be white (OMG he said it!) which is, believe or not, a triumph of the civil rights movement, something they have all shat on from their lofty position of privilege.

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