Hi there!
First of all, I wanted to thank you for being a reader of my work. That so many (thousands!) of you read my writing really humbles me, and I’m very glad you’re all here!
It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but I’m now offering a 25% discount on yearly subscriptions to From The Forests of Arduinna.
This is a permanent discount, meaning that if you use it now, the yearly price will always be at this lowest rate for you. So if the cost of yearly subscriptions goes up, you’ll still always get this rate. And the yearly subscription is already much cheaper than the monthly rate.
A higher portion of my essays are now behind this paywall, so, if you’ve been wanting to read more of these but the cost has been prohibitive, this would be a great time to get a subscription. This also gives you access to the full archive of paid essays, including my entire The Mysteria series, my recent essay “The Body Is Never An Interloper,” and these other favorites of mine:
The Sacred and the Symptom
The announcement on the intercom began again. Our train was delayed another twenty minutes, and I looked at my husband to see how he met the news. He was too busy to care, though. He was shaking a high-tech vending machine on the platform as a young girl and her mother looked on, hopeful.
Borrowing Against a Future That Cannot Come
There’s a basic but rarely-stated problem underlying all economic theories. Feudalism, capitalism, communism, slavery, and every other system is an attempt to solve this core truth of human behavior. It’s a problem so fundamental to our desires — but also so unattainable in our lives — as to have become nearly impossible to speak of directly:
The Immigration Crisis
This is something leftists all knew until class consciousness got replaced with the false enlightenment of social justice. Immigrants are not the enemy, but disruptive mass immigration is one of the enemy’s weapons. When a large group of us (remember — I’m an immigrant) move into a place, we will change it no matter whether we want to or not. This is even more true if the communities into which we move have already begun to fall apart through cultural erosion or economic damage.
Again, I deeply appreciate you being here, whether or not you can become a paid subscriber at this time. Thank you, and be well!
—Rhyd Wildermuth