The Autistic Resistance
The purpose of this website is to spread love, science, and all other things good. My favorite event in secular history is the Christmas Truce at No-Man’s-Land in 1914. Which is why the cover photo is a frame from my favorite song’s music video, Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”. It was used because, ostensibly, being a happy ending to Romeo & Juliet, it is the conquest of hatred by love. It is making-out in no-man’s-land to defy the darkness and hatred of the human condition with light and grace to symbolically and literally end a war and do it without the very lie which tries to romanticize the ugliness of the ritual of war: martyrdom. Taylor Swift is more famous than anything in World War One so, hopefully, it is a more relatable image that sends the same message.
- There Are No Poets in This WarFor all of the human suffering and depraved human folly involved in waging the Vietnam war, it is reputed to have had the best soudtrack of any tregady in history. Most of Classic Rock was a direct or indirect resultContinue reading “There Are No Poets in This War”
- Mental Health & LiberalismIn Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay “The End of History”, he expounded that history ended in 1806 with the defeat of the Holy Roman Empire by Napoleon at the Battle of Jena. His reasoning was that this was the moment EnlightenmentContinue reading “Mental Health & Liberalism”
- Trauma and AutismFor therapy to be effective it is usually required that the cuases of one’s trauma be sympathetic. If they refect upon one’s reputation unsympathetically then it is sometimes almost impossible to get effective treatment. Many of the earliest articles onContinue reading “Trauma and Autism”
Scenes of Humanity
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989
The Cellist of Sarajevo in September 1992
The Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western Front
Contact Info:
- My number is (843) 870-4276
- My emails are hamiltonj1@g.cofc.edu and jacksonhamiltoniv@outlook.com
