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.
- Do Neurotypicals Have Social Skills?As someone with autism, it is always taken for granted that neurotypicals have excellent social skills and I should aspire to one day attain their level of acumen in that field. In earlier blogs, I have mentioned how societyContinue reading “Do Neurotypicals Have Social Skills?”
- Paradoxes of the Suicide RateIs society opposed to suicide? While as a normative value, by the indications of its expressed position, it is resoundingly opposed to suicide and wishes to reduce the incidence of it to the maximum degree possible the suicide rate inContinue reading “Paradoxes of the Suicide Rate”
- Ugliness & Moral PerceptionLong in the history of our culture have our monsters been ugly and the heroes who slay them been handsome. While it is a cliched point of ethics that one’s character is mostly separate from one’s exterior, the greatContinue reading “Ugliness & Moral Perception”
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
