Nice to meet you! 

My name is Jane-Marie Auret. I’m a writer, artist, and independent thinker with a developed philosophy of morality and internal order. I had cancer as a kid and my grandparents had a profound influence on me. My friend read my first book and texted, “You’re a truth-teller. That’s what you are.”

My husband, creatively published on this site as Husband, is an actuary, a leading thinker of geopolitics and contemporary war strategy, and a second-generation American. We have three very perfect dogs. They are perfect at being dogs. 

If you’d like to get to know me further, please read my writing. The best way to get to know anyone, really, is to read their writing and slowly piece together the psyche that brought it. I’ve spent enough time with Ernest Hemmingway that I could probably predict his Myers-Briggs profile: ISTP. 

Otherwise, enjoy this video of me flipping at Skyzone.

Resist + Defend + Disrupt

The purpose of my work is to resist intellectual homogeny, defend free speech, and disrupt echo chambers. I want to hear your internal philosophy and elevate your unique voice. 

The Mental Health Crisis

My break-away point occured when, out of desperation, I asked the question: “Why is everyone I know constantly on the brink of psychological collapse? Society-wide, 42% of people my age are suffering from a mental health condition, so the fact that all of my friends and family are sick in our heads is not a me-problem. No one is helping us. If mental health professionals could have helped us, then they would have helped by now.”

The rates of mental health problems in the United States preclude the idea that the so-called experts know how to solve this. Now, if you personally have improved because of a counselor, I’m happy for you, and that does not weight in on this society-wide failing. Public health professionals and leaders simply do not have the mental health crisis under control. They’re impotent.

I decided that I wouldn’t wait around for them to fix this. I turned to history, which immediately pointed to religion as the foundation of all social fabric and internal peace. You can read this fully in my chapter A Meditation on Freedom, downloadable on the home page or submission guide.  

My vision for this magazine is to model the traditional Socratic dialogue. We don’t do outrage culture here. I’m defending the right to dissent. To learn more, read My Frame for Free Speech in the 2020s. 

My Frame for Free Speech in the 2020s

Take these seven points and synthesize them as you will.

• In the 2020s, why are so many people constantly on the brink of psychological collapse? The rates of mental health problems in the United States preclude the idea that the experts know how to solve this. Literally everyone I know, save for one grandma and my husband, is suffering from head sickness without reprieve. If experts could help, they would have helped by now. 

• Before the 1900s, intelligence was not necessarily better than any other positive attribute like being strong, upstanding, or friendly. For example, in Medieval times, your ability to do quick mental math did not help you catch a fish faster than Drooling Degbert next door. However, since the creation of the atomic bomb, intelligence has become the preeminent value of powerful people. Since World War 2, American business and government have prioritized, funded, and bolstered an ever-growing bureaucracy of universities, R & D centers, exclusionary professional organizations like the AMA, regulatory bodies, quasi-regulatory bodies, policy institutes, and consultants. We have spent the last century raising, training, prioritizing, and revering experts. We all have been taught that, unless you are equally credentialed, you cannot argue with an expert. After all, they’re an expert. 

• In 1941, on the sidelines of mainstream intellectual discourse, a man named James Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution. He argued that instead of capitalism, socialism, or any other conventional category of social ideology, America had experienced a revolution of middle managers. Managers are not the owners of capital, but also they are not unified with the working class. Managers can get promoted, but they still are beholden to their paycheck. They are part of a system that allows them upward mobility while always keeping them in the same station.  

• The lowest class of France had harbored resentment forever before the French Revolution. The spark of the revolt lit when the military became mutinous, disenfranchised intellectuals banded together, and people with acumen and enough money to be influential but still shunned by the aristocracy joined the fight. 

• I went to a university with a very good free speech policy, but even if the school technically didn’t take action against political provocation, culturally we did not experience free speech because the social and academic price you paid squashed the policy. I started college the year Donald Trump got elected, so I witnessed the development of group psychosis. Like, en masse I watched everyone feed off each other’s anxiety and rage for four years. They said, “speech is violence.” They meant that vocalizing wrong ideas can break down what they’ve spent years building up; but I say speech is not violence. 

• Rome flourished as a republic when it was expanding. Building roads, collecting taxes, and consolidating power meant establishing a developed bureaucracy. When Rome hit Persia, it could not expand anymore and the beaurocracy became the enemy of the people. Two businessmen named the Gracchi Brothers, who were wealthy but not “in” with the other aristocrats,  redistributed farm land to the poorest people, among other intiatives, and earned their loyalty. The poor of Rome adored the Gracchi brothers. The other rich people of Rome kept asking, “why do these low-class people love those sleazy businessmen?” It was because the Gracchi Brothers and the Roman working class formed an alliance against the  bureaucratic middle. Well…America has been expanding for the history of its Republic: expanding Westward, establishing control through South America, and protecting globalist trade routes with our navy. Now, there’s nowhere to expand. If only there was a contemporary example of a businessman, who is wealthy but not “in” with the other aristocrats, who has formed an alliance with the poorest of American society… If Trump was America’s Gracchi Brothers, that would make America’s Julius Caesar born around 2054. To learn more, read The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt

• It’s my intention to platform people who are speaking earnestly. You don’t need to be profound or intellectual. You don’t need to be classically educated. I accept submissions of all people, all ages, all over the globe. You just need to be interesting and avoid ad hominem attacks.