Author: Mr Nobody
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Decriminalizing incest
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/04/17/consensual-incest-should-be-decriminalized-advocates-say/amp/ If you don’t read the article, the headline contains the essential argument. Consensual incest should be decriminalized. The one thing I can say in favor of this is that is that, yes, they are correct; based on the currently accepted arguments, there isn’t any particularly good reason why consentual incest shouldn’t be legal. Or…
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On culture warriors
There are some pundits who are pushing back that are a little too aggressive for my taste. It’s not that they’re wrong, they’re often right as far as they go. But their reactions are strong enough that they become prey to being pushed too far into their own position, and into being too critical (and…
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Religious musings
These are not only things that are, they are things that must be. 1. People crave moral legitimacy and moral justification. 2. Sacrifice is continual. 3. You can’t get rid of the need for sacrifice, it just goes somewhere else. We are piñoned between past and future, caught at their intersection. We must be released…
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The Boy Crisis
I’ve had to read the Boy Crisis much slower than almost any book. There’s just a lot to take in. It’s not just academic. I’m a man, and a dad. And there’s so much to think about. And so much that makes me so terribly sad. I’m not great at empathy, but I can connect…
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Comedians and courage
The way that formerly brave and controversial comedians and artists are caving in to the moral majority of the new left just goes to show that they weren’t really that brave after all, someone just needed to invent a type of social censure they were afraid of. It’s easy to be provacative when you don’t…
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Hesitation and caution in fighting back
I recently watched a video of Peter Bogosian, Douglas Murray, and Dave Rubin talking about the ongoing fight against postmodernism, wokeism, and critical theory. The overall tone was hopeful, ebullient. The fight is going well, they said. Lies were being exposed, dangers were being recognized, prejudices were being revealed, sense was being restored. And this…
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Are women better than men?
Are women better than men? That is certainly a question that seems to have some teeth. Men can be and are blamed for a lot of the pain in the world. And it’s not unusual to see the world and history characterized as innocent women and children trying to live their lives and wicked men…
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On Jingle Jangle
The song “The Square Root of Impossible” is pretty much the prime example of what I find cheap and shallow about modern children’s movies. It’s overproduced, sounds way too perfect, and is completely lacking in depth of character or struggle. It’s the shallowest idea of heroism. It’s heroic, but the broadest, most trite version of…
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Cries of the men’s rights movement
On listening to the lament of a rapper on the state of men and their place in the family. I’m not one hundred percent sure what to say about all this. There’s surely a lot to learn about men from this, just as sociological data. I’m not sure that this is the most eloquent articulation…
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On Borders
I think the real question about borders is permeability. You want borders because you want to select what crosses them. The state is like a living organism. Living organisms have cell membranes and cell walls. That’s one of their defining, necessary features. And there’s a selectivity that allows certain things in and certain things out,…
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