Author: Mr Nobody
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Could anarchy work?
The answer is no. Boom, done! Fun talk. The thing about most political questions is that you don’t need a huge social experiment or tons of theory to answer most basic questions. All you need is a single complete unit to study. Enter, one human family. All government is just a scaled up version of…
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Third time is the charm
This is a series of stabs I made at responding to criticism of “on expectations and minority experience”. The objection raised was essentially this: “Imagine a situation where you are good at things but no one ever gives you a chance and you get rejected entirely because of prejudice. And everyone is racist, and that’s…
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On Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Summers
https://youtu.be/zxWOsUOsDyU I love these women. I grew up surrounded by smart, confident women. You can’t help but love and respect them, even when you do disagree. They’re both a delight, but Camille consistently makes me laugh out loud. She is one of rhe most entertaining people you could possible watch. I think if there’s any…
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On expectations and minority experience
When I walk into a gym, no one assumes I’m a professional basketball player. And they’re right. There aren’t a lot of short, Dutch basketball players. When my wife and girls show up somewhere wearing lovely and stylish outfits, people don’t assume that I bought them and put them together. And it’s very likely that…
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Why politics is a male epiphenomenon
Males and female territories differ, and the way they police those territories differs. Men maintain wider territories but police them at a lower level of detail, but do so more confrontationally. Women maintain a smaller territory but at a very high level of detail, and do so with “soft power”, leveraging influence at many complex…
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How slippery are slippery slopes
Both left and right are slippery slopes because they’re based in personality and instinct. That instinct is persistent; it’s not confined to a specific concern that arises gets resolved. So it keeps working on whatever the conditions are and never really knows when to stop. Absent the balancing pull of the opposition party, it inevitably…
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Sympathy across the sexes
I was heavily bullied and kicked around by the other boys (and girls) during my childhood. And I once was having a conversation with some women, who were complaining about men, and I mentioned that I knew what it felt like to be physically at someone else’s mercy and be thoughtlessly used for amusement and…
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Comments on the talk between Jordan Peterson and Michael Schermer
I think what Jordan is basically arguing about religion is that it is at least symbolically or psychologically or archetypally true. And that that’s an important, maybe the most important, way something can be true (in an almost Platonic sense, as an abstraction or a aggregate, a bit like math is true in relation to…
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A dream of hell, or life, or death
I dreamt I was falling through an infinite red void. Darkness, directionless, expanding forever in all dimensions. Silent and gusty. Twisting, in one forever moment. Falling, pulled forever backward into an infinite regress into myself. It was a place of infinite space, where all the world was mine and I was the only thing in…
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What women want
What women want, or at least what my wife wants, is to feel special and valuable and precious. To be a princess. For her, it’s a guilty pleasure, but it’s also obviously a deep motivation. To be seen or discovered to be or appreciated as or treated as if or to simply be a princess.…
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