Author: Mr Nobody
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How Trump helped lose the culture war
As much as I despise Trump for his selfishness and degeneracy, critical race theory, postmodernism, fourth wave feminism, and various other popular ideological movements (which have all cross pollinated into something large enough to be considered a religion) make him look like a silly little middle school bully next to the Maoist revolution. But I…
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The beauty of rock bottom
The advantage of reaching the point of having nothing is that it really allows you to take stock of yourself and your life and see what you’re missing and what you gave up. It makes you appreciate what you lost and what it was really worth. It gives you wonderful perspective. And if you want…
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A cut tangent from the entry about Untamed
The movie musical Rent does something similar. It has a song where the male singer, Roger, is clearly in the wrong and needs to change. The music becomes discordant when he sings, the style he uses is very harsh, the framing portrays him as separated and confined and in shadow. The girl, Miami, is free,…
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Speculation about the content of Untamed
I haven’t read the book Untamed, and in order to criticize something you should definitely read it. I’m just not sure I want to spend my time on it. But a quick glance offered me enough insight that I think I could get at a lot of its major take-home points. A book like that…
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The shifting strategy of socialism
If nationalism has some basis in racial solidarity, in the identity of the tribe (the French, Germans, Italians, for example), might it not make sense to infer that tribalism is itself part of the reason socialism can’t seem to cohere on a broader international basis? And if that’s an obstacle to the Marxist dream, then…
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A personal story of political intuition
Plenty of people have explored the problems with socialism far better than I could. Problems like the free rider problem. But I do want to add one example from my own past that shows that I, at least, am not a good enough person to have in a system where outcomes are not closely tied…
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An addendum to “meaning in life”
Life, of course, isn’t all about survival, any more than it is all about ambition or pleasure. But all of these are components of our lives. If there’s one peoole that we can learn something about finding meaning in the midst of uncertainly of survival from, it’s the Jews. It’s amazing that they are still…
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Meaning in life
Meaning in life isn’t a function of how big and grand and special and unique a thing you’re doing, and what that makes of you. Meaning in life is a function of taking responsibility for and investing in the life you have, and what that makes of you. We can’t all be Shakespeare or Kanye…
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Why we need the noble savage
We must believe in the myth of the noble savage. It is this story, this mythology, that allows us to maintain the great fiction that guards and preserves the deep psychological needs of our hearts. There is something deep inside us that it protects, a different story, a nagging doubt, a yawning void, that it…
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The Good Place?
I don’t think I’ve talked much about The Good Place before. I don’t really have the energy to, but somehow I’m going to do it for way too long. It doesn’t reflect well on me to be so hard on what is really a fine show with some decent laughs, but I’m going to anyway.…
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