Author: Mr Nobody
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Why does mimesis work?
The primary guideposts of moral opinions are not arguments but are social acceptability (convention) and exemplars. Both of which work similarly. They save work and rely on consensus of either the group or tan expert. This works because the essential content bearers of moral judgements are not ideas but instincts. People have instinctive value sets,…
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Would men care about women without sex?
One thing I sometimes wonder is, what percentage of the love, attention, and respect that men show women is due to their sexual attraction to them? I’m willing to bet that it’s a lot. Looking at how men act toward men, there’s a lot of competition. There’s not a huge amount of personal interest. Men…
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The greatest moral battlefield is our own heart
There are many battles that must be fought in life, many challenges overcome, many difficulties to navigate. But anyone who tells you that the most significant moral struggle you will face in your life is with someone else is not telling you the truth. The nearest, most decisive, longest, most numerous and varied, and most…
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In defense of safe spaces
What safe spaces do we truly need? I don’t think there is such a thing as an intellectual safe space that insulates you and protects your from words or ideas that might contradict your own or cause you distress. That’s the sort of thing you might expect from your family, maybe your closest friends, but…
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Politically educational Google searches
I was skeptical after reading in Douglas Murray’s book about the political educational prejudices of Google image search. He claimed that searches for black couple gave you black couples, searches for gay couples gave you gave couples, searches for white couples gave you almost entirely mixed race or non-white couples, and searches for straight couples…
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Wolves in the Wastes
Today I was reflecting on the strange cycle of distortion that a polarized populace and media have created, and how much it defines our view of the world around us. Having spent plenty of time living with the distortions and bias of the conservative media, it’s actually made it easier to see the same distortions…
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Leaving space for others to stand and oppose us
If you make white supremacy the only place white people (or cops) feelsl safe and understood, the only beneficiary will be white supremacists. Forcing people into ideological extremes with our rhetoric only erodes the great bulk of ordinary people caught in the middle and feeds the fires of the extremists at both ends. When enough…
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The importance of resisting all political extremes
I feel the same obligation to fight extreme leftist woke culture as I do to fight extreme right Trumpist culture. They’re similar extremes of differing strategies. I see value in both conservative and liberal approaches, and I think what they really are is approaches or attitudes or instinctive value structures more than they are a…
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Why words like “mansplaining” only make things worse
I have to question the value and effects of terms such as “mansplaining”, that reduce the moral and cognitive value of someone’s words, actions, and motivations to merely a function of their class belonging. Such terms were developed as a type of intellectual weapon, in principle to address a perceived power imbalance. Unfortunately, they do…
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On one of my life’s great disappointments
If I had to pick one of my absolute greatest disappointments in life, it was realizing that I would never be a great musician. I wanted so much to be a great singer. But by middle school my total loss of my voice and my vocal nodes ended that dream. I felt the music so…
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