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The personal touch
One thing I’ve learned from being a parent is that people don’t appreciate kindness or generosity that they can just take for granted as part of the structure and entitlement of their personal universe. It doesn’t change them either. There’s no personal element, so it conveys no personal enlightenment. They don’t receive it from someone…
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Where did social justice come from?
From an exchange with a friend who is a pastor. After looking through a list of recommended resources he got from another pastor. I don’t think Christians have really learned to recognize “social justice” yet as an actual competing religion that’s trying to absorb their faith under its own ideological umbrella. And the danger and…
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Does American freedom depend on religion?
I have heard religion described by some American conservatives as the basis for freedom. I’ve also heard it described by some American liberals as being the basis for oppression and confinement. I don’t know about religion in general being responsible for freedom; it depends on what you mean by freedom. Ultimately, being able to do…
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Chernobyl
The documentary Chernobyol, is not only good, it is one of the best things I have ever seen in my life. I wept several times. When the divers volunteered, when the puppies were shot, when the female scientist argued with Luchenkov trying to get him tell the truth about the control rods. And finally,…
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The psychology of “luxury beliefs”
If you have children and observe the difference in their behavior between environments, you will notice radical differences between how they act around their family and in their own home and how they act in every other environment with everyone else. Their attitudes and behavior are not at all uniform and have a very…
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Is pornography polygamy?
Does the existence and pervasiveness of pornography essentially commit all women to the inescapable fact of virtual polygamy? Usage statistics are so enormous among men, and the social norms forbidding it are so absolutely in tatters, that it’s virtually an inescapable condition of sexual relationships from now on. You’re not going to find anyone who…
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Freedom and equality
An excerpt from an exchange I had with a European writer, who was very critical of American equalitarianism and was in favor of a return to a more (old school) European, hierarchical, class-based system of government. In his opinion the American experiment was corrupted from the beginning by an insistence on the equality of all…
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Can we ever go back?
I think one of my greatest disagreements with Bret and Heather Weinstein is their idea of not being able to go back. I think it’s part of their own underlying evolutionary ideological vision. And in a sense, it’s right. You’re always going into the future. But going back, return, as a metaphorical moral…
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Love your enemy
What no one is really willing to say, in part because there’s so much built up resentment and guilt that it makes the admission possible, is that women aren’t able to be happy without men and can’t survive without them. Before I get pilloried for saying that, let me observe that it’s equally true…
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Culture and economics
In response to an ecomonist saying that cultural questions aren’t relevant to economic policy. have to disagree that cultural and economic issues are seperable. Thomas Sowell is probably the best economist on that subject. Economics is a function of the social structure, because all productivity is a function of human production, which is dependent on…
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