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On John McWhorter
https://youtu.be/-D9LZdjnxKk I love John. I adore him and I think he’s a genius. He’s one of my favorite people to listen to. He’s so articulate and kind. And he has a good sense of when something has gone wrong, and seeks to correct it. He has a clear idea of what black America shouldn’t do…
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Roommates vs Spouses
What is the difference between having a husband or wife and having a roommate? The two overlap, and it’s easy for one to slowly become another, especially as the passions of youth cool and life becomes more stable and predictable, as our daily lives become more about the regular effort required to maintain life than…
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Jordan Peterson and faith
https://youtu.be/2rAqVmZwqZM I think Joni Erickson Tada might be an interesting person for Jordan to learn about. I’m a bit of a natural skeptic myself. I always have been. And Jordan certainly has faith, the sort of faith that Kierkegaard espoused. It’s a choice to will a life “as if,” while recognizing that there is no…
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Landlords’ and renters’ rights
https://youtu.be/mQPsSGf9hfk To flip the argument just given, the renters also don’t have to live at that specific location. There’s no God-given right to be able to live in someone else’s property rent free. And assuming the obligations of a renter is part of the responsibility you take on when you sign a contract and become…
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A final letter to KXYZ
You have lost me as a viewer permanently. This special is not news, this is political re-education. These “bias” trainings have not been shown to be effective, in fact there is a great deal of evidence that they cause and perpetuate the problems they intend to address. They are not based in a well-grounded or…
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A children’s guide to Marxism
I recently read a summary of Marx’s ideas in a philosophy book for children that summed up his cultural and intellectual contributions thusly: He really cared about poor people, he was unpopular for his ideas, but his ideas ended up being very influential, so maybe they weren’t so wrong after all. That was pretty much…
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A dream of the pantheon
I had a strange dream. Ignoring the events that led up to it, there was a gathering of powerful people, and I was among them. There was going to be a great ordering and striving to see who would take what position. Everyone had strengths and abilities. There were men and women. Some I knew,…
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Creating false demand, with an aside on evil
In response to the idea that markets are distorted because suppliers have created artificial demand that didn’t exist. From this discussion. https://youtu.be/ndehWd9N9Z4 This is the wrong way of viewing things entirely. You cannot literally create demand. You can hijack it, you can confuse it, you can subvert it, you can alter it, you can divert…
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From a letter to a newspaper
As a news organization, the positions of any given national politician should not be characterized as an attack on people. Words aren’t attacks on people, they are statements of positions. We can agree and disagree with words, statements, and positions. They can be analyzed and falsified. But half the problem that prevents any kind of…
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From a conversation with a journalist
Hello, I had some concerns about the reporting in this story. I’m going to assume that this story is not completely unidimensional, and that there are people other than those who say it is all racism, although that is not apparent from the story itself. I am not saying, myself, that using such mascots and…
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