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Managing the crisis of division
America is facing a crisis. A crisis of division. At this point, many people in America are actually living in such absolutely different cultural worlds with radically divergent conceptions of their most basic fundamental premises about reality, that they cannot be said to be living in the same country any more. Or perhaps even the…
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Naming the god of wokeism
On of the most cult-like elements of wokeism, or critical theory, or whatever you wish to call it, is its persistence in separating you from your culture by any means necessary. It’s adherents are orphans of time, isolated and cut off from their family, their culture, their history, all the traditional anchors of the self.…
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On Victimhood
Anyone who has had children and has had their eyes open should have seen through all this victimhood culture in an instant. I have a child whose entire approach to life is to explain everything she does as either someone else’s fault or an accident. She never claims any kind of agency. And I’ve told…
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Selling $#!% with racism
I just saw the weirdest REI ad, and it took me a while to figure out what it was saying. I got it in the end. I believe the argument of the ad was “The outdoors is racist, it’s hard for black people to be outside because it’s so racist, and we can…
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Prey or Predator?
The only real difference between the far right and the far left is loyalty. Both view life as a zero sum game in which the most meaningful divisions are oppressor and oppressed, or more accurately predator and victim. They only differ on who they believe you should back. If you can win, you should, you…
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My review of Dune
There’s no way that this story is meant to be only two movies. This is clearly just the first third. If they were intending to have two movies, they would have gone further into the story. The score is a but overdone and repeats itself a little. It could have used more internal variety so…
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An open repudiation
Like all bigots of the past, you think that your judgment is justified. What was wrong with the judgements and bigotry of the past wasn’t that they identified the wrong group. And maybe if they had just got the group right, like I have, it would have been fine. You’re setting yourself up, not to…
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Are men to blame for bad feminism?
A series of discussions about men, women, and feminism. In particular, some of the bad outcomes of certain types of feminism, and who is to blame. The video that sparkes this discussion is listed below. But to summarize, this lady argues that classical feminism has somehow been captured and used to promote values and messages…
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The problem with hate speech laws
It’s far easier to understand the problem with hate speech laws when you realize that “hate speech” isn’t really a descriptor of the subjective state of the speaker, it’s a statement about the subjective state of the listener (or regulator). When someone says “free speech is protected, hate speech is not protected”,…
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Is dishonesty inevitable?
Someone once asked me, can we evolve beyond lying. Here is my reply. No. The seeds are sown in the nature of our subjectivity. I don’t mean that truth is necessarily subjective, but that we can only experience it subjectively and communicate it subjectively. Therefore everything from interpretation to uniqueness of perspective to distortion to…
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