Lately there as been a lot of concern about the increasingly visible decline of the west, notably Peter Thiel on “The End of the Future”: (more…)
Archive for the ‘culture’ Category
The cause of the decline
Sunday, October 16th, 2011Short summary of “Fast and Furious”
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Many blogs have covered all this for a long time, in great depth, among them Human Events. I am not going to do so, but I need to mention such an important event, if only for my own records: (more…)
Pinker on violence
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Pinker argues that there has over time, been a great decline in violence, mistaking progressivism for progress. “The better angels of our nature” (more…)
Gay Marriage: A modest proposal
Monday, September 5th, 2011It is apparent that the modern institution of marriage is profoundly ill suited for producing and raising one’s biological children. I suggest, therefore, that just as we no longer use the word “gay” to mean merry and light hearted, we introduce a new word and new kind of contract, reproductive contracts, for people who intend to have children together and raise them. And for “marriage”, allow anyone to marry anyone, or any group of people or animals, for any length of time five minutes or longer. Thus three men, a horse, and a dog, could marry for seven minutes to have sex in the alley between Van Ness and Polk Gulch, but let us have a different word, and a different contract, for the case where the intent is to bear and raise children. (more…)
Seven felonies a day
Monday, August 29th, 2011A few years back I remarked that the average respectable middle class male had committed hundreds of felonies, each worth many years jail time. Things have become worse since then: (more…)
Global warming causes mandatory evacuation
Sunday, August 28th, 2011Or rather the ideology of global warming causes mandatory evacuation. The actual weather was merely an unusually wet and windy weekend, slippery roads and slightly more falling trees than usual. In New York, the storm caused subways to shut down and loss of power – well actually the storm did not cause either one. Politicians panicked by fear of the wrath of Gaea shut down power and subways.
There will be war
Saturday, August 20th, 2011Brad deLong tells us:
it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from our political system as rapidly as possible.
Since Republicans are supposedly terrorists, elimination is apt to mean lining them up against a wall and shooting them. (more…)
Rick Perry, multiculturalist
Friday, August 19th, 2011On the campaign trail, seeking the republican presidential nomination, he piously bows his head in prayer, he supposedly doubts evolution, but he imposed on Texas schools a course denigrating Christianity and whitewashing Islam. (more…)
Rick Perry and the underclassing of America
Friday, August 19th, 2011Rick Perry proposed to give every female child Gardasil vaccine at government expense.
Gardasil protects against a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer in women and male homosexuals. It rarely affects male heterosexuals in advanced countries. The vaccine is expensive, and has dangerous side effects, so should only be given to those that need it: sluts sexually active females and gays. If a girl is planning to ride the cock carousel, then she should definitely take it shortly before she starts. (more…)
Chicks dig jerks, 1513AD edition
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011In “the Prince”, Machiavelli observed:
fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.
Observe that Machiavelli is familiar with what we now call game, and takes for granted that his audience is familiar. (more…)