A long time back I criticized Pinker’s “better angels of our nature”, arguing that he mistakes leftism for progress and goodness, arguing that criminal violence by citizens against each other is at extraordinarily high levels, that state violence against citizens in the form of imprisonment and policing is at levels unprecedented except when a state …
Month: May 2015
The moron elite
Twenty two out of twenty three Harvard grads could not explain why the earth gets hotter in summer and cooler in winter. So I asked my cleaning lady, who has received no science education whatsoever, and very little education. She replied that the days were longer in summer and shorter in winter. I then prompted …
After economic leftism
Economic leftism, workers against capitalists, died with the Soviet Union. Now it is women and nonwhites against white heterosexual males. American Hindus have extremely high incomes and are extremely reliable Democrat voters. Hindus are the opposite end of income and education spectrum to Mexicans, yet vote the same. Old fashioned economic leftism doesn’t explain this. …
Raping Sanza Stark
I have not been watching Game of Thrones since they killed off every character I cared about, but the recent fuss about rape caused me to watch the latest episode. To see the controversy, fast forward to the end. All the rest is people you don’t know or care about talking about things you do …
Losing Ramadi
Obama is of course a Muslim, progressive, and anticolonialist who hates America and wishes to see America defeated, but allowing Ramadi, and indeed Iraq, to be lost was pretty sensible. The underlying Bush theory was that Iraq would become a well run democracy, like Switzerland, where the Shia majority elected nice moderate progressives, thereby counterbalancing …
Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia capitulate and allow the boats.
Since Tony Abbot has been elected prime minister of Australia, no one is known to have successfully illegally immigrated to Australia. Their boat goes back, or if they are unusually stubborn and persistent, they wind up in a military run prison camp in a third world hell hole. From time to time progressives complain about …
A letter to Sunnis facing Shia Democracy
They are going to kill you all. So you had better sign up with the Caliphate. It is inherent in the nature of democracy that you get rule by a religion that has open entry into the clerisy. It is inherent in the rule of a religion that has open entry into the clerisy that …
The Camp of the Saints
The good and the great have announced there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant, in part because anyone who (however implausibly) claims to be a refugee, is legal. Some time ago Australia adopted a policy of turning the boats around,
After white male america
Law enforcement against blacks is inherently racist. Gentrification proceeded under an unprincipled exception. Eric Holder is rolling back that unprincipled exception. Not only does every good progressive know that being black is no indicator of propensity to commit crimes, he also knows that a past history of criminal conduct is no indicator of propensity to …
The point of the dark enlightenment is to understand the world, not to change it.
Theory is understanding and understanding is theory. Seeing the world as a collection of bare unexplained facts is effectively the same as seeing the world as filled with magic. To suppose that somehow price controls on wages or medical treatment do not behave like price controls generally is in effect to believe in magic. Without …