The Orthosphere and Zippy Catholic seem curiously optimistic about the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Seems to me that anyone who is genuinely Roman Catholic should be making spiritual and organizational preparations for excommunication. Here are some entertaining bits from the Pope’s interview with La Republica, which came to my attention when it was …
Author: Jim
Egyptian Referendum
Do you want a tall man on a white horse to restore order? Having experienced democracy, briefly and suddenly, 95% of Egyptians voted yes.
Demotism and lies
North Korea is demotic. The US is demotic. North Korea murders large numbers of people. The US does not. Scott Alexander argues, therefore, that the word demotic is not meaningful, in that it lumps unlike things together. The North Korean regime is based on lies, since it claims its right to rule comes from the …
Races and subspecies
Darwin defined race and subspecies to mean the same thing, a difference between kinds that is noticeable, but less than a species difference. He then proceeded to argue that there was no objective distinction between a race difference and species difference, that two very different races were the same degree of difference as two closely …
A creationist, an evolutionist, and a Darwinist were walking in the woods
They saw a patch of flowers. “Why are these flowers beautiful?†asked the creationist rhetorically. “OK†said the evolutionist, “Why?†“For the joy of God and man,†said the creationist. “No†said the evolutionist, “Beauty is subjective, in the observer, not in the flower, and nothing in nature has any purpose. It just is.†“No,†…
Reasons for the endless movement left
I have identified several different mechanisms for the endless movement left. Entryism, the conspiratorial takeover of organizations by other organizations. This is exemplified by Acorn, which has a single headquarters, but a hundred organization names, the residue of all the many organizations they have taken over. Phariseeism: The Puritans were holier than thou, their successors …
Leftism as cancer
Leftism is to memes as cancer is genes. If the cells of the body mutate, cells that multiply at the expense of the body will be selected. And cells that mutate to a faster mutation rate will be selected, since they will have more fast multiplying variants. In a healthy body, each cell lives for …
Global Warming Scientists trapped in Antarctic Denial
This expedition to Antarctica is led by global warming scientist Chris Turney, whose company, Carbonscape, sells carbon indulgences. If you sin by emitting carbon, Chris Turner will, for a suitable payment, offset your sin with his carbon offset credits. In the course of this expedition, they have repeatedly smacked up hard against ice that their …
Merry Christmas everyone
The overclass hates you.
People notice the overclass (brahman, in Moldbug’s terminology) hates whites. So they figure. Well, people who think of themselves as white cannot possibly hate whites, so it must be Jews, who don’t consider themselves white, hating us. Wrong. The overclass hates whites because it is almost entirely white. It hates Jews because it is disproportionately …