Scott Alexander has just posted that anyone who objects to homosexuality must be a repressed homosexual, which is typical of what passes for rationality among the “Less Wrongâ€Â crowd. By the same reasoning, anyone who objects to coprophagy must be a repressed coprophage, because, of course, everyone at  “Less Wrongâ€Â knows perfectly well that there can be no rational, innate, or instinctive reasons to dislike eating $#!%. When we were all forced to call homosexuals gay, “gay†instantly became a startlingly potent …
Category: culture
Players, PUAs, and Petruchio
Some people in the Reaction complain that players are evil, and therefore should be cast out of the Reaction. Perhaps, but you cannot cast them out of the Dark Enlightenment, for the Dark Enlightenment is simply truth, unwanted and unpleasant truth, and no one has better cause to know the unwanted truth than players. As for evil, it is not the duty of men in general to protect women in general, but of husbands and fathers to protect wives and …
Tonto and the lone ranger.
Tonto and the lone ranger (formally the Lone ranger, with his comedy relief sidekick Tonto, whose name means “silly” in Spanish) have recently been rebooted, with the no longer silly Tonto as main character and the lone ranger as his sidekick. Since the audience is largely white, and Tonto is authentically alien (covered in warpaint and wears a dead bird on his head at all times) this, of course, went over like a lead balloon. Even genuine native Americans are …
Fertility
My unmarried niece failed to show up at my son’s wedding. I complained to her mother, observing that she has no life, so no excuse for not turning up. Her mother, who is my elder sister, was somewhat indignant about this and alleged that my niece had a boyfriend. I commented that since my niece was too old to be fertile, her boyfriend was not serious, unlikely to become a husband, and may well be a boyfriend only in my …
Cathedral imperialism revealed
We hear Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing what role which people will play in the post coup Ukraine government, revealing that the Ukraine “opposition†are puppets, entryists, cogs in the Cathedral machine, loudspeakers for microphones held in Harvard. They discuss what orders they will give to which Ukraine politicians, and what jobs they will assign to which Ukraine politician, like the CEO discussing new employees with HR, revealing that the “Unrest” in …
The collapse of fertility
Spandrel has a post wondering where all the babies went, and whenever I propose one of the usual suspects, for example no fault divorce, denormalization of masculinity, and such, he says “Ah, but many Muslim countries also have fertility collapseâ€. Good point. So let us look at a Muslim country with dramatic fertility collapse, and see if we can find any of the usual suspects.
Now I understand the koan
Several people have been darkly amused by the koan I walked to Master Moldbug but the road was too long. I visited master Jim and he hit me with a stick. I did not understand it.  Seems to me that I am a pussycat. But now I think I understand
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 holier than Jesus. “I am holier than thou, therefore you should obey me.†The madness of crowds, the tendency of consensus to go horribly wrong And …
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 the body, and performs its role in the whole body, making the body one. In cancer, each cancer cell lives for itself, at the expense …