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 is crushing a hostile enemy population in a condition of war or near war, and that levels of warfare between states are pretty much what …
Category: politics
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. And yet there is the sense that something is being redistributed. The country itself is being redistributed from white heterosexual males to a coalition of …
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 commit crimes in future – see “Les Miserables” for the correct progressive position on crime and punishment, which is, pretty much, that punishment is horribly …
Harry Lee was the greatest statesman of our age, but …
Harry Lee took Singapore from third world to first world. He created an economic order that every nation should imitate, and many have. Singapore was about to fall to communism and racial violence, following the path of so many other third world hell holes abandoned by their colonial masters. Harry Lee created order peace, and economic freedom, which brought prosperity. As Spandrel says, he was a legalist, not a reactionary. Legalism, done right, brings order, peace, and prosperity. So, why …
Racism
“Racist” is just a hate word for white, therefore I am not racist, merely white. I am anti anti racist. “Racist” has multiple, vague, slippery, and shifting definitions. I think it is really bad news to live close to blacks, and property owners should be entitled to protect themselves against what happened to those owning property in Ferguson. I think that blacks are, on average, genetically inferior. I think that the genetic and cultural differences between genetic and cultural groups …
Nationalism, whiteness, and kin
B.S. Haldane observed “I would lay down my life for two brothers, four nephews, or eight cousins.” In otherwords, kin altruism does not go far, being pretty much limited to the nuclear family and the extended family. It can be stretched to somewhat larger groups by deliberate inbreeding, by the practice of father’s brother’s daughter marriage, but then you get moderate IQ depression due to inbreeding, and the achievable group size is not all that much larger. Nazis tend to …
Nazis are commies and commies are progressives
As you probably know if you read this blog and others like it, the overthrow of the Ukrainian government by Soros et al was a Jewish/State Department conspiracy. Maidan’s primary documents are in English, in the dialect of the America Harvard educated ruling class, like so many other similar movements all over the world. The Ukrainian secession movement was and is a response to this foreign created coup installed government. So, which side do you think the Nazis would support? …
Ada Lovelace, poster girl
If one poster girl, or black poster boy, fake, then all fake, since obviously progressives will run with the best they can find. From time to time I read people gushing over some poster girl or other. Lately it seems to have become mandatory in every book on computing to announce that they are inspired by the glorious leadership of comrade Stalin all early programmers were women and evil men stole all the credit. Supposedly the first programmer was Ada …
The weak have it coming to them
The New York Times is getting worried about the wave of persecution that it has done so much to create. They recently did a pity piece on poor little Justine Sacco Justine Sacco is a good progressive. She has no enemies to the left, no friends to the right. She had a good progressive job with a good progressive company. She had a good progressive family. One fine day she twittered “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just …
Nothing exciting happening with Greece
For as long as I can remember, the Greek government has been spending other people’s money. For as long as I can remember, there has been a financial crisis in which those reluctantly funding the Greek government announce this is now going to stop. In the latest crisis, the German government meets with the Greek government and with great firmness tells them to stop spending German money. But, short of Germany leaving the Euro, the German government has no power …