We have been discussing on what the various kinds of reactionary agree. We agree on reality and agree that reality is important. I also agree with Vox Day about Scalzi, who exemplifies the progressive tendency to cut the balls off male progressives.  John Scalzi is exhibit A for Heartiste’s position that any man who is a man should reject the entire progressive political movement, including and especially the early nineteenth century emancipation of women, which led to the English 1857 …
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Dark Enlightenment and the Endarkenment
The Dark Enlightenment: The movement that concludes that the Enlightenment took a bad turn, or that the Enlightenment itself was a bad turn. I take both positions: That the Enlightenment was wildly and dangerously wrong to proclaim all men created equal, and that restoration England was a pretty good political system, which gave us the scientific and industrial revolutions, and the British conquest of most of the world, and it has been downhill since the restoration, with things going to …
How sweet it is
Marcott et al recant the blade of their Hockey stick This is a huge change, in that previously, when warmists lied, and got caught doing so, every scientific institution, every science journal, every prestigious academy, and every organized group of scientists would piously swear holy fealty to the lie. Now, instead, they quietly twist the liar’s arms behind closed doors.Â
The latest PC
It used to be mandatory to believe that evolution was a mere creation myth, something that happened long, long ago, and far far away, but had not happened in the last hundred thousand years or so, so that it was impossible for there to be differences between races, or indeed between men and woman. But, in that case, we would still be shaped for eating meat and fat, and not yet shaped for eating wheat and vegetable oil, which is …
Did Hormonal Contraception cause the destruction of the family?
The sexual revolution happened when the pill happened, that is, when Hormonal Birth Control happened. In the comments Spandrell provides compelling evidence that the effect of hormonal birth control on the sexual revolution was not very large.
Why Darwinism is more controversial than ever
Darwin not only tells us that one individual is not equal to another, he also tells us that races are the origin of species, which means that in general races will be unequal in major and important ways. Darwinism also tells us that men and women are genetically predisposed to different and unequal social roles, which implies that attempts to make their roles legally equal will not work very well. Darwinism tells us that we have a moral sense evolved …
Teleology and Darwinism
Darwin freely used teleology as a metaphor for natural selection, that natural selection works as if an intelligent breeder was consciously pursuing a goal, as if aiming at horses, to take advantage of the grasslands, or as if aiming at men, to create a creature capable of planning and cooperating to defeat any creature less capable of planning and cooperation. And by an interesting coincidence, whosoever hates the metaphor, hates natural selection.
Postmortem on Warmism
We are always moving leftwards, but not every leftwards program succeeds. Should one fail, they try something different. I have not published much on warmism lately, because they were defeated by Climategate, even though every academic institution, every government institution, and every group of organized scientists swore fealty to Warmism, officially proclaimed that Climategate was no big deal, and have been trying to carry on as if Climategate was no big deal. But now they are subsiding, so time for …
The left singularity versus the technological singularity
Lately this blog has largely been about the left singularity: That leftism leads to more leftism, which leads to even more leftism even faster, until everything goes to hell. The best known singularity, however is the information technology singularity, the rapture of the nerds What of the theory that information technology leads to more information technology? Well, in a sense, in the long run, looking back over the last several million years, it is obviously true. Problem is that it …
Dude, where is my flying car?
The first man on the moon has died, and pretty soon the last men on the moon will be dead also. where are the space settlements? By the year 2000, we were supposed to have flying cars, space settlements, and cities that looked like this: