The Audacious Epigone reminds us of the courage of John Derbyshire who told us: To the dissident, the only thing worth pondering about the proposition is, is it true? If it is, then no king’s command can falsify it; and if it is not, then not even the assent of a hundred million will make it true. Predictably, one year after he said this, he was persecuted for speaking truth to power. The dissident, therefore, has disturbing characteristics in common …
Students against a democratic society
Excerpts from Carlyle, predicting social decay, in the context of today’s headlines showing social decay. But, as Carlyle observed, in 1848, most of the Kings ran away at the first whiff of gunpowder. He hoped that they might be replaced by a sterner breed of Kings. They are not showing up yet. But, if enough people reject democracy, equality, and all that, perhaps they will. But I don’t think so. I am with Froude, who longed for the return of …
Aaron Swartz needed killing
Moldbug is back!
Law of conservation of pussy
Reading the manosphere blogs, I notice a lot of husbands complaining that their wife has sex with them once a month, and, of course, no end of nice guys getting no sex at all. A fertile age woman generally has sex at least once a week. As Saint Paul observed, few people have the capacity for continence, whether male or female. So if husband is not getting any, chances are that someone else is getting a piece of his wife. …
Guns, murder, and race
Stolen from the comment section of Steve Sailer’s excellent blog. Someone who wishes to remain anonymous has assembled data showing that American whites murder at about the same rate as whites in countries with strict gun control, American “Hispanics†murder at about the same rate as they do in their native countries, which generally have strict gun control, and that American blacks murder at about the same rate as blacks do world wide, mostly in countries with strict gun control. …
Puritanism, progressivism, and entertainment
I have been watching the English dubbed Japanese anime “Speed Grapherâ€, which is pretty good except for the horrendously heavy handed propaganda. In the anime, money is revolting, immoral and disgusting, sex is revolting, immoral and disgusting, and male sexual pleasure obtained at the expense of females (there being no such thing as male sexual pleasure obtained with female pleasure) is the most utterly disgusting, revolting, and abhorrent of them all. There is no such thing as entrepreneurship or capital …
Mencius on the Fall
Mencius addresses the question: Does today’s US resemble the late Roman Empire in the west, or the late Roman Republic, in his usual wonderfully cryptic, long winded, and obscure fashion. Mencius’s proposed solution to our crisis, oligarchy or military dictatorship, assumes that America is analogous to the late Roman Republic. The people have become too degenerate to rule themselves, and so must be ruled by others.  In his latest post, however, he considers the possibility that there really is no …
The watchmaker is dead
When the religion dies, so dies the empire. Europe is the faith, the faith is Europe, and the faith is no more. Everyone who resents the destructive, self indulgent, and self destructive rule of the ever more left wing Cathedral, regrets the passing of Christianity, everyone including the secular right, perhaps especially the secular right, and some of them imagine it could be revived, though the remnant be small as a mustard seed. Before Darwinism, intelligent Christians believed in a …
Kill their leaders and convert them to … progressivism
Ann Coulter famously said “Kill their leaders and convert them to Christianityâ€. Regrettably, all the versions of Christianity that once upon a time would have been capable of implementing such a program have replaced the worship of Christ the Redeemer with Jesus the community organizer. The “Arab Spring†was the Cathedral deluding itself that it was installing progressive “Muslim†regimes in the Middle East – only to discover what was obvious to everyone else, that it was installing “progressive†Muslim …
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 …