High IQ species with lengthy childhood find it hard to reproduce without cooperation between males and females. Productivity is not an issue. In a wealthy society, a man could easily buy enough food and shelter for taking care of umpteen children, but he cannot actually take care of umpteen children. Observing variations in total fertility rate over different regions and different times, we see that even in very poor societies, boom or bust, war or peace, wealth or poverty, make …
Women gone nuts
The Zman asks “Why Did Women Go Nuts?†Simple. When you repress bad sexual behavior by males, and do not repress bad sexual behavior by females, you get very little bad sexual behavior by males, and a whole lot of bad sexual behavior by females. I see women behaving as if raised by apes in the jungle. Things are going to hell because we fail to restrain bad behavior that gets right in our faces. Male sexual behavior in the …
Losing weight is a solved problem
One frequently reads despairing reports that major weight loss is impossible. If you attempt it, supposedly your metabolism slows right down, making you weak, tired, lethargic, slow, and very very hungry. I read in far right and manosphere sources anecdotes from people who claim to have lost a great deal of weight. I followed their advice and lost a great deal of weight: The short of it is weigh yourself every morning, paleo (no wheat products, manufactured foods, or sweet …
Operation Sovereign Borders
American judges have been expanding the category asylumrefugee to open borders to the world, preparatory for rapid race replacement and white erasure in the US. Illegal immigration is now legal in the US, indeed a fundamental human right (unlike freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms) as it has been for some time in Germany and Sweden. In response to this, Trump has promised to use the the military to defend our borders …
Trump’s ban on transgender is alive and well
You no doubt heard “Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban on Transgender Troops in Militaryâ€. But Trump’s seeming surrender was threedee chess, not surrender. The word transgender deliberately confuses people with very different kinds of problems, grouping unlike people together, and making distinctions without a difference. Actual transgenders: Crazy people who clearly of one sex, but suffer the delusion that they are of a different sex in the same way that some people who are clearly not Napoleon the First, Emperor of …
Republicans voters losing interest in voting.
Recently there was a big upset in formerly Republican safe seat, and Democrats told themselves it is because Trump is such an ultra extreme right winger who hates women. And now another close result in a formerly safe seat looms. Trump won Arizona by 21%, yet Republicans are in danger of losing in Arizona. Is this because Trump the president revealed himself to be far more racist, sexist and right wing than Trump the candidate? Well, that is what the …
Don’t vote
No matter whom you vote for, the uniparty gets elected. Electing Trump has made a big difference. But he has has not made a big enough difference to prevent the government from electing a new people. Trump’s rust belt program was undoing the great centralization. Lo and behold: Back in June 2009, in one of our earliest posts in the aftermath of the financial crisis, we took a “random walk down Madison Avenue” and found empty storefront after empty storefront …
There are no utilitarians.
Whosoever claims to be a utilitarian is lying. Whosoever lies, is lying because he is defecting on those he lies to, seeks to harm, or is harming, those he lies to. In the case of utilitarianism, the lie is the claim to care about far, in order to cover actions or intentions harmful to near. By nature, we don’t care about far people. We care about ourselves, then our close kin, then our friends and allies, then members of our …
China passes the US
The most important, powerful, and effective weapon in the US arsenal is a fifty year old plane firing seventy year old cannons scoured from museums and looted from ancient forgotten overseas arms depots. Some people may say that the most important, powerful, and effective weapon in the US arsenal is nukes, but after all these years, who knows if they work any more? We can no longer make tritium, we can no longer make Pu238, why should nukes have fared …
Externalities
About twenty percent of a car is, or should be, high quality specialty steel which is not made in America. Because there are no local sources of such steel, it is organizationally difficult to make such parts in the US, so the parts tend to be made overseas. Or, disturbingly often, made out of crappy steel. When Jobs was creating the smartphone, he went to Corning to talk to the people who make specialty glass. If we had been importing …