Polish Fans Unite Against Diversity And Immigration
by Brett Stevens (January 3rd, 2017)
Many of us in the New World view soccer as a sport like golf: a lot of waiting, wandering, and agonizing over what is in the end calculus a few well-timed taps to a ball to make it go into a target. We do not get it. Also, we do not want to. However, for […]
Tags: hooligans versus jihadists, islam, poland, soccer Posted in Politics | 5 Comments »
Awareness
by Brett Stevens (January 3rd, 2017)
We are familiar with the scales of justice, but what about the scales of attention? Few of us analyze what our brain spends its time processing; we respond to stimulus, which is easier, and allows us to reserve more of our thought process for ourselves. As a result, life is not tiring at all because […]
Tags: awareness, egotism, individualism, narcissism, solipsism, time scale Posted in Politics | 5 Comments »
Western Religion (And Religious Westernism)
by Brett Stevens (January 2nd, 2017)
Among us now come many who have staked all of their hopes on a single tool to fix a complex situation, for example, religion. Many especially among our most learned and thoughtful believe that society must begin again with religion as the tool that makes this happen, but they would produce the worst of possible […]
Tags: c.s. lewis, catholicism, christianity, j.r.r. tolkien, michel houellebecq, occultism, paganism, paul woodruff, religion, t.s. eliot Posted in Realism | 18 Comments »
Planned Obsolescence
by Brett Stevens (January 2nd, 2017)
Neoreaction gained an audience because it spoke a simple truth: governments are businesses, so there is no point having government be a business with special privileges. In this way it took after a long tradition of Rightist thought about government and its self-interest. In fact, we might call Neoreaction “space age paleoconservatism” and be correct. […]
Tags: crowdism, leftism, neoreaction Posted in Politics | 3 Comments »
Women Are Not Machines
by Brett Stevens (January 1st, 2017)
On the Right, the temptation is to realize that the all of the assumptions that form the basis of our current society are lies, and therefore to go the exact opposite direction. This is a strategic error. The opposite of what we have now is the same mental state with a different starting direction. Because […]
Tags: christianity, dating, marriage, self-centeredness, sex, STEM, wintery knight Posted in Politics | 20 Comments »
Outliers (#38)
by Brett Stevens (January 1st, 2017)
Holiday weekends bring out the best and worst in people. Most are disappointed, whether because they did not get the new gadget or because they live lonely and futile lives, none can tell. People drink a lot more, drive around aimlessly, behave selfishly. Leftists rage from their dingy city apartments after their ineffectual jobs, and […]
Tags: linkpost, open thread, outliers Posted in Meta | 1 Comment »
Silicon Valley Death Vigil Begins
by Brett Stevens (January 1st, 2017)
Humans destroy everything they touch. Something new is invented, and most people are afraid, so natural leaders take up its cause and make it great. Others see that this is a good thing and worth participating in, so they flock to it, but they do not alter their thinking, which fits the old way more […]
Tags: circular ponzi scheme, collapse, dot-com, facebook, natural born clickers, recession, silicon valley, theranos, twitter Posted in Politics | 9 Comments »
Coal Melts Steel Beams, Just Like Jet Fuel
by Brett Stevens (December 31st, 2016)
It is interesting how unsystematic our world is. That is: things persist until disproven by chance. It is possible that there is a major hole in how we think about engineering steel objects, and that is that temperatures below the melting point of steel can weaken it enough to be dangerous. As our gentle readers […]
Tags: 9/11, coal, iceberg, jet fuel, steel beams, titantic, world trade center Posted in Politics | 9 Comments »
r / K Strategies
by Brett Stevens (December 31st, 2016)
For many years, this blog has covered r/K strategies and their effect on societies. The grim fact is that this primal divide defines two basic approaches to life: r strategy: breed chaotically, frequently, and invest little in offspring; K strategy: breed deliberately, with partners for life, and invest a lot in the offspring. The first […]
Tags: evolutionary strategies, extraversion, individualism, intraversion, r / K strategies, realism Posted in Politics | 4 Comments »
How To Create Toxic Elites
by Brett Stevens (December 31st, 2016)
Our elites are toxic, and our proles made it so. The dominant story throughout human history is that people specialize in illusions, and when they get together in groups, they create an echo chamber which reinforces those illusions, and then they force those on others. Then “intellectuals” get famous for inventing alternate stories about how […]
Tags: caste, class, democracy, equality, proles, unions Posted in Politics | 5 Comments »
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