05-21-18

Avoid a Machine Readable Life.

05-05-18

Diversity + Proximity = War: “Let's not become Sweden”
"No matter how much you indoctrinate", says a Chateau Hartiste blog correspondent, "the truth of our most basic ideas, behaviors, and reactions will never change. That is [why] 'Progressivism' has always fails, since it replies on humans to 'evolve' (progress) into holy and perfect beings. This will never happen, thus Progressivism fails over and over again."

04-30-18

How the Death Penalty Saved Civilization
"Frost and Harpending calculated that one percent of the male population were executed every generation throughout the Middle Ages. And another one percent were killed at the scene of the crime or died in fetid prisons awaiting trial or execution. So two percent of young men were eliminated every generation.
And because they tended to be young, this process meant that they had fewer children than if they hadn't been executed. Thus, they would have passed on fewer of their genes.
It’s here that Frost and Harpending perceptively draw their conclusion. Capital punishment must have changed the nature of European personality—by, in effect, culling out the psychopaths."

04-25-18

An Internet Pioneer™ on why & how we now live in a digital hell  (American Conservative)
"[Jaron] Lanier has some unnerving remarks about what he calls 'Digital Maoism,' which is the idea that everybody is going to be empowered by the Internet, but what ends up happening is that only a few people get power, and all the meanness of people is set loose on each other, on the Internet. He says that Internet utopians only thought about the good things that the Internet and social media could do, and didn’t think about the terrible things — like, for example, how there is an equal and opposite reaction to every positive social movement facilitated by the Internet. In fact, Lanier believes that the Internet ends up causing net damage."

04-22-18

Shitting in Your Own Nest, Redux: Shift to Cultural Marxist view is killing enrollment in the Humanities (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Yeah, so go figure?

04-18-18

The Constitution actually is in fact a suicide pact  despite many learned judges opinions to the contrary says this post at the blog Kakistocracy.

"Of course the Supreme Court", says Kakistocracy's Porter, "has always been our most visible petri-dish for observing this repetitive behavioral phenomenon. The extreme right-wing of that eminent tribunal routinely takes the extreme position of following the country’s founding charter, whether it leads to Disney or Camden. In contrast, their opposing faction simply locks the wheel left and produces sententious pap whenever they can muster five votes. So if I only care about the destination and you only care about a check sheet, where do you think we’re going to go?"

American conservatives focus on form, style, and symbolic piety toward the Sacred Paper, while the left focuses on moving the ball ahead, and guess who wins? So, yeah, conservatism is a suicide pact.

04-16-18

I don't have much sympathy for the suffering and misery of people who live in Chicagoland and similar solid-blue urban shit-holes. Stories like this one about how the incompetent sheriff of Cook county, IL who is responsible for the pre-trial custody of Chicagoland's lumpenproles, a job which he botches continually, breezes to re-nomination on the Dem ticket. Sheriff Tom Dart had no serious opposition in the Democrat primary and only token opposition come the general. Hey Chicagoans: If you elect and re-elect these fuckwits (and gladly too), then you'll continue to get what you've been getting! Go figure?

People in these deep blue cities and states piss and moan, then go and re-elect the same bum. Not a different bum, but the same fucking ones. And this phenomenon cascades all through the hierarchy of officialdom. Judges, district attorneys, alderman,  and the rest, no matter how bad. They get in and fucking stay in, until the feds send them to jail. So, no more tears for you blue bots. Suck it up or move.