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Cayley on Illich on the Problem of Man
"I have more and more learned to recognize that even very careful and traditional use of words does not allow me to bespeak the precepts my grandfather knew, because they aren't there anymore"
- Ivan Illich
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“Mussolini made the trains run on time”
this was a common saying to explain the appeal of fascism
the proper corollary is “make the trains run on time and fascism will have less appeal“
the corollary is not “on-time trains are bad” or “people who want on-time trains are bad”
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the momslife_comics that have been making the rounds, they hit a little too close to home--my relative is going through a divorce, and she sounds *exactly* like the woman in the comic /1
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strange how our cultural evolution has turned compulsive lying from this marginal pathology to the main thing
at one time Americans were actually known for their honesty, it was a thing
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his fault is that he never learned to adequately navigate the head fiction of his wife, her circle of friends, the social media accounts she follows, and the feminism of her youth /3
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America can be a land of opportunity IF you avoid the many psychological traps created by our propaganda-laden culture
this is one of the lesser understood reasons why 1st immigrants are so successful, they have cultural armor that protects them from this, it barely registers
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and so she has deprived herself of an honorable & dependable husband, and her children of their father, and their other problems have now metastasized beyond repair, and she will grow old and die without ever knowing her true role in all of this /6
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meanwhile any strengths and accomplishments he brings to the table are not his own but the fruits of patriarchy and male privilege /5
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she wants him to be like a women, to relate to the world like a woman, and if he fails to do so this is a character flaw that he needs to work on more, preferably in therapy /4
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why is gaslighting so common with progressives? what happened there?
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except I know the husband too, and the husband is a responsible, honorable man who has worked extremely hard to support his family, and he has now lost his marriage and family, and his fault in all this is not that he ate the peach /2
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the internet has made young people so stupid, half of them can’t tell the difference between male and female
older people aren’t prepared for this level of stupidity and indulge them as if they have some secret knowledge, but no, the kids are just that stupid
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woke up this morning, wondering about some cousins and their non-binary/trans kids, and their mothers who are scandalized by my skepticism
how did the internet turn women into such easy marks?
I apologize for the low-grade faux-misogyny, but it's not the fathers doing this
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one of the conundrums of child rearing is that results speak louder that words, but results today are the effect of some cause 5-10 years back
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can't find the comment now...someone replied that racism was considered low class for a while, and this helped keep a lid on things, but then top institutions and elite opinion started putting race first, and the racial lens obviously wasn't low class anymore
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how did identity become the final source of legitimacy?
how did something we are become more important than anything we do?
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@thomaschattwill
Rittenhouse shouldn't have *had* to be there, but the state wasn't prepared to maintain order, and the protestors weren't prepared to maintain discipline. Under these circumstances, what's the moral thing to do? Stand back and let the mob through?
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learned a lot from the episode, specifically:
- tech billionaires constituted not the elite but the subaltern elite, allowed to do their thing in exchange for tax revenue and philanthropy
- Biden admin broke the deal
- the subaltern elite revolution is here
New podcast,
@bhorowitz
and me, 90 minutes on the Little Tech Agenda, the future of tech in America, politics, Biden and Trump.
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@MegaBasedChad
some people only know how to have superficial relationships and bond over mutual aspiration
relationships built on mutual obligation are too provocative, too fraught with expectation
"I appreciate you for asking", but no debts were incurred, no care was needed
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some people do come around eventually /7
@purplcabbage
She may come to realize it
My ex-wife did. She got a taste of how hard I worked after we separated, and apologized for her role, two years too late, but nevertheless
She wasn't bad, never fought custody, support, etc
All of the factors you laid out were present with her too.
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@pmarca
an LLM trained on the last few centuries of scholarly texts would be pretty wild, with the cutoff date somewhere in the postwar period before grant funding and publication pressure really took off
what better way to distill generations of forgotten knowledge?
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@jessesingal
Jesse, this is an advertisement for gender-affirming hysterectomies at Boston *Children’s* Hospital, not Mass General
This is specifically targeted at children and their families.
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@wesyang
The midwit meme calls to mind Jacques Ellul and his 1965 work "Propaganda". Here is a summary from the introduction, on the particular vulnerability of intellectuals, created by education and their desire to have opinions:
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@thomaschattwill
I don't know how you reconcile the two sides and bring them into dialog, but this won't be enough. What do you say to those who want to protect local business, livelihoods and property? What do you say when the state pulls back and cedes the street to the mob?
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she recounts an incident of plagiarism where someone important stole her idea and got away with it and she got nothing, and by golly if he got away with it then surely the first black woman to lead Harvard deserves to get away with it too
the sacrifice cannot be for nothing!
One of the most powerful English professors of the past 40 years stole an argument I made in a seminar presentation, turning it into the core of his next book.
The week after my presentation, he came into the classroom and...
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the prevalence of trans women in tech is a odd phenomenon
highly rational work paired with highly irrational beliefs
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@timmyinthewind
mostly just dependable and not flaky, good with money, good at working towards goals, good at organizing activity for the kids while also holding them to expectations, professionally successful, no drinking, no drugs
reliable & dependable & someone she could build a life around
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one reason to stay within the Overton window with people you love, even if this involves falsifying your beliefs or eliding key disagreements, is that you can still lead by example from within the window
this is harder once you step outside the Overton window
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@razibkhan
@nytimes
@SarahTheHaider
what’s happened is detransitioners are increasingly visible in the NYT milieu
the full trans arc takes a few years, and now more of their own kids are providing irrefutable first-hand evidence, and this breaks the spell
shouldn’t take first-hand evidence, but it is what it is
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from where I stand with one foot inside progressive culture and one foot out, the pathological inability to say no must be one of its defining features
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sinecures were supposed to keep self-important people occupied with harmless make work, not deconstruct the foundations of society
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parenting advice for liberals in 2023:
your son assigned at birth will never be your daughter
your daughter assigned at birth with never be your son
do not induce these ideas in your children
do not indulge these ideas in your children
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don’t think the fever breaks, don’t think we’re coming back, but it’s hard to know where we’re going, the intellectuals have boiled their brains from being too online, and normal culture is post literate and illegible
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devote religious people have cultural armor too, for similar reasons, the bedazzling words and images just bounce off the Amish, the Mennonites, the Orthodox Jews, etc
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genx is that last generation that can reason forward from principles, everyone since can only reason backwards from conclusions
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my elderly mother will occasionally say things about how we need more positive images of women in media, so young girls know they can do things
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@briandavidearp
This is probably best understood as a certain style of fan fiction. Laurie Penny is writing for an audience where this is part of the world building, and that world happens to overlay our shared reality but primary exists in the minds of her audience.
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you think you understand things, and then you read about these care packages given to migrants, and you don’t understand things again
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my daughter has “friends” like this at high school, with folders of blackmail material on their phones
she wants to be friends but doesn’t dare get close to anyone
@feelsdesperate
Did you read Abigail Shrier’s book Bad Therapy? One of the craziest parts was about how kids kept screenshots of their friends’ comments to wield as a weapon if they need it in the future
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question I've always wondered is how to acquire such cultural armor as a native, and is it even possible?
or is this actually a kind of arbitrage that necessarily disappears within a generation or two absent some means of isolation?
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@pseudnonymus
@paul_apfelbeck
the single most determining factor is willingness to park kids in front of a screen
corollary is the willingness to continue indulging the screen addiction
this crosses class, and hinges on previously obscure cultural factors
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it’s taken years to articulate this so clearly, because it is so obvious
There is nothing more destabilising to society than to dismantle the legal, social and cultural guardrails that protect women and children, by pretending that people can change sex, and allowing that pretence to creep into law. Full speech
@SexMattersOrg
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@CorrieMoreau
@hopihoekstra
@sciam
@razibkhan
Don't fall prey to purity spirals! Find areas of mutual agreement and build on that. Agreeing on E.O. Wilson does not make you responsible for everything other signatories have said on other subjects over the years.
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@feelsdesperate
1) "assigned male at birth"
2) "pandemic of racism" during an actual pandemic when the public was required to make considerable sacrifices
3) black lives matter but all lives do not?
none of this makes any sense when taken to the limit, and they went past the limit over and over
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honestly I sense a kind of desperation in my childhood progressive friends, their theory of the self and model of the world have failed, their children are weak and events leave them confused and afraid
in lieu of strength and resilience, their lives are weak and fragile
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@RizomaSchool
it’s not about earning the right to colonize other planets, it’s about using this moment in time to secure the continuity of intelligent life, the opportunity may not come again
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if the internet can workshop talking points for TWAW and mastectomies for minors, to the point that people gladly psyop themselves into believing obvious lies and supporting terrible harms, then defending plagiarism by a protected and noble class should be no problem
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my teen daughter is not allowed any social media
I have considered relaxing this prohibition, on condition that she never post selfies
she would still be able to follow interesting accounts and post her own work, just no selfies
yea/nay?
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oppression does not make people virtuous, on the contrary they often become quite debased
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my daughter was absolutely horrified by the idea of schools doing away with separate tracks, to uplift bad students by bringing them into regular close contact with good students
“nothing is holding them back except themselves”
dang
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been taking my kids to visit various colleges and am finding it hard to get excited about any of them
basic problem is I view these schools as illegitimate, kids could get into them but the schools aren’t worthy, the more prestigious the more meh
I’m irrational
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North America is a good place to live, we don’t have wars, but you need real strength to withstand the many vectors of moral degradation and spiritual corruption
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@TMLutas
schedules are for coordination, so even something as simple as updating the schedules to reflect real-world conditions can be a great benefit, while also hard to accomplish without a clear mandate from the top
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was just browsing FB after a long absence
another 40+ father-of-two has shaved his beard and is now genderqueer
why
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perverted men might be the motive force behind WPATH etc, but it's supportive women who are the rank and file of the movement
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@JeffreyASachs
Oxman is no longer in a position of authority at MIT, unlike Gay who was president of Harvard
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@wesyang
everyone she plagiarized will say something like this, to secure their own bona fides
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friend of mine in his mid-40s recently went back to school to get a degree in refugees and international migrants, or something--can't even remember the name, it sounded so preposterous
“The amount of taxpayer money they are getting is obscene. We’re going to find that the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money will rival what we saw with the Covid federal money.”
How nonprofits are making billions off migrant kids at the border:
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multiculturalism is quite hard, actually, as it introduces a relativing instinct that is unstable without belief in a higher order
the Catholic world could do it, the Islamic world could do it, the secular neo-liberal order could not
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@jessesingal
And Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the most reputable & well known pediatric hospitals—the audience is primed to believe they are in good hands, the best hands.
Of course it has caused a uproar, it is breathtaking violation of trust between doctors, families & the public
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@eigenrobot
dude all my South Asian childhood friends with graduate degrees are unbearably woke, one is a surgeon who quotes Judith Butler, one is a sociology professor, one runs an immigrant advocacy NGO
all the preconditions for greatness and turned their backs on it anyway
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progressives have become so monstrous in service to their fictions, it's hard to fathom sometimes
One party supports letting children live happily and healthily. The other one… well, check the replies. They pretty much appear to support letting children die if they don’t fit it.
Choose wisely in November, lives are riding on it
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what does it mean that so many people want to turn sex into a spectrum and race into discrete categories?
when sex is a strong binary and race drifts around multi-dimensional space?
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a leftist literary jewish teacher at the high school, radicalized by progressive response to the war in Israel, now sharing Douglas Murray speaking tours on FB
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ok found the comment, this is a little bit different, he cites the elevation of low class behaviors
@kitten_beloved
@purplcabbage
For decades racism was successfully painted as a low class behaviour. But now many lower class behaviors are being elevated
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@timmyinthewind
for him it's the results that count, either work hard to overcome the problem or find another way around
the problem isn't him, the problem is how she approaches the work--she blames him and throws her failure back at him to solve
this is how he experiences it, right or wrong
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marxists/socialists/left liberals hold the lower classes in some abstract esteem, but do not tolerate close proximity very well, they imbue a whole class with moral authority but then find individual members revolting
this is a old trope but I still find it strange first hand
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this is remarkable
remember, Yglesias is a weather vane
we don’t follow Yglesias to better understand first-order reality, but to keep our fingers on the pulse of second-order myth making
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@timmyinthewind
conscientious but not particularly thoughtful, not particularly "emotionally literate" in the way some women value, and more strict than nurturing with the kids
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@SarahTheHaider
I keep seeing these clips of Vance saying something that is supposed to be outrageous but actually is fine, like a nerdy discussion point that could be argued different ways but isn’t some dark malicious thing
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one of my character flaws as a young man was that I didn’t value the friends I had, I acted as if there was an infinite supply of new friends to be made
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@wesyang
@elizamondegreen
there's a whole genre of supportive women coming to terms with their trans wives, some peak some submit
those who peak lose their marriage and go through social death
what an absurd situation to find ourselves in
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they join a discord channel, flair themselves with pronouns, and mistake this for the real thing
life through the looking glass is incredibly stupid, we can scarcely comprehend
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confluent trends:
- urbanization
- virtual community
- the increasing presence and cultural influence of people who are not the descendants of Puritans and Quakers and other very earnest protestant faiths
- new taboos around bullying, hurt feelings, criticism and invective
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this is the first time I have watched Judith Butler speak at length, and it’s leaving me lots of first impressions
first and foremost, she KNOWS the problems with her arguments, she recognizes her own sophistry, she simply doesn’t fear trespass
“what is truth? hahaha”
take Judith Butler, who Twitter tells me is the second most highly cited scholar after Foucault
she is smart enough, but not strong enough, here she recognizes the contradiction of her position via trans-racialism but lacks the courage to resolve it
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@QuetzalThoughts
I guess the question isn't whether to exclude but on what basis, your college teachers were also eager to exclude the wrong people
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- cultural evolution within the descendants of Puritans and Quakers and other protestant faiths away from earnest belief in principles
all the old schools had mottoes like "Veritas", and none of them would choose this today
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strange times
hold your children close
then pray for the children raised in madness, who are for now beyond the reach of words
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Our source in one of the "affirming" parent groups thought we'd like to see the latest news. Top post: Moms discuss sex toys for their "trans girls" so they'll know how to orgasm before vaginoplasty. Author sterilized her child at 13. (blocked at 11, estrogen at 13) 1/
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do women who like drag simply enjoy men who debase themselves?
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quality of discourse on student loan forgiveness is low
colleges need to be reigned in, they need to be accountable, they need to co-sign loans or somehow have a direct stake in their students’ capacity for repayment, no more free option
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@elizamondegreen
These stories are so sad. Sobering, too. Of all the strategies for coping with alienation from social norms, gender identity must by among the very worst.
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"cluster b" as taxonomy confuses me, maybe I am just resistant to this typology of the soul
how would people in earlier times understand and describe the same kind of behavior and psychology? what sins or character flaws are they suffering from?
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part of the liberal problem is a casting problem, they can only attribute good things to good people, and bad things to bad people
this is a very difficult constraint to work with
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one of the basic takeaways here is the disciplinary power of NIH funding
universities closed ranks against people like Jay Bhattacharya to protect their funding
there is no true "market of ideas" under these conditions, not when there is a single buyer
This piece is a bit more personal and was very hard for me to write. It is on how Stanford University, my home, failed to live up to its ideals during the pandemic.
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why am I so skeptical of anything promoted as “self-care”?
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was a strong Covid hawk in 2020, in no small part because I believed it had escaped the Wuhan lab and could become quite dangerous
but the solemnity of this danger was thoroughly undermined by public policy and the Floyd protests, should have just been an accelerationist instead
"We all need to sacrifice a bit, undergo some inconvenience, to protect the weakest among us."
They try to pin it on Fauci or school closings or whatever, but really it was just that -- that basic call for solidarity -- that enraged the right. Fundamental brainstem rage.
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@jessesingal
You take a young depressed & anxious child in one side for expert consultation, and she comes out the other side with her uterus removed and a lifetime dependency on cross sex hormones
It’s a horror story & would be inconceivable if it weren’t so well attested by survivors
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I dated a compulsive liar as a young man, it was a formative experience, in retrospect she was probably raised that way
the one thing everyone knows is the one thing you cannot say, it was a revelatory experience
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@SamoBurja
this is some variation of Camille Paglia’s observation that her generation failed to produce great artists and intellectuals because too many took psychedelics as a shortcut to transcendence, and therefore never struggled to produce great art, they skipped too many steps
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had a conversation with some smart young kids the other day, put me into a deep funk
things like project 2025 and abortion bans loom large in their political consciousness, while the parallel war of wills goes unnoticed
they cultivate correct opinions for the benefit of no one
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I feel like Marshall McLuhan, documenting the thing he hates to obtain some purchase over it, to anticipate the next blow before it hits
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everyone criticizes reddit brain but I learned a lot by lurking there, before they banned all the non-conforming subreddits
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there have been a lot of signs before now, like Biden deliberately snubbing Tesla on EV recognition
Tesla and SpaceX should be national champions but are not
buying Twitter was a very big deal, it’s allowing this revolution to coalesce
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the only reason smart people lean left is they get sequestered from the world by their propensity for abstract thought
when forced to confront the world they show a normal distribution
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