Author Archives: Mr Nobody

The ten big lies we tell our kids Self expression is the greatest challenge, not self control. It’s easy to express yourself, it’s the first thing everyone does by nature. Even when we’re having a hard time expressing ourselves in a group, it’s because of all the self-expression going on, and you are still expressingContinue reading “Ten Lies We Tell Our Children”

I think one of the principal problems any person or government or social structure faces is justification for power. Because power is it’s job. Government (or any social institution) exists to do something, it is a psycho-social mechanism. Power is their business because they require energy and do work and have function. And justification isContinue reading “Power and Justification”

Times Weird Al’s parody was better than the original. Bedrock Anthem Born This Way Dare to Be Stupid Confessions Part 3 Yoda Gump White and Nerdy My Balogna (tie) The White Stuff Spam Word Crimes Like a Surgeon (tie) Cable TV (tie, style parody, Elton John) Canadian Idiot Do I Creep You Out (depends onContinue reading “Times the Weird Al Parody Was Better Than the Original”

Life is strange. Its wonder is often only apparent in the mirror of memory and in the turning of the pages of a photo album. We look and we smile. We didn’t know we were living our best days. Every day. At the time it just seemed like life, like another day. Every day weContinue reading “Those Ordinary, Extraordinary Days”

Who will you give your body to? Yourself? Men? Or God? Abortion is an outlook that gives your body to yourself. Your body is only for yourself, you refuse all claims on it. It is like hiding your wealth in a tree so you cannot risk losing it and can keep it only for yourself.Continue reading “A Question for My Daughters”

I think part of what is scary about the family is that it is so strong. It’s much more self sufficient and self contained than other social arrangements. It needs all forms of government less, needs less social and legal intervention, needs less assistance, less provision, less medical and psychological care. It provides for itselfContinue reading “The Power of the Family”

Is Anglicanism fracturing? And over what? There is also a large division among the Anglican churches because of the degree to which they are political, connected to the state, or an institution of the state and the culture. In England the Anglican church has a very different history and position in society institutionally than theContinue reading “Cracks in the Anglican Church”

A rap I sent to Larry Elder when he was talking to Zuby about whether rap is a legitimate art form. Zuby says there’s range But he’s deranged, cause I got played When I made a rapping album I got booed off the stage And now my heart’s in a cage Cause all my dopeContinue reading “A Rap for Larry Elder”

Not long ago, I watched Douglas Murray give the same talk three times. On Mondern Wisdom, on Triggernometry, and with Jordan Peterson. He had a new book coming out, The War in the West. Before he went on his press tour, I could tell that he’d been busy doing something, because he seemed to beContinue reading “Why are Things So Crazy Right Now?”

On Larry Elder being called the new face of white supremacy. Toe the line Larry! Kowtow! Don’t be independent, don’t think for yourself, don’t accomplish things on your own. Listen to “the leadership”. Be a good boy. That’s what they’re telling him he needs to do to avoid being a race traitor, a house negro,Continue reading “Larry Elder, white supremacist?”

The strangest and least plausible idea about women’s roles or women’s culture or feminine tradition is the idea that men could somehow have invented it. It’s the least likely thing for men to have created. Have you met men? It’s not the sort of thing could have come up with, much less maintained. To beContinue reading “Where do gender cultures come from?”

Author’s note: This is something I’ve never published before. This is the paper that got me kicked out of my graduate philosophy program and cost me my degree. It’s a solid sixty pages, and the formatting hasn’t transferred that well. But if anyone is interested, here it is. The Moral, the Aesthetic, and the CondemnedContinue reading “My Thesis”

Mr Nobody has a new YouTube channel! On it I will be providing book reviews, doing readings from classic literature, and covering similar topics to those we talk about here. If you would rather listen than read, I’ll also be doing readings of selected posts from the blog. So head on over, check it out,Continue reading “New YouTube Channel”

Why do Americans care so much about the president? This is just my opinion, but people need a hero. Or a villain. That’s why we craft stories. We invest presidents with the symbolic significance that we require to be able to address life on comprehensible terms. We don’t have a king or queen or anyoneContinue reading “Why do Americans care about Presidents?”

The problem with political efforts to solve social or racial problems is, you can’t actually legislate your way out of bullying. If you eradicate one kind of distinction it just becomes something else. It’s a blue dot problem. The pattern persists, people just find new tokens. You can’t escape it by fiat, you can’t onlyContinue reading “The persistence of bullying”

Understanding evil is a painful but necessary step on the path to personal enlightenment. Agree or disagree? My reply: Yes, but not everyone is adapted for it in the same way. Not in the way some people are. Some people are very good at looking at and intimately understanding and experiencing evil, and some aren’t.Continue reading “Answering a question about evil”

Here’s what I think of Justin Trudeau. I think he’s a kid who got himself into a situation beyond his capabilities. He never expected to end up as the dictator of Canada due to a widespread crisis. And maybe he likes it just a little, and it’s brought out new and surprising things in him.Continue reading “Is Justin Trudeau a bad leader?”

I have two young girls, and thanks to one of them especially, I see a lot of tears. In fact I see more tears in one week than I saw in my entire childhood from all the combined members of my family. I see her cry more about getting up in the morning than IContinue reading “Crying, and the pains of growing up”

While man may be an object of physical attraction, he can never be the object of the same kind of physical attraction that women possess. As Camille Paglia says, male striptease can never compare to women’s, because in men there is no mystery to be revealed, only exposure. Only the foolish presentation of the possibilityContinue reading “Sexual attraction and revelation”

Like many people, I somehow couldn’t avoid hearing about how Whoopi Goldberg claimed the Holocaust wasn’t about race, was made to apologize, unapologized, and moved on with her life. It was one in a series of strange moments The View has served up. And like everyone, I had an opinion. This matter is both moreContinue reading “Whoopi’s inquisition”