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I wanted to draw attention to this video, not because it’s such a detailed examination of this subject or of what it means, but because it’s such a small, limited case. And it includes several statements by Ibrim X Kendi that are very representative of his positions and asks the question, what would that meanContinue reading “Is anti-racism Marxist?”

There’s a curious movement I’ve heard about. It’s not new, it’s been around for a while, in many ways it has been around since the dawn of time. But now they have an acronym! MGTOW, or men going their own way. Predictably, they’ve been labeled as mysogynist, seperatist, male-supremacist, alt-right, anti-feminist incels. If you decideContinue reading “Walking away from one another”

The great question that sex as a feature of the world raises is, why not have just one kind of thing? What is the value, if there is any, of having divergent roles? And what are they and how deep do they go? How flexible are they, and what are the costs and benefits ofContinue reading “Why have sex?”

I had an odd argument the other day. And it took me almost two weeks of letting it sit in the back of my mind to figure out what was going on. Clearly there was a struggle between me and the other person. I was struggling with what they were trying to do. And theyContinue reading “Fear and Loathing on the path to wisdom”

  Should we conceal negative facts about specific groups, such as minorities? This is a growing question in a time where we are desperate to report everything bad about certain groups and nothing bad about others, while trumpeting everything good about some groups and saying nothing good about others.    I think Thomas Sowell putContinue reading “Positive narratives or honest ones?”

   There is an unacknowledged problem arising from the reality of gender transitioned people as a technological product. Which for sport especially is a problem. They aren’t another sort of human, another gender or race or phenotype. They’re something we made and maintain with medical technology, that we only recently invented and is being usedContinue reading “Sports, technology, and trans althetes”

I think the unspoken concern here is the same concern women have with men. That if we’re not the same, we might be worse. If black people aren’t the same, indistinguishable in their qualities and capabilities, from whites, they might be worse. Which is itself a problem, because, first, you’re tacitly assuming that there aren’tContinue reading “Fears about racial differences”

What I hear from those in favor of the liberalization of thought (in this context, religious thought), and their criticisms of those who err, as they see it, in their certainty and systematization. The skeptical, or at least effete, criticism of passion and conviction.  A: I’m not taking anything for granted or adding anything. MyContinue reading “Disdain for conviction”

On of the most cult-like elements of wokeism, or critical theory, or whatever you wish to call it, is its persistence in seoereting you from your culture by any means necessary. It’s adherents are orphans of time, isolated and cut off from their family, their culture, their history, all the traditional anchors of the self.Continue reading “The god of Wokeism”

    A man can’t be too impressed by a woman’s status, because it usually means that she is just further out of his reach. A woman can be impressed by a man’s status, because she has the chance to capture and secure it. For a man high staus only makes a woman less available,Continue reading “Why high status isn’t an advantage for women”

Don’t underestimate the value of playing a role. It means you’ve found a way to become integrated into something bigger than yourself. It may not engage the totality of who you are, but what can? The better the role, the more it will be able to do this, in time. But there is a specialContinue reading “Playing the part”

The mind is organized around proportions, not absolute values. I’ve already talked about how ancient measurements were like this. Judgements about wealth and status also seem to be calibrated this way. Not by absolute values, but by relative values. So today I want to talk about music. Music is similar. The tonal scale is fairlyContinue reading “Relationship, not position”