Monthly Archives: March 2016

Curt: The experiment failed

We gave our own women a choice.
We have the rest of the world a choice.
They chose poorly.
The experiment failed.
We can morally abandon hope.
We can return to evidence.
We can exchange but not convert.
We can cooperate but not advance.
We can use high trust internally but pragmatism with others.
We can act morally but not optimistically.

Alphas and Betas among African intellectual

Alphas and Betas among African intellectuals

Differences between Alphas and Betas. Where alpha means African intellectuals educated in Europe (excluding france) and Beta means African intellectuals educated in the USA (excluding those who have studied US law).

1. Alphas are almost invariably fiscally conservative, classically liberal and wealthy whilst Betas are not.

2. Beta’s are almost invariably preoccupied with race, racialism and inequality whilst Alphas are concerned with justice and law.

3. Alphas tend to be Agnostic about the pan Africanist idea or to oppose it outright whilst Beta’s love it. As a corrollary Beta’s almost always embrace the Afrocentric idea.

Eli on why elites are more in Multi-cultural

Elites are naturally less racist, less ethnocentric, more cosmopolitan, than the lower classes. Elites can interact with *other* elites as peers. They don’t have to squabble over pieces of pie because they can make pie.

But the lower classes are justifiably racist, nationalistic, xenophobic, because they are in direct competition over resources they don’t create, infrastructure, services, social spending, jobs, and so on and so forth. Additionally, the higher impulsivity of the lower classes increases the friction that arise from differences and proximity. And they can’t afford to isolate themselves from these.

The classes can cooperate on common interests. And elites can cooperate with foreign elites. But in order for both of these things to happen, elites must give up treason as a sacred value, or they must be destroyed.

A people are less without their elites. But elites are nothing without their people.

Eli Harmon on going from Libertarian to Nationalist

I didn’t start out racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic or any of that.

I was just an easy going libertarian who wanted to live and let live.

But at a certain point, I could no longer deny that I was under constant, relentless, systematic and deliberate assault, on every dimension (moral, ideological, political, demographic, cultural, physical, economic…) because of my race, because of gender, because of my sexual orientation, because of my nationality, because of my ethnicity, because of my regional culture, because of what religion I wasn’t, and so on and so forth.

And being as these don’t seem likely to stop, I had to look around, for others who might stand with me against this encroaching tide of darkness. And those others are racist, sexist, antisemitic, bigoted, straight, white, men (and a few others who only check *most* of those boxes.)

You drew the battle lines. I only chose my side.

Kasparov lectured by Sanders supporters

I’m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.

Rant: The left’s good and evil paradigm.

Again, and again, we see the wisdom of Thomas Sowell’s observation that the right sees in the world in terms of trade offs, while the left sees the world in terms of right and wrong.

For the left, it’s a never ending parade of savage injustices which must be vanquished from the face of the Earth, and no cost is too high.

Just months ago, the big enemy of the people was money in politics (lion-hunting dentists aside). Now a political outsider is winning and vastly under-spending candidates who’ve received HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars (Hillary – $188 Million, Jeb – $158 Million, Ted Cruz – $104 Million, also Bernie – $96 Million), and what happens?

In the blink of an eye, one enemy to end all enemies is gone, and another one arrives. Trump ($27 Million) won’t denounce the long list of people they demand he denounce.

In their eyes civilization is always teetering on the brink. Imminent destruction is the steady rock in the lefts otherwise rapidly changing narrative. What happened to the lack of medical care? The anti-war movement with code pink? Peak oil? Over population — weren’t famines imminent by 2000? Originally, communism was great because it produced MORE material wealth? Since then, material wealth itself has had it’s stage time as the great evil to end all evils.

Again and again and again. It’s the nurturing instinct run amok. Every whim and fad masquerades a universal principal and dividing line between good and evil. Every inconvenience is a fault in the structure of civilization, and the only remedy is burning the civilized world.

Again and again. If there’s an anthem to the imbecile, catastrophic march of the left, it’s this quote post-modernist philosopher Richard Rorty betraying the hollowness of the left: “I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn’t care much about our past sins.”

And yes, there’s a reason all the post-modernists were radical leftist. Once the pitiful disasters of “scientific socialism” became too monstrous to ignore, the left needed a weapon with which to attack epistemology.

And they got it. The university replaced the church. Departments are the new temples and tenured professors are the new priesthood. Like the church, they attempt to bend reality by chanting desirable lies. Like the church, they loathe heretics, and denounce them when physical violence is out of reach. The university is the new moderator of morality.

I say as others do: burn the Cathedral — for the sake of modern civilization.