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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And two: his unhinged Twitter takes




I guess I'm finally no longer able to see both of the"two movies on one screen."  That doesn't seem unhinged to me at all.  Slighty provocative (only slightly because "nazi" has been abused so much that it stings about as much as "commie") but to me fairly obviously true.  Jew-hunting was likely transitory and once the exigencies of war vanished would very likely have disappeared*, while the near complete destruction of the family and basic relations the sexes is something that it's not clear a society can ever come from.  So Jesse's outraged pearl clutching to me reads as "it's okay for a a country's native culture to be completely corrupted as long as no Jews die."  I'm no white nationalist or jew hater, but come on.


*I guess this can be argued, but I just can't see a sustained long term appetite for murder of Jews after the war.  I'd guess they'd reach some sort of emancipation agreement with the governments of the German puppet states and probably would have been encouraged to move to Israel.  Not very nice I guess, but that still seems less terrible than the complete degradation of a nation and its identity to me.  I wonder if Jesse would have preferred Israel to adopt strong Laicité and import tons of Arabs rather than fight to keep its national character by hook or by crook


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Here are my uncharitable unfiltered thoughts on the matter:  something is seriously wrong with you and other people like you, and you're either unaware of it or willfully ignoring it.  Maybe your standards are too high, maybe you lack social skills and weird people out, maybe you're fatter than you think, I don't know.  But something isn't right.


I'm not really singling out you specifically, but I just don't understand where these posts come from.  I'm a barely above average person.  I'm 5'7"/170cm (!!!), face is maybe a 7/10 though under age 25 or so I often got called "cute" (never handsome or hot), body is... I dunno, 6/10?  I'm not fat and not ripped, just "normal" I guess. I come from rural nowhere America from a middle-middle class family, went to an average college in a rural state, and prior to marriage made a below average salary.  I'm not particularly witty or suave, though I am friendly and genuine and perceived as non-threatening. Never was athletic or played sports, but was also never overweight (until my mid 20s).  I'm definitely less intelligent than many people on this board and I only did reasonably well in school, definitely wasn't near the top of my class.  I majored in an uncool liberal arts subject and currently work in an unsexy part of tech and make a meh salary for a tech worker.


My point is that my stats are thoroughly mediocre except for some minor strengths here and there (and one big weakness).  And yet, after turning 18 I dated continuously for 8 years (4 different women) until getting married at 26.  I never had trouble finding a girlfriend, there was always someone in my social circle who I thought was cute and vice versa.  I'd rate these women as 7/5/6/8, so I want knocking it out of the park looks-wise, but it was better than being alone and thirsty.  I'm only in my early 30s, so this isn't advice in the vein of "just ask to speak to the manager and give him a firm handshake." Perhaps your standards are just too high?


tl;dr as a mediocre person I was able to pull it off, so anyone should be able to pull it off barring serious handicaps.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
@Corvos See, this is exactly what I was talking about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I can't really do anything with that information.




You can understand the conflict in the proper context instead of falling for a false sense of balance ("historical bad blood").  Do American Indians have "historical bad blood" with white settlers? In a disingenuous sense, yes. But it's more correct to say that the Indians are aggrieved at the conquest and loss of their lands than to imply it's some sort of "Hatfield and McCoy" situation where they've just "always been killing each other."




In a way, it would have been better if the Jews hadn't been so ideologically commit to settle the region of Palestine. (But wouldn't that alt-history most likely end with more Jews staying in Europe for the Holocaust? That doesn't seem optimal either.)




It would've been bad for the Jews had more of them been within Hitler's grasp, yes.  But why should the Palestinians pay the price?  Would you give up half of your country to the Tutsi to save them from the Hutus?  Why not?




But in the world we live in, there was and is a significant amount of Jews with high ideological commitment to live in Palestine. They semi-legally "invaded" the territory (as did many Arab immigrants during the relevant years). After much turmoil, the Jew came out on top.  It still seems bad to me that Jews are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount




In the world we live in, the Soviets decided to take over Eastern Europe, create a bunch of puppet states, and bus in a bunch of Russians.  It still seems bad to me that local languages are spoken and that Russians face discrimination.  Knowing that Soviet tanks rolled through the streets in the 1940s doesn't change my opinion much.


You can't just arbitrarily draw a line and ignore all history before that point and expect to understand anything. I'm not on favor of affirmative action or reparations, for example, but I would never deny that to understand black Americans you'd need to know about slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, effects of Great Society, crack epidemic, etc.  It would be foolish to simply say "blacks and whites have always hated each other, blacks are rioting in the streets and whites aren't, ergo blacks bad."  It's more complex than that and context matters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm just a single data point, but I definitely


    

  • ask my wife to change when she wears clashing/unseasonal patterns or colors
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  • encourage my wife to go to the gym and take time of out of my work schedule so she can go
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  • avoid buying too much junk food so we can both stay relatively thin
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because I'm not attracted to fat, frumpy, flabby women, but maybe your point was about guys looking for a quick hookup?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We understand that it’s a very important part of your life, that you do not wish to have your faith shaken, and that overall it’s just not a conversation worth having with you.




I like your posts but this is pretty weak and it really cuts both ways. An uncharitable mirror-statement: "We understand that you atheists don't want your self-serving delusions shaken because it's important to maintaining your hedonistic lifestyle and you probably couldn't handle it, so we theists just don't bring it up."


The more charitable view is that theists/non-theists just hold to different, very defensible axioms and that unless you want to debate those axioms there's no point in having a discussion.  And frankly there is probably an incredibly massive amount of self-serving rationalization going on on both sides because we're all human beings.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What's with the extreme Polish seething relative to other post-Soviet states?  The most irrationally hateful anti-Russian posters I see online are Polish. Many Eastern European countries suffered under the Soviets, but AFAIK there wasn't anything uniquely awful about Poland's experience?  Perhaps "Russian Oppression" has just become central in their national historical narrative in a way that it has not in other Eastern European countries?  Like slavery for Black Americans, the Japanese occupation for Korea, the "Century of Humiliation" for China, etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


nakedly extortive behavior




According to what standard?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And here I thought I was alone.  He's long on chest thumping rhetoric and cherry picking and short on defensible positions.  I wasn't impressed with his writing when he posted here (although I often share his feelings), so I'm confused about his substack success.  The "catgirl" shtick is IMO distasteful, but reading his comments a while back, there are at least a handful of folks who think he's really that OF girl in his profile pic, so that probably helps.  Anyway, "don't hate the playa, hate the game" as they say.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 31, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This sound really similar to the "cities are IQ shredders" argument.  IMO the only way to fix this is by gov't fiat since the benefits from incentivizing eusocial/high IQ people to reproduce accrue to a society as a whole over a long time period rather than to a specific company or individual, and so they are not selected for in a liberal, capitalistic, relatively hedonistic society.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can't defend the support for Israel or middle eastern shenanigans as I also firmly oppose both.  As far as not wanting Europe to be overrun, your post prompted me to write a tangentially related post here.  In short, Europe and America have drifted apart, and I don't know if it still makes sense to act as though they share similar cultures and beliefs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think the combination is as rare as you think.  Middle and upper middle class "alphas" or "chads" tend to be masculine leaders while also dressing well and requiring their girlfriends/spouses to do the same.  Think of the top salesmen in a sales department or C-suite executives.  I suppose the key is that they are probably not interested in women's fashion for its own sake, but only insofar as their woman's raiment can be used to reflect her man's high status and good taste (if I'm honest, this is also partially why I do it, I guess).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's true.  Books and films on these topics makes instruments of Leftist moral education.  But IMO racism or mass killing of perceived enemies are not the ultimate sins (though they're certainly not good), so these sorts of books are grating to me.  I imagine a Leftist would feel the same about, say, The Passion of The Christ.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's an interesting anecdote, thanks for sharing.  I'm not too surprised to hear it since I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of people are the way you describe.  I work in tech in a very blue tribe and progressive company.  The engineers here are smart, heck even the salespeople here are pretty smart relative to most salespeople I've met.  In my first year here I (perhaps unwisely) tried to discuss ideas with some of my closer colleagues. Each time, I was met with talking points or indifference.  I think that the vast majority of people are just uninterested in and/or incapable of contributing to a discussion about complex abstract ideas.  Now I mostly talk about TV shows, beer, or people to get along.




If the regeneration of the West ever comes, it will come after the traditionalists’ descendants recreate something like worst aspects of the middle ages.




The "respect for authority" gene can't be mutually exclusive with creativity.  If it were, humanity would never have gotten to where it is today. Widespread suspicion and rejection of authority is a very recent and, I suspect, very American phenomenon.  The vast majority of people in history just took the authority of their rulers and social betters as a given, and yet somehow they managed to produce beautiful art and novel ideas all the same.


Also, I think this depends heavily on your definition of "regeneration."  If it means "a return to liberal secular humanist values, the sexual revolution, and atomized individualism" then yes, I agree. But to me that would be degeneration, not regeneration.


If these supposedly stultified traditionalists built a society based on respect for hierarchy and love of God, county, family, and peace, I would see that as a regeneration of Western society to its former glory.  A modern observer might think therewould be less "creative ferment" because there might be no more tumorous postmodern skyscrapers, no more "piss Christ" exhibits, no more international NGOs evangelizing an ever expanding list of "human rights" to coerce societies to ever greater levels of "freedom."  But then he might be missing the innovations in classical architecture, the Renaissance in symbolic religious art, or the flourishing of local "intermediate institutions" binding communities and families closer together in a way that is sorely missing in his own time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First off, I agree.  I used to hear conservatives say things like "she shouldn't be having four kids if she can't afford them" or "you shouldn't have children if you're not prepared to raise them."  I don't hear it so much anymore.  But I think that's a good thing.


What does it even mean to be "prepared" to have kids?  Nobody is ever prepared.  Ever. "Preparing" for kids, so-called family planning, is just some shit that popped up in WEIRD countries since the pill came along.  The jury is still very much out on the entire concept.  And given our demographics the verdict does not look promising, at least from a societal health angle.


Anyway, what are the criteria?  How old do the parents need to be?  How much money do they need to have saved?  How big should their house be?  How far along in their careers should the be?  How emotionally mature should they be?  I guess all that depends on the bare minimum "quality of life" that one (personally!) thinks the child should have.  But that's just kicking the can down the road -- I can't think of anything more subjective than "quality of life" outside of outlandish situations like the Omelas kid.


So "nuts" to people who want to dictate who is and isn't prepared to have kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dang, I was trying to think of a spin on Trample.  Nice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Cool post, thanks for writing it.  Should I read Shogun? It's been recommended to me a thousand times for obvious reasons, but I'm a jerk about historical accuracy and I'm worried it's going to be full of anachronistic nonsense or magical oriental Mr. Miyagi characters.  Maybe I'm approaching the book too seriously and should suspend disbelief?




For 2025, I want to read some self-help books, strange as that may sound, to get some of the books that are always being recommended.




FWIW, I'm reading King Warrior Magician Lover by Moore & Gillette, and it gets recommended fairly often in some manosphere corners. I'm only about halfway through and I'm not sure I'm totally sold on (what appears to me to be) all the Jungian psychobabble, but it's kind of interesting and different, and I could see how the framework might be useful for men. That might be one to check out.


Tim Ferriss gets recommended a lot.  I read the Four Hour Work Week back in college, but it didn't leave a huge impression on me.  All I remember is that he became a "kickboxing world champion" in some weight class by somehow exploiting a loophole in the rules and... that proved some point about hustling, or something.  But a lot of people seem to like his stuff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for November 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How do you overcome self-loathing as a writer?  In high school I loved to write and I did so unselfconsciously, but in college I started to "try" and found that every time I wrote something that in the moment felt profound, when I read it again the next day I found it terrible and embarrassing.  Is there some mental trick to short-circuiting this impulse?  I really want to write as I remember it being as enjoyable as playing music.


Also, what are you writing about?  Tell me about your story and characters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The comment by @monoamine is filtered, can you approve it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now I’ve got an urge to map the exact route by which he moved the goalposts, but I’m trying to cool down a bit before posting.




I'd be interested in reading this as I'm often baffled and fascinated at my boomer relatives' logic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a fellow male, I agree.  But most girls aren't interested in hearing your nerd flexes, they're trying to figure out whether you have basic social skills and whether or not you're a weirdo/loser.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dumb question but how does that actually work in practice?  Does the SEC or FBI or whoever beam out a list of naughty people to gate agent terminals at airports across the country, and if someone on the naughty list tries to board the computer shows a big red warning icon or something?  What's stopping SBF from driving to some rarely used Mexican border checkpoint and driving to the nearest Mexican international airport and then flying to [country without an extradition agreement with the U.S.]?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Have you been paying attention to Eastern Europe? At all?




Did you read my comment? At all?  Climb down off the righteous indignation.  I asked:




What's with the extreme Polish seething relative to other post-Soviet states?




Key point being "relative to other post-Soviet states."  Many Eastern European countries have unresolved border disputes.  So what?  That doesn't explain at all why I have observed Polish posters writing way more genocidal, warmongering stuff towards Russians compared to other former Eastern bloc nations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair enough.