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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 14, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly any future government would do well to have an automatic sunset to the creation of new agencies.  Once a generation we really need to look into whether or not the laws, mandates, regulations, and agencies we built for the crisis of the moment even make sense generations later.  It would also prevent those agencies from deciding on their own to do things that harm the country.  If you know that in five years your environmental agency will be called to defend its right to exist, you might well think twice before regulating carbon and other common chemicals, or at least keep the regulatory regime as light as possible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean again, you’re still stuck with having a guy point a real gun at a person’s head with a real bullet in it and really pulling the trigger.  It’s a thing you can’t just gloss over.  If Trump decided to fake it, he’s either stupid or crazy because if even the slightest thing goes wrong.  He moves tge wrong way suddenly, the wind changes, the sun pops out from behind a cloud, tge scope is a few millimeters off, the shooter gets nervous, or he for some reason has to rush tge shot, there’s no way to be sure that this very real bullet fired from a very real gun doesn’t end up in Trump’s very real brain.  We know it was a real bullet fired because it hit people in the crowd behind him.  And all of this assumes it’s not at 19 year old dietary aide and community college graduate using a rifle he shoots paper targets at in a gun club once a week.  A professional sniper wouldn’t dare try it, an amateur would undoubtedly kill his client trying something like this even at close range, let alone off the top of a building several hundred yards away.  If you had a top sniper at gun range distance try to graze the ear of a baliastics gel head that’s randomly moving without hitting the rest of the head, I’d be shocked if anyone could do it even 1/20 times.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The idea of “authentic art isn’t made for money”  comes from the early days of art when the artist had patrons.  If you made art for money, you either didn’t appeal to elites enough to have a patron, or worse, were a dirty poor person.  Only aristocrats and people they hired could afford to not think about money, ergo, thinking about money was a mark of poverty and poor quality.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To me, the “he faked it” argument doesn’t really pass the laugh test.  No one sane is going to hatch a plan in which a guy climbs a roof and shoots a real bullet at his head.  No sharpshooter is going to attempt that shot especially outdoors where wind and glares can be a factor.  It’s not a reasonable theory because the shot probably 99% of the time ends with the target hit rather than grazed.


The SS wanting a failure I could be convinced of.  The reports by rally attendees over at least an hour that went completely unchecked is a pretty big failure.  As in any sane person trying to protect a famous person would have at least checked it out sometime between the rally goers reporting the unknown guy on the roof and the actual shooting.  I’m completely at a loss for an explanation that isn’t either “these guys are incompetent” or “they set him up.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is spot on, which I why I’ve always had a lot of respect for the social philosophy of Confucius.  He’s pretty explicit that every person in society not only is owed by his inferiors, but owes to his betters.  Other systems in the past did the same, and even in the case of no formal system, traditional systems tend to informally promote tge idea of reciprocal relationships where I owe you and you owe me.  I’m not even convinced that the specifics of the things owed actually matter; it seems to work fairly well as long as the duties and benefits are fairly equally distributed to everyone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean we have no information about the stars in the universe too far away to see.  We actually know quite a bit about mundane physics, and it’s mundane physics that rule out most travel between stars at least at human lifespan scales.  This would drastically change the equation for why beings would come here.  The sentinalese are fairly trivial to get to.  If you got on an airplane in New York, you would be able to get to them in less than a day and without the need to carry your own life support systems.  Going from one solar system to another takes 4 years at the speed of light.  It would take a generation at 0.1 of light speed.  Would anyone spend 40 years at huge expense to prank drunken rednecks and steal the naughty bits off of dead cows?  Especially since you’d need life support systems, food, water, and waste disposal.  This isn’t just a small trivial jaunt on a jet plane followed by a boat ride.


The trouble is that we keep conflating the age of sail to space travel.  They are nothing alike.  Traveling from England to North America took a month under sail.  You had to bring food and water, but you were never in a hostile environment.  In fact the age of sail was possible because the ocean would provide the propulsion for you in the form of wind and ocean currents.  You thus don’t need to provide fuel.  You could breathe the sea air, and in fact as someone who enjoys an ocean beach, it smells pretty good.  If worst came to worst, you could easily catch fish along the way.  Space is nothing like that.  In a month, you wouldn’t even reach Mars, let alone deep space (which at current technology would take decades), and you’d have to pack everything you’d need including atmosphere and a way to recycle it, food (and if it’s a long trip, a way to grow food), water and a way to recycle urine into water.


Second, due to studying earth biology, we have a fair understanding of what kinds of chemistry to look for to find life on exoplanets.  So far, I think there are maybe one or two that are possible candidates for exobiology. We know what to look for as far as technology, and to my understanding we haven’t found anything that’s even plausible as alien technology.  No Dyson spheres, no repeated mathematical signals, no lights on the ground nothing that is large and regularly shaped and made of metal.


Based on this, im just not buying it.  If aliens exist they’re as trapped by biology and physics as we are.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Even if that weren’t true, you still have the knock on social effects— street crime, obviously violence between dealers, property damage, neglect of children and wife, probably can’t keep a job so we’re paying for his survival (and paying more now that he’s in jail), so it’s nothing but negative outcomes and I think even marijuana is a but suspect in this.  I can’t think f any drugs (even alcohol) that make things better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly, women tend to do that because they generally are protected from those kinds of situations.  It’s true of anyone so sheltered, without the lived experience of “drug dealers are violent and crazy” you don’t develop the sort of mental habit of saying “people who are like that are crazy and to be avoided.”  Add in the social virtue of being “nice, forgiving, and open-minded” and you get a toxic mix that results in toxic empathy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m on record here, but given the fact that the laws of physics would have to be nearly completely wrong to allow anything to move faster than light, the chances that we’d actually communicate with an alien let alone be visited by one are pretty small.  Even if you have something like a generation ship, any such aliens would either conquer immediately, kill us, or move on.  Pranks don’t make sense at all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the way I’d put it is that it’s not just IQ, though sure, until you reach a reasonable threshold for IQ the chances you’d live independently go down to near zero.  But I think in rational spaces especially, you end up ignoring the gifted Reddit user base who have decided to spend their lives in mom’s basement posting long paragraphs about things nobody cares about.


But I think the over identifying the idea with literal BCE slavery in whatever form is unnecessary, as other forms of control, and even relatively invisible and gentle forms of control are possible.  You can use debt or consumption to get people to have jobs.  You can enforce things through social structures (make it socially necessary to have a job).  You can tie necessary services to jobs (like the USA does with health care.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I tend to agree with Aristotle, but I don’t think it’s just IQ, but things like conscientiousness, decisiveness, courage (both moral and practical).  Most people behave more like herd animals in a sense, carried along by the greater society, or base impulses, or other forces.  They don’t choose a lifestyle they want, they float along doing whatever the path of least resistance sets before them.  Furthermore, most people have little to no actual leadership ability in the sense that they can plan an action, follow it and get others to go along with it.  They need some sort of guidance to tell them to want useful, productive things, to live In non destructive ways, to basically not be a burden to everyone else.


But it doesn’t matter what the person’s IQ is.  There are lots of geniuses who rot away working obscure arcana that no one will ever care about, or who burn out and end up living in squalor and memorizing the lore of TV shows, video games, or books.  Are those people any less in need of guidance?


We used to know this, and actually corrected for it by creating formal etiquette that required that people obey their betters and do productive things and learn to hold polite conversations about topics without turning them into mini lectures on stuff no one cared about.  And we used to basically require some sort of skin in the game to participate in society.  I think we could be well served by doing so.  At minimum, a person should be a net taxpayer if they want to vote.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think in many cases the West has over-emphasized laws to the point where almost every other option for enforcing order.  The shopkeepers don’t think about protecting their property because the law is almost certainly going to slam them for defending their property.  But it’s a double bind because the same law is unlikely to catch the thief and if they do, the property won’t be restored and the thief gets little punishment for stealing.  And so on down the line of crimes.  We think “let the law deal with it” and it rarely works.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve long suspected that early daycare and full day preschool is at least partially driving the change in attachment.  Thinking about it from an evolutionary perspective, in the very early stages of development, a baby needs to fully attach to his parents.  The baby needs to know that his needs will be consistently met by parents who are always close by and who care about him/her.  Modern parents basically have kids that they only see after work and on weekends (after the 8 weeks of maternity leave).  Most actual child care is done by low paid hourly workers who might have 7-10 other kids in their care.  The child thus often finds that he needs or wants attention and to attach but the adults around him don’t have the ability to give one kid their undivided attention.  So the kid can’t learn to fully trust an adult and fully attach to them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean our “satanification” of Nazis and Hitler did quite a lot of harm in the world.  It turned them into cartoons, basically, not real people who lived on earth.  It flattened a lot of history into black and white thinking where anything a Nazi did anywhere is automatically considered at best suspect and at worst evil.  Even things that are seen as potentially leading to ideas that lead to Nazis is seen as a pipeline.  Nationalist?  Traditionally European?  Christian?  I’ve seen hysterical reactions to the idea of: men trying to be masculine, fantasy novels, HEMA, traditional family structures, traditional Christianity, trans skepticism, and reading classics of European literature called out as “part of the fascist pipeline.”  And since it’s obviously evil, the hysteria often means that people are being told to watch out for such “red flag” activities and materials in their children’s lives.  It’s insane.  Furthermore, from my point of view, the dose makes the poison.  I think it’s perfectly well and good to embrace your own traditions.  It’s certainly better than trying to LARP as East Asian or some other ethnicity.  Why, if I want to learn a traditional martial art do I have to learn a tradition that has nothing to do with me?  Why can’t I appreciate my own culture?  American culture comes from England, not China or Japan or Argentina.


Furthermore, by removing them from humanity, you make outbreaks more likely.  People who are like the Nazis know that having those aesthetics turn people off.  They know that swastikas and Hugo Boss set off alarms.  They simply rebrand.  The propaganda looks different.  And people don’t want to think that it can or is happening.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think the issue is that genocide and ethnic cleansing are always fake.  I think the issue is that a lot of the history as taught and then used as propaganda are exaggerated and weaponized to create a propaganda machine that uses the mythology to demonize even relatively harmless ideas or to justify wars to destroy movements or to prop up bad ideas.  It furthermore creates an idea that there was only one major genocide in human history and it was uniquely evil.  It means that any ideology that you can connect to something the Nazis said or did is now to be suppressed and if possible eliminated by “right thinking people” everywhere.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not unsympathetic to the ideas that you present in broad strokes.


Figuring out an exact death count and sussing out exactly which of the stories told are true is difficult because everything seems to be memory and hearsay, not documents, photographs, videos, or other forms of records that can be examined.  Many of the stories seem pretty fantastic even for a work of fiction, let alone a retelling of history.  Things like medical experiments and torture in odd and grotesque ways seem less like something that happened and more like confabulation or rumors that get repeated as fact.  The human mind is actually pretty good about inventing wild stories about gruesome torture and murder.  And Theres the issue of Nazis not keeping up with quotas and simply exaggerating numbers so the higher ups don’t fire them or whatever for poor performance.  You can do this easily especially with paper records.  Just count fictional people, or count the same person several times— thus a Gay Jewish political prisoner counts on three different tables.  That’s just the side of the camps.


And the allies both during and after the war have every incentive to exaggerate the numbers, tge stories, etc.  which gives them the ultimate heroic story about themselves and their civilization and why you should be on our side.  I don’t think most modern people understand just how much of the logic of WW2 has shaped how we think about our moral universe, our political and social systems, and ourselves.  It’s basically the “state cult” of the modern neoliberal order.  Hitler has replaced Satan as the ultimate evil in the moral universe, more or less.  And for nearly a century, most regimes that we must go to war with are in some way like the Nazis.  Depending on which side you take on Israel and Palestine, the other side are Nazi-like.  So was Saddam Hussein, Slobodon Milosovic, and dozens of other leaders.  Often you’ll hear “stories” of Nazi-like war crimes.  In the first Gulf War, George H W Bush claimed that babies were thrown out of hospital windows to be caught on bayonets.  In Serbia, they claimed concentration camps.  It’s an easy way to manipulate people into support for a war by appealing to the founding myth of the modern age.


I certainly think there was a lot of killing of camp prisoners.  Probably on a fairly industrial scale.  I would put the full death toll at somewhere between 6-10 million, and much of the violence was genocidal.  It happened.  That doesn’t mean all the stories are true, nor does it mean that the camps had anything to do with why the allies were fighting the war.  We didn’t care about them until they became useful to us.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly we need to renormalize tge idea that not every thing and every place is for everybody.  It’s not really workable. If you’re constantly offended, maybe a debate isn’t where you want to be.  On the other hand if you chafe at the thought of living in a hugbox where everyone is super nice and gets along, then you want the debate forum.


The internet of 2025 feels much much smaller and less diverse in a lot of ways than the early internet where you might go to a forum for gaming discussion and it might be the kind of place where you need to cite in game books to talk about Elder Scrolls lore.  Or you don’t like that you go somewhere else and trash talk about Fortnite and drop lots of Fbombs.


I don’t mind having rules and standards for a forum.  You need to keep the discussion under some control just to keep everyone mostly on topic and avoid excessive vitriol.  Just make the rules simple and post them so people can read them, and be viewpoint neutral.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It doesn’t have to be specifically weird experiences, but there has to be some kind of life experience outside of LA childhood-> rich people high school -> film school pipeline.  And without ever meeting a person that isn’t upper middle to upper class professionals, living in the country, going to parts of third world countries that are not tourist zone, or the like, it’s almost impossible to create those kinds of stories and have authenticity to them.  Rural Tennessee is not LA with everyone talking with a southern accent.  Military people do not banter like teens at their first job at Starbucks, nor do they disobey orders on a whim.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think writing in general, including novels has declined and in part I think it’s down to how we create writers.  These are not people who had traveled widely and read, they go to college to learn to write (or make films) they are taught structures and methods, but because everyone is going to the same programs and learning the same methods and having the same experiences, there’s not much to draw on.  So you get a lot of people writing without very much understanding of how people react in a given situation, and the dialogue sounds a bit off because the person that’s on the screen is someone’s blind guess at what a person like that is like.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But if you don’t get any hits or very few because your “about me” is full of anime and gaming, im assuming that this is a major part of your life, much like I’d assume that someone who mentions golf on their profile has golf as a major part of their life, and probably will spend most weekends on the course.  Someone who’s into gaming enough to mention it on a dating profile is likely going to game at least 25 hours a week, and maybe more.  If I’m looking for a person I might want to marry, I don’t see that in a guy who spends most of his free time with a controller in his hands.  And I do like gaming, I just don’t want my life to consist of trying to squeeze in all the other stuff around the hobbies of gaming and anime.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Being fair, the second question doesn’t actually specify the tattoos are gang tattoos.  The question says “on the basis of their tattoos.”  They could think the question means that a guy with a Hello Kitty tattoo on his butt.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the reason that most institutions didn’t actually stand up against it is that most of them had been infected with nihilistic thinking decades ago, maybe centuries.  The idea that nothing really mattered and nothing is really true left the traditional institutions with no footing with which to push back.  The churches had long been ecumenical institutions that often hold to nothing as essential to Christianity.  They’ve fallen to the point that many of them no longer hold things like the Trinity, Solus Christus, or the need for genuine repentance as essential.  Fewer hold that the Bible defines sin or the proper way to live.  So from the position that nothing is true or matters, how do you assert that something is wrong?


Academics has been nihilistic and post-rational for about the same amount of time.  It’s no longer a search for truth, it’s an opinion laundering operation with a bunch of job training programs attached.  How does a professor defend against demands from the woke?  He can’t point to facts, he’s long since abandoned them.  An institution that cannot defend a definition of woman is not going to stand for much of anything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t mean just “disgusted by mainstream ideology”, I mean the kind of person who would uproot and move to an enclave specifically to forward an ideology.  Escaping woke doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to move to a Nazi enclave.  You could do equally as well moving to a rural town in a deep red state.  Almost everyone in rural Mississippi is anti-woke, and a good number of them would be seen by city dwellers as racist.  They are also fairly normal people who haven’t made being anti-woke a personality.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I still would avoid obvious icky hobbies on a dating profile.  Anime has a very strong association with porn, child porn, and childishness.  Video games tend to send immature and irresponsible signals.  If you have a weird hobby that’s fairly active, creative, or social, fine.  But the goal here is to get a woman to want to take a chance on you.  It’s like searching for a job in a sense — anything that would make a woman hesitant to hit the “buy” button is probably not a good idea.  One in a thousand find a gamer girl.  But at the cost quite often of having hundreds of women see anime and gaming in the bio and deciding to not engage.