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				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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you have to consider the type of person who would even consider doing something along these lines.  If you’re willing to uproot your life, perhaps lose your career, abandon your community for any cause, you are absolutely not a casual person.  Most savory people are rooted enough into their own community that they’d rather stay put, live quietly, and perhaps support the cause quietly, but not in a way that a hard core supporter would.


Ideological possession in any form tends to be a symptom of some sort of unresolved mental issues.  It’s why even if I don’t agree with JBP politically (or at least not all the time), I absolutely agree that you should not be politically active until you’re in a mentally stable and healthy place.  It becomes a person’s entire life because it’s not about the political issue, it’s about basing your identity on something that gives you the thrill of moral superiority, a cause to base your self worth on, and a virtuous reason to treat others badly.  Such people will be unsavory, no matter how good the cause itself might be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My preferred solution is that Medicare or Medicaid covers everybody for catastrophic illnesses and injuries.  Everything else you buy on the ACA exchanges.  The large pool of 330 or so Americans paying into this via taxes should help keep costs reasonable, and the lack of those coverages on other plans for those same illnesses would probably lower costs of those plans as well.  It also allows people to decide how much risk they’re willing to bear in their health insurance.  If you’re 21, you probably don’t need much besides the catastrophic health care package.  You are not likely to get sick, and thus you can skip the rest.  If you’re 45 you might want more coverage for drugs or doctor visits or whatever else you think you need.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not sure.  I like America as a country, and it wouldn’t be bad if they win the war of civilization if it happens, but im also very impressed with what the Chinese have built in their own country and the competence of their leaders.  They’re pragmatic to say the least, value stability both at home and abroad, they make decisions based on fact rather than feelings, and the society itself is pretty balanced and sane.  A Chinese century would be boring but probably fairly stable and prosperous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the combination of overeducated and over sensitive people (quite often women, but not always) and social media are creating a dystopian society in which anything that might bother anyone anywhere must be removed and destroyed.  This destroys even the chance of social bonding because unless you can actually go out and do fun things with an exclusive group, you can’t form close relationships.  These people need to find their own jobs and hobbies and fix whatever is broken in them that turns them into scolds the minute anyone starts having fun.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s also a cheat.  Assuming he’d learned Spanish including the grammar before learning French and Latin, they’re related languages.  It’s like learning Danish, then memorizing words in Norse or Swedish — they’re close enough that it works.  Do the same trick with Spanish and Korean and German and it doesn’t work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m a traditional Christian so I’m not goin* to Wade in the waters of your particular religion or traditions. But to me, having a pillar of “at least I know this is true” (and again mine is traditional Christianity) does allow you to not be sure about the rest without going crazy and being cynical about everything.  I know that the Bible and the early Christian tradition is true, and whether or not anything else is lies, I at least have that.  Maybe we’re headed to world war, maybe not. Maybe Trump is our Putin or Orbán, or maybe not.  Maybe Covid was a deadly virus that killed people or maybe it’s just a flu bug.  Let the chips fall.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not going to disagree on the zoo-society hypothesis.  This is true.  But it’s also true that humans are not just social but hierarchical.  That’s been true from the start of civilization.  And so no matter what the specific shape the government officially takes, it’s always those with power and wealth calling the shots.  And while some forms of government might be more open for those on the bottom, but at best it’s illusions.  They’re lead to believe they’re deciding the direction of the country, but the decisions are not made at the ballot box, they were made before the election even took place.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean 40 years is a bit long, but I’d put it to at least 7-10 years simply because scrubbing your feeds, removing yourself from lists, etc. is unlikely to be that successful beyond 5 years because you forget about old accounts, you forget that mailing list you signed up for, or buy something incriminating with a credit card and those things will still be there because you won’t be paying attention to something that far back.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The difficulty is that a determined person could easily maintain their allegiance without overt signs especially in service to a greater cause.  If I’m a person allied to hezbollah I don’t want the USA to know that, and especially if I’m joining a cell in the USA.  If all I have to do is hide my allegiance to hezbollah for three years, I can probably scrub my name from official records, purge my social media, and keep my mouth shut for three years and be fine.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean I think many of the Revolutions are less impressive as they always end up recreating the structures that actually work for human society.  It’s the same across cultures and times with various means of control being attempted or various social systems being implemented to try to keep civilization alive and functioning as technology changes around us.  But human nature doesn’t change and truth doesn’t change and the hard realities of life on earth doesn’t change.  I suspect we’ll probably settle into something that works just as we have every other time


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced that anything has changed, that’s my point.  The way politics has always worked is based on power, and whatever the window-dressing might be, and if the actual power elites don’t want a thing to happen, it will not happen.  If those same elites want something to happen it will absolutely happen.  It’s been that way since the first brick was laid at the foundation of the first city.  Nobody with power has ever cared about what the public wants, nor do they care about the peasant population of their country.  As long as the little people shut up and obey (or at least not interfere too much in the affairs of their betters), the powerful do not care.


The control mechanism of democracy is basically mass gaslighting.  First convince everyone that whatever “the public” wants is what the government should do.  Then propagandize the population to believe whatever the elites want to have happen.  In the meantime you rig the districts such that those who the elites support have an easier time winning.  Once this is done, most people will vote as instructed, and most of the rest will go along because they’ve been taught from birth that the results of the election represent the “will of the people” and thus cannot be questioned.  So when the government serving the elites does something wrong, stupid, or evil, it’s your fault.  The people in charge, running the show were just doing whatever they were told to do by you.  So you vote as instructed and wonder why things don’t improve.


I’m fine with any sort of government that mostly works for most people without being too harsh on the average citizen.  The form of government isn’t important, customer service is.  By which I mean management should provide the vast majority a fairly comfortable lifestyle, they should build and keep up good infrastructure, to live in a stable and secure society, and to not have foreign governments attacking us, our trade routes, and so on.