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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There’s certainly skill involved in writing, but the barriers beyond skill are pathetically low and frankly there are millions of people trying to get in.  Every 14 year old girl with a laptop is an “aspiring author” and there’s a lot of amateurs doing fan fiction (look up some fan-made Trek shows, but for acting and production values, they’re probably nearly on par with the pros at this point) it’s a skilled trade, but it’s not wizardry and not impossible to learn.  What keeps people out of Hollywood is more the difficulty of getting your SAG card, not any real skills gap.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 14, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there’s a bit of a difference between shaming and simply not going along with the problem.  Watching your kids eat themselves into weighing well over 100 lbs before they hit double digits and not even saying anything is borderline abuse.  Watching someone you care about eat themselves into morbid obesity and saying nothing isn’t being kind.  And I think as far as the media goes, it shouldn’t promote unhealthy lifestyles.  You could also consider taxing foods that cause obesity.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This would be a clear case of a person convicted of aiding an enemy or being involved in insurrection.  Two problems being that:  no legal ruling has declared 1/6 an insurrection, and Trump has not been tried or convicted of insurrection.  Which are both clearly required.  Our legal system is based on the presumption of innocence, meaning that the government must first prove a crime took place, and secondly that the accused actually did said crime.  I cannot accuse someone of murder unless I can show pretty conclusively that the person I’m accusing you of killing is actually dead, and that the best explanation of the evidence is that you did it.  Even then, I’d have to get a jury conviction.  I can’t just blanket claim that the crime you committed requires 5 years in jail, that the law is “self-executed” and haul you away.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 26, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wouldn’t it be the kinds of students who took on debt for a mostly useless degree.  People who study something useful like tech, science, finance, or business tend to do okay.  They (provided they actually do the work and put in effort on getting themselves ready for employment) tend to get good jobs after college and thus, with a bit of frugality in the early years, pay off their loans fairly quickly.  The ones who study useless (from an employment standpoint) majors in art, literature, history, or social science tend to get lower paid work and thus struggle to pay down the loans.


Which is what’s always been galling about student loan forgiveness.  It essentially removes the market forces that push people away from poor decisions.  College for the right students is a net benefit to that student and society at large, especially if you can push them to useful arts and sciences.  By removing the market from the equation, you end up removing incentives for unprepared students to choose skilled trades over university, and pushing good students to choose fun-sounding avocations over useful arts an science.  Essentially these students are spending 100K of other people’s money over a lifetime to take a four year vacation before going on to do low level work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean as a practical matter, removing the moral elements, this is how the world tends to work.  Most of us meekly follow along with the powers that be.  We might grouse about it, but we’ll do it because most of us have remarkably little power in our lives.  If you have to at least pretend to love big brother (in whatever form it takes) just be a you have to eat, keep a roof over your head and so on.  If you have to feed your and especially your kids, you’ll give your consent to a lot of things that if they were proposed without the stick you’d be opposed to.  I don’t think anyone in a cold state would agree that any given medical procedure should be a condition for getting into a store or restaurant.  But if you know you’ll be fired if you don’t check the vaccine card, you’ll check the card.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I still see 3 as barely plausible simply because of the scale of the universe.  Unless something physics-breaking is discovered and shown to allow for FTL travel without the need for eye watering amounts of matter and energy, or any undetected particles, there’s simply no way to have biological creatures cross interstellar space within less than twenty or so generations.  I’m not even convinced that signals could cross fast enough for anything approaching a conversation.  To thus suggest that aliens are here, especially given that reports almost universally say biological aliens, is to pretty much say that our understanding of physics is massively wrong.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 28, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think that’s a poor way of measuring impact.  Given that Arely has gotten his ideas into the mainstream is a huge problem.  TBH it’s my problem with the entire field (which I suspect is mostly pseudoscience).  We’re using it to help people, we’re making policy decisions based on psychology.  And as far as I’m concerned the obvious mental health declines in our therapeutic cultures have proven disastrous.  We have more and more people, including fairly young kids, on psychiatric drugs.  We have more anxiety, depression and suicide than we did 100 years ago.  We have more drug use as well.


In the past, things like religion and stoic philosophy had a much better track record.  They weren’t committing suicide, they weren’t too anxious and depressed to function, they didn’t do drugs to numb themselves.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think at least some of this is culture.  Men are taught — from day one — that it is their responsibility to make themselves employable, to do whatever job pays the most even if they hate it, to fight their way to the top of any job they get, and to job hop when the pay isn’t rising fast enough for them.


Women have the privilege I call “second income privilege.”  They get to not prioritize wealth generation.  They get to think about whether they want a good paying job in a demanding field or not, whether having more money is worth being bored or working somewhere unpleasant or long hours.  Their money isn’t “feed the family” money, so they get to think of work as fun, as a calling, as almost a hobby.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places but it seems like most mainstream pop culture stuff — music, TV, movies have converged on what goes best for the algorithm and maximum viral exposure, rather than excellent craft, original ideas, or even completeness.


I think the internet is diminishing the creation of art because nothing can really gestate as a complete idea before it’s delivered.  And because of the algorithm, only those things like what’s already popular get noticed.  I’m hanging around authors and it appears that in order to even be considered for traditional publishers, you need a substantial media presence of at least 200-300 K followers to even be considered.  It’s just not possible to simply create a new thing away from the mainstream of culture and have it be discovered later.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think he’s exactly the kind of liar I think are the most annoying.  Yes, pretty much everyone in politics has a sort of fictional biography.  My issue with this sort of thing is that it’s absolutely fluid on every dimension of his life, and there’s no “core self” that doesn’t change just because his current audience doesn’t like that he’s like that.  To blacks, he becomes black like them, at least until it becomes a liability, then those Black people become “ghetto losers” who aren’t real men because they aren’t like his vision of what an acceptable Black person should be (which is dependent on the mostly white politicians he hangs around who want blacks to be activists and democrats).  When the church he was attending was outed as the “God damn America” church, he didn’t actually defend it as something he personally believed in as a message.  He sort of implied that it doesn’t mean that, and went elsewhere, and was never seen in public with that preacher again.  He was intellectual until it became a problem at which point he tried to pretend he’s down to earth.


I don’t agree with Trump, but one thing I loved about him apart from all that was that he wasn’t changing everything about him to pander to whoever he was talking to or wanted to appeal to.  He was upfront about what he was about.  He’s on tape saying “grab them by the pussy” and he didn’t walk it back or pretend it didn’t happen or recontextualize it as not meaning what it sounded like.  He said a lot of guys talk like that in locker rooms.  Trump never really pretends to be anything other than Trump, a rich guy who is just going to do whatever he wants.  He’s been the same trashy New York rich guy he was back when he was selling Trump steaks mail order in the 1980s.  He might be overstating his business acumen, but there’s at least a core part of who he is that like it or not, you can know that he’s not going to disown his past or his stated opinions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, you’d have to establish some reasons for thinking he, specifically was behind it.  In any election of the most powerful office in the most powerful country on the planet, there is goin* to be foreign influence.  It’s simply too important to the rest of the world for other countries to ignore it.  While i can see a country like Russia (who didn’t like Hillary) trying to tip the scales, I never saw anything that unequivocally pointed to Russia or anyone else working with Trump specifically.


Wikileaks and the contents of Wikileaks were well known ten years before Trump descended the golden escalator.  His very online fan base was talking about Wikileaks nonstop. Trump might well have gotten wind of things released on Wikileaks because it was on social media and he used social media a lot during both his campaign and his presidency.  The “Russia if you’re listening” quip was in response specifically to a reporter questioning his involvement in the hacks by Russia.  It was a joke, and unless you were already predisposed to think he’s involved, it’s a reach.  Someone makes an accusation like “people are saying that Russia is hacking Hillary and releasing information to help you,” if you don’t take that claim seriously might well be played off with a joke.


Even if Russia is trying to make Trump win (which is probably true) they didn’t investigate Russia they investigated Trump.  That’s not the same.  An investigation into Russia that leads through six degrees of Kevin Bacon and into the senior members of the Trump campaign would make sense.  It starts with the crime at hand — the data breaches and releases — and moves toward figuring out who’s releasing them, why, and if there’s anyone calling the shots.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think just assuming for a moment that the results are accurate, a couple of things stand out about conservative parenting particularly.


First, parenting for conservatives is a focal point for life.  Family formation and child rearing are central to the conservative and they will absolutely rearrange their lives and schedules to focus on their family life.  If they see public schools as a problem, they’ll do whatever they have to do to route around the problem.  If they have to scrape by on one income, drive beater cars and live in a tiny house or apartment so that mom can stay home with the kids they will do that. Kids do pick up on this.  They know the kinds of sacrifices their parents are making for them.  They know that the reason dad works long hours is so that they can have the best life possible.  And this tells them they matter to their parents enough to make serious sacrifices for them, which tells them that they are absolutely valued.


Second they tend to teach self discipline, which in my mind is absolutely critical to developing self esteem because disciple is what makes achievement possible.  And achieving things is where real self esteem comes from.  A kid that lacks the self discipline to make the baseball team, or keep a clean room or get decent grades or whatever else fails a lot, and he doesn’t have the mindset of “I’ll do this thing differently and then I can make the team or get the grade next time.”  Without knowing how to succeed in his efforts life becomes arbitrary and frustrating because he has no idea why he’s such a failure.  This is why so many children of liberals love Jordan Peterson.  His advice isn’t magic, there’s no “one weird trick” he’s telling people what conservative parents have been saying all along — get disciplined, do the work, get along with people, and learn some self control.  Without those things you get lost and often depressed.


Third, the conservative mindset itself might well be protective.  It doesn’t focus too heavily on how you feel at the moment, which prevents rumination on negative emotions.  Not to say don’t feel them or that they don’t matter at all, but the conservative mindset does not see feelings as facts in themselves.  They see it “either you do something about the problem, or learn to live with it.”  It’s a kind of practical stoic mindset.  Yes, people can be jerks, don’t be one of them, but also don’t let them ruin your day.  This is a major issue I have with modern therapeutic culture in which people are encouraged to focus on feelings, treat them as facts, and do nothing about them.  If I wanted to cause depression, that would be the ideal way to do it.  Especially if I can make you anxious about things you have no control over.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Except, again they have the same food environment we do.  They have restaurants, including fast food.  They have convenience stores full of processed junk, just like we do.  The difference between them and us is not the food, it’s food culture.  They have much stronger taboos against overeating and being fat.  People there have no problem shaming people for eating more than they should, they have no problem pointing out when a close friend or relative gains weight.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Covid hawks were a creation of the hype machine.  The searches don’t go up and down based on variants, but media coverage.  The media basically dropped all COVID coverage around the time of the Russian invasion when the hype machine went from coverage of COVID related stories (new variant, mask/vaccine) to Plucky Ukraine with a guy who looks like Hawkeye.  Instead of the signal being masks and telling everyone you never leave the house, it became Ukrainian flags and being obnoxious about the pronunciation of Kiev as Kyiv.


But to my mind, it was always a creation of media.  Had the media not covered the story, it wasn’t much.  It was, for the vast majority of people, a glorified flu virus.  Had it not come with death-tickers and infection-tickers on the nightly news, breathless coverage of new variants, and endless advice about whether given activities were “safe” to do, people would never have cared in the first place.  Had this happened in 1983, there wouldn’t have been nearly the hysteria— in large measure because we didn’t have the possibility of sending millions of office workers home, and didn’t have online shopping.  The hype pushed billions into to coffers of Amazon, Walmart, Doordash, and instacart simply by virtue of making people afraid to leave the house.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A big difference is that an adult can understand that flaunting sexuality can and often does make you appear as a sexual object to other people.  An adult woman understands that going out in a string bikini is going to attract sexual attention and she knows to keep it to places where she wants that kind of attention.  Children don’t understand sexuality that way, and don’t understand the consequences of being sexually attractive to adults.  A woman knows that walking down a street alone at night dressed to highlight her sexuality increases the risk of rape.  So women generally reserve their “looking sexy” times to going out on the town with other adults she trusts.  To a child, it’s just dress up, and they don’t really understand that you can’t just put on a sexy top without attracting sexual attention from others or understanding the implications of attracting that sexual attention.  They just want to play dress up barbie.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 19, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The military will always be relevant.  The only reason it’s not at present is that there’s a pretty strong military hegemony in NATO and America.  When there’s a military power that can bomb most countries to rubble in a matter of a day or two, the idea that a country can invade another and not be stopped is silly.


Those days are coming to an end.  Americans are having fewer kids, and they’re less interested in joining the military.  Politically, I think a lot of people are less interested in policing the world as well.  If you lose the American military, wars come back and having a strong military becomes important again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see why that would be.  I find a lot to admire about heredi Jews, the Amish, Mennonites, and other similar groups.  I think as a model for forming stronger communities these groups while different share common features that could be easily adapted to creating enclaves of traditional culture for those who wants that.  The secret sauce seems to be a strict set of community rules, dress and sometimes language that differs from the mainstream, and a focal point in religious beliefs and practices.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Except that the advice given to women is in you example is pretty exaggerated.  The places women are asked to avoid are generally places that are dangerous to men as well.  General safety means not going to seedy bars, not walking in dark alleys and not getting blackout drunk.  Other than “wear clothes that fully cover your reproductive organs and breasts” I’m not seeing anything that would seriously curtail normal life for most people.  Nobody is telling women to stay home and wear a burka except in their imagination.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve often wondered if colonization was the ticket in the last several hundred years as a sort of purpose for at least some men.  Go over the hill with a bunch of guys, build a new settlement and establish and build infrastructure and institutions that make the project self-sustaining.  Such a purpose would be quite worthy, especially if it’s difficult and dangerous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think a lot of this could be somewhat curbed if there were reasonable requirements to get various helps from the government.  If you want assistance, it should be assistance and therefore you should have a job.  That doesn’t seem controversial to me.  And it would work.  If having sec 8 housing required having a full time job, then people would be much more likely to find and keep a job.  Add in a requirement that nobody living at that house commit a felony and a lot of these sorts of problems get handled.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Except that I’ve never ever seen this drive more people to support these causes.  In fact, it’s almost always a negative publicity to the point that it would often do the cause better to not protest at all.  Your protest blocked a road, now everyone is pissed because they were late to work, or missed a flight, or other activities they needed to get to.  Are people talking about the cause as in “does this idea have merit” or in terms of “what a bunch of inconsiderate losers making people late for work and making people miss their flights.  It’s negative at least around me.  People outright cheered when the people blocking roads in Europe got pushed out of the way by SUVs or were manhandled to the side of the road by outraged drivers.  Not one person seeing the souping of the Louvre paintings got curious about the cause, they were upset about the destruction of the art.  So on net, it’s more likely to turn people away.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think ultimately this is a self correcting problem.  People cannot effectively run systems that they don’t understand and have no experience with.  A bunch of lawyers and other elites who have no idea how food is produced won’t be able to make food production safer, healthier or more efficient.  A NTSB director who doesn’t understand how an airplane is produced cannot hope to make good safety rules.  Sooner or later, such problems will become obvious and either the liberals will learn to think like conservatives or will have to invite conservatives into the inner circle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you’re describing Reddit in general.  If you read a general news discussion on almost any topic, they’re smugly wrong most of the time.  They don’t know how the things they’re discussing actually work, don’t understand the power dynamics of politics at all, and still think that they can run whatever it is better than people who have decades of experience doing that thing.


Of course I think that’s to be expected when most of the user base are college students with minimal work experience and post graduates who have yet to build a solid career.  Almost everyone thinks they know how to run things at 18-25 because they are taught all the theoretical stuff about the subject and have never dealt with trying to actually build something.


Elon does draw this more than most because he loves to troll and get attention for himself and put on a show.  If he did the same stuff but without the fanfare and trolling, I don’t think most people follow business pages well enough to know about how other CEOs are making very similar decisions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 21, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not in favor of theocracy, but I will say that democracy has many problems of its own that are baked in.


It cannot reign in the unelected deep state.  We have dozens of autonomous agencies that the official government has little power over, and they pass regulations that define how we interact, what businesses can and cannot do, and what documentation needs to be kept (thus creating the need for administration jobs to make sure that the business can prove to regulators that it’s compliant.


On the other hand, it’s incapable of long term thinking itself.  No elected official can afford to really think about the distant future.  If his proposal causes near term pain, he’s out, even if it would be enormously beneficial long term.  For that matter, a program that doesn’t work fast isn’t good for an elected official either — he might not win, then his opponent gets credit.  In a related fashion, democracy promotes flashy new projects and initiatives over boring projects or maintenance projects.  If you build a new highway, or a new school, or even a new wing of a school, you get to put your name on it.  If you take the same money and fix roads and schools and subways, it’s invisible, and thus “waste”, even if it’s actually more efficient than building something new.


There are also issues of culture.  Democracy by nature will embrace deviance however it’s defined.  There are potential new voting blocs in legalization of forbidden behavior, in wealth transfers to people who engage in bad behavior, and in forcing acceptance of previously deviant behaviors.  This isn’t long term good.  Things like drug use are high risk behavior, often imposing hefty social and economic costs on the rest of society.  Heroin addicts cannot hold productive jobs and need expensive interventions to allow them to continue.  Less obvious are things like generous welfare payments that allow large segments of society to simply suckle the government teat without providing value, or student loan forgiveness that enable students to study useless things and provide little value to the rest of us for the trouble.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, given that almost every rule in question has long since been broken by the ruling class, my question is why is this guy so bad?  Hillary had an entire private unsecured email server outside the government firewall.  We didn’t care about norms then.  If you want corruption, how is it that a person can go directly from public office to a very lucrative job lobbying for industries that they sought to (not really) regulate months earlier?  Or how they always manage to sell their stocks just before us plebs get bad economic news?  Hunter Biden had been peddling influence in Russia for decades.  We didn’t care about any of those things until Trump did them.


And there’s the ball game — this decidedly is not about laws, norms, or precedents.  It’s about making an example of a man who violated the hidden social contract of having good decorum and toeing the social norms an$ keeping quiet about the grift.  It’s completely about who he is and what he represents— he’s an outsider, and worse one that won’t play along.  He was about the common man.


And to be honest here, I think he’s probably the only politician in memory that could have actually gotten a mob to do anything.  Rubin or Cruz or Pence might draw a crowd, but not one willing to fight for their cause.  I live in a red state, and I talk to MAGAs.  I have never seen a group so enthusiastic about a political leader.  For them, this is the first time in memory that a political figure has actually been on their side.  The first time in memory that they feel listened to.  They don’t trust other people as they’ve been stung too many times by promises that the government “would be there for them”.


I think he’s wrong on policy, but I will point out that the entire thing is absolutely about destroying him and him personally.  Others have quietly done what he did.