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				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 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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The metaphor itself has been a part of ancient Western culture for millennia.  Gnostic thought goes all the way back to Plato.  The gnostic gospels are nearly 2000 years old.  It’s hardly surprising that a movie playing on those themes is going to resonate with modern western people raised with the idea of a separation between the mind and the body and who quite often react with surprise when they find out that biology influences your mind both from birth and because of the environment.  We think of ourselves as minds driving bodies and not as a whole being that contains a brain that is biologically wired to produce your thoughts.  It’s hardly surprising that Marxists and other gnostics can appeal to this pre Christian myth to push their beliefs.


We actually have a lot of those pre Christian myths in our culture.  The myth of the perfectibility of human kind — which should have died the day we discovered Auschwitz’s gas chambers — has been going strong for centuries.  This is another piece of the liberal system of thought.  If only we could teach people to be good, they’d actually be good.  If only people had more money they’d stop being criminals.  If only we could give people what they say they want we could have utopia.  It’s never worked that way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I find this true with a lot of moralizing movements.  They never really think about how many barriers to entry the6 put in front of people who want to do these things.  And really the thing that would change farming (just for an example) is millions of plant-based eaters who might include fish and eggs and cheese rather than 5000 hard core vegans studiously reading labels for obscure food ingredients that might have come from an animal of some sort.  5000 people is a rounding error, a million is a movement.  And for most Altruistic movements, they have such high barriers that nobody can take on unless they have high enough income and enough time to actually do that.  Normies have lives and don’t have extra money to search for and purchase the “pure” foods that would make them “pure” vegans.  If you throw in organic on top, you’re restricting the movement to the comfortable middle class to upper middle class who have the money to purchase food that costs 33% or more over the normie food they’re eating now.  It would be much more effective to have those people choose to limit meat consumption to a side dish or veggie heavy casserole or a veggie burger with cheese than to play purity games.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That being said, I don't think society is unfixable. I just think that political solutions are pointless. We need what has always been the core of strong societies - a culture that promotes and encourages personal virtue. Without that, you have nothing.




This is why our politics is broken.  The political machine has borged almost everything, and thus the other rival institutions have become rumps of what they would be in a healthy society.  Education has been swallowed by the state in the form of mandated curriculum and state testing.  Churches have little influence on culture as they have been mostly reduced to the few things that don’t touch politics and then trying to avoid the IRS crackdown for even broaching the subject of some politicized issue.  Families are weakened because now that mom works 9 hours and commutes for 1 hour, her children are raised by daycares and the school system, with the parents as minor players in their kid’s lives mostly for a couple hours on weekdays and then on weekends.  When politics is everywhere and running everything and no other institutions can match it, people hyperfixate on politics.  When it’s not something most people deal with, nobody but us nerds care.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think anything taken to extremes is bad, no matter what the noble intentions are.  Most “failed trads” are the ones who went from 2024 to 1824 with their lifestyle and then get shocked when 1824 lifestyles don’t work well in 2024.  The fails that I saw were trying to live a picture perfect version of a 19th century lifestyle in which they dress like they’re Amish, bake their own bread, homeschool the kids, and so on until they burn out.  The people who end up rejecting religion tend to be the unbalanced fundamentalist types who want to get everything perfect rather than try to live in the imperfect real world.  They’re the ones researching whether potential common things have connections to “witchcraft and pagan or new age ideas” down to whether or not the logo of Starbucks is Satanic.  Nobody can live that way because it’s impossible to maintain.


I don’t think that means give up.  The traditional lifestyle is better than what we have now where everyone spends more time with strangers than with family and friends and kids are essentially kenneled in schools or daycare for most of their waking hours. But I think there’s a tendency toward treating the project like a game where the goal is to win by being the most traditional person possible, rather than trying to build a real life that works for you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My greatest fear of all this is that since the records can come back to bite several decades after the fact (in this case the man had been hospitalized 40 years ago) and might not be able to be expunged, this will only discourage people who want to own guns from interacting with the mental health system.  It’s bad on both ends — it doesn’t protect the public from crazy people with guns (or at least those smart enough to understand that going to a doctor means losing the right to a gun), and it likewise means that people suffering from those illnesses continue to suffer as they avoid treatment— possibly to the point of self-harm or harming others.  There’s no better way, in my view to keep someone from self-reporting a mental health problem than to tell them it will negatively affect them for the rest of their lives.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just don’t understand why the journalist community is just incapable of self-correction here.  The reason right-leaning news is growing is that it at least tries to get the facts right, and is open and honest about what it believes in.  People like FOX and Joe Rogan because they’re trying to get things right and when they don’t get it exactly right, you at least know where they’re coming from.  CNN pretends to be neutral but skews left and everyone is fairly aware of that.


I mostly go with AP and BBC when I’m trying to assess whether or not something is factual.  Rogan is at least trying and has the virtue (increasingly rare in traditional news media) of letting the guests actually speak without interruption even when he clearly disagrees with them.  And because of that, listeners at least get a full understanding of what that guest is trying to say.  I find the practice of constantly interrupting the guests on a show to be annoying.  If a conservative goes on CNN, he rarely gets to speak a complete sentence before getting cut off to make the counterpoint.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly I expect the “resistance” to Peter out pretty quickly once the gloves actually come off.  I just don’t see anything that makes me believe that these people understand power, strategy, or even real desire.  It’s like they’ve almost decided that Trump is going to get away with it anyway so other than making noises so that people don’t mistake them for supporting Trump.  But there’s no real drive there.


Chuck Schumer writes “strongly worded letters” that do nothing and mean nothing.  He had not, however used the filibuster to block any of Trump’s legislation or nominees.  He didn’t refuse to raise the debt ceiling when that came up.  Corey Booker sat on the steps of the Capitol for a day, telling everyone how much he wanted to save Medicaid.  He also voted for Trump’s nominees even when it wasn’t required.  No Democratic legislators have introduced impeachment or contempt of Congress charges, they’ve held no hearings to investigate the supposed crimes.  Even Newsome is pretty much rolling along.  He could have easily as governor ordered the National Guard to stand down.  He didn’t try it.  This isn’t a group of dissidents willing to do whatever they can to stop something they see as an evil regime marching towards authoritarianism.  This is a group mostly miming opposition while doing nothing.


And the protests are much the same.  These are not spontaneous protests brought on by genuine outrage.  These are planned protests, short in duration, carefully crafted such that they are short, easy to get to, and coordinate with most people’s schedules.  Holding a planned demonstration from 11-2 on Saturday is pretty weak sauce.  Holding a protest like that without making any concrete demands is a joke.  We are here, clear, and only doing this so long as it doesn’t interfere with work, chores, or Billy’s  little league game.  What’s the point?  How does this demonstrate power?  Resolve? Anything?  But 3.5% showed up on a sunny weekend day in June so according to them the Revolution will succeed.  Again, I very strongly suspect that this movement is less about Trump or anything Trump is doing and more about having learned in school that they’re “supposed to oppose this” lest history judge you complicit.  It’s not about Trump, or ICE, or anything else.  It’s the nagging fear that their grandchildren in their horror scenarios will ask them why they didn’t do anything.  So they’re making a public show of opposition they don’t actually care about.  Because how will anyone know they’re the good ones if they don’t hold up a “honk if you don’t like fascism” sign.


But since nobody is serious about anything they’re saying, it will absolutely fade under real opposition.  A few sidewalk protesters thrown into prison, the arrest of a political figure who defies Trump, cutting funding for a pet project for their district, whatever.  They won’t continue fighting when it has a real cost.  As such Trump can do pretty much anything he wants to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For individuals, yes, but I think on the national, let alone international level your representatives and elected government act a lot more like medieval potentates protecting and trying to expand their power and fiefdoms.  To give a fairly recent example, the government is supporting Israel (I personally agree with them, but whatever). This is despite a large, fairly active movement that might have tipped the election to Trump and is unpopular with democrats and is strongest in supposed must-win states.  By Democratic logic, it should be a slam dunk to support Palestine and go with the thing the public seems to want.  Or the BBB which is unpopular and passed anyway.  The government barely cares what people actually want, they care for their fiefdoms and maintaining power.  If they can do so, they do so by rigging the districts so they aren’t competitive.


If forcing dissidents whether liberal or conservative to shut up allows them to win power games, they’re perfectly fine doing so.  It will be hate speech or misinformation or state secrets.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m in total agreement here.  There’s almost no upside to going into the medical mental health system, which doesn’t even work that well anyway, and is pretty much used by the state to keep people from exercising their rights.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced you couldn’t get American workers to do it.  Much like construction and hotels and housekeeping and so on — Americans used to do all of it.  And keep in mind that you have ex-cons and teenagers trying to build a good work history.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly, if they weren’t doing that, I don’t think you’d see the blowback.  It’s easy to hate things that look and sound like stuff that happens in the movies.  If you slam-tackle people in public, throw flashbangs into diners during dinner rush, and so on, you get blowback.


I’m not sure what the end goal actually is here.  Is he going to go full president Joker?  Very Smart People on the left say so.  But then again, if that’s true, those same people are behaving very strangely.  They’re attending rallies they pre-register for by giving their full name (50501 does this), filming the entire thing, posting symbols on social media, etc.  they also show up in full cosplay — Gilead Girls, Leia, various anime characters.  I just, if they’re thinking that Trump is going to mass arrest opposition, they’re not only doing everything possible to make sure they’re on the list, but fighting back in ways that simply don’t make any sense.  You think Trump wants to arrest the opposition, so you register in advance, apply with the local police (which likely means giving contact information).  When you get there, you stand on sidewalks with signs, dressed as children’s TV and movie characters?  I can’t imagine anyone would have thought any of it in other states with the threat of authoritarian takeover.  I’m sure the people who protested the Nazis did so for a couple of hours on weekends while dressed as characters from Wizard of Oz or Popeye.  So either it’s true that Trump is going Joker and we just happen to have an opposition composed entirely of people who stopped maturing at like 8 years old (in which case, we’re going that way), or the whole thing is a combination of Oppression Fetishized, and being used to drum up support and donations.


As I said I don’t have any special insight into this sort of thing.  If the end is to take over and disappear Americans, I don’t know what would look different.  On the other hand if that’s not the end goal, it would look the same.  I would say it’s maybe 30-40% it escalates.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly, politics encroaching on my fun is so much of a turn off that I think even if the men would agree with the content, the annoyance would make the message radioactive.  This is exactly what happened in gamergate.  Woke messages in gaming turned a whole lot of apolitical young men into sold out right wingers.  I’m just rather amused by the idea that the left is about to spend 20 million dollars to resurrect Gamergate of all things, and guarantee that Gen Alpha is going to see even the center-left as scolds and unbelievably stupid.


It’s just mind-blowing.  You lost an entire generation of young men by invading hobby spaces and gaming and other things those young men did for fun and to escape politics and life in general.  So the solution is to do it harder?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m rather impressed because of the political capital used.  This isn’t the kind of decision one should make with an eye to what the people will think about it.  If you need to prevent an enemy from getting too powerful to deal with, you need to act even if it is unpopular.  An Islamist state with a history of supporting terrorism is not a state that should be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.  It’s beyond crazy to me that everyone is worried about poll numbers here when the issue was Iran with access to a weapon that could kill millions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So if the cops arrest my neighbor, and I see them gathering outside, I can get between them and my neighbor and not have interfered?  As long as the cops haven’t officially declared they’re now on official duty they just aren’t?  It like, cool, I can loot a 7-11 and have twenty big guys “protest” outside and keep the cops out.  It’s just ridiculous to me to say crowds of people can surround a bunch of cops, prevent them from even starting their official duties, and hide behind the first amendment even if they’re throwing rocks (which is assault).