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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Tge sleeper has awakened.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean it depends.  If I’m a government official, I would do my best to downplay or dismiss or classify the story.  The reason being that the only real data we have on how humans would react to something like this is the War of the Worlds broadcast in the 1930s, which resulted in a fair bit of panic.  A real-deal alien civilization sending a real spaceship to earth is likely to cause more panic.  That helps no one.  As far as who meets tge aliens, I’d look for a level headed diplomat if anything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, if you’re the minority party, you need every vote and supporter you can get.  That’s how elections work— get the numbers, or take a seat while the other side does whatever they want.  If MAGA wasn’t in power, they would not worry about Fuentes unless he was driving away potential red voters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m expecting that most of the internet will be abandoned by humans by 2050 as bots, fake images and videos and so on continue to spread.  Eventually “I read it online” will have the same effect on future generations as it did in 1995 — a sign of something that’s unverified and therefore suspect.  The number of outright hoaxes is high enough now that I think most people have had tge experience of being fooled by a fake-news story, picture, or video, or reading or listening to someone who has.  It’s crazy enough now, but give it 25 years and I think it will be so difficult to spot a fake that people will be forced by necessity to return to the equivalent of old school news sources, people they actually know or have good reason to trust.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’d be curious to know what type of businesses that 5% were used at.  It might be good for things like writing boilerplate news and bad at ad copy.  It might be good at picking up trends in engineering and business to business stuff and not so good at picking the new fashion trends.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem being that except for a fairly small number of jobs, there’s no way to prevent this person from having contact with children.  Warehouses might be about the only low-skill job available where you could guarantee that at no time is he in contact with a child.  As far as professionals, most of them are public contact jobs, so again he’ll be able to contact children.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mostly watch Chinese period dramas, and frankly I like the “everyone is an asshole” thing, mostly because it’s not out of step with an actual medieval society.  Read about War of the Roses, read about any medieval period.  They acted that way because they were basically very polite warlords and understood that everything they did would either expose them as weak or show them strong.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably not.  Most modern fantasy authors have good imagination except that they never really deep dive into other cultures or time periods and I think it’s a huge blind spot.  Someone living in 16th century France would find just about everything about the modern European mindset weird.  We’d find them strange as well.  And honestly im not even sure that people as recent as the Victorian Era might not walk around modern London and wondering why people there are acting so strangely.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean in most circumstances sure, but I think the thing gets a bit complicated when you know your kid will be horrifically abused raped etc. every day he remains with the custodial parent, you don’t have the months to years a court process can take.  A kid getting pimped out nightly to men so mom can afford drugs doesn’t have years.  The environment is much too dangerous, and leaving them there while they languish is unsafe for the child.


First rule is the health and welfare of the child.  The second rule is follow the law if possible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t value that personally because it’s not authentic to the period or setting.  It’s like having a character in 1500s France Google something.  To me it’s jarring because people living in premodern times absolutely do not see the world like modern Californians.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Present-mindedness.  It’s annoying.  It’s like we cannot wrap our heads around the idea that people exist or even could exist that think in ways that we disagree with.  I like the Mist Crown series by Sarah Maas, but its so annoying to read a medieval peasant acting like a modern, feminist, atheistic modern American as though the author literally couldn’t conceive of a premodern woman in a premodern world.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean exactly.  It’s not a serious thing, at least not in the sense that they literally believe in theNeo-Hitler theory.  If they did, and they wanted to stop it, they’d be doing that.  I find it rather fascinating just from the psychological aspect as it almost seems like a rape fetish, but political.  They want to be brutally repressed.  They want the camps.  They want the mass arrests.  It’s exciting to them.  That’s why they’re always speculating about canceling elections, martial law, and camps.  Not because they believe it’s going to happen (in fact Trump would be stupid to cancel elections or declare martial law because it would create a huge backlash from the general public), but because they want to play out their vision of themselves as plucky rebels defying their Hitler.  But because it’s a fantasy and they at least unconsciously understand that, they aren’t willing to accept loses of their lifestyle.  They aren’t willing to be arrested, risk their job, make their kid miss practice, break the law, etc.  they want to appear to have resisted without the messy stuff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not demanding they form a militias or something to be taken seriously.  But the complete lack of any action beyond standing outside with signs doesn’t really do much to convince me that these guys are serious.  It’s like someone screaming that tge house is on fire from the bedroom while queuing up a Netflix movie.  The actions don’t match including the actions including by people who have power and should know what to do and could do things to either slow it down or impeach or launch investigations or hold hearings.  Yet… they don’t.


Now if this were 1935 Berlin, and these people believed that the crazy Austrian was about to destroy democracy, the actions don’t remotely fit.  They can’t be made to fit unless they don’t actually believe what they’re saying, or they’re actually okay with it, but playing tge part.  Psychologically, I think the LARP angle makes a lot of sense.  It explains the sort of slacktivist protests, the lack of fear of saying something that the reactionaries don’t like (a good way to get arrested in actual authoritarian regimes), the lack of action by anyone in congress, and on it goes.  Now there’s always been a certain romanticism of “plucky resistance movements.”  The genre of resisters bringing down or stymies an authoritarian regime is a staple in Hollywood.  Star Wars, Red Dawn, Lawrence of Arabia, pretty much every WWII movie ever made, Handmaid’s Tale, Hunger Games.  It’s a trope buried pretty deep in American mythology.  And so people who are disappointed in losing the culture war might well project that movie trope onto American politics, especially because it allows them to cast themselves as the heroes of the psychodrama.  It’s easy to cover up a life you aren’t happy with by pretending to be on some kind of great crusade for Justice.  It’s also great for a party that barely has a real agenda because if you are fighting Palpatine, it doesn’t matter that your big idea is shovel-ready projects or something — you’re fighting evil.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see it that way simply because none of the actions they take are consistent with the idea that “reactionary enemies” are about to end civilization as they have known it.  The same people refer to ICE as the Gestapo and to Alligator Auswitz and Palentir reading their social media posts also are mostly bitching on the Internet, and occasionally attending a weekend protest that doesn’t interfere with normal life at all.  I think most of the “reactionary Nazi” stuff reads more like a psychological need for significance in their own times than the thought that these are actually threats to civilization.  Even in Congress, the minority leader is Jewish and he’s not doing anything more than sending angry letters around.  If they really believed in Trump’s Nazi party, it seems like you’d be doing a bit more than leaving tge equivalent of 1-star reviews on the internet.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now, I have little idea if this is a left/progressive thing; I've just observed it in that group because I am part of that group and have spent most of my life surrounded by people in that group. I suspect that conservatives, by their nature of preferring tradition - such as the tradition of keeping civilization going for the next generation - have a greater tendency to want to keep humanity and human civilization going than progressives, who tend to be skeptical of tradition. But either way, I'm quite sure this attitude of "why care about humanity's survival when we have my favorite principles to worry about" is extremely common among progressives. Usually, it's not explicitly spoken or even thought, it gets laundered in, as alluded to above, by motivating oneself to believe that the evidence indicates that one's principles don't actually conflict with other goals such as survival of humanity/human civilization (in fact, I see such motivated reasoning often leading people to believe that their principles are actually synergistic to good goal, such as game devs genuinely believing that putting in characters that conform with their ideology would also lead to more sales due to expanding the market).




I tend to perceive progressive strains of liberalism as making the assumption that civilization as they know it is tge default state of humanity and you can’t really destroy it.  It’s not “sacrifice survival for thriving” it’s “survival is a given, so let’s thrive.”  On tge conservative side it’s understood that civilization is not the default state, decorum, high trust, low crime, safe environments etc. do not just happen, nor will they just continue without some efforts put toward maintaining those things or preventing their destruction.  Now I think you can have thriving as well as civilization if you bother to do so correctly.  If you make sure that the support structures aren’t destroyed or that public morality, health, and welfare are preserved, then you can do things to allow people to thrive.  It’s not a zero sum game.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem with the end of civilization is that the alternatives suck.


Furthermore, I think we have a serious problem in humanity civilization or not if basic biological necessities like perpetuating the species or not eating ourselves to death, or those kinds of things.  I’m hypothesizing that we’re creating a very hyper stimulating environment that hijacks our normal biological systems in ways that are more stimulating than the normal activities that our hyper stimulating environment creates.  I’m looking into a minimalistic sort of entertainment tech detox that im suspecting will prove this out.  But if people are hyper stimulated by media, technology and so on to the point that they don’t end up socializing as much as they should, or if porn (which I don’t do) is hyper stimulating to the point that real life humans and dating them cannot compete, I think we may be engineering our own species out of existence much like we created beer bottles for Australian beetles to prefer to hump over real female beetles.  If this is the case, it needs to be dealt with unless the royal we are perfectly okay with killing off the most intelligent species we know of in the entire universe to make the money printer go brrrrr.


I always imagined the Great Filter might be something exciting like a war or a plague.  Turns out that it might be us creating systems that stimulate our brains too much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it matters what you intend the system to be used for.  There’s probably a market for a sycophantic waifu or friend bot.  But I don’t want my accountant to act like my best friend.  In fact, I’d personally trust business or career advice less if I thought the human or bot giving the advice was trying to be my friend or appear as my friend.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That makes sense.  I just wanted a bit of clarification about what the liability situation is.  The law can get counterintuitive at times.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
More of a legal question than anything, but wouldn’t a recall be a tacit admission of guilt?  It seems like it might well be, as you’d have to have an understanding of the mechanism that’s causing the failure so you can replace either the part or replace the gun with a completely different design that removes the offending mechanism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s about safety.  If a woman cant absolutely feel safe around you, you are done.  And one of the best ways to find out if you’re able to stick up for yourself is to try to push on the boundaries until the choice is you stick to your guns or you cave.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve always read Caplan as mostly talking about college specifically, not really anything K-12.  And I agree to a large measure, that the current model of


    

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Is flawed for a number of reasons.  It doesn’t work for those kids incapable of attaining the diploma.  It encourages the dumbing down of educational standards to allow the stupid to get on the path toward a diploma, and allows banks and schools to get rich financing this.  It creates a ratchet for the actual talent who now must get ever higher degrees to prove “no im not just here because I paid tuition I actually learned something worthwhile in school”. And it wastes lots of time that could be put to better use.


I argue that at this point higher education credentials are a fetish.  They are not worth something for their intrinsic value, but because both the holder and the person reading about the diploma on a resume believe it means something.  It doesn’t.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m a convinced Christian but rather skeptical of “retvrners” mostly because I don’t see a living faith per say (granted this isn’t everyone and im an outsider on a lot of it) I don’t see talk of praying or charity in the name of God, or attempts to live out the faith.  It’s got rather a zombie feel to it, as though the person is going through motions and pep talking themselves into it and into doing the trappings but without the faith behind it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly, the ideal way to measure it is buy tracking an individual student through the system and using something like “median student improvement per year” as a way to evaluate the school itself.  A school system where students improve by 0.5 a year is objectively a bad school, no matter how the class behind them does.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not demanding a literalist view of the Bible, in fact it’s a naive reading.  But I don’t really think it’s a problem to suggest that certain events were highlighted or downplayed by the author to be more memorable and appealing to the audience they were writing for.  It’s a narrative story, and any story humans tell will highlight and downplay elements to make the story appealing or to make heroes look better or villains look worse.  I don’t find the early church reading the Bible with the kind of literalism that modern evangelical fundamentalists use in interpreting the text.  Not that they don’t believe the Bible and the stories in the Bible are true, but that they are not literalists insisting that everything described is absolutely meant to be literal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A sort of problem is that the “marred more than any man” bit isn’t in the gospels, it comes from Isaiah 53.  And if you’re dealing with a person who was crucified, the beating and the crucifixion would be part of the story whether or not you’re trying to create a memorable scene.  Just like the ending of Hamilton being played for drama, this doesn’t change the fact that the historical Hamilton actually died in a pistols at dawn duel with Aaron Burr.


I’m not going to suggest that the prose of the text wasn’t written to highlight certain parts of the story to appeal to people reading the story.  But I think the claims of skeptics that the story must not be true because it matches a rhetorical style is a bit too far.  The story was told in a way that appeals to Romans of the first century.