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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They aren’t just conformists, in many cases they’re the old church ladies telling you anything you find fun is somehow wrong.  You can’t enjoy foreign food, clothing, or music.  You can’t like your own either, you can’t like traditionally masculine things, or traditional things in general.  It’s just a narrow rather boring and uninteresting slice of things that democrats think are okay to like unironically.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I find paper puzzles like sudoku or crossword puzzles or word searches pretty good for a “I got a few minutes, not enough for something deep and time consuming, but I don’t want to stare into space” time.  You can just get one or two answers, get interrupted and go back again quite easily.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I hesitate to post this because I do think that those comments are the kind of background, "I hate the outgroup" signaling that you can find everywhere every day among every group. This man isn't going to commit violence against anyone. Give him a gun, a bag of candy, and unfettered access to those kids and the worst you'll get are some tummy aches.




Except that such rhetoric is being normalized and people are beginning to act on it.  You are even reacting as if “I want to kill him, his wife and his kids” as just normal.  I contend that it isn’t normal for people to be constantly saying they want people to die, and making it normal enough to show up in casual conversation is honestly scary.  I say this as a fairly centrist democrat— the rhetoric of killing opponents has absolutely no place in a civil and civilized society, and unless it ratchets back, the cold civil war will eventually go hot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s over-charitable at this point to take “he must take full responsibility” statements as proof of contrition.  If you really think this is far beyond the pale, then why beat around the bush with non-statements?  “Take responsibility” can mean almost anything.  It can mean issuing tge standard non-apology statements often used in politics “if my statements were misunderstood to be meant to cause pain, im sorry,” to stronger apologies to dropping out of the race.


And now that we’re officially getting to the “shooting and terrorism” stage, it’s absolutely not good enough anymore to not say it plainly:  calls for and celebration of political violence have no place in the public sphere.  If you are doing that, you should resign from public office or be fired from any public media positions you hold.  If a political organization cannot forthrightly say: anyone on our side engaging in, promoting, or celebrating violent extremism must apologize and leave.  This includes using the accusation of authoritarian regime against the other party.  Zero tolerance.  That’s what getting serious about political violence and advocacy thereof looks like:  no excuses, no weasel worded statements, just actual action.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That depends on who creates the AI and what they want it to solve for.  Unfortunately I think most of the early adaptations of AI are going to be for functions that “be nice” actively hinders.


For example, if I’m using AI to keep people engaged with my social media site, I don’t want that AI to think about whether or not pushing content that keeps them scrolling is “good for them”.  I’m farming attention to sell to advertising companies and if my AI doesn’t optimize for attention farming, yours will and you get more advertising money.  Or maybe im trying to cut costs, and I want AI to trim overhead.  I don’t want my AI to worry about whether laying off people is “nice”, im looking to improve my bottom line.  Maybe im working on automated targeting for the military.  I don’t want AI to be squeemish about pulling the trigger.  It’s not necessarily a tax on performance, but that the functionality you need AI for has no place for the “don’t be evil” function because it’s frankly being used for at least quasi-evil things.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Freedom of speech has been poisoned and we need to reframe it
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m talking about mostly civilian discussions of political issues, especially over the Internet.  It does no good to tear apart communities and create the conditions for political radicalism and political violence.  In fact that’s the worst thing that could happen.  Societies that radicalized and created the conditions for political violence are generally shit-holes, places with zero social trust, weak economies and crumbling infrastructure.  Much of Latin America is like this, parts of the Middle East, and some parts of Southeast Asia.  Nobody really wants to live there anymore because of the poor conditions caused by the political chaos.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I did a detox fairly recently and I think the key is to find some other activities that you replace scrolling with to help ease the cravings.  I found if I had things like books, puzzles and art supplies or writing supplies close at hand you can choose to scratch the itch in more useful ways.


It’s rough because I’m discovering that the screen itself is a hyperstimulous and therefore when you use a screen for an activity it creates a sort of craving for more screen time.  Even switching to a soduku app instead of a paper book makes a difference— I’d crave my iPad to play soduku where I could take or leave a soduku book or crossword book.  Realizing this is valuable to me, and really kind of scary.  Even under the best of circumstances, it’s hard to get away from the idea that screens are generally the worst way to handle anything, and that they really need to be treated like any other potentially addictive stuff.


I’m personally skeptical of time blocking because of this addiction aspect.  Making rules around how you use an addictive substance not only isn’t recovery, but is often used as a way to say “I don’t really have a problem.”  If you have a drinking problem that you’re pretending to control because you only drink after 5pm or only on weekends, not only are you still addicted, but you’re impeding your recovery.  TBH I’ve often used such things as a quick test of addiction— if you are saying something like “not me im in control because I …” that’s a huge red flag.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Freedom of speech has been poisoned and we need to reframe it
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Being polite doesn’t mean accepting every idea that comes along.  It simply means that you express your disagreement in ways that, to paraphrase the rules of this place “give light rather than heat.”  That’s entirely possible even in cases like pedophilia where the acceptance of such a bad idea would be a disaster.  Saying there are only two genders is perfectly within the bounds of free expression and I don’t think you should be harassed or fired for that.  Saying something like “there are only two genders and those who disagree should be considered dangerous to society,” that is over the line.  Saying “Trump should not be sending the National Guard to American cities” is fine, saying “Trump is doing an authoritarian power grab by sending the National Guard to American cities” is too far because words like authoritarian, fascist, Nazi, and related are incendiary and dangerously lead to the acceptance of violence against anyone smeared with those terms.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Freedom of speech has been poisoned and we need to reframe it
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can’t even get to the place of agreeing on values if you’re constantly telling yourself and your allies that those other guys are to be destroyed and kept away from power at all costs.  I think in the case of the USA the red and blue tribes share quite a lot, but having that conversation is difficult because of the filter bubbles and the attention economy made worse by the rhetoric that the other tribe wants to destroy the country.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Freedom of speech has been poisoned and we need to reframe it
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you gave a speech in the liquor isle about the dangers of alcohol, you’d be removed.  You’ll also be removed for causing a disturbance.  It happens all the time.  Homeless people yelling at the voices in their head get kicked out quite often.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Freedom of speech has been poisoned and we need to reframe it
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there’s a very big problem in people not understanding the difference between sharing an opinion and being an asshole about said opinion.  I don’t object to free expression of ideas even in contentious situations on controversial topics.  You think abortion is baby murder, you are perfectly free to say that.  But I think the very concept of politeness and tact and decorum is pretty lost at this point.  It’s just devolved from “I don’t agree with you” to “I don’t agree with you and you are subhuman for even entertaining a different idea, and in fact should not be allowed to speak.”  And now we have people celebrating a murder with TikTok dances.


I keep thinking back to reading old etiquette books.  There was a sense that you really should strive to think of the other person, or others around you as at least as important if not more than you.  A society that frowned on being late to a show because walking in late would inconvenience other theater goers would absolutely have something very politely negative to say about the absolute shit show of political and social discourse— even if they do agree that all opinions are protected by free speech.  There are lines of decency that just have to be protected and we just can’t seem to separate the idea of an opinion from the expression of that opinion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Let the arms race begin…


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the models is less that those chatbots will be the face of the profit making for AI companies.  Not true, I think the people using the bots now are unpaid trainers, not the future end users.  Every issue that comes up now can be fixed once the bot gets a correction from the freeware users.  But that’s not a very useful user base anyway.  The best use case for such bots is actually business to business.  Maybe Walmart wants to use it with its app to help customers find a product that fixes a problem they have, or can tell you where something is.  They’d probably want to buy a license for incorporation of the bot into their app.  Maybe Apple wants to replace their social media team with Open AI based solutions.  Or the CEO of Tesla wants to use AI to suggest improvements to their car line.  In those cases, getting a good useful bot would get them an effective and efficient solution probably worth a good deal of money to them (if for no other reason than it reduces headcount), and they will pay for it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Short term I agree, it won’t work, but keep in mind that ATM, Theres a monopoly on university level job training.  The old university system was all there was, and so they never faced much competition for post graduation job placement.  If the new academic system can produce higher quality education and therefore better graduates, eventually it will be noticed that graduates of these institutions do better in the workforce than traditional college graduates.  Depending on the school and major the new academy doesn’t need to be that good to outpace the current university system.  Most people coming out of the university today are probably less educated than high school graduates of the 1960s.  They are not well-read, they don’t understand the scientific method (unless they happen to graduate in STEM) and don’t know how to do serious academic research or write logically coherent papers.  Heck, even the professors seem to be less able to do serious academic work.


Does anyone actually want to hire a humanities degree holder?  I can’t imagine anyone looking at the current crop and wanting them in any part of the business.  They’ve mostly majored in being liberal, campus protesting, and becoming a litigation nightmare.  If there were alternatives, they’d be completely unemployable simply because even minimal job-related competence (doing dispassionate research, doing the work assigned, staying on topic, and knowing better than to be a walking, talking bag of grievances all of which are based on something the company could be sued for) those people would be snapped up.  Why hire a blue hair when Hillsdale grads can do better work and act like professional workers?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for September 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I tend to agree with one of the replies to @MonkeyWithAMachinegun ‘s post.  I find the most damning thing about the discourse on political violence to be the enablement and incitement and lack of contrition by the left to be far more concerning than the actual numbers for a couple of reasons.


First of all. Because it does absolutely nothing to slow tge growth of such violence.  If mainstream media sources are talking night after night about how conservatives are a threat to democracy, fascist, violent, and so on, this creates the radicalized people necessary (not necessarily sufficient, but necessary) to produce attacks.  It also creates the environment that enables those attacks by normalization of the idea that certain parts of the political spectrum are too radical to be dealt with through the normal process.  The modern cosmology of Fascism is that it occupies the place where Satan lives in the Christian world:  a vile creature to be shunned and defeated by any means at your disposal.


Second because it reveals just how much support there is on the left for this sort of thing.  Right wing rhetoric is sufficient to get advertisements pulled, people cancelled, and leave actors or other entertainers blackballed out of the industry.  Left wing incitement and victim blaming doesn’t have the same effect.  Kimmel basically victim-blamed the right.  His “punishment” was a week of leave and a ton of media attention and the full support of the rest of Hollywood.  Places like Bluesky are not losing advertisers, there are no calls for Facebook, Threads, TikTok, Bluesky, or Reddit to remove posts that victim blame or celebrate the Kirk assassination.  Radical left podcasts are still widely available, and to my knowledge none of them carry a content warning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it depends on the flavor of Protestant.  If you’re talking about low church Bible thumping evangelicals, I get it, but I think most high church Protestants respect the councils and the dogmas of the early church.  The Anglo Catholic movement actually accepts the dogmas and canons of the first seven councils so they’d be pretty in line with the Roman Church and the various Orthodox Churches.  Lutherans still informally accept quite a bit of that dogma through the Augustine Confessions and Book of Concord.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The reason I see it as pretty central is that basically the Trinity goes back pretty far in the historical record, and was dogmatically declared around the same time the New Testament was canonized.  It’s really hard to claim one without the other.  If you’re calling the New Testament without reservations The Canon as opposed to other writings, it’s really hard to consistently also say “but they are wrong about these other things.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think it would work unless you can seriously curtail the democracy and liberalism involved.  The general conceit of democracy is that people can and should be making all of these decisions themselves.  But it also means that those people will almost always vote for things that make them feel good rather than what is actually good for society.  The People, it seems tend to think like teenagers when the votes are aggregated, and thus you really can’t say no to allowing stupid people to ruin their lives or no to allowing whatever dangerous, destructive, or socially harmful thing that the public has decided it really wants to do.


In the past, limitations of technology and communication prevented things from getting too out of control.  In the past, you might not find out about an important bill until it had already passed.  You thus couldn’t weigh in on it.  If you did, you were limited to telephone calls (and you’d have to know the name of your congressman and how to find the switchboard number) or mail (which took longer and again required you to know who to address the letter to and to know the specific bill you want to pass or fail).  Now you have instant access to the information and you have access to those government officials in your social media, and thus weighing in is easy.


In everyday life as well, I think limited options because of technology were a benefit.  When you could only gamble in Vegas, in an actual casino, there were natural limits to how much gambling you could actually do.  Unless you live there, you can only afford to go there a few times a year, for a week or two at a time, and then you had to leave.  Now that the casino is in your pocket, blowing all of your money is easy.  You don’t need pants, let alone to fly to another city.  Anywhere you happen to be, if you have a phone with the app installed, that place is a casino.  And it’s the same with other things like shopping.  It’s much easier to overspend when everything on the planet is offered for sale in your pocket, any time and place you want to open Amazon.


I feel like really the biggest problem of modernity is the degree to which it allows people to engage in their Id with very few restraints and how good it is in removing both physical and social barriers that held those Id impulses in check.  I think this is the thing most people have a hard time dealing with.  Not that they cannot cognitively understand that some Vice is a bad idea.  People know gambling, porn, overspending, overeating, and overuse of screens are bad.  They just need a bit more of a natural limitation on getting access to those things.  Personally I think even for high functioning people, having natural friction around doing those kinds of things is helpful.  For lower functioning people, it’s a losing battle as they keep indulging in bad habits because it’s just so easy to do.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think it’s bad, it’s just that we’re used to it and it’s been run through the commercial food chain much more so than other foods.  If I want Mongolian cuisine, chances are im looking for a mom a pop restaurant, or buying the ingredients to make it myself.  If I want American food, I can go get McDonald’s hamburgers and fries that are made at an industrial scale out of cheap, shitty ingredients and made with indifference by a teenager with an attitude.  That’s not a fair comparison, you’d have to actually compare a top quality hamburger made in a mom and pop restaurant from high quality ingredients to the same in a Mongolian restaurant.  I think other than the familiar flavor profile from the burger, they’re probably about the same.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Problem one:  Italy does not believe it exists to spread Italian influence and culture.  There are no Italian missionaries spreading the message of Al dente pasta.  Islam is a missionary religion with a strong cultural belief in forcing others to adapt to their religion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly it’s because it wasn’t authentic in a sense.  They didn’t embrace the happy clappy because they thought it would make better Catholics, they kinda did it to appeal to outsiders.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m generally in favor of controlled legal immigration, but I just don’t understand the food and music angle.  Those things frankly don’t matter at all.  Like, okay, suppose I transport you to his nightmare alternative universe in which Americans have never tasted lasagna.  Okay, so is it that bad?  Is America truly worse off if we don’t have pasta?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No model is perfect, and im not aware of any uncontacted tribes that would answer for the control group.  Maybe isolated villages in Bhutan or Nepal or something.  Even then, they know modern civilization exists.  Even going back to early psychology is difficult because psychology itself is a modern concept— it started as a field in 1900 Or thereabouts, and we don’t have much before then except maybe someone occasionally notices people acting weird and records it or reports on it.  There’s not any clean data to be had, but I don’t think that means you can’t find hints by comparing different subcultures and the pathologies they tend to have or not have.


If “modern approaches to community” are causing unhappiness or causing relationships to break up, cultures that do otherwise are less likely to have those issues.  If the concept of “love marriages” breed narcissism and divorces, then there are other cultures that have arranged marriages (Orthdox Jews do, so do Hindus).  If there’s a positive effect in arranged marriages, it should show up.  If TV and screens cause short attention spans, we have plenty of places on earth that don’t have them.  Comparing those differences correcting for other confounding variables should give us hints about this kind of thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Couldn’t you answer the question by looking at communities that didn’t go down those roads.  Off the top of my head, any form of Anabaptist community, Orthodox Judaism, Hasidic Jews, or similar groups that chose not to go modern.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Underwater hockey has a difficulty with the underwater part, which requires special equipment and access to a pool.  I think 7s rugby is a good game, or maybe Aussie football.