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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can aim for it, but the planet is finite, so im not convinced you can just make large amounts of everything available.  Take housing.  If you’re going to ensure everyone has access to a nice home of 3-4 bedrooms and maybe 1/8 an acre of land you are limited to the inhabitable land in the USA and even then you need to be near places with jobs.  You basically cannot do this.  You can maybe give everyone a car, or maybe cheap consumer goods.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean I don’t think he’s going to TACO there.  If he were, he would not be proudly shouting that he intends to do that.  He’s perhaps TACO over tariffs in the past, but this is different because he’s being very clear about what he intends to do, and he’s positioning the thing so that the west looks absolutely weak if they don’t force the straits open.  Add in that we’re mere months from midterms, and the public isn’t going to be patient if gas prices stay high, and inflation goes up by 10% in a month etc.  It’s a situation where if he doesn’t get a big win quickly, the whole thing can blow up in his face.  Backing down isn’t going to fix this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is a place where a lot of academics sort of create their own problems.  When they sort of hold out the idea that you have to be able to read dry academic texts and have a university degree to do real [subject] it creates two problems.


First, it opens the door to frauds who want to play fast and loose with facts in order to create pseudo-academic lite texts.  Most of the Pop-Physics and Pop-Philosophy stuff contains serious enough distortions that you are likely to end up with a false sense of how these subjects actually work.  A lot of woo has come out of pop physics books trying to explain quantum mechanics or astronomy, particularly around things like time travel or quantum mechanics  or space travel.  Michio Kakaku is simply terrible at telling people what physically is actually possible and realistic as a possible future.


Second, it creates a situation where most people think of those subjects as impossible to understand and study.  People think history is boring because they think it’s dry historical texts and dates.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So you deliberately destroy the economy so that nobody gets anything above bare survival?  The issue is that competition for resources in a situation where the people involved have enough differences to matter means that they become much more tribal than they would otherwise.  And as such it’s inevitable unless you find a way to always either have absolutely nothing available to fight over, or so many resources that everyone can have everything they want and still have enough left.  If you’re not in either of those conditions, you’re going to have tribalism.


Integration sort of worked in the 1960s because it was part of the American golden age in which everyone could reasonably expect that a modicum of effort would allow them to own a house and a car and their kids could go to an affordable college and land a white collar job.  In 2026, that’s no longer the case, homes are out of reach for most people, secure jobs are hard to get even as college becomes virtually unaffordable for most people.  In that Situation, it’s easy to fall into tribalism and work to make sure that whatever resources available go to people like you, rather than some other tribe.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see why you couldn’t have a situation like in Orthodox Christianity where national churches are granted a degree of autonomy in local matters and cultural practices while being obligated to uphold the things that the orthodox churches have declared dogma or required practices.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean there are Western cultures that are common to our shared cultural heritage.  Things like the Enlightenment ideals of thought (rationalism and empiricism) liberal democracy as ideal ways of making decisions.  If you don’t agree, just imagine someone choosing to do things the opposite way.  Perhaps they are a monarchist like Curtis Yarvin, or they decide to make major decisions by use of a set of Norse Runes, or they think liberalism and civil liberties and human rights are suspect.  Would such a person be able to do those things openly in polite society without triggering a huge backlash against themselves.  You wouldn’t want to see the CEO of your company using Tarot cards to decide on major strategic planning.   Yarvin is mostly an object of derision in those same polite society.


At some point, I think you reach critical mass where the groups who reject Western consensus end up being strong enough to make the assumptions of our culture no longer the consensus that you can assume most people around are on board with.  One Yarvin is a curiosity, 3 million Yarvinites in a state can affect the zeitgeist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced that multiculturalism doesn’t need some speech suppression, it can sort of coast in periods of prosperity without it, but when you create a situation where it’s obvious that there’s not enough goodies to give the majority of people the good life, it falls apart quickly, and even with speech controls in place it’s hard to keep tribalism at bay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Hamnet, infant mortality and attachment styles
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is true, but I also think that the modern relationship to feelings and especially trauma is likewise a sort of emotional luxury.  Just like you couldn’t really function if you fell to pieces when a child died young, you really can’t afford to feel negative emotions as strongly as modern people do simply because such events were common in those eras and there wasn’t a safety net for support.  If you fall apart when the crops fail or predators eat your sheep or you’re drafted for war you aren’t going to make it if such things make you fall apart.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It could also be that Iran is untrustworthy, thus negotiating with them isn’t useful.  Iran was not cooperative in nuclear inspections.  They funded Hamas and Hezbollah.  They don’t stop even when they’ve agreed to.  What is the point of extracting an agreement if you cannot trust the other side to actually do what they’ve agreed to do?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So fix those problems.  It’s like saying “well lines at the DMV are long, so we can’t require people to get a driver’s license before driving a car.”  That doesn’t follow.  What should happen is you hire people for the DMV offices, automate as much as possible so people can get licensed to drive.  Not being able to stop all murder is a terrible reason to legalize murder.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not really that convinced by the argument that these kinds of IDs are hard enough for legal Americans to get that we should somehow be aghast at the idea that someone would have to produce proof of citizenship and identity for voting.


For one thing, just going about modern life requires this sort of thing all the time.  You can’t open a bank account, drive a car, get a job, or get on an airplane without proving that you are who you say you are.  I can’t even walk into a casino without proving my identity and age.  Which brings up the question of exactly how people can go around and survive in 21st century America without having a valid ID in some form.  The biggest change here is that the ID would also have to prove citizenship.  This isn’t a big deal for the 99% of Americans with jobs and cars and bank accounts.  Most of them will have ID and while you might need some proof of citizenship, it’s not particularly difficult to do so.  And really I think a single passport card would actually eliminate the Pokémon problem simply because it’s one universally accepted card that any entity would accept as proof of identity and citizenship and so on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The American Renewal Act: A 127-Point Systems-Level Overhaul (Citizen Juries, 20% Market Cap, and a New Constitutional Anchor)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think something like this is absolutely a good thing.  The trouble with creating an agency is that it’s forever even if the issues the agency was created to oversee no longer exist.  It also creates a pretty strong hedge against mission creep and redundant oversight where two agencies are regulating the same sorts of issues.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Neither side is dealing honestly.  The pro-birthright position is just as unprincipled as the anti-birthright position.  The history of the 14th amendment has no provision for the idea of people coming to the United States specifically to have children within the borders who would thus be citizens.  The argument was that they had all these former slaves who had been born in the country and had lived there their entire lives.  The point was that they didn’t want these former slaves to be in legal limbo where they could work and pay taxes and so on without the protection of the Bill of Rights.  That’s why we have a fourteenth amendment.  Trying to shoehorn illegal immigration and birth tourism into a “slaves are citizens now” post civil war law that was written before global travel was plausible on the scale we have today.  Trying to use this amendment to create an immigration free-for-all where any person who gives birth here —even if they were only here for a day and only came so that baby would be born on American soil and thus be American— can have an American baby, and thus have a way to stay or return later is simply disingenuous.  This isn’t what the law was designed for.