hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6d ago
In mammal and bird species, juvenile masculinization is a very common phenomenon in species where 'mating too early' is a serious issue on the population level, reaching its apogee in spider monkeys and hyenas(where it's looped back around to... causing serious issues on the population level for other reasons). Humans notably don't do this by default, but it should be unsurprising as a result of male sexuality fear.
That humans are incapable of doing this should also be unsurprising.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
No.
The decay of Anglosphere democracies will only be rectified when the still-civilized parts of the population do to them what mohammedans are slowly but surely doing to France, Sweden, etc. There is no hope for this in the UK and in South Africa this will only occur after balkanization.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I mean, autism seems to reduce the odds of forming a stable nuclear family.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Distributism as a full scale alternative to socialism/capitalism is selling a bill of goods, and more of a feature of neodistributism than chesterbelloc(indeed continental contemporaries attempting this saw themselves as doing something different).
But while neo-distributists have nothing useful to say about running a whole economy, their discussion around the conditions pertaining to small scale capitalism are very interesting. And that smaller scale refugia is necessary to build the basis for a societal rebuild. There are entire industries dominated by cultural enemies which cannot simply be dispensed from, even as their alt version never needs to rise above the ideologically driven niche- and ideologically driven niche capitalism at small scale is the version of distributism advocated by most of the neo-distributists, with the Belloc version rural by necessity- unlike Medaille’s theories.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for middle aged men whose mistresses turned out to be jailbait(especially not 14 year old jailbait), but going out with one involves going far enough out of a 14 year old’s way- bearing in mind that she couldn’t drive and sharply limited independence was pretty normal at that age- that it’s difficult to believe her parents didn’t know.
Hilaire Belloc was a British Catholic reactionary intellectual from the interwar era- in other words, from the same milieu and basic worldview as JRR Tolkien, GK Chesterton(with whom he cooperated on his vision of distributism), etc, and his vision shares the expected blindspots of such thinkers- that is, it's not very well suited to modern industrial society, because it's agrarian, ruralist, and asystematic in approach due to the aim of preserving traditional, and by that point more or less dead, social structures. John C Medaille is an academic economist or philosopher or something, it's hard to tell(he doesn't have an advanced degree and the University of Dallas plays kind of fast and loose with the separation between the two), who attempts to bastardize the theory into a modern industrial society compatible version, which of course in practice would at broad enough scale probably reduce into vanguard party socialism. He does, however, put together an interesting framework for small scale and less profit-oriented businesses to compete in the modern USA, and can point to a few small scale successes, mostly on the scale of reviving main street in singular small towns and the like.
Where this gets interesting is applying his ideas to the sorts of industries which hold back attempts at building genuine parallel societies, a la the Gab endgoal. Like it or not a parallel society in the 2020's USA needs an alternative to big tech, hollywood, etc, and 'just be Amish' is unworkable. The traditionalist project can only succeed by forming a parallel society which takes over the American mainstream through natural population growth, like what mohammedans are doing to some Euro countries. Ideologically driven niche coordination problems tacking into the winds of economic rationality are literally the problem. Once that precondition is solved and begins achieving broader adoption it generates a positive feedback loop which of its own volition begins to purify the stratum embracing it of modernist influences, and superior social function increases the appeal still further, sort of like how the gradient of Jewish practice in Israel drags the entire country increasingly to the right. Yes it takes time and needs kinks ironed out but traditional structures can only come about through traditional, not revolutionary, means.
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