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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 22, 2026

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But unfortunately I can't readily point towards a more effective strategy that he could implement on his lonesome.

You don't solve societal problems on your lonesome. You adapt to them. In the modern dating landscape, you either lean into the hypergamy and superficiality of it all, or you reach a mindset where you are okay with staying a virgin for a long time, potentially forever.

Neither is easy, obviously. If you are of a sufficiently analytical mind, you can't just turn that off on command and genuinely believe that everything is fine. But the other option is a degree of enlightenment that is likely only attainable by the few.

Much more likely then that you just kinda suffer from a lack of romance, sex, and community for the rest of your days.

That said, I think most of this pain will be directed inwards. It is very hard to do stuff in the real world when your need for community is unmet. You just don't have the energy. Much easier to rage on the internet. If anything this will probably just lead to more self harm amongst men, which I doubt society will care much about.

You adapt to them. In the modern dating landscape, you either lean into the hypergamy and superficiality of it all, or you reach a mindset where you are okay with staying a virgin for a long time, potentially forever.

The third option is you lash out at the system itself. For a lone wolf this won't be particularly impactful.

I mean, Clavicular is maybe the ur-example of "lean into the hypergamy and superficiality of it all," he's only twenty years old and is clearly depressed at the life he's now 'stuck' in (by his own doing, naturally). This won't hold over the long term.

Where do we go from here?

MY personal belief is that once we start to lose the Boomers, the primary bulwark against political changes in this country, a LOT of political options that were previously stymied will come on the table.

We might be able to limit how extreme those options end up being.

I don't see why women would want the status quo to change though. They benefit in the short term, and the long term damage is hard to anticipate. Especially so when anyone trying to educate about the downsides is shouted down as "attempting to control women's bodies". In a democracy, we do need the consent of both genders for a norm change to work.

It is also not entirely clear to me that there is a better system to swap to. The old one led to what we have now after all, and it seems fairly undeniable that a lot of people used to end up in bad marriages with people who didn't care much about them regardless.

My ongoing modest proposal is RETVRNing to 1993.

Females attending college en masse seems like the nexus of many issues.

That's where they get turned into lefties.

That's where they incur significant amounts of debt.

That's where they rack up a body count.

That's where they acquire inflated standards in mate choice.

It burns 4+ years of fertility.

In short, they become far less appealing as partners in most cases, on the back end.

So it stands to reason that making it harder for women (and people in general) to secure student loans would reduce their attendance rates and would organically, downstream of that, lead to more relationships, marriage, and children.

I could write a manifesto on that topic, but I wouldn't want to shoot anybody to get it attention.

That's where they get turned into lefties.

Probably not (see The Case Against Education). They were already lefties to begin with. Alexa, play the George Orwell quote.

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

My thesis is that they're just way more susceptible to virtually any ideological brainwashing, just as the Orwell quote implies.

And college is completely captured by lefties at every level, so, that's where the brainwashing pushes them.

College is in my view a large part of the problem. Social Media and Tiktok is another. Arguably that's the mechanism through which they police each others' behavior once they're out of college.

College is in my view a large part of the problem.

It's a nice thesis. It has the disadvantage of conflicting with empirical evidence, though.

Not the evidence I've seen.

Specifically, college educated womens' voting patterns (in the U.S.) vs. those of non-college educated women.

I would agree that their natural inclinations are towards the left, if anything.

Specifically, college educated womens' voting patterns (in the U.S.) vs. those of non-college educated women.

Surely you are smart enough to realize that these groups are not the same but for the college degree, or, to put it simply, that correlation does not imply causation?

I encourage you to see what Caplan writes on this in The Case Against Education. You can even feed the EPUB into your favorite LLM if you don't want to read it.

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