Negative Space: New Barbarism
- Innovation in a state of fear: the unintended? consequences of political correctness
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Is political correctness poised to literally kill minorities as it may already have killed women, because scientists avoid critical research in order to avoid social media mobs?
- Barbarism and the Global Village
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If we don’t protect our borders, we don’t protect our civilization. When Rome let the barbarians in, they became barbarians.
- Money Changes Everything: Empowering the vicious
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Barbarism empowers the rich, the powerful, the vicious, the strong. Civilization empowers everyone else. Gun control and centralized economies, darlings of the progressive left, have empowered the vicious since the beginning of time. The beltway crowd prefers no competition from people free to barter, or free to defend themselves.
- The new barbarism: A return to feudalism
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The progressive left seems to have no concept of what civilization is, and of what undergirds civilization.
- Science by consensus is barbarism
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The scientific method is pure, distilled civilization. It is completely unnatural.
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
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Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- Is the Catholic Church pro-human trafficking?
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“By their deeds shall they be known.” But by their deeds rather than their words, the Catholic Church is dangerously pro-human trafficking. And by elevating good intentions over deeds, they are falling dangerously into pagan thought.
- Media Scare Machine: The Sky is Falling
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The media never told us to hoard toilet paper or cancel flights. They just told us that everything was shutting down and that we’d die if we flew. Totally different things.
- Mongols and turnips: coronavirus roundup
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The Mongol and the Turnip farmer; Georgia on my mind; isolation causes death.
- The scientific creed
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If science is your religion, you have chosen the hardest religion of all. If science is your religion, you don’t prove yourself right. You prove yourself wrong.
- White Supremacy: The Reincarnation of Stephen Douglas
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The modern Democratic Party, and the left in general, seems to be reincarnating Stephen Douglas and other early Democrat defenders of slavery and white supremacy. “That’s mighty white of you,” they say, when blacks show independence and reason.
- Power Play 2020
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Frederik Pohl shows why science fiction authors aren’t any better at being futurists than anyone else. Hubris is a powerful drug.
- I have read a fiery gospel
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“Be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet.” Written a hundred and fifty-nine years ago today, this rousing abolitionist song remains a fiery call for freedom from tyranny.
- The Silver Blaze Media and the Gaslight Election
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This isn’t just the Gaslight election, it’s the Silver Blaze election.
- The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
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And even to this day, “a glorious victory for the forces of swiftness” is a catch-phrase in the house of the snail.
- Two weeks, and the madness of experts
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The scientific method is the heart of the constitution and conservative philosophy.
- Slavery is barbarism
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Of course progressives believe slavery is a net economic positive. When the left talks rights, they’re talking about the power of government to force people to both provide something and to deny it.
- Childish things: the decline of toys and the fall of man
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The old admonishment to put away childish things misses, in a very important sense, a critical point: we can never put away childish things. The way we interact with toys as children is how we interact with life as adults. If your toys have not taught you to sift evidence, weigh risks, and make decisions, the world becomes a very frightening place.
- Peace is a deal
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Afghanistan isn’t the first time the left has denigrated the idea of making deals for peace. The left has never wanted to negotiate peace in the Middle East or elsewhere. They’ve always preferred unilateral disarmament. But without deals for peace, what we get is Afghanistan. Peace is always a deal. The absence of deals is barbarism.
- That’s a man, baby: Your fantasy is hurting people
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We are beating and mutilating children in the name of tolerance. There will come a time when our denial of biological reality is recognized as a mass hysteria, when child castration is recognized as the barbarity that it is.
- The left says gays are pedophiles
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April is national Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the Left seems to be taking every opportunity to mainstream child abuse. Like every other vulnerable community the Left claims to support, the Left believes that gays and the LGBT community are inferior and criminal.
- Revolution: Home Refrigeration
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Nasty, brutish, and short. Unreliable power is unreliable civilization. When advocates of unreliable energy say that Americans must learn to do without, they rarely say what we’re supposed to do without.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1954: Entropy and Anti-Entropy
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In 1954, Norbert Wiener warned us about Twitter and other forms of social media, about the breakdown of the scientific method, and about the government funding capture of scientific progress.
- Our Cybernetic Future 2023: Entropy in Action
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Studying the past, we can improve the future. Studying the futurists of the past, we can learn the tools to improve the future.
- The Modern Lobotomy: Whitewashing Child Mutilation
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Child mutilation in the service of gender quackery is something that future generations will look back on in horror, much as we today look back on the lobotomy.
- Lazlo Hollyfeld on the electric car
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The problems with electric cars are insurmountable without completely new battery technology that no one who wants to mandate battery-powered cars is looking for. Almost as if the real purpose of electric cars is not transportation, but anti-transportation.
