—“Why do geniuses have a low EQ?”—
THAT’S A MISTAKE. You’re attributing a skill to a similarity. In other words, very smart people understand each other just as well as ordinary people understand each other just as well as very stupid people understand each other. But just as you can’t understand very smart people, they can’t necessarily understand you. There are a…
On the Future of The British Isles (if Not All Scandinavia)
Economic consumption is, like drugs, or religion, a comforting method of personal, familial, cultural, and political suicide. Some people think about their near term experiences, some about their children’s, some of their peoples long term horizons. (ie: the left, the libertarian, the right.) That which is unique about anglo civilization is incompatible with the faustian…
On Prostitution
(Because someone just asked.) (“Taking a position on sex workers” is an awkward turn of phrase. So I’ll instead give an opinion on natural law of prostitution.) 1 – As far as I know, since males must work for female services, and since, females (largely) decide, all male-female relationships consist of some sort of exchange.…
We All Make the Mistake of Harmony Rather than Reciprocity
Even though they are most like us, East Asians made a few mistakes in history – principally beginning with confucius not solving the problem of politics because it would be offensive. and worse, converting from their original empirical rule, to moral rule, when their civilization got so large that they overwhelmed their institutions. and worse,…
Animal Rights
1 – When we use the term ‘right’ like many terms, we conflate it with moral, legal, just, and a host of other terms that are reducible to “I just want it this way”. 2 – For a right to exist, two or more parties must enter into a contract of some sort whether private…