I love my day job. When I speak with very close friends about it, it’s when i’m down. With others, it’s usually details and economics. but the core of it that I want to bring out more– I love my job. I wonder if I can communicate why. The thing I love most about it …
Communities
Natalism
If you’re a young parent, you’re more likely to scar your children with your psychological issues that might have had time to resolve if you had children later, when you’re likely wiser and calmer. The young parents who get this mature rapidly, and become great parents. In a lot of trad circles, they get this …
The Virgin Evolved Ape vs The Chad Cosmic
Sharp Dichotomies for Thee, But Not For Me? ☸ I’m going to start by making a seemingly disconnected point: Humans are not “built” for physical fights. All fighting features/instincts are tacked on to a *comically* fragile body, and it remains that way no matter what you do. Learn to fight because you need it or …
Bad Citizen, Good Complainer
Note: this was originally a thread posted by me during the peak of COVID, in 2021 How disgustingly entitled is it to literally *mass delete* a contact tracing app (Aarogya Setu) and not use it for *a whole year* because “it’s a fascist data collection system for bhakts” and then be surprised about surges in …
Individualism and India
Individualism has a surprisingly high LD50. Which is why it is so convenient that the East needs to learn only one value from the west to see prosperity beyond anything they achieved even in history: Individualism . a.k.a the ability and willingness to leave others the alone, to admire ambition and achievement, to venture to …
Bisexuality
A big subconscious reason behind bisexual “erasure” is that without social pressure and resentment.. bisexuality is pure upside, and zero downside. This is intolerable to most people. It not only negates sexual orientation, it also negates spaces, habits, control and predictability. A bisexual individual often comfortably inhabits both male and female spaces and discourse. In …
The “Masculinity Crisis”, Its Vultures and Bleeding Hearts
I keep seeing questions like this: “masculinity is in crisis. what should we do about it?”“who should we give men as examples of healthy masculinity?”“now that we’ve deconstructed/destroyed masculinity, what should take its place?” And the unpleasant answer is:Nothing. Nobody. Just pull the plug. Where is the growth or selection from crisis if you’re supplying …
Toughness and Empathy
If you were able to mind-over-matter something, to push your body’s limits, perform some feat of resilience or training, overcome great pain, then your body was always capable of it. You were gifted with it, it’s not something you should take full credit for. If you are disabled, and you managed to overcome that by …
Manners
Why are you so prickly? Your life would be 10x easier, happier, better vibed, if you had manners, and you would find it trivial and *fun* to learn if you stopped trying to find excuses for why you can’t or don’t need to learn them. manners, its subset, politeness, and their superset, communications skills, aren’t …
The Internet: What I Learned the Hard Way
The ultimate metric for anything on the internet is this: the health and prosperity of the communities you build. That is the point of the internet. It is the only point of the internet. It is the only thing it does better than the real world. Every other metric and buzzword you know is a …