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 …
Religion
Deus ex Natura
When someone uses nature, their own or in the abstract or a dispassionate concept of evolution as the reason for something drastic, my first question, with real curiosity, is “whose death or suffering are you willing to accept on their behalf, whose death and suffering do you support?” If you want to make Nature your …
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 …
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 …
The Humble Axiom
What do religion, truth and lies, philosophy, fiction and math, intellectuals, journalism, propaganda, cults, politics and mental health have in common? The humble axiom. And its errant son, the profound insight. All rationality, all reasoning, all the things that a human mind can think– are bounded. That means that they work only within the boundaries …