When someone uses nature, natural selection or evolution as the reason for something, my first question, with real curiosity, is “so who are you ok with letting die or suffer?” If you want to make nature your god, know that it is worse than any previous god you lost faith in. Selection necessarily involves killing …
Religion
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 …