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 …
culture
Scale, and The Legacy of Slavery
A lot of discussions around big topics seem to forget that a majority of the “great” things done in the past were only possible because of brutal slavery. We slowly realized slavery is evil, but inherited systems that need it, so, shoehorned modernity into that framework. It is difficult to overstate just how much depended …
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 …
Ruining Dogs
What have we done to man’s best friend? We confine them to apartments and our busy schedules– we rationalize it as a better life. We forcefully excise an entire organ system before they have even grown, the vital organ that supplies a mammal’s most important hormones and modulates their growth, vitality, moods and desires– we …
The Wasted Potential of Villains
I wish more movies & shows steelmanned their villains. i.e made them heroes in every way on the other side of the fence, rather than the same old boring “the world is grey and complex” or “humanize/intellectualize the bad guy” or childhood trauma stuff. For example: All these shows can seriously strengthen their case by …
Nutrition in India
The historical devastation of India has left many Indians believing we’re naturally small-made, injury-prone & needing diets, herbs, medication and monkishness. And that if something in our last 300 years made us evolve this way, then it is our fate to stay this way. We matter-of-factly say things like “Indians have bad knees”. In reality, …