The Data Made Us Do It There is no such thing as a "data-driven" decision Recovering from winter-time illness, I am returning to form on this SubStack by just reacting to the latest thing that caught my ire on the internet, this time the article Men Have Abandoned Marriage and Parenthood from the blog Graphs about
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Ghosts of an Undiscovered Country A review of "Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers" by Warren Wildwood The following is an excerpt from a book review published on the OGC SubStack reviewing "Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers" by Warren Wildwood. Back in the old days of YouTube, just before COVID, when the sides of
Adharmic Echoes: The Face of the Void Creatures roam the interwebs like spiders at night, crawling across your pillow and seeking a warm place to rest. Nestling up to your head to absorb your dream-heat, while others jump into the snoring pit of doom, absent-mindedly, nightmarishly munched, but in dreamland, a crunchy, consciously forbidden snack. People have
"It's just so very, very small" Contemplating the smallness of transgender genitals in the vastness of the cosmos In the infamous South Park episode, "Chinpokomon", a new Japanese cartoon craze sweeps America. While at first appearing as an incomprehensible anime show for kids, the parents realize that the characters are transmitting subliminal messages to their children
Woke: Collectivist or Individualist? A short debate A while ago reader Charles Pincourt contacted me with some thoughts on the nature of the “Woke” revolution and its challenge to liberalism and civilization. I found that we disagreed in ways that made for an interesting discussion, so we decided to turn the conversation into a
Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai, by Mishima Yukio "The approximation of all forms of sex to the trifling, if expensive, escapist pleasure that comes from taking [sleeping] pills may be called the most critical phenomenon of our time." Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai Mishima Yukio For Young Samurai Subscribe On Life After beginning life, people gradually
Live Your Own Truth: Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture It is vitally important that we learn how to once again "ground" ourselves. But we cannot do this with reason or science. We cannot do it with universals. The only way out is through. Critical theory. Post-modernism. Politically, these terms spark revulsion in many. They are looked upon as the
The Greatness of Simplicity An addendum by William George Jordan While working on writing “Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure” earlier this week, including thinking through its arguments on the value of simple over complex systems, I kept finding my memory niggled by an old speech/essay on simplicity that I recalled