Paleo Retiree writes:
- Fake hate crime du jour.
- Good to see that someone’s keeping track.
- In a world of Trumpism vs. Clintonism, which will be the party of the 1%?
- Charles Koch prefers Hillary to any of the Repubs. Will the “the Koches are the Devil” crowd now start dissing Hillary?
- Why is Africa so poor?
- How much of a Nazi was modernist architecture god Philip Johnson?
- Steve Sailer makes some Sailerian sense of what’s going on in San Francisco. Many good comments here.
- Time to forgive all student debt?
- Bathroom riots.
- Was partygirl-feminist icon Helen Gurley Brown really her husband’s creation?
- Camille Paglia’s latest is a lively one.
- Mencius Moldbug signs off. Talk about influential! I’m still patting myself on the back for having gotten him started with blogging in the first place.
- Screenwriting legend John Milius spits on 3-act structure.
- Looking back on a legend.
- Fred Reed on “cognitive stratification” and minimum-wage laws.
- A great interview with Germany’s Frauke Petry, my current favorite politician.
- Prince’s (alleged) drug dealer says he thought Prince was a really nice guy.
- Don’t forget to visit our NSFW Tumblr blog, where some of us share some of the kooky things that get our pulses racing.
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
It’s pretty amazing how influential Mencius turned out to be, and for the fact that you pretty much got him blogging. I remember his commenting on 2Blowhards and that specific first post of his. I think he’s full of shit, personally, ha, but he’s interesting as a phenomenon.
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He’s certainly been quite a phenom.
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Sailer, Paglia, Reed, Milius . . . .
An interesting assortment. One thing they seem to have loosely in common is a sense of . . . what? . . . the tragic? Hard realism?
Since we are built to make meaning, we have a tendency to invest complex and uncertain events with all kinds of unearned privilege–heroic, moral, black-and-white, right-and-wrong. That’s who we are, and it beats staring into the void 24/7.
Still, it’s nice to be reminded sometimes that a void there is, and not everything is able to be boiled down to platitudes. It’s like how Sailer has written so well about how counter-intuitive it is for people to accept marginal thinking, preferring the comfort of an everlasting solution that is Good for All and All TIme. And in Milius’s disdain for the three act convention. And in Reed’s bracing assertions about the need to deal with cognitive differences.
As for Moldbug, I reluctantly acknowledge that he is to some extent cut from the same cloth, and respect that he got his start at 2Blowhards. Still, Moldbug is better on tap than on top and if his revolution happens you will be held partly responsible.
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