Recent content by ultright

Hate them, or just recognize that most people are this way and giving them the vote was a mistake?

Graham seems to be thinking dramatically and pandering to two specific lobbies, one (Evangelicals) more than the other.

This seems to me to describe individualistic religions quite well. I am contendedly a nihilist, albeit a religious one.

There seems to be an assload of emailing going on at jobs. Not sure if people use it in their private lives. They prefer communications that are transient. Seems to put a finger on the paranoia behind this society. People trust text messages because they can delete them. They do not trust...

I wonder if this is actually so. People rebel against control structures, and manipulation leads to bad faith.

Interesting idea. I miss the old ezines but they seem to have been swallowed up by email newsletters.

Great factoids. It seems to me that like the media, Big Tech has picked a subset of the audience it can reliably use for statistics who are not relevant in real life. Unfortunately, the media uses them as a poll of what society at large is feeling.

https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2009/10/comScore-and-Starcom-USA-Release-Updated-Natural-Born-Clickers-Study-Showing-50-Percent-Drop-in-Number-of-U.S.-Internet-Users-Who-Click-on-Display-Ads

I know, perhaps the most un-PC topic possible except "legalize drunk driving" and "end diversity." Anyway... https://gwern.net/nicotine

To be fair, most industrialized countries seem to be having a bad year. China fakes its numbers, and Biden likes to introduce fake numbers then "correct" them later when the herd has thundered on to the next oasis.

Good idea. I forgot about Disqus. Here I be: https://disqus.com/by/brett_stevens/

He has a point, except that Leftism arises naturally in human groups, sort of like other degenerate behaviors. You suppress these in order to have a quality civilization.

It's an interesting idea but seems a bit extreme. No, under-100 IQ folks. Societies rise the more of those they remove. If you want to be Finland overnight, you gas everyone under 115 IQ points and see who can be useful, then keep those and send the rest away.

I think we have to reconsider meritocracy, or the idea that educating idiots makes them into geniuses.

I agree and would add that communication has not changed. What is great about forums these days is that we are off the radar as all the normies rush toward social media. The darkside of that is that it is harder to reach normies, but the plus side is that we are not associated with the source...