history – untethered

Re-run

This is from 2020. What started out as a story about a certain virus and the insanity it produced became a story about virality and the insanity it produces. It parodies another story by a familiar American author. Day of the Red Eye In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. RapperContinue reading “Re-run”

Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Practice

There’s an episode of the Simpsons where the family buys its first computer, prompting Homer at one point to say something like “don’t worry, the computer will think for us now”. Yet again the show proves prophetic. Science magazine on a recent study looking for ways to make computers think for us via AI: BeliefsContinue reading “Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Practice”

Noticing and Nothingness

Steve Sailer’s Lifetime Achievement Award I come to bury Sailer, and to praise him If you’re reading this you probably know who Steve Sailer is, but if you don’t he’s a former marketing executive whose interest in genuine racial diversity (as opposed to the “Diversity” of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”) led him into journalism inContinue reading “Noticing and Nothingness”

Follow the Money

The revolution will have to be monetized. Diversity is monetized because corporate America sees the growing non-white population as the future. Once the demographic shift in the US was set in motion, business had no choice but to pursue the new non-white consumer dollar. Its long-term planning necessarily became modeled on that population shift. ItContinue reading “Follow the Money”

New World Order

Kevin MacDonald quotes from evolutionary anthropologist John Tooby’s article about “coalitional instincts” in response this year’s “annual question” at Edge.org, “What Scientific Concept Should be More Widely Known” (emphasis added): Coalition-mindedness makes everyone, including scientists, far stupider in coalitional collectivities than as individuals. Paradoxically, a political party united by supernatural beliefs can revise its beliefs about economicsContinue reading “New World Order”

Plus ca change

From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: In my journey to Boston this year [1754] I met at New York with our new Governor, Mr. Morris… One afternoon in the height of this public quarrel we met in the street. “Franklin,” says he, “you must home with me and spend the evening; I am to haveContinue reading “Plus ca change”

The Magical, Mysterious, Absorptive Alchemy of Success

Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is…–The Rolling Stones Regarding this Freddy Gray post at TAC, I wouldn’t assume that today’s stenographers of the royal court aren’t correct about the perception, if not the truth, of current events as they will be viewed a generation on, at least here in the States.Continue reading “The Magical, Mysterious, Absorptive Alchemy of Success”