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				Wellness Wednesday for May 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Called it, you're a Brahmin.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are you Indian?  I feel like every user on here who is young and doing some startup thing is Indian.  I'm not sure why that is but it's an intersection phenomenon.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was pretty disappointed by the lack of actual debate as well.  Yarvin put forth some assertions that she could have contested, but she instead seemed to be trying to avoid legitimizing his ideas by treating them as beneath her consideration.  I wonder if she knows that that cat is already out of the bag.  And she seemed to be either be speaking in vague meaningless generalities the whole time, or she was speaking academic/Cathedral jargon (cf. Catholic theological jargon).


Also, maybe just personal taste, but man, her voice and tone were just incredibly grating.  She has some sort of West Coast uptalk accent (I kept thinking "ermahgerd") and her constant unprovoked sassy black girl put-downs really dragged the whole thing down and were kind of embarrassing to listen to. Just sounded really arrogant and scolding. Really off-putting.


Yarvin IMO only did "okay" himself.  To be fair it was hard to pin down what Allen was saying, but he meandered a lot and his points were probably hard to understand for people unfamiliar with his writing.  At one point he tried to make some point about identical twins being equal in moral worth as some sort of gotcha, and the even the moderator was so confused he asked for clarification.  Silver lining was that his speaking ability seems to have improved.  Last time I heard him on a podcast I had to turn it off because there were so many "ummms" and "uhhhs."


Overall, pretty weak showing for debate between a professor from the World's Greatest Center of Learning and the Prince of Dark Elves.  I suspect they chose a black woman to trigger audience programming about race/sexism in order to taint the debate, because she clearly wasn't chosen for debate skill.  I'd much rather have watched Yarvin debated some highly competent old white professor but maybe Yarvin doesn't have those anymore.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Curtis Yarvin debated Danielle Allen, a Harvard professor, last week.  Did anyone here listen to the debate?  What were your thoughts?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not sure, but I knew I wasn't imagining it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your okcupid URL links to "nice hat.". I'm having deja vu...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
FWIW, my experience as a man was more of quiet resignation.  When I was dating, I was resigned to marrying someone with a "body count" since well-adjusted women who were at least slightly attractive without one were vanishingly rare.  If asked I would've said that I was not interested in marrying someone with many previous sex partners, but that wasn't because I was try to flex in front of the boys, it was really how I felt.  I have a pretty "conservative" personality though, I have strong feelings on the "Sanctity/Degradation" moral axis and I have strong "disgust" reaction. So I may be an outlier.


In private conversations with very close friends, I would often see a bit of what you're describing though.  They didn't care that much about her past.  They just didn't want to be seen as a cuck who married a slut, so as long as her past escapades were never revealed, it was more or less okay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Ship of Theseus" existential, not "Destruction of Carthage" existential.  Mass immigration and erosion of the civil religion threaten to transform the United States into something unrecognizable.  That already happened once with Ellis Island immigration, and it is currently threatening to happen again as a consequence of the 60s cultural revolution.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Hopefully he enjoyed the assault more than you were upset by it, thus increasing the net happiness in the world.




Caught me off guard and made me chuckle.  Impressive, very nice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


pierced septums




Truly repulsive. The small ones make me constantly want to wipe their nose.  Like a small booger.  Gross.




tongues




Probably severe daddy issues and or some sort of drug problem.  Also I assume they suck dick.




gauges




Disgusting and... confusing?  I have no idea why people do this.  Piercings are a sort of jewelry, kind of like a ring or necklace, I guess.  But gauges are ugly disks that stretch and distort a very visible part of your head?  Why?  Making yourself ugly for "fuck you" shock value?  If so, pretty cringe.




nose studs/belly button piercings




Trying too hard.  You can look edgy or interesting just by dressing better.




earrings




Tiny ones are cute, preferably something simple or whimsical.  Bigger ones are meh unless it's part of your overall aesthetic.




tattoos




Nearly always horrible, and now so mainstream that even the "good" ones are pretty mundane.  Might work if you're a career criminal.


I was raised middle class in the South where, besides earrings, none of that stuff was done.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Okay, fair enough.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You forgot massive self-inflicted economic damage (inflation, shuttered businesses, layoffs) caused by the lockdown ands insane money printing.  All for basically nothing other tha our leaders indulging their "don't just stand there, do something!!!" impulse.  I think about that every few days and I'm still angry about it.  Really fucked up my plans, and I think I got off better than most.


Oh, and the insane powegrabs by literal-whos at all levels of federal, state, and city bureaucracy.  Pencil necked losers in gubmint jobs suddenly issuing edicts about what free citizens of republic can and cannot do.  And people obeyed.  I will never be able to unsee that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You really think the average trucker in Iowa opposes the pronoun people because of this "telos" stuff?




Yes, but as the poster you're replying to pointed out, he wouldn't say it that way. He believes in human "nature" and that human beings have different "purposes" or roles depending on their nature (i.e. a teleogical belief).  But he doesn't know what "telos" is, so he would just say:




'drop your pants in front of a mirror- you see a penis? Yeah, it means you have to be male. It doesn't matter if you're sure you'd rather be a girl. Sometimes you have to do the things you have to do.'




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One of the GOATs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Christ in the Americas, a high school history textbook for Catholic students.  It's a pro-Catholic telling of North and South Americans history.  Columbus is portrayed as a good man with flaws.  Cortes is portrayed as a champion of order and goodness, a sort of crusader king.  Aztec nobles are portrayed as blood drinking demon worshipers (Aztec deities are referred to as "the devil gods") who oppress the borderline-enslaved peasant masses.  St Brendan the Navigator is claimed to have probably visited Newfoundland.  The writing is definitely aimed at high school kids, but the narrative is compelling.  It's kind of like reading an action novel.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For me personally, good examples would be Snow Crash, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and a Confederacy of Dunces.  All three were just a pleasure to read.  For something more niche, I really enjoy reading almost anything written by G.K. Chesterton. His prose is very good and I never get tired of his irony.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 11, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hey, The Motte. Recommend us some books that are fun to read and that aren't about the destination, but the journey.  Books that delight the reader with clever turns of phrase, witty jokes or badass scenes every few pages.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 5, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


conveniently forget that Jesus said that it's easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven (how convenient that my new religion that is supposed to save me from the problems of modernity doesn't require me to give up the material trappings of that same system)




Nitpick since it's irrelevant to your main point. As I understand it, the church threaded this needle by differentiating between the not-intrinsically-evil state of merely "possessing material wealth" and the intrinsically evil state of "being possessed by ones material wealth," i.e. not being "poor in spirit."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The arguing is what drives me nuts.  It's surely karma for my behavior at that age.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think some kids/families are just biologically different.  When any of my kids were under 4, I was nervous when we hit a stretch of highways with more than 30 minutes until the next gas station.  Some people just gotta go when they gotta go.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've read that the reason Trump's impact on Canada was a disaster was that there is no analog to blood-and-soil MAGA voters there, only what would be called in America progressives and "RINOs"/"boomercons".   Is that why Trump has damaged conservatives in Australia?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for April 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm disappointed that I missed @coffee_enjoyer 's post on audience manipulation in Adolescence.  It vindicates an intuition that I've long held (since high school at least) that the average person is completely defenseless and unaware of the psychological damage that is being done to them by popular media.  It's the mental equivalent of being a radium dial painter or a pre-modern lead smelter.


Another poster in that thread asked you for your research notes.  Do you know of any accessible articles or books on this subject that I could share with normie friends and family?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not a rhetorical question -- do many Australians know who Tucker is?  And do many Australians care what he thinks?  I thought he was only relevant in American politics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Don't feel too bad, I (incorrectly) referenced @Hoffmeister25 a progressive in a post from a few years ago.  I think his criticisms of his right-wing fellow travelers are just memorable and incisive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


little patience for the trad LARPing that some of the less well-thought-out posters here seem to embody




I genuinely have no idea what sort of Motte user this refers to.  I'd like to ask for examples, but I don't want to start a shitstorm.  I see tons of trad LARPers on Twitter so I think I know the type you're references.   We have had indeed had some "trad" edgelords on here in the past, but the most trad/socialcons here these days seem to actually be in committed monogamous relationships, have several children, and regularly attend some form of Christian religious service.  One can of course quibble over the line between LARPing and authentic living, but that's a general problem in the 21st century, not one that's limited to trad right-wingers.