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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think I’d make any changes other than require the person who files the divorce to have an actual cause — cheating, abuse, neglect, addiction, etc. before they can just file the papers and court-fuck the other person out of a good deal of the family assets.  Maybe I’d require some evidence that said party tried to work out the differences that exist.  I don’t see that as making a woman property, maybe you do, I don’t know.  I see it as providing the stability for the family that allows for having and raising healthy children, knowing that you aren’t one lost job or ten pound weight gain away from losing your family.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is true, and honestly I think the best thing is to simply pick a level of technology use that fits.  I mean honestly other than this place and I’m trying to learn to blog, I mostly limit my internet to radio and podcasts.  It’s actually an improvement over indiscriminate of the internet.  And it started from reading about live in the 1940s and following a few video blogs about people trying to live life for a week or a month as if it were 1942 (in Britain).  I tried it out because I thought I was using the internet too much, and tbh it is an interesting experiment because it has improved my life in ways I didn’t expect.


If you don’t want that, I suppose you could go more modern.  But even simple things like having one TV and one tower style computer where you do all the internet stuff and keep it in a public place in the home would probably work.  It’s what happened in 1990.  It was pretty good.


If anyone here wants the complete story I’d be willing to do an effort post on the experience and the things that it changed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think a lot of it is that conservative politics is basically defense.  A reactionary party is something different trying to remove a progressive idea and replace it with something that was common in the past.  No one can win a game by just defense, so of course in a contest between progressive ideas trying to make a change and conservative values trying to say no.  A progressive agenda that wins once is going to be ahead of a conservative agenda that prevents 99% of those progressive ideas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If their kids are notably better off, mentally healthy, successful, healthier, and more socially active than their smart-phone counterparts, people will eventually jump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean define “better”, because I’m generally social media negative and I don’t see it making life better in any sense that I can consider “the good life” as it existed in the before times.  Kids don’t seem to spend as much time really socializing offline, playing pickup games, having healthy hobbies, and so on.  Even adults, a lot of times they don’t spend time talking to other adults in work downtime, they are generally in their phones doing some form of social media or games.  How is that a better life?  How is a loneliness epidemic good for American society?  How is it good for kids or adults to get less exercise, spend less time socializing, etc?


To me the good life is one that’s fairly simple and balanced.  A person should be spending time with others, spend time being active, have creative hobbies, and have a good enough job to live on.  The phone seems to eat most of the non-working hours for a good number of people around me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The issues would be mostly in work arounds which both the kids and the companies would want to subvert.  If you trust a kid to not immediately try something like that, you’re not around many kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The chattel thing is overwrought imo.  But I think as policy, it’s rather better to target tge things that create stable and healthy societies rather than just “hedonistic capitalist consumption” as the end game.  I don’t think anyone wants to be chattel in any sense. Heck, most people don’t want jobs, or to pay taxes, or to be governed by laws or institutions.  The human being is an anarchist at heart, as can be seen by observing small children.


Of course the problem here is that a society run in that manner will very quickly become a society that nobody wants to live in.  A society in which marriage is easier to end than most business contracts is one in which nobody wants to marry, and even among those who do, would be somewhat reluctant to have kids because they rightly worry that the marriage that makes the family stable enough to have children is not stable at all.


This isn’t much different from other problems.  When a society decides that it wants to give support to people who don’t want to work, it finds it difficult to maintain itself.  Nobody wants to clean sewers or pick up trash or work in a warehouse.  Unless hunger compels them, those jobs won’t be filled.  But if those jobs are not filled, you’ll live surrounded by garbage and sewage and the diseases that come from living in filth.  If you decide you don’t want taxes, you will live cheaper, but there’s no police to call, the roads are not paved, and if some other country invades, it’s down to you and your neighbors to fend those people off.


Living in a civilization requires trade offs.  And you can’t just think about it as just “I don’t want that restriction,” but in terms of what life wou be like when that restriction is gone for everyone.  And I think we see the results.  Fewer children, fewer families, and more loneliness is what you get.  Is that a reasonable trade for the ability to dump your husband anytime you feel like it?  I think I want a society with stable families and plenty of kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m going to level with you on my sense of this.  I think Ukraine and Iran are both opening shots of a soon to be much much bigger war.  The same characters are involved in all of them — USA and somewhat European powers, and Russia, China, and Iran.  The goal is more or less to reduce capacity for the RCI bloc to project power.  So far, you are correct that it’s a loss, but I don’t think it will stay that way.  Keep in mind that most conflicts go on for years so knowing how it’s going in two weeks is impossible.


I do think the war is necessary in the sense that unless the world understands that when we threaten, we not only mean it, but will destroy things, and remove leaders, then it creates the idea in most states heads that we are paper tigers.  We either prove that we can and will back up our will with force, or we end up having to fight more often because the rogue states are not afraid to challenge us or attack our Allie’s. If Trump has done one thing for American military, it’s that because he’s not afraid to use the military, people understand that it’s a real fighting force, and that if you mess with us, you’ll be hurt.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see why video generation is a canary.  The ideal use case for AI is in business applications, not generating weird videos of copyrighted characters doing random things.  Sora was at best a sort of novelty act, something to show off the potential of a technology, much like the chatbots.  When even non-tech people are able to use it, and do kind of cool stuff with it, it generates demand for the product in other contexts.  Getting sora to generate Garfield in a fighter jet, eating sushi in seconds puts it in the heads of people making business decisions that AI can do a lot of creative and inventive things quickly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I kind of agree, though I’ll add that things like electricity, printing presses, the steam engine (which was a Greek toy in the classical era).  Its future will depend on whether or not someone figures out what to do with it, and there are millions trying.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean I’d buy it if there were widespread interest in the kind of politics that ordinary people could understand and affect them much more than the federal government issues that people spend time arguing about.  Nobody cares about the school board meetings, zoning committees, local or state government.  They argue about stuff that they have no control over, and they never bother to do anything to actually understand the situation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not against people making their own choices.  To be clear, I think the best model in the entire affair was Sweden who didn’t enforce laws forcing people indoors and forcing businesses to close.  Such things are possible— give people proper information and the tools they need and they will find their own balance.  If you live with someone at risk, the strongest measures make sense.  If you’re a 21 year old co-Ed living in a college dorm, you can do anything you want without too much worry.    And you can easily set yourself up to prioritize one thing (like your business) or another (your personal safety).  We do this all the time, in pretty much every other context.


But the idea of the state enforcing the choice, the state deciding what I can do with my time, where I may shop, work and play is not freedom and in fact pretty tyrannical.  Free people do not need permission from the state to move about, to work, play, socialize, or shop.  The state, in a free society must get permission from the people to place restrictions on the people. The state doesn’t get to just decide by fiat that something is so dangerous that they get to decide what the people get to do until the state decides the danger is past.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To add to your first point, the third factor of most successful movements is that you can reduce the philosophy or economic system or social movement to some single sentence meme.  In religion, you get things like 5 pillars of Islam, 5 Solas of Calvinism, the Buddhist Noble Truths.  In politics, it’s stuff like slogans (in Marxism it’s “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, in Woke it’s generally “Love is love.”). Or maybe some simple that you can spend on a poster or meme or in an elevator pitch.  Nuance is poison to the popularity as it makes it hard for a person to easily understand and explain it to others.  Love is Love is easy to understand and explain, it fits on a poster.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you’re correct that the claims of “temporary measures” was why people didn’t rebel.  It’s how most tyrannies begin.  No dictator has ever marched to the steps of his Capitol claiming that he’s going to permanently end all civil rights and liberties, it’s always claimed as a temporary measure needed to meet some crisis and of course everyone should go along until the danger is passed.  Humans are simply not built for recognizing that first step as the danger it is.  I think most of it goes back to our beginning as humans in tribes.  A claim of lions in the bushes turns off the rational brain and moves humans back to Stone Age tribes where the strong guy will save us if we do exactly what they say.


It’s one reason I am democracy skeptical.  Most humans are better off being a follower and not suited at all to lead or build or invent.  We are 90% peasants and a couple of inventors and thinkers and leaders.  Why keep asking people to participate if they cannot understand the simple stuff?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can aim for it, but the planet is finite, so im not convinced you can just make large amounts of everything available.  Take housing.  If you’re going to ensure everyone has access to a nice home of 3-4 bedrooms and maybe 1/8 an acre of land you are limited to the inhabitable land in the USA and even then you need to be near places with jobs.  You basically cannot do this.  You can maybe give everyone a car, or maybe cheap consumer goods.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean I don’t think he’s going to TACO there.  If he were, he would not be proudly shouting that he intends to do that.  He’s perhaps TACO over tariffs in the past, but this is different because he’s being very clear about what he intends to do, and he’s positioning the thing so that the west looks absolutely weak if they don’t force the straits open.  Add in that we’re mere months from midterms, and the public isn’t going to be patient if gas prices stay high, and inflation goes up by 10% in a month etc.  It’s a situation where if he doesn’t get a big win quickly, the whole thing can blow up in his face.  Backing down isn’t going to fix this.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is a place where a lot of academics sort of create their own problems.  When they sort of hold out the idea that you have to be able to read dry academic texts and have a university degree to do real [subject] it creates two problems.


First, it opens the door to frauds who want to play fast and loose with facts in order to create pseudo-academic lite texts.  Most of the Pop-Physics and Pop-Philosophy stuff contains serious enough distortions that you are likely to end up with a false sense of how these subjects actually work.  A lot of woo has come out of pop physics books trying to explain quantum mechanics or astronomy, particularly around things like time travel or quantum mechanics  or space travel.  Michio Kakaku is simply terrible at telling people what physically is actually possible and realistic as a possible future.


Second, it creates a situation where most people think of those subjects as impossible to understand and study.  People think history is boring because they think it’s dry historical texts and dates.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So you deliberately destroy the economy so that nobody gets anything above bare survival?  The issue is that competition for resources in a situation where the people involved have enough differences to matter means that they become much more tribal than they would otherwise.  And as such it’s inevitable unless you find a way to always either have absolutely nothing available to fight over, or so many resources that everyone can have everything they want and still have enough left.  If you’re not in either of those conditions, you’re going to have tribalism.


Integration sort of worked in the 1960s because it was part of the American golden age in which everyone could reasonably expect that a modicum of effort would allow them to own a house and a car and their kids could go to an affordable college and land a white collar job.  In 2026, that’s no longer the case, homes are out of reach for most people, secure jobs are hard to get even as college becomes virtually unaffordable for most people.  In that Situation, it’s easy to fall into tribalism and work to make sure that whatever resources available go to people like you, rather than some other tribe.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see why you couldn’t have a situation like in Orthodox Christianity where national churches are granted a degree of autonomy in local matters and cultural practices while being obligated to uphold the things that the orthodox churches have declared dogma or required practices.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean there are Western cultures that are common to our shared cultural heritage.  Things like the Enlightenment ideals of thought (rationalism and empiricism) liberal democracy as ideal ways of making decisions.  If you don’t agree, just imagine someone choosing to do things the opposite way.  Perhaps they are a monarchist like Curtis Yarvin, or they decide to make major decisions by use of a set of Norse Runes, or they think liberalism and civil liberties and human rights are suspect.  Would such a person be able to do those things openly in polite society without triggering a huge backlash against themselves.  You wouldn’t want to see the CEO of your company using Tarot cards to decide on major strategic planning.   Yarvin is mostly an object of derision in those same polite society.


At some point, I think you reach critical mass where the groups who reject Western consensus end up being strong enough to make the assumptions of our culture no longer the consensus that you can assume most people around are on board with.  One Yarvin is a curiosity, 3 million Yarvinites in a state can affect the zeitgeist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced that multiculturalism doesn’t need some speech suppression, it can sort of coast in periods of prosperity without it, but when you create a situation where it’s obvious that there’s not enough goodies to give the majority of people the good life, it falls apart quickly, and even with speech controls in place it’s hard to keep tribalism at bay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I think this is true, but I also think that the modern relationship to feelings and especially trauma is likewise a sort of emotional luxury.  Just like you couldn’t really function if you fell to pieces when a child died young, you really can’t afford to feel negative emotions as strongly as modern people do simply because such events were common in those eras and there wasn’t a safety net for support.  If you fall apart when the crops fail or predators eat your sheep or you’re drafted for war you aren’t going to make it if such things make you fall apart.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It could also be that Iran is untrustworthy, thus negotiating with them isn’t useful.  Iran was not cooperative in nuclear inspections.  They funded Hamas and Hezbollah.  They don’t stop even when they’ve agreed to.  What is the point of extracting an agreement if you cannot trust the other side to actually do what they’ve agreed to do?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So fix those problems.  It’s like saying “well lines at the DMV are long, so we can’t require people to get a driver’s license before driving a car.”  That doesn’t follow.  What should happen is you hire people for the DMV offices, automate as much as possible so people can get licensed to drive.  Not being able to stop all murder is a terrible reason to legalize murder.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not really that convinced by the argument that these kinds of IDs are hard enough for legal Americans to get that we should somehow be aghast at the idea that someone would have to produce proof of citizenship and identity for voting.


For one thing, just going about modern life requires this sort of thing all the time.  You can’t open a bank account, drive a car, get a job, or get on an airplane without proving that you are who you say you are.  I can’t even walk into a casino without proving my identity and age.  Which brings up the question of exactly how people can go around and survive in 21st century America without having a valid ID in some form.  The biggest change here is that the ID would also have to prove citizenship.  This isn’t a big deal for the 99% of Americans with jobs and cars and bank accounts.  Most of them will have ID and while you might need some proof of citizenship, it’s not particularly difficult to do so.  And really I think a single passport card would actually eliminate the Pokémon problem simply because it’s one universally accepted card that any entity would accept as proof of identity and citizenship and so on.