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				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But why couldn’t the AfD thing be the red herring itself?  The entire thing makes literally zero sense.  He’s an Arab Muslim committing a terrorist act because he doesn’t believe that Arab Muslims should be in Germany because they’ll commit terrorist acts, which he then did.  The more plausible explanation is he’s an Islamic Jihadist who is either being misidentified as a supporter of AfD policies, or he was using that as a front to hide behind.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think these things started as luxury behaviors of a certain class of elites wealthy enough to afford to buck the normal lifestyle rules.  The tech bros could largely get away with their hoodies and jeans and openly admitting to loving Star Wars and Marvel because, especially at the time, being in tech was a pretty elite skill set, and they got away with it because you didn’t want to lose your best programmers because you tried to make them wear suits or something.  And early on, the adoption of comic books and fandoms were driven by people seeing that this new class of elites in the tech industry were into comic books and other forms of fantasy science fiction stuff, so people started to see it as okay if not aspirational because tech guys like it and they’re rich.


In some sort of weird way, the let it all hang out ethos seems like the same thing.  It’s saying “I’m so high on the social hierarchy that I no longer have to worry about pleasing other people.” People much lower on the scale have to live by the dictates of wider society and their boss’s expectations of their lifestyle and behavior and dress.  They have to not be too weird or childish in their public opinions and interests as those things might make a boss think of you as immature.  The mania for mental illnesses is a similar thing— I’m so high up the hierarchy that I can afford to have obvious mental illnesses without it negatively impacting me.  Or striving in general.  If you’re rich, you can let it slide and only try when you really want to because you can easily get a job through your social network.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think like most AAA games, they want something easy enough that you don’t have to know anything about the mechanics or the strategy to win.  The reason for the Hollywood stuff is exactly that, it’s designed to be an idle game where people pretend to be world leaders while also not having to learn to actually build or run an empire.  Why not aim for the casual crowd with the appropriate heroes that they can girl boss with?  They’re playing Barbie’s magic empire adventure, and putting out a cute hero for the casuals?  Besides which there really aren’t enough hardcore players who want strategy games and would consider “Civilization” a good sim to bother catering to.  Gaming has become TV.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there is a lot of merit in shorter bills simply because at some point the bills simply become unreadable by humans in the time allotted. A KJV Bible is about 1500 pages.  Do you really think you can read a text that long in the space of a week or two, and come to a decision about the content of the bill?  That’s not even doing much analysis on the effects of the provisions, just reading them.  And this is done so that lobbyists can slip in their agenda through these giant bills unnoticed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean this is how power works.  When you hear “should group X be making the decisions” what it tends to mean is “group X shouldn’t be held accountable to the public for making those decisions.”  That’s why “shouldn’t be political” is a red flag in my mind.  It’s a decision to be made by someone, and that decision will be made.  But “not politics” generally should be translated “by people with the power to make the decision, but who face no consequences or responsibility for it.”  And generally, if you want terrible outcomes, that’s the best way to get them.  When the government is not making the decisions about healthcare, it’s generally someone else who is, and as our system actually works, it’s a bunch of actuaries hidden in the bowls of a giant bureaucracy in a big insurance company who decided how to calculate a formula in excel.  Does he face any consequences for the results?  Not really, as long as the company makes money and doesn’t get sued.


Government should be involved in those kinds of decisions simply because the government is at least in theory accountable to the public interest.  If people’s health care access gets bad enough, eventually the pitchforks come out.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not necessarily suggesting the Amish are perfect.  I’m suggesting that we’ve kinda thrown out the baby with the bath water when we went full bore on the car and convenience society.  And when we decided to destroy the myths of America and at least nominal Christianity as the default belief system.  When tradition and community are uprooted in favor of door-dashing, you lose the personal connection to other people around you.  When your neighbor fixes your car you end up bonding over it.  You know him better, and it can lead to connections that don’t happen in transactional relationships.  When you attend the local church with all of your neighbors and friends, you form connections and bonds and the kids play together and so on.  When everyone around you believes in the same sort of things and wants to preserve the community, then you have more trust, especially if everyone knows each other and has a relationship that’s more than passing in the streets in individual cars on the way from one building to another.  Walk down the streets of your own neighborhood, odds are that you couldn’t give the names of more than 10 people in your own neighborhood, and it’s highly likely that outside of that neighborhood, you see them often.


I think the social contract is exactly the problem. It’s the reason that high trust is actually possible, because people believe in that contract, try to live up to it, and know each other well enough to broadly enforce it.  That’s how most high trust societies work.  Asia, in general has Confucius and the ideals of social contract and familial relationships and reciprocal relationships as the core of their beliefs.  Read the stuff.  Confucius was all about the social contract, how you should relate to other people, how you obey your elders and serve your various roles in society.  I’m convinced that while most other systems weren’t that explicit, they all had those kinds of ideas — you are not merely some atomized individual seeking autonomy and the best life and hedonistic pleasures.  You are part of a community greater than yourself and have some duties to people and the broader institutions around you.


As I said above I don’t think any of this is down to technology.  Asia has a lot of this and has more high tech than we do.  Orthodox Jews form these kinds of high trust enclaves in New York City.  It’s simply making the decision to follow traditional practices and to build community with people around you and sharing things and skills with those around you.  To some extent, I think it might be helpful to get out of the mass and social media spheres or at least limit the kinds of media and social media you allow into a community like that.  It’s not Amish, just being intentional about what is and isn’t allowed to be seen in your own home.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And why does it matter?  Until we bite the bullet and actually go into those areas arrest and jail those committing the crimes, they cannot have the save communities, let alone prosperous ones, they say they want.  It’s always been a problem for the liberal democratic state — we often know exactly what the problems are, and exactly how to solve them, but because the solutions require short-term pain they can never be implemented.  They probably wouldn’t like tge process of law and order policing, they wouldn’t like to see black men going to prison for decades.  They will like not having to ask the clerk to unlock the plastic doors so the6 can take groceries off the shelves.  They will like not needing bars on their windows.  They will love it when the lower crime rates mean businesses choose their neighborhoods to open up shop.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They’re in a terrible position.  We outsourced the rationing of health care to insurance companies because hospitals in the USA are not allowed to turn down patients.  I’m sympathetic to the anger, but in my view it’s misdirected as the insurance companies aren’t the ones lying.  The rest of the system is.  The hospital isn’t going to refuse care, it makes them feel icky and uncomfortable.  The government won’t explain to people that it’s simply impossible to give gold plated treatments to 300 million Americans many of whom have other conditions that might well take them out in a couple of years.  All of the false promises of infinite care are fake and always have been.  We just somehow accidentally ended up with a solution that allows hospitals and the government to heavily imply that there’s capacity in the system for everybody to get whatever they need, and very importantly to not be the people the public is mad at.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don’t need to catch all of them.  You need to catch enough to make turnstile jumping too risky for the potential gain.  If you’re catching 28K, you’re probably missing at least the same number of people maybe more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think it’s the technology.  It’s the mindset that comes through the media that’s teaching everyone to defect, that everything is rotten, and that you should focus on yourself and getting yours.  And when 300 million of us get that from the firehouse of media, we act on it.  And the results are pretty clear.  When no one is trustworthy, and nothing is worth protecting, you get defections.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s worse.  They know what they want, it’s just impossible to provide.  They want walk-in world class healthcare for cheap.  They want it for cheap if not free.  They want to walk into a doctor’s office, get seen quickly, then go to a specialist, pay twenty dollars each for the office visit including any tests, get a prescription for pills that they then pick up at Walgreens for less than $50 for a bottle of name brand life-saving drugs.


I don’t care how you re-engineer our health care system, the system cannot provide what the public wants.  No system can.  If it’s fast and doesn’t ration care to patients, it cannot be cheap.  If it’s cheap, it’s because you either wait or you push the very sick out of the system (likely both).  People want fast, world-class, cheap healthcare.  At best, we can provide ONE of those things.  If you want cheap healthcare, it’s going to be long waits and heavily rationed.  Most orthopedic care is going to be reserved for tge very rich.  You can expect to wait months for an office visit.  And if you need something more than the primary care physician can do, that’s another couple of months to see whoever can fix the problem, and another couple of months to actually get anything done about it.  If you want fast medicine, you have to pay for it.  Likewise if you want to give everyone world class care without heavy rationing.


It’s a hard sell because people want all three and are assuming corruption or profit is the reason they can’t have cheap healthcare on demand.  And politicians can’t or won’t tell people that they are asking something impossible, so the insurance companies get the rap fo4 doctors not being willing to work for the pay of store clerks and drug development costs being high.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly this isn’t a system we created and thus don’t “deserve”.  The thing is that we’ve been taught to be cynical hyper-individualistic, hedonistic, lazy jerks.  It comes from everywhere.  You’ve been taught that your traditions are old and stodgy and nobody cares about them anymore.  You’ve been taught that your ancestors were rotten, terrible people who genocide their way around the globe. You’ve been taught that striving is pointless and that the rich will keep you down.  You’ve been taught to deconstruct everything, but never to construct.


There are lots of reasons for it.  Some are hyper-consumption:  if you lose access to a community in which someone can solve your problem for free, then you have to buy that service somewhere.  You don’t know someone who can cook and you don’t know how to?  Door Dash.  Daycares are essentially replacements for extended family.  It used to be that if both parents needed to work, grandparents were close by and retired and the kid could stay in a place where he’d be safe and with a loved one.  Now you hire a company who pays strangers less than $20 an hour to do the same.  Go down the list of home repairs, car repairs, lawn maintenance, and a lot of services replace community.


The other part is that traditional systems are terrible for governments who want to control their populations.  A strong community doesn’t need or want much government interference.  The Amish have their communities in pretty good order without too much need for the state to come in and control them.  They don’t need welfare because they have their church to help those in need.


The final thing is the issue of legitimacy.  Legitimacy comes from the people.  But in order to get people to vote for whatever it is that you want, job one is to convince them to want it, or convince them that they’ve always wanted it, or that “good people” are like this.  So people vote as they’ve been taught to do.  You have to be taught to believe in an atomized society with no deep connections so that you’re more willing to accept the breakdowns, less willing to trust community.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not suggesting there’s no wisdom in these sources, but I don’t think they should be regarded as factual until actually verified.  There’s a lot of wisdom in older practices, I’ll agree with that.  But I think funding such a thing through government grants to a university to produce papers that will be treated as factual creates a problem as, again, social sciences as they occur in university are not dispassionate inquiries into the reality of how human beings behave or think or the like.  It’s agenda driven, and more often than not the studies are poorly done leading to a crisis of replication.


And furthermore, just because something is popular doesn’t mean it actually works, it doesn’t mean it’s actually true.  Outside of CBT, DBT, and modern Stoic approaches to solving problems in your life, most of it frankly is nonsense.  It tells people basically what they want to hear — that they’re already awesome, and that if they just reach for whatever they’re wanting, the universe will give the success.  Selling people something that they want to be true and that life is easy and they’re destined to succeed is an easy way to print money.  However, just as an observation, the number of self-help books a person owns seems inversely proportional to the person’s mental health.  It doesn’t seem to actually wrk.  In many cases, talk therapy seems to be no better than a long talk with anyone else.  I’ll admit to not keeping up with Redpilll, though I think I’m personally politically Yarvin-pilled.  I think it similar, though Yarvin Pilling is much more about political science and political philosophy than psychology.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
At least the research done in the harder sciences is based on the scientific method and is factual.  That alone makes it at least worth doing.  I’m sure it’s at least possible to further direct the funds towards useful research rather than fluff, but even fluff has a use case if it’s based on facts rather than being crafted just-so stories about mermaids in literature or the entire fields of gender studies and race studies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I disagree, mostly because the social “sciences” are more or less pseudoscience at this point.  Very little science in done in those fields and what little is done rarely replicates.  And of course there are topics that nobody will touch because it’s heresy and might lead to a career exterminatus.  The entire system is too corrupt to give anything useful, and as such shouldn’t be funded by the government.  Neurological science is the better way to get at the human mind, not woo.  To fund social “science” is to pay a guy n a lab coat to find a way to give cathedral propaganda the veneer of science.


If the government is to fund science, it must fund real science.  Physics, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, biology, medicine, etc. are real sciences that use the scientific method to determine what reality is.  They don’t start from their agenda and work to sane wash it.


I’m not sure that social sciences were ever dispassionate inquiry to begin with.  I’m pretty sure that very few in those fields have ever done real science and wouldn’t know where to begin.  As such I’m inclined to burn it down and ignore it until it can be rebuilt in the mold of harder sciences where the goal is to find truth and to test ideas rigorously.  As they sit now, I don’t think they’re so much signal as anti signal— having someone cite sociology or psychology makes me less inclined to believe the claim than one made by anyone else.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				How to make me Instinctively Distrust You Part 3: Priming
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it sticks out to us because most of us are at least open to conservative ideas, and really, bed of the left control over media and academia, it’s something that is used against either us or people like us to suggest that we or people like us are to be shunned or at least ignored.  Those farther left don’t notice it except on conservative sources (which as not considered real news by leftists) so they don’t really notice it.


I do notice it, and I notice other forms of loaded language — terms like genocide, atrocity, militia or militant, Nationalist (whether white or Christian), these are not descriptions, they’re propaganda designed to sneakily tell you what to think about a subject indirectly by loading the story with sneers instead of facts.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They probably didn’t think about food as much, but they also lived in a culture where physical activity was normal and expected.  Kids were told to play outside, and often played youth sports as well.  There were also norms around eating— smaller portions, less snacking, fewer fizzy drinks.  A lot of foods are nearly double the size they were in 1970 which doesn’t help, but at the same time, it we had the same food norms as 1970, and cut portions to about 1/2 of what we eat now, ate three meals and a light snack per day, you’d look about like the average person in 1970.  (https://www.yourweightmatters.org/portion-sizes-changed-time/)


I think some forms of processing change food such that it doesn’t trip your satiety system.  It’s something I’ve observed.  A potato is much more filling than the equivalent amount of potato chips.  A chicken breast is more filling than the equivalent in nuggets, one homemade cookie is as filling as 4-5 Oreos.  I can’t explain why that works, but it seems to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Theory:  daycare from infancy.


I think a lot of the problems stem from how we’ve outsourced raising kids almost entirely to caregivers.  This has tge obvious effect of essentially destroying the attachment process between family members, and it’s devastating for kids.  Kids who grow up in daycares are one of 8-10 kids in a room in which adults ignore them unless they’re getting in trouble or need care.  Parents, assuming an 8pm bedtime might get an hour or two on weekdays and whatever time they can squeeze around household chores on weekends to spend time with the kids.  Achieving something in a daycare doesn’t mean much, the care giver is simply too busy with other kids to notice them getting good at something.  Parents are too busy to celebrate them doing something.  And this is for everything they do.  The kids don’t matter, and their attempts to do things don’t matter.  Eventually they don’t bother..


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just can’t see any of this being nearly as big of a decision as it’s made out to be.  Most retail shops and restaurants do a significant portion of their business online — so the business is selling 24 hours a day.  Factories have been 24 hour affairs since the beginning of factory jobs.  Restaurants will open for breakfast well before the morning shift arrives at work.  So why would it matter what time it is?  The idea seems like it would only make sense in a situation where business operates only in brick and mortar and only sells locally.  Neither of these are true.  DST needs to end as it’s a relic of a time when the majority of Americans worked on farms and needed daylight to do work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To me a lot of this has nothing to do with whether a piece of art is actually good on not.  To me, things like craftsmanship, form, balance in colors and shapes.  I’m not opposed to “starting conversations” or “having a viewpoint”, but on the other hand it’s not essential to whether a piece has the qualities of good art.  If you look at ancient and medieval art, it’s not making odd statements about society, it’s creating something beautiful to tell familiar stories.  An icon of a Bible story painted in the year 1000 says nothing more or less than “this is a familiar cultural story.”  The art is in the craftsmanship the balance of the characters in the frame, they’re definitely beautiful.  The same can be said of ancient Indian images of Shiva dancing, or the Laughing Buddhas, or Japanese prints.  The form and the balance of structure and color, the workmanship, the materials, etc. are what make these things beautiful.


Art galleries don’t really care that much about beauty, or quality.  A banana duct taped to a wall, a canvas painted in one shade of green, a crucifix in urine, a pile of candy in a corner, etc. these are things that are famous art pieces.  But they also are pieces that have no thought behind them, no craftsmanship, no serious effort to produce anything interesting.  It’s actually a crass attempt at juvenile humor and quite often is only notable because of its ridiculous nature.  Were these artists unknowns, nobody would care about the art.  It’s possible it’s sparking a conversation, but how deep of a conversation can one have about a banana taped to a wall, bought by a rich guy with money to burn and who promptly ate the banana?  Gee, I hope the banana was tasty, I guess.  And I hope the green canvas matches the couch.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there is such a thing as good taste.  It’s not that you are somehow not allowed to like “poor taste”.  The value of taste is that it recognizes things like skillful workmanship, balance and harmony in the form, timelessness, among other things.  A cheap mass produced item quickly churned out is simply not as tasteful as a well crafted piece built to last.  A brutalist skyscraper is not as tasteful as a basilica.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see how you fix that when the best way to keep thieves away from your property is to keep it unwalkable and keep public transportation out.  In dense parts of the urban landscape, walking is marginal during the day and probably unwise at night unless you’re in a group.  That doesn’t get fixed unless you can keep the drugs and crime out by a method other than building the environment such that you need a personal vehicle to get around that area.  I live in the county surrounding St. Louis, and the neighborhoods near m3 that would be considered “walkable” also are poor areas that have bars on their windows.  No one with the means to afford something better wants to live in a place like that, and so while nobody says so out loud, those with the means want to have to drive around because that means that you don’t have the low income housing and issues that come with it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is pretty true across most domains of enjoyment.  I know people who weep at the sound of beautiful music or a great piece of art.  Your thing is food.  I don’t see that as a reason why you can’t try to keep things within reasonable limits.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think directionally, yes. It’s just good resource allocation to look at the actuarial data and say “this drug might marginally improve your life for a few months, but you’re old or in bad shape physically and thus your treatment makes no sense.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Noah Smith: Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The cost of research to FDA standards of evidence is a huge one.  That pill in your hand likely went through 10 years of development and another 5-10 of trials to prove to the FDA that it had no significant adverse effects.  So by the time that the company finally has permission to sell the drug, it’s been costing the drug company millions a year for nearly twenty years.  Every penny they can get is needed to fund the next round of drugs in development and even those that won’t be good enough to get approved.  It’s a big part of the business model to get as much as possible so they can keep the lights on while they spend billions developing better drugs.