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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve always thought that “at least he isn’t X” as a particularly good long term strategy.  It marginally works when neither candidate is exciting their base well, and the Not-X candidate is at least a competent seeming middle of the road person who will do nothing more than keep going down the path.  But if not, then it’s really more of a choice between X but he’s doing thing people like, or Not-X and incompetent.


There’s really nothing in the Kamala campaign that’s telling us she wants to do anything as president.  When she makes her campaign stops, she’s talking about how scary and weird the other guys are.  Well, after the concert anyway.  But after nearly ten years of “he’s terrible, horrible, they’re evil” and him doing very little of evil, terrible, horrible things, it’s not landing anymore.  Outside of the breathless true believers, nobody thinks Trump is evil.  And now that this is gone, what’s left to scare people to the polls to vote Kamala?  They don’t hate her, but what is there, besides the rapidly failing “Orange Man Bad” meme is there to get people to actually choose to stand in line for an hour for Kamala?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for October 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m sort of disagreeing here.  The point of a debate forum is to debate in good faith. And quite often political debates are capable of being good faith debates.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That’s not the value of lived experience in narratives.  The value of having fought in a war (Hemingway for example) is that he understands the way war is in the real world and can thus create characters who feel like they’re fighting a war instead of characters that think and act like people who make movies think people in wars behave.  Or if you want to write about life in a black ghetto, it’s going to feel more real if written by someone with at least some idea, even second hand, of what that life is actually like.  There’s a phrase in philosophy that I think captures the idea.  It is like something to be a person in any situation you come up with.  It’s like something to be poor, or Palestinian, or a cop, or a soldier.  And stories become much better is the author at least has some idea of what those things are actually like, rather than going off TV/movie tropes, or stereotypical ideas, or other sources with no real connection to the thing being described. It’s a fidelity issue.  A copy of a copy of a copy eventually looks nothing like the original.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Crises, especially ones with a large risk of death tend to drive evolution.  Who got to survive after a collapse?  Smart people with a higher time preference survived because they were the ones prepared to survive the collapse and to rebuild afterwards.  The ones who die are the ones who are dumb and therefore do stupid things to kill themselves, are unable to plan ahead, and lack a solid work ethic.


Now the reverse is true of High Civilization like Greece and Rome.  We say it ourselves — good times make weak men.  The Greeks and Romans used slaves for everything and had a pretty decent welfare state in Rome itself.  The chief problem for Rome was a large class of unemployed in Rome who had to be entertained.  In such a city, one could live a comfortable life and never have to break a sweat doing anything productive.  And so if you were lazy, stupid, and uninterested in working or getting educated, not a problem.  And so while those people die quickly in a collapse, they didn’t really suffer all that much in Rome.  So those types would definitely lower the IQ of classic civilization.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No, because I noticed the same.  The people making films today all come from the PMC for the most part and know no other lifestyle.  It’s also just that in the 1950s society was much more economically integrated in the sense that the emerging PMC was very likely to grow up in neighborhoods and attend schools with the working class.  Most of the generation that marched off to college after the war (or sent their kids to college) grew up working factory, sales, or skilled labor jobs or at least knew people who did.  Modern elites are much less likely to have any significant contact with blue collar types, less likely to have served in the military, etc.  so what they know about war, blue collar work, small towns, religion, and so on, come through narrative fiction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly it’s one of the things I like about the modern era that’s most bizarre about the current crop of elite.  Not only do these guys speak an odd dialect of lawyer, but they’re fantastically uneducated about how anything is actually done or made. And it is off putting to average people because they don’t hide behind statistics and spreadsheets.  They do things, make things, and watch or play games.


It’s like if I had a bookie describe the last game of the World Series, and then a plumber from Brooklyn.  They’d both be describing the same events but only one guy would have described a baseball game.  The other guy is describing a graph describing the baseball game.  And I think that’s actually why the elites running the systems cannot fix things.  The old deep knowledge of the processes their graphs and lawyered language describe is gone.  They’ve never done any of that kind of work, nor, increasingly do they even know anyone who does that work.  Without knowing how the game of baseball actually is played, without knowing what is going on on the field, moneyball simply doesn’t work.


And I think this is what people are reacting to.  Trump at least comes across as the guy who actually understands baseball instead of baseball statistics.  They have plenty of real life experience of working with idiots who only see the world through screens.  Those people might be educated, as in having attended a lot of very expensive colleges and having a couple of $100K sheepskins on the wall.  But talk to anyone in the trenches of any operation and it’s pretty universal that the spreadsheet jockeys often make arbitrary decisions that make their job harder to impossible.  The general problem for a lot of ground level managers is to make it look like they’re following the new, stupid procedures dictated by a spreadsheet jockey, while still getting productive work actually done.  They’re used to idiots who talk like Harris, and they know her practical knowledge of the stuff she has policies for is precisely as bad as the local regional manager o& their corporate masters— she looks at graphs and knows the graphs go up if you do a thing.


I’m not sure that it’s a communication problem at all.  The problem for the elites is that the culturally coded language they use bespeaks of their ignorance.  Nobody takes them seriously because not only do they mistake their maps as territory, but it’s often the case that the6 have no idea there’s a real territory out there being impacted.  We can just make fossil fuels a thing of the past, without using nuclear.  Just look at my graph.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It depends on the jurisdiction.  In some places, these shop owners do try to get people prosecuted, do cooperate, and it turns out that the state is much less concerned about putting the guy in jail and thus they see the effort as a waste of time.  It’s an odd situation.  They’re kind of stuck, not only because of the costs, but the risks that they can count on other people to care about.  If they testify and press charges, do the next group of lawless thugs come in and shoot potential witnesses?  Are they or their children going to be targeted because snitches get stitches?  And if they need the cops are the cops going to bother to show?


See the situation in lawless areas is because of years of neglect and distrust in which the criminals tend to get away with it.  The only solution to my mind is to create a system, even if extremely flawed (inquisition is far from ideal) in which you can hope to put enough of the gang members in jail to lower the crime rate and have people willing to participate.  If I lived in a place controlled by gangs, I’m not cooperating simply because of the two, the cops are the weak ones, and they can’t or won’t protect me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The fact that he’s into Moldbug also suggests Rat adjacent.  I mean I’m not surprised at all that someone reading Moldbug also reads Slatestar.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I disagree because if the vote on the side you actually like cannot win, not only are you not getting what you want, but often moving the country in the opposite direction.  In fact, this is the theory behind stocking horse candidates— run someone very similar to the mainstream candidate that you want to lose, split that vote and cruise to victory.


This is just simply power games.  The thing that a lot of people don’t get about politics is that it isn’t in the least about being right, no matter what system you’re trying to get power under.  The person with the right policies is a nobody.  The guy who has power gets to decide what the right answer is.  The correct answer is thusly form a very strong tribe that votes as a bloc.  Then use that power base to essentially hold the political party nearest to your own side to account for not voting your way.  Vote out bad politicians in the primaries.  This is how the GOP was gradually moved rightward.  If someone didn’t vote right, they were prinaried out of office.  But the GOP was still winning because people were still with the Rightist party so they won elections.  That would be the optimum strategy— vote as you please in the primaries, then vote GOP in the general election.  You take power because the vote isn’t split, but you’re also to be feared because rinos get removed from the party.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just to steelman this, unless the people guilty of stealing have reason to fear getting punished, the law against stealing is basically dead.  There are large portions of most major cities where these kinds of situations exist.  The laws against stealing, drug dealing, and murder are not enforced consistently.  The results are not freer people unconcerned about crime, in fact it’s the opposite.  In those areas, since the cops can’t (often because of government policies) deter crime or reliably enforce the laws, the people who can’t afford to leave take the job of self protection on themselves.  Bars go over windows, people carry weapons, and gangs take over to protect criminals from other criminals.  It’s basically a post collapse society on display in the middle of downtown Chicago or St. Louis.


Sure an inquisition isn’t a great system for a modern functioning state.  It’s not something that’s compatible with civil rights as we know them.  But the other side is that the alternative is also terrible for civil rights.  You have a right to private property.  Sure, but what good is it when the cops for lack of proper paperwork and prosecutorial authority simply shrug as local thugs help themselves to anything not physically impossible to steal?  What good is it to be protected from the cops detaining you when you and your family are prisoners in your own homes behind barred windows because your neighborhood is to unsafe to be outside in?  What good is it to say “I am safe from the cops shooting me” when you have to worry about getting caught in a drive by shooting?  Freedom isn’t just freedom from the state, but the presence of law, order and justice.  If you don’t have the ability to come and go as you please without fear of the Cripps, it’s not far off from not being able to come and go for fear of the cops.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem being that voting for your third parties splits your vote, and that only has a good outcome when everybody on all sides are doing so.  If one side defects then they win because their vote isn’t split between several different parties, it’s concentrated in one party.  So if conservatives choose between Reform, Constitution, Libertarian, and Republican, each gets 1/4 of the total conservative votes available.  If democrats all vote for the Democratic Party, they get all available democratic votes.  If you assume that the parties are roughly equal in support, the democrats will win even though the6 don’t have more votes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think I recommend that you stop trying to goad yourself with rewards.  If the only reason you’re doing something is a reward, it’s only going to work so long as the rewards are worth the pain.  And of course the other part is that you’re setting yourself up to see the task as an unpleasant thing to be suffered through so you can get to the reward.


Try just scheduling the task and removing any obstacles to doing that task at that time.  If you’re exercising, for example, schedule that, and just … exercise.  Make sure it’s a kind of exercise you like, or listen to music while doing it, but do it, and stop when the session is over.  Put the gym clothes on a chair in the bedroom and keep the weights there and so on to make it easy to just start doing it automatically.  And sooner or later, you’ll just automatically do it.  You’ll get to the point where working out at 3pm on MWF is just something you do.


Another thing to try is get a group of people and just start doing things together.  If you’re working on programming than a group learning to program will be muc( better than just doing it alone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be honest I’m not sure.  But either solution— a fight until someone capitulates— is much more likely to be a stable solution than the current globohomo enforced stalemate that stokes resentment and causes constant attacks and the deaths and destruction that come along with it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m less enamored in the idea of “world police” ideas.  In fact, I think they tend to drag out conflicts rather than provide peace and stability.  Had the west stayed out of this, or not gotten involved in Israel, both conflicts would likely be over.  Israel would have taken over Gaza, and while it would suck for the Gazans it would be a stable peace, perhaps with all of Palestine on the West Bank or something.  Instead, we “negotiate” a few years of peace and then start again because the Palestinians are counting on the West to soften the blow.  Without that, the Palestinians would have long ago been forced to accept that they’d either join Israel in some form or fashion, leave, or get flattened.  The results would probably be much more peace and stability.  Instead, we get a fresh one sided war about once every 7-10 years, terrorist attacks on Israel, and a radicalized Middle East.  In Ukraine, our intervention has made what, in natural circumstances would have been a war over in weeks to months and turned it into a war lasting nearly four years.  Is this actually better?  Is it better to feed thousands of men into a conflict that is probably going to last until we run out of Ukrainian men to fight it and probably eventually get conquered anyway.  Ending conflicts the old fashioned way of letting them go to their natural end instead of creating perpetual stalemates that aren’t resolved.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, Ukraine is only holding its own because we’re sending trillions a year into the country, and that’s quite simply only until they run out of people to draft into the war.  They’re already needing to kidnap people off the streets to force them to fight.  I don’t think that’s sustainable as a long term solution.  Add in that the war has increased food prices because the “breadbasket of Europe” can’t plant crops, and the increase in fuel prices because we’re at war with a major oil producer, and it’s a giant mess.


I’m also concerned that spending so much on Ukraine is going to mean losing Taiwan to China.  Taiwan makes many of the world’s top end microchips, and losing that to a hostile rival is insane. But that’s where I think we’re heading.  The public’s will to continue propping up allied states is nearly gone.  The money is going fast, and the weapons systems we’re sending to Ukraine probably won’t be replenished in time for a Taiwan war.  It’s insane.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It increases the likelihood of the right voting.  It’s motivation to get your butt to the polls to vote against a regime that calls you garbage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What I remember on that was the absolute insanity of people with no idea about anything to do with Ukraine suddenly deciding that it was not only important, but it was a one sided affair with huge stakes for us.  Looking into it, none of the things said in defense of us being involved make sense.  No Putin is not going to invade NATO, he doesn’t have the military strength to do that.  No, Ukraine isn’t an important ally of geopolitical importance— it’s basically Kansas or Nebraska, farmland.  No we cannot indefinitely send trillions of dollars to Ukraine alongside depleting our weapons stock.  Yes, we can make more, but it takes time.


But throw in a sob story, and people were putty in the hands of the Ukrainians.  It was mind blowing.  Zelensky talking like a Marvel movie character, and some guy on a military base telling the Russians to “go fuck themselves” is enough for millions of people to spend blood and treasure, impoverish Europe with high energy prices, and risk nuclear war.  It wasn’t even good propaganda, looking back.  We’re just that stupid and gullible.  Of course we’re also rather stupid on Gaza.  It’s not our fight, but the ease with which millions of people suddenly decided that Israel was absolutely wrong is astounding.  No idea of the decades long fruitless attempts to get any sort of real peace in the region, no idea of just who Hamas is, just bad images on TV is enough to get idiots to support anything.


Which I’ll admit has blackpilled me on democracy.  Most people are too stupid to be allowed to vote.  Even me, I’ll admit to that.  People have no ability to rule themselves and while I think an autocracy is bad as well, at least our war decisions will be made on the basis of facts instead of who can sound most like the Avengers.  And maybe economic decisions should be made by people who understand economics rather than by people who think government money is free.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I go back and forth on who to vote for simply because I don’t like either one.  And tbh, I’m fairly confident that at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter that much because we’re basically an oligarchy anyway.  I’m a serf on a very large American plantation and so I’ll vote, but I don’t expect that the country is going to change based on who wins.  The big things on the horizon are the wars (which I’m expecting to go hot by the end of 2025 and us to be actively fighting by the same time period.  We’re careening toward WW3, possibly nuclear.  I’m expecting inflation to continue in everything except wages much like now and I’m reevaluating my expenses in light of that.  I’m expecting more deep state incompetence and more disasters made worse by that.


Civilization in America is collapsing.  If you read into the problems of the late Roman Empire, we hit them pretty close.  I’m not sure that with as many deep problems as we actually have, anyone can fix it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How could it not matter?  You have the head of the government and the Democratic Party literally calling Trump supporters garbage.  I mean if I wanted to get any base riled up, I’d call them garbage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does it have to be Arab?  I mean the British were in Palestine for decades.  And so if anyone could take on the challenge, why not King Charles?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So the towns that got bulldozed to make room for the Jews?  The ones Hamas has been shelling daily?  I can’t imagine a universe where this works.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s news.  The value to the average news consumer is that the news is accurate.  If I’m reading about the election, the best source is the one that’s accurate and thus allows me to guess at the future.  One thing that will help with respectability is that the news source in question is at least pretending to be fair to all sides.  Of course as a mainstream news outlet it’s not going to actually endorse Trump because that’s too jarring a change from Narrative.  Everyone knows that real news endorses democrats.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m less optimistic of this as long as the legitimacy of the regime rests upon people voting for “good things” there’s no way to reverse course here.  You cannot allow people who disagree with you free access to the cultural memeplex as it might mean losing the election and thus power.  If I’m a Globalist, the idea of Nationalism isn’t just a different opinion, it’s an infection in the body politic and must be cured.  After all, the Nationalists not only get to vote, but can infect other people with Nationalism.  Or the same with communist vs capitalist ideas.  If the people are infected with “bad ideas” they can spread and eventually the plebs end up going full capitalist.


Legitimacy leads to power, and power is the end goal of any movement.  And the big secret of the Westphalia treaty was that it removed the church leadership from the state.  Kings were no longer Kings because the One True Church anointed him with holy oil.  So it no longer mattered which church anyone went to.  The government didn’t care because it no longer mattered.  The legitimacy of the government didn’t rest on all the people supporting the church that anointed him.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And put them where exactly? Again, this is a very small densely populated country with only deserts in between cities.  And given that Israel doesn’t trust them to not try to attack their citizens when removed (unless we’re talking camps, which is probably not going to work) there’s not much to do with Gazans.


And why should they leave their homes with no guarantees that they’d ever see them again?  Trust is gone here.  Even before the bombings started, the dominant idea is that Israel will take their land.  Even if given an order to leave, who’s leaving?  Who’s going to leave Gaza and expect to take Israel at their word that once Hamas and the tunnels are gone, the Gazans will be allowed to return home?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think that’s a bit unrealistic given the size of the area in question.  Israel as a whole is the size of New Jersey, so any armed action in that limited space is going to be pretty brutal simply because of the population density and the fact that everything is with missile range.  There aren’t even good natural boundaries.  Ireland was separated from Britain by a sea, and most of the British and Irish for that matter were well outside the zones where the fighting was happening.