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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m pretty convinced of this, at least without really good levels of subject matter knowledge.  I would expect an economist to accurately predict second order effects of a tax hike or tariff increase on prices because he’s studied that system deeply.  I would expect a geologist to be able to tell me whether or not fracking would destabilize geologic plates and cause more earthquakes.  Or expect an expert on neurology to predict the effects of early screen use on the development of the human brain.


Take away the expertise, and it is effectively impossible because you don’t have enough background information to know the difference between things that are impossible, things that are rare, and things that are common.  If I know for example, that tariffs lower imports, then it’s possible to say raised tariffs will raise prices on basic supply and demand.  If not, I can’t really do that.


The contrarian approach mostly looks smart because it signals that you aren’t beholden to expert opinions and are supposedly looking for yourself.  Which signals that you’re smart enough to do it and that you’re confident in your ability to do that.  Smarts and confidence are seen as positive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That’s pretty much what happened here.  The real image showed a Somali politician with the flag upside down, showing at best ignorance and at worst disrespect for the flag.  Journalists who don’t want the immigrant community to be seen in either of those ways is strongly biased towards any way to “debunk” that idea.


And this is why deep fakes will work most of the time.  They don’t have to even be good, they just have to conform to what people want to be true.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s rather telling however that democrats get upset about republicans saying true things about them.  If democrats made ads that said republicans want to cut spending and lower taxes, republicans would be thrilled even if they went to the wrong side.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean true, but unless you preserve something like the future you want, there’s nothing to point at.  It’s a lot harder to say I want a Christian society when your kid is having his faith destroyed by modern liberalism hammered into his skull.  And really, outside of traditional movements, that’s where we are.  Culture is so hostile to their ideas that unless they separate from the rest of the culture, there’s nothing left to preserve.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hockey, soccer, basketball and rugby are at least played fairly continuously, without timeouts between plays and numerous play reviews and flags on top of timeouts and TV breaks.  I like tge game, but if you’re not used to turn-based play where you get time to set everything up 4 times and run the play to see what happens, it’s kinda boring and I think it makes the games longer than they need to be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s the same intelligence.  It’s not different intelligences.  That’s my point.  It takes logical reasoning to understand socializing or art or sports.  You just have people spending their time using their g for different things.  Some of it is temperament or family dynamics guiding kids on how they choose to develop their skills, but at the bottom it’s all g and a person who doesn’t have decent g isn’t going to excel in skills other than math either.  I’ve yet to meet an IQ 80 person who could really and truly understand socialization or art or nature, and outside of maybe football defense where all they need to know is “tackle guy in front of me” most sports require at least average intelligence to understand the strategy.


What well meaning teachers talking about 7 intelligences tend to mean by that is that g, IQ, simply doesn’t exist and that you can be smart about different things because there are different forms of intelligence.  So a person can be too stupid to understand very basic logic and supposedly have “sports smarts” which requires a form of cause and effect thinking to learn the game, let alone strategy.  Or maybe they’re too stupid for logic but can figure out how to get a picture to look good (using cause and effect AKA logic).  It makes no sense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s mostly cope in my view.  The people who push the idea that there are other forms of intelligence tend to be either teachers who want to believe that the dumb kids aren’t actually dumb, and the dumb ones who don’t want to believe that they’re not just as smart as the science math and logic leaders.  But it’s not true.  You can’t be smart about feelings or art or nature or smarts without using the same pattern recognition and extrapolation skills that the STEM people use.  You might, by temperament, aim it at different problems.  Patrick Mahomes is aiming his logic and pattern recognition at football where Elon Musk is aiming it at rockets and drones and flying cars.  It’s the same brain, the same processes, but one guy is throwing to Kelcie and the other is building flying cars.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s going to fall, though to be honest I think baseball is falling faster.  I live in a baseball town, and yes you’ll see team gear, but nobody really gets into the ins and outs of the game, and don’t follow the game or the players to any real degree.  Most of the players are Hispanic imports from abroad, and really, the games up until the all-star break don’t matter much.  And unless you’re super into pitching, Theres not nearly enough action to keep people interested in the game, to the point where the league itself feels the need to artificially speed up the game with pinch hitters, pitch clocks, and base runners in extra innings.  If you need to speed up the game to make it watchable, it’s not going to last.


I like football, but I think the game has too many stops.  It’s hard to keep watching when 1/2 or more of the “play” time is standing around waiting to actually play the one play before standing around waiting for the next play.  Add in that with rare exceptions, most plays outside the red zone don’t matter much, and you get a game that is 99% fluff.  You end up doing other things while waiting for the good parts of the game.  And I don’t see that as being a sustainable model for a popular sport.


Most pro sports also have a big problem in the price of attending an actual game.  It costs hundreds to attend a game in the NFL.  It’s somewhat better for baseball.  And figuring out which of the streaming services actually show your team often means subscriptions to multiple services and dealing with blackout games.  It makes introducing the game to kids harder.  And if you don’t make it easy for kids to get into the game, then eventually they find other things to watch and do and get into.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They can’t stop it, but neither can you.  It’s not stopping unless the entire culture accepts and supports conservative views.  Which isn’t happening.


The trads are not trying to undo all of western progressive culture, because that’s likely impossible for them.  Instead, they propose to build enclaves where they can keep their kids safe from the kinds of ideas and material culture that exists in the rest of the world.  It’s a redoubt, a fortress intended to at first provide protection and support for the like minded, but eventually have enough power to make changes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s high stress because unlike males, there’s no real role to slot into.  You have to sort of make one, somewhere on the spectrum between pseudo Amish trad wife and ball busting girl boss dyke.  And because Theres such a wide range of potential womanhood, there’s no target to aim for, nor can anyone help you understand the role or how to achieve it.  You had thousands of years where this wasn’t true and had few or no girls deciding that they were men.  Women knew how to help their girls as men knew how to help their boys because the end goal was known


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I still think there was value, even at young ages to having male only places.  You do need at least some single gender socialization so that young men and young women learn how to navigate their future roles in civilization and how to deal with their unique problems.  Males need to see good modeling of channeling the extra energy that they naturally possess.  Little boys are bundles of energy who need to learn how to channel it. Little girls have less energy but are much more naturally attuned to being catty and manipulative in social interactions and need to be taught to control those natural tendencies.  You can’t do those things in a mixed gender environment because the problems are different and what would be good if a boy did it might not be for girls, or vice versa depending on the behavior.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Or maybe democracy doesn’t work for exactly that reason.  Social security was never meant to support an entire generation leeching off the economy for 30+ years.  In the beginning, the age of retirement was set above the median life expectancy.  It was never adjusted for increased lifespans, until the difference is now 30 years.  But nobody in a Democratic Republic ever votes against their selfish interests and thus it’s now expected that even though you’re healthy — in fact probably still active enough for even physical labor — you deserve a + year second childhood style retirement where you spend your time going on trips, playing games, and so on.  And if the kids don’t want to pay for it all, well, sucks to be them.


To be fair, the same is true of other forms of gibs.  No one will ever win an urban election on cutting welfare or Medicaid.  No one will win an urban election on promises to test recipients for drugs, requiring work or education, or lowering the poverty level cutoff.


This is something that Yarvin is right about in regards to democracy at least as we currently do it.  The name of the game is looting the treasury until it’s empty, lest the other side get there first and use it to pay off their loyalists.  Eventually you run out of other people’s money to give away and it all falls apart because what you’d need to do to fix it would never ever win an election.  Democracy therefore selects for winning elections rather than running the country and winning is the only thing the political class cares about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The housing thing is part of how Anglo countries have generated generational wealth.  Homes in America have always been seen as an investment and thus it’s impossible, politically, to let housing prices fall, or even slow the growth of housing prices.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, yes, but it might well be that people living in a situation where “movement” means walking between chairs have less metabolic activity than people who were out doing things.  The day for most people starts with getting out of bed, sitting to breakfast, than walking to the car and driving to work than walking to the office chair, the walk back to the car and drive home where they sit and watch TV until they get up and sit to dinner.


It’s probably not helping to say the least.


And im always a bit suspicious of self-reported calorie counting studies simply because people tend to be absolutely terrible at measuring portions and thus they end up undercounting the amount of calories they are eating.  Im not sure that’s what happened in Minnesota, but it’s a huge problem for diet studies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just to be devils advocate on CICO, the big issue is that most people are only paying lip service to the concept.  This is true of most hard things.


There is a definite correlation between time spent butt-in-chair working on learning and actually learning things and thus doing well on tests.  But … studying is hard and boring, and you would rather be doing something else.  So you go after study hacks.  And you’ll tell yourself that time spent studying only sort of matters, and that it’s really about something else.  You’ll do worse than you needed to because you ignored the concept.  Yes, there are more and less productive ways to study, but if you’re not putting in the time necessary, even the best practice will fail because you didn’t do the work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Theory time:


100 years ago or even 50 years ago, you naturally got a lot more exercise than we do today.  Just doing normal activities without a separate exercise program was probably more movement than most of us do.  You manually cook, clean, mow the grass, and other chores.  If you needed something you had to walk around a store, and might visit several.  Add in a more physical factory or farm job and you’re probably adding the equivalent of an hour of exercise or two a day — but it’s just living life.


Also, because most people entertained themselves by doing thing with other people, rather than doing sedentary activities alone.  Before there was a TV in your home, you probably did things with other people.  Go bowling, or golfing.  Kids would play pick-up sports.  Teens would dance.  People walked around and rode bikes.  Again, this kind of thing was exercise that modern adults often don’t get.


Food was also more expensive and less available.  Modern Americans are probably never more than 50 steps from a snack that requires no preparation.  Go to any store — hardware, clothing, crafts, whatever.  They also sell cheap ready to eat snacks.  There are vending machines in every office and schools and in some cases parks.  So for a couple of bucks, an American could buy a snack everywhere he goes.  If you don’t have good willpower, it’s likely you’ll eat at least some of these foods between meals.


Our foods also taste better.  We have a lot of good foods available and there’s a lot of variety.  Spicy, sweet, Indian, Thai, Korean, you name it, you can get that kind of food.  This coupled with the easy preparation (or no preparation), low cost, and easy access has kinda turned food into entertainment more than simply fuel for your body.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My theory on Keto is that by limiting carbs you feel full on fewer calories which is beneficial when you’re the kind of person who has trouble restricting calories if they feel hungry.  Some people aren’t bothered by feeling a little hungry and aren’t tempted by seeing food available.  Other people need to feel full and if they see treats around they’ll eat all of them.


Keto helps those people by making them feel full so they don’t seek snacks and giving hard rules that rule out most convenience foods.  Breaded chicken is more carbs than keto allows, which means you have to make most meals at home and can’t just grab random food when it appears in the break room or during a meeting.  That gives you more control over your diet.


The saying discipline equals freedom is true, if misunderstood.  The best way to stick to anything is to decide beforehand.  If you decide “im only going to eat these certain kinds of foods at these times,” saying no is a bit easier because you don’t have to decide if you’re going to eat that, you’ve already decided that food isn’t for you.  It works for almost everything.  If you decide to exercise on Tuesday afternoon at 3, you dont need to ask if you feel like it, you already decided.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m curious about the Minoan civilization and the Bronze Age collapse.  I don’t really know how much documentation we have on either of those.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is the ultimate issue of democracy.  The goal is to loot the treasury for your political allies.  This works okay as long as the money doesn’t run out.  Unfortunately, we’re now in the era where we no longer have enough productive labor to prop up the gibs.  And so you have the fun of watching as political parties try to decide whether to cut off the gibs and save the country, or continue the gibs lest the entitled burn down the country.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean the record isn’t good in the last 100 years.  They don’t really innovate.  Jews have a vibrant tech sector, a modern military, and a thriving democracy.  Arabs have oil, and were it not for that, MENA outside of Israel would be as economically viable as South America or Central Asia.  Nobody would know about them, just like nobody cares about the goings on in Peru or Chile or Kazakhstan.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think most maths are going to ai simply because it’s really not worth the effort to keep legacy humans around.  I can understand “human in the loop” in life/death decisions, but I don’t see why anyone would want to bloat a university with an entire staff that can be replaced with a laptop and openAI.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m fine with saying I don’t care that much about Ukraine as a country.  It’s not in our strategic interest to care about Ukraine and frankly a lot of other countries like them.


It’s a matter of practicality.  We cannot and should not twist ourselves in knots and waste lives and treasure unless it’s good for the West in general.  We don’t have the capacity to intervene everywhere and even if we did, the results would be perpetual warfare that serves no one.  What serves the cause of peace and global security is a predictable globe in which there are no wars.  Prolonging a war because you don’t want one side or the other to win is not merciful, it’s cruel.  More people die and even if you get to a stalemate, that’s just rearming for the next war.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Honestly I think the sentiment is exactly backwards.  Rape culture arises less because men hang around men and more because they don’t.  If a man doesn’t learn a healthy male view of sex, he cannot hope to get a girlfriend or at least will have a lot of difficulty.  Add in that he never learns from other men how to be sexual in a healthy way, and he’s probably going to have the idea of women as objects or as perfect beings.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Birth control doesn’t help obviously, but I also know enough young people who want a family and children and can’t scrape up enough money to be financially stable enough to try it.  If young couples had financial independence, a decent home, and a way to make sure that mom could raise the kids, there’d be less need to use contraception as well


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If a person is naive about weight loss, counting calories has to be the starting point.  It’s like the 5 year olds understanding of weight loss.  You lose weight by eating fewer calories.  If you know nothing else, that’s at least directionally useful and will be a good way to get started learning how to lose weight.