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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In 2019 the CDC wished to be taken seriously.  One Covid later…


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think if I were trying to teach the unintelligent people something, I’d more than likely do so by teaching basically algorithms for doing tasks or flow chart style yes no questions to make decisions.  What seems to work most often if you aren’t smart enough to be able to figure out something on your own is to have pretty specific step by step instructions.  As far as teaching morality, I think lists of virtues are good as heuristics simply because they’re explicit and you don’t have to do a lot of moral reasoning on your own.  You just teach the person to value the virtue of honesty or bravery or industry and then they know what that looks like.


If you’re talking about finding a good church, I’d suggest that such a person should use things like the basic creeds and the 5 solas to see if the church they’re looking at is orthodox enough to be a good church.  I mean looking to see if the median attendee isn’t completely evil is probably a good second test, but people can lie, so it’s not the primary thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree that planning a shooting takes a lot of work and a long time.  But the pattern still seems to hold:  a teenager, most likely a male (at least a few have been trans, don’t know of any female spree shooters), with few or no close friends,  no outside affiliations to groups like church, team, volunteer groups, no significant other, and no real plans for the future.


The number of people who fit that pattern and dont seem to spree shoot is huge, so you can’t really take the mere existence of one or two of those signs as warnings.  At the same time, those signals are there for the vast majority of shooters.  If you see someone in your orbit who’s exhibiting those things, it might be worth the effort to make sure that you keep tabs on them and notice if they seem to be spiraling or taking a sudden interest in guns and shooting.


It’s probably going to be on family members more than anything else to know the young men in their lives and make sure that they’re okay.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the right way to do religion is to take it seriously as a zeitgeist. It needs to feel like it matters to the people in the universe, that it affects more than just the world mechanics but things like morality, aesthetics, views of history, and eschatology.


What bugs me personally is to have a medieval civilization with a religion that nobody takes seriously.  My dude, people in our world killed people accused of desecrating a piece of bread.  They had whole wars based on which sect of Christianity was the real one.  They killed people for heresy.  Yet I read most fantasy and religion is treated like it is in the modern era, just something that exists and nobody thinks that hard about it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thou shalt not make a machine in the form of a man.  The Spice must flow…


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The “normal” thing is likely a mirage.  I can’t think of any of the spree shooters who had an active social life.  They weren’t in theater or band or sports or heavily involved in a church or social club.  They often don’t seem to have any friends or at least no close friends.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a spree shooter who had a boyfriend or girlfriend at the time of the shooting.  They also don’t seem to have active hobbies or interests.  They don’t seem to be good at anything in particular nor are they known to be planning a future at all.


These people seem to be basically loners and losers.  They exist, and are capable of behaving normally in public.  But they are not normal people who just randomly snap.  They’re people on the fringes of society with no connections and no future who eventually become angry enough to shoot random people.  The hard part is that not everyone who fits the profile is going to spree shoot.  Even for the population of loser loners, it’s probably 1% and certainly less than 5%.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think honestly it’s a bit of narcissism.  Not that having an opinion on culture issues is wrong or bad, but if you’re “waging war” about it, it’s in some form or other about the human desire to get their own way and if possible to force it on other people.


Why would it matter to a person living in California what people in Idaho think about trans issues?  Why do they care?  It doesn’t affect them that conservative Baptists don’t want their kids to be trans.  They lose no rights in California.  Why would someone in Idaho care that Californians want their kids to be trans?  It’s about control and the prevention of control.  I want everyone to agree with me, therefore I wage culture wars and try to get the power to force everyone to agree with me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I keep going back to how much of a better community existed back then.  You generally had a couple of friends who you could talk to, and had pastors, teachers, parents, and so on who knew you.


It’s much easier now to have social isolation and have no one to even notice.  And to not have a close friend or relative you could tell about your problems.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem with gun control is that it really only reliably disarms people who obey laws.  It doesn’t really work on people who break the law.  No gang member, spree shooter, or assassin is bothered by the illegality of their weapon or signs prohibiting guns from some venue.  In fact, they very likely love seeing those no guns signs because no one else is likely to be armed.  So passing more no guns in school laws or whatever other gun control laws aren’t going to work.


Furthermore, the chances that Americans will ever go for the type of gun control that happens in Europe or Australia is precisely zero.  It’s a nonstarter, and thus it’s kind of a waste of time.  If the debate is bans or restrictions on gun ownership it’s going to be the same debate we have had for decades, and will for decades to come.  It’s not going anywhere and honestly I feel like it’s a distraction and a waste of time that could be spent on ideas that Theres a chance of getting done in the next couple of years.  The kids getting shot at school in the 2020s don’t have twenty or thirty years to wait.


Mental health seems a similar dead end.  The help available is only available if you actually go and get it, and only if you happen to somehow mention the symptoms that would unlock the diagnosis.  If the person isn’t willing to be brutally honest and tell the doctor everything even someone who is seeking help isn’t getting it.  But most people are reluctant to get help.  Men especially feel that going to see a psychiatrist is weak.  Add in the red flag laws, and you make it very likely that a troubled young male will clam up instead of even trying.  And if he does, he’s likely to be careful to downplay his problems so that he doesn’t trip any triggers and get himself into trouble.


As terrible as the idea sounds, the only thing we can probably do to is to in some form or fashion make sure that the places where shootings are likely to happen have at least someone who is armed.  Nothing else will work today and it’s not something we can wait for.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t see it as demoralized to keep politics to one of several things you keep track of.  That’s honestly a good thing, in my view.  Because politics cannot fill the voids that it’s asked to do by the radical left and right.  It cannot make up for a lack of personality, nor can it make up for a lack of hobbies or social interaction.  It cannot work as a religion either.  And when politics is turned into all of that it ends up being a cause for verbal if not physical “jihad” where the others who merely disagree with you are to be subjugated and punished for being politically incorrect from your perspective.  At that point, you set the table for killing people.  It’s a dangerous game and I’m not sure where the lines will be drawn.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it depends.  If the person in question is working off some sort of actual evidence, some sort of documents, photos, recordings of an event, I’m willing to entertain the possibility, but I don’t see much benefit in just going off some other guy’s vibes.


I think JFK stinks to high heaven.  (For the record I think it was Russian agents, but given the climate at the time, if they’d admitted that, earth would be irradiated by the following nuclear war). That’s not a weird one, and I’m certainly open to other possibilities including a failed defector pulling off a miracle shot by himself and running faster than Usain Bolt only to be captured and murdered on national TV before he could be deposed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think we honestly have far far too many people who have made politics into both their identity and their religion.  The public is far too “engaged” and it leads them the believe that politics is the only thing that matters.  Add in an unhealthy amount of Last Psychiatrist style narcissistic tendencies and you end up with a toxic stew that can only lead to mental health disorders and the destruction of the country through polarization.


Watch some World Series baseball.  Carve a pumpkin.  Get a hobby.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it does matter in the sense that you have to get people interested in the game in the first place, especially the young, and as attention spans shrink, a game that’s 80% waiting for play to start is probably not going to hold as much attention as other sports.


Baseball already has this problem.  It has a game much too slow for modern audiences, and has already introduced changes to try to fix those problems.  The pitch clock, designated hitters, the free runners in extra innings— all of this is designed to speed up a game that is perceived as too slow.  And I think they’ll run into limits eventually because the game of baseball was invented in the 1890s when spending an entire afternoon playing a single game or watching a single game was a reasonable ask.  Is it really a good model in 2026 when it has to compete against faster games and better entertainment?  I think it might have trouble even though I like the game.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Theres evidence for it.  Taking the simplistic view that there are no odd goings on anywhere seems silly when you find every ancient civilization coming to believe in the same types of magical powers.  Why would every culture think that stars had something to do with the future if it never worked, or that repeating words in a trance state could make physical changes, etc.  shamanism exists everywhere.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would suspect the opposite, as Chinese live under a regime that can and has arrested people for saying the wrong things online.  I know the whole thing about Winnie the Pooh as a stand in for Xi, and it seems weird to think they’d do that on one topic but not on others.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I suppose, but looking around, I think that giving people the ability to have freedom sans responsibility has produced most of our problems today.  Would it be better to somewhat constrain people and have a functioning society or allow total freedom and live in a society where nothing works and you can’t leave the house unarmed lest you be robbed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


To me, what people call Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a syndrome of the physical body, but of the mental body. It's the absolute horror of feeling your own body fail, no longer functioning according to your will.




Trump Derangement Syndrome is really less about losing the body, and more about the wrong person being allowed to rule, and thus the body-politic if you like.  The thought is that the ego of these people cannot accept that other people who win elections have the right to implement their agenda.  They can’t accept Cthulhu swimming straight instead of hard left.  And seeing that they aren’t getting their way causes distress, especially for those who have made politics their religion.  It would be for them like what would happen to a Southern Baptist who wakes up one morning to find that America is now ruled by Sharia law.  If you see that not only your religion under the thumb of those who disagree and who are suddenly allowed to rule over the country and them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not suggesting that we need a good job for every single person, but I think if 80% of people could expect that a high school education and a bit of job training would get them a fairly good job with benefits and potentially upward mobility, then I suspect that college would be less important to most people and goes back to being upper class finishing school and maybe pre-professional training (doctors, engineers, scientists, and scholars) rather than being the almost required job training that it is now.


Ask almost anyone in college education, and you’ll hear the same story— very few are capable or interested in the material, especially the critical thinking or reading heavy courses.  They cheat as much as they can get away with, choose the easiest courses they can, and coast.  At a cost of 100,000 over a lifetime, and probably delaying normal adult life until 30, not having kids, and so on.  The system we have is bonkers


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Healthy Communities Post-"Closure of the Internet"
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Old school forums are much better for community simply because of the limited number of people on that forum and all there based on common interests.  I recognize a bunch of names here, and the sorting by replies to a post means having an actual conversation is possible rather than simply shitposting into the void.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m mostly in agreement of the thesis of the book and Caplan’s case against education.  The problem as I see it is that we really don’t have enough good jobs to go around, but we can’t admit this so we keep throwing education at the problem hoping that if we can give everyone an education that they will all do fine.  But this ignores a whole host of issues:  the massive time sink which delays productive work and family formation, the enormous costs to students and society at large, and the diminishing returns on college graduation as more and more students get those degrees.  Of course, I think FdB is correct that most people doing any skills based activities will sort themselves into tiers and stay there.  The problem is that we don’t have enough other options for kids below the B tier (and with AI on the way, the B tier is likely in trouble too) and the over education of our population is a symptom of the larger problem of not having great options for millions of people who don’t actually belong in school, and the need for the elite students to waste more time proving they’re actually worthy (which I think is probably an MS or MA or MBA by now).


It’s mostly done as an easy out.  If you can supposedly get a good job by just pushing through school hard enough, then no one in the ruling class is on the hook for whatever happens to those on the bottom rungs.  And it provides a nice sponge for most other social problems as well.  A daycare so mom can work instead of raising her kids.  An indoctrination center to make the kids believe whatever the state wants the kids to believe.  And teachers get to be underpaid social workers and psychiatrists for kids with severe problems.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I find that hyper competent characters are definitely boring and frankly they aren’t real characters to me.  I’ll agree with her up to a point.  Making someone constantly whine about having given something up is annoying.  Though to me it doesn’t turn the competence into a curse so much as it it reveals that the character is actually immature and whiney.  Most people, if they choose to give up on something to pursue their career do so with some thought to the costs.  If a person chooses to try to be a D1 quarterback, he’s obviously going to not have time for other things like making art or music or dating or other sports.  He’s also the one who decided that was what he damned well wanted and isn’t likely to spend a lot of time rehashing that decision in his head unless he either failed or doesn’t like the outcome.  Patrick Mahomes is not sitting on the sidelines wondering about the life he gave up to play football.  His career is awesome.  Some alternate universe Mahomes who snapped his ACL before the NFL draft and works as a truck driver might regret the decision because that decision made his life kinda suck.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Who wants to pay to have their kid sell cookies at Walmart?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced that it’s possible to just win an arial war.  There’s no real way to force a victory unless you have total control over the territory and that either requires Hiroshima or substantial boots on the ground.  The Iranians can simply bury or hide anything or anyone they care about, and often deep enough that only a nuke can destroy them.


The problem is the will to do those things.  The heavy casualties that come with an invasion are politically untenable— we had significant backlash against Iraq when our losses reached 1000 total.  And nukes are effectively off the table because again the political backlash would be severe.  So we just drop bombs on some targets and pretend we’re winning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The mother would also be in a position to understand and judge the claim.


There are lots of things that might make someone lie about such a thing, and if she had an ongoing pattern of lying and exaggerating to get attention or be manipulative, I think the situation would look very similar from the outside.  But if people close to her are saying she has this pattern, I tend to default to it being true, simply because they know her.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I haven’t read the book yet, and having met people who I would describe as hillbillies, honestly, I think he was leaning more into dunking on them based on stereotypes rather than making a critique of a real culture.  Hillbillies are not lazy or stupid even if most of respectable people like to think they are.  We have a strong bias against working class white people, and often claim they are lazy and stupid.


I think the opposite is true.  Ingenuity takes far more smarts than looking in a book and following the directions.  And it’s a lot more work to have a blue collar job than to type away at a laptop while drinking a Starbucks.  Get a member of the laptop class and a hillbilly on a deserted island, and the hillbilly will build a house and rig up a way to hunt or fish and his richer and better educated cohort will have no idea what to do.