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- AetherCzar The Hidden Truth
- Al Fin Family of Blogs All the Al Fin blogs since 2005
- Al Fin, The Dangerous Child The Dangerous Child Blog
- An Audacious Epigone A statistical look at important social issues of the day
- Anthony Watts Independent and irreverent look at the turbulent world of climate change
- Anti Puritan Axel McKibbens Neoreaction Blog
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- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
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- Climate etc. Judith Curry on Climate
- Dark Enlightenment News Dynamic Gateway to Neoreaction News and Articles
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- Addicted to Distraction Bruce Charlton Looks at Mass Delusion
- Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do In Search of a Free Country
- An Unsettling Climate by Rupert Darwall Tales of the climate apocalypse movement
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- Black Book of Communism It’s Killed 100 million, and it’s not finished yet!
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- Climate Primer Layman’s Guide to Man-Made Climate Change
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- Neoreaction Resources Online readings and resources
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- Nick Land's Dark Enlightenment The Dark Enlightenment Series
- Nuclear War Survival Skills How to Survive the Big One
- Orwell's 1984 A fictitious dark future that sometimes seems all too possible
- Popper: Logic of Scientific Discovery Popper’s classic text on growing sound science
- Race Differences in Cognitive Ability (30 Years) Black-White IQ differences persist over time
- Readings on Philosophy of Science, Physics, Maths Miscellaneous readings of interest
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- Robinson Self-Taught Homeschool Curriculum A gift of cognitive and motive independence
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- Survivor Library Files Survival/prepper file flood
- Text Files . com Copious text files on forbidden and not forbidden topics
- The Industry Handbook Quick and useful overview of a number of industrial sectors for investors
- The Law Frederic Bastiat’s classic critique of socialism and democracy
- The Nuclear Energy Option Online Ebook Free online ebook by by Bernard L Cohen
- Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions On Scientific Paradigm Shifts
- Why Wind Won't Work Clear explanation of the many problems with wind energy in a 30 pp PDF document
Optimism
- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
- Grey Enlightenment Conservatively optimistic economics/finance
- John McCarthy: Sustained Progress How Scientific and Technological Progress can be Sustained
- Julian Simon Online works of Julian Simon, eternal optimist
- Lifeboat Foundation blog Blog of the futurist Lifeboat Foundation
- Matt Ridley Rational Optimism
- Mike Rowe Works Foundation Correcting the Skills gap
- Patri Friedman and Seasteading Projects of Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton, son of David
- Peter H. Diamandis' website X Prize, Singularity University, Planetary Resources, etc.
- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
- Robert Bryce Better Living Through Technology
- Seasteading Institute Quest for Free Living on the Oceans
- The Arts Mechanical An exploration of the technologies that affect our lives
Category Archives: Coming Anarchy
How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age
The arctic blasts of cold weather known as polar vortices, are just a foretaste of what is coming, as the long overdue “coming ice age” bears down on human civilization, with a vengeance. When the deep cold finally hits us, … Continue reading
A Spectrum of Homelessness in the US
Brief Summary: Homelessness in the US comes from many causes. Each cause of homelessness — whether bad luck, drug addiction, mental illness, or the phenomenon of the criminal transient who chooses to be homeless and prey on weaker homeless — … Continue reading
What Breed of Human Can Survive in the Future Commons?
In the Future: Death from the Commons Today we can safely travel around the world, by air, sea, rail, and highway. We can breathe the common air, eat the common food, and often drink the common drinks, taking only the … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Doom, Environment, Military, Nuclear War, satire, Weapons
Tagged drones, nanoweapons
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Today’s Left: A Compassionate Beating, a Caring Riot
Leftists Think of Themselves as “Caring and Compassionate” But there is a huge difference between “feelings of compassion,” and true acts of kindness. One is known by his actions, not by his words or his “feelings.” And the actions of … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Groupthink, Ideology, Idiocracy, Politics, Propaganda, Terrorism, University, Zombies
Tagged leftist idiocy
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Can Donald Trump Stop this Idiocracy from Happening?
Global average human IQ has been declining for decades. Scientists are just beginning to decipher the genetic code for why an Idiocracy is looming on the horizon. A study from Iceland is the latest to raise the prospect of a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Donald Trump, Fertility, Idiocracy, IQ
Tagged genes and IQ, Idiocracy
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“White Supremacism” Takes on an Odd Complexion
Playing the Victim Proves Impossible to Resist The list of “fake hate crimes” is growing ever longer. People of the third world are being victimised at record rates, if claims are to be believed. But are the claims believable? Only, … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks and crime, Coming Anarchy, Crime, Demographics, Europe, Fertility, Germany, Human Slavery, Islam's Bloody Borders, Propaganda, Racial Myths
Tagged Immigration, race and crime
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Through the Looking Glass: The Black Swan Called Trump
No One Believed Peter Zeihan Until Now In the 2014 book “The Accidental Superpower,” Zeihan predicted the withdrawal of the US from a wide range of longstanding international agreements, leading to a weakening of the present world order. With the … Continue reading
Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Empire, Europe, Future, geopolitics, Government, Groupthink, Human Slavery, Ideology, Idiocracy, innovation, Islam's Bloody Borders, Media
Tagged Disruptive Technologies, geopolitics, propaganda media
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Age of Disintegration, Age of Promise: Opportunities of the Coming Breakup
Dozens of Nations Will Not Be Able to Hold Onto What They Have The globe is crowded with unwieldy, oversized, unstable nations pretending to be something they are not. Winter is coming, and by “winter” I mean a spreading state … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Discontinuities, Dysgenics, geopolitics, Human Slavery, Megacities
Tagged anarchy, dysgenics, Megacities
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Asian Giants on Different Points of Demographic Spectrum
Demography is Destiny The above series of population pyramids depicts the ongoing evolution of Japan’s population spectrum, from 1950 to 2055. But it also roughly depicts the relative demographic status of India, China, and Japan respectively. More: Japan faces a … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Siberia
Tagged China_Russia, Demographic Decline
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Discovering Peter Zeihan: When Heads Explode
Charles Hugh Smith Discovers Peter Zeihan Charles Hugh Smith is a blogger – author who is open-minded enough to acknowledge new ideas when they hit him on the head. Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst who loads his arguments with … Continue reading
US States vs Rest of World: 3 States w/ Larger Economies than Russia
US States Compete With Each Other, Not the Rest of the World Even now, as the federal government has become obese and overly intrusive, states still must compete with each other to attract and retain workers. States like California that … Continue reading
Demography and Fertility: Destiny and the Fickle Womb
The lowest TFR rate in 1970 was Finland at 1.8, but by 2014 Singapore had the lowest rate at just 0.8! The highest rate in 1970 was Rwanda which had a TFR of 8.2. In 2014, Niger had the highest … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Dysgenics, Economics
Tagged Demographic Decline, dysgenics
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World Disorder Grows
Global Anarchy Begins to Swell 22 years ago, Robert D. Kaplan published his famous article — The Coming Anarchy — in The Atlantic. The article was followed 6 years later by a book of the same name, including the original … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Dysgenics, Idiocracy
Tagged anarchy, Idiocracy
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World Flooded With Low-Quality Youth
Of All the Varieties of “Doom,” Demographic Doom is Most Likely to Lead to Wars and Collapse … it’s the youth bulge that stands to put greater pressure on the global economy, sow political unrest, spur mass migration and have … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Dysgenics, Migrations
Tagged anthropology, Emigration
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Who Needs to Die?
… The hypothalamic attack region controls defensive-aggressive behavior. If scientists stimulate these neurons with an electrode, an animal will instantly become aggressive and attack a test animal in the cage. … When it works as intended we call it quick … Continue reading
Why Won’t the Bitch Just Die?
Western Civilisation Shows a Marked Reticence to Roll Over and Die Doomers are a dime a dozen. According to such doomers as Ehrlich, Orlov, Kuntsler, Cobb, etc. the nations of the west should have dropped dead long ago from one … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Doom, Government, Peter Zeihan
Tagged doom, innovation
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A Modern Civilisation Without Working Power Grids and Internets?
The Congressional EMP Commission has repeatedly warned that a nuclear Scud missile launched from a freighter could prompt a U.S. blackout that would … last for at least a year, but kill nine in every 10 Americans. There are nearly … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Electrical Power Grid, Internet, Privacy, Rebuilding Civilisation, Technology
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Global Civilisations in 2016: The Clash Has Not Been Cancelled
Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups… Muslims have the youngest median age (23 in 2010) of all major religious groups… More than a third of Muslims are concentrated in Africa and the Middle … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Europe, Islam's Bloody Borders
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Pitiful Earthlings: Who Can Save You in 2016?
Will the Disintegration of the Russian Government Lead to Chaos? Robert D. Kaplan says yes, and there are many reasons to agree. A few optimists have other ideas: The looming disintegration of the Russian Federation would “not be a catastrophe … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Economics, Migrations, Russian Decline
Tagged Immigration
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The Road to Moscow Runs Through Central Asia
Russia had long blocked China’s attempts to create an infrastructure development bank under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional body, fearing it would become a tool for Chinese economic expansion. Beijing responded by sidestepping Moscow, establishing an … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Idiocracy, Russian Decline
Tagged Central Asia, geopolitics
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Imagining Future Worlds: Why Intellectuals Always Get it Wrong
Why Intellectuals Can’t Think Most Intellectuals Possess No Practical Skills Because most intellectuals are unable to think or act in practical terms, their future imaginings take on the trappings of all they have been told going back to university — … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Dysgenics, Future, Groupthink, University
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Government of Sweden Committing Genocide
Sweden is forced to marry a man she did not choose, yet she is expected to love and honor him even though he beats her and treats her badly. And on top of that, her parents (the government) tell her … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Dysgenics, Europe, Idiocracy, Islam's Bloody Borders, Weapons
Tagged 3D Printing, dysgenics, Firearms, Immigration, islam, Sweden
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BRICS Built on Faked Economic Numbers
For 20 years, benefiting from very low income levels and a huge labour market combing with a willingness to embrace Western investment, China has sustained double-digit growth. Now, as the labour pool dries up and labour costs rise that growth … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Economics
Tagged bric, china bubble
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Adventures in Global Demographics
Uneducated and unskilled populations are proliferating, while skilled and educated populations are dying off. [By 2050] there will be more Japanese over age 80 than under 15. Japan’s population – now 127 million – is expected to fall to 108 … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Europe, Fertility, Idiocracy, Islam's Bloody Borders, Russia
Tagged TFR
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