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Category Archives: Ideology
In Science & Mathematics: Women Get Special Preferences but Earn Less Credit; Is it Fair?
Women Get Special Preferences: …Cornell University psychologists have found that a highly qualified woman applying for a tenure-track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an … Continue reading
Posted in Human Brain, Ideology, Science, Sex Differences, Testosterone
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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Discuss the Ruling Death Cult
Elon Musk has revealed he decided to buy Twitter – which he has rebranded as X – because it was being used as an “information weapon” to propagate a far left “mind virus” to the rest of earth. The tech … Continue reading
Posted in Elon Musk, George Soros, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology, Idiocracy, Nihilism
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John Clauser 2022 Nobel Winner in Physics: Cancelled for Telling the Truth!
At a 2023 quantum physics conference in Korea, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Physics made some brief comments about the importance of distinguishing science from pseudoscience. I recommend watching the short 13 minute video below in order to understand … Continue reading
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Why Strong Women are Weak: Group-Thinking Ideologues Write Bad Stories
Disney Studios has had a long string of failures at the box office, many of them being movies that attempt to portray strong women — but in fact portray the weakness of woke feminist screenwriting. And that makes all women … Continue reading
YouTube vs. Rumble: Modest Comparison of Searches
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the exposure of its inner workings has revealed an undeniable truth: our technological media is infested by political agents who want to keep you blind and ignorant. Consider two searches of the phrase “The … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology, Media
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Jordan Peterson Targets the Climate Apocalypse and the Woke Apocalypse; Staying Relevant When Most Intellectuals Can’t
Over the past few months, Jordan Peterson has delivered the goods to his podcast viewers on some of the most existential questions of our time. Between the Climate Apocalypse and the Woke Apocalypse, it is uncertain whether the western world … Continue reading
Crippling Young Girls: The Fashionable Sadist
In ancient China, foot-binding was the method of choice for deforming and disabling young girls and young women. Chinese foot-binding of girls was practiced for 1,000 years. In the more enlightened 21st century, chest-binding is the method of choice for … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology, Sex Differences
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A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism
I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Climate, Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Ideology, Jordan Peterson, Nuclear Power, Postmodernism, psychology, Russia
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Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Canadian Truckers: The Wokester’s Knives are Out
It is risky to stand out from the crowd in an age of “woke stupidity.” If independent thinkers like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan pursue their own conspicuous programs of free speech with interesting people, the woke overlords will feel … Continue reading
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Irony
Irony is the figurative term for the disconnect between what appears to happen or what is apparently being said and the actual truth or reality. __ Source The singer in the song above expresses one meaning in the lyrics, while it … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Ideology, Politics, Propaganda, satire
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How Belief Systems Crumble
Human belief systems are fascinating things. Whether they last a lifetime or whether they are demolished and rebuilt every few years, they all share some things in common. A belief system is ordinarily built from many separate pieces, like a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Ideology, Philosophy
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They Cannot Help But Go Too Far
Over the years, Maher’s audiences have always been trained seals, reliably clapping at every hard left, anti-George Bush, anti-Trump, pro-Obama statement the host utters. But this time, he said that the BLM rap pushing Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) on American society … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Ideology, Politics
Tagged leftist idiocy
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Americans are Leaving California and New York in Favor of Florida and Texas
Americans who live in Democrat Party-run states such as New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey, are experiencing economic hardship, high unemployment, and draconian regulations and taxes. The highest unemployment states are Hawaii, Nevada, California, Colorado, New York, New Mexico, … Continue reading
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When Overreaction is the Only Tactic Available
This whole business over the Capitol riots long ago passed the overreaction threshold and entered the realm of the absurd… MSNBC Host Proposes Drone Strikes Against Trump Supporters In the age of “rule by leftist extremists,” if you do not … Continue reading
A Most Remarkable Man
Author, TV/movie producer, director, adventurer, and all around polymath Michael Crichton died of lymphoma in 2008. But he left a large legacy of work in print and on the screen that will outlive the man for many decades. While he … Continue reading
Ideology Was Once a Fine Idea
The word “ideology” had a fine beginning, revealing bright prospects for the future: The word first made its appearance in French as idéologie at the time of the French Revolution, when it was introduced by a philosopher, A.-L.-C. Destutt de … Continue reading
So Stupid Only an Intellectual Would Believe It
George Orwell’s timeless admonition, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them,” has been given new life by the desperate efforts of pundits, scholars and Twitter blue-checks to defend the violence, looting, disorder and general monstrousness that have … Continue reading
Odds and Ends
The world is a complex place, and most of the topics that we should be discussing are either “blacked out” by censors in media, academia, government, and culture at large — or they are off the radar screen of these … Continue reading
El Paso Shooter Wanted to Kill Tens of Millions
Twenty-one year old accused mass murderer Patrick Crusius wanted to eliminate tens of millions of US residents so that Universal Basic Income could work more efficiently. He seems to have left a manifesto explaining his thoughts behind his actions: “In … Continue reading
Dystopian Fiction, Dystopian Reality
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU __ Orwell, 1984, Chapter 1 Dystopian societies bend the meanings of words and natural human emotions badly out of shape. This is done to make it … Continue reading
Why Can’t Socialists Handle the Truth?
They feel that they have good intentions. This utopian dream of theirs is so vivid they can almost taste it! But why do they never sit down with the veterans of failed utopias and talk over the problems that their … Continue reading
Leftist Economics: The Magical Accretion of Wealth
As George Orwell observed, “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” __ https://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/20190319/my-turn-mackubin-thomas-owens-ignoring-socialisms-countless-corpses Socialism is once again fashionable in certain circles of American society — particularly in the university, the media, political activist circles, … Continue reading
Flee the Cult: Sad Radicals of Inbred Intellectualism
Excerpted from “Sad Radicals” by Conor Barnes (Quillette Dec 2018) …The ideology and norms of radicalism have evolved to produce toxic, paranoid, depressed subjects. What follows is a picture of what happens in communities that are passionately, sincerely, radically woke, … Continue reading
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Tagged Political Philosophy
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Genetic Drift vs. Memetic Drift
Genes vs. Memes Most readers have at least a rough idea of what genes are and how they work in biology. The types of genes that are prevalent in a population help determine how prosperous and accomplished that population will … Continue reading
The Universe is Infinite: Economic Growth is Forever*
Since Dawn of History: Humans Discover Opportunity and Growth Human progress and economic growth followed a natural — but bumpy and uneven — track. Agriculture led to surplus wealth, cities, specialisation of labour, and trade. Despite thousands of years of … Continue reading
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