Happy 228th , America!
(I’d even say ‘God Bless America’… if I weren’t such an atheist….)
~MRDA~
Attack the System- In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots 26th September 2020One point that I have consistently tried to make is that “anarchism” is not merely something that was dreamed up by Enlightenment philosophers or 19th-century radicals. While it wasn’t until Proudhon that people started calling themselves “anarchist” (Joseph Dejacque was the first to use the term “libertarian”), there are many philosophical, cultural, ethical, religious, and […]Keith Preston
- How to cure people afflicted with conspiracy theories 26th September 2020You mean “conspiracy theories” like believing in some mythical “social contract,” or in the benevolence of the state, or that the United States is a “democracy,” or that the endless wars waged by the USA are for “freedom” or “human rights,” or that the police are there to “serve and protect,” or that corporate oligarchs […]Keith Preston
- White supremacist killed in shootout with deputies in California 26th September 2020Some more fourth-generation war. A civil war in the modern United States would be one of history’s biggest messes. It would be like the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s and 1980s with dozens of factions pitted against each other, only it would be worse because a large number of people would be involved, and […]Keith Preston
- In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots 26th September 2020
- Samizdata
- Samizdata practical advice of the day 26th September 2020If you find yourself moved to attend a public protest in the UK, but are not a member of a group that your local Plod choose to kneel in support of, might I suggest you protect yourself, because it is likely violent thugs may decide your protest is unwanted. A good way to do this […]Perry de Havilland (London)
- Modern slavery 26th September 2020At CapX, James Bloodworth writes, And yet, left-wing politicians and activists still flock to anything emitting a whiff of revolution “like bluebottles to a dead cat”, as George Orwell once put it. The much-vaunted Cuban healthcare system is a case in point. Throughout the six months of the Covid pandemic, we’ve seen various stories emerge […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- The dam breaks: the New York Times reports on intimidation by BLM 25th September 2020On the 21st September, to my surprise, the New York Times carried this report by Nellie Bowles: “Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach”. Both the writer of the headline and Ms Bowles herself in the article made some attempt to keep the dam plugged with the euphemistic reference to “a more […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata practical advice of the day 26th September 2020
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- PARABLE OF THE COMMUTER TRAIN 21st November 2019by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- RAW LAND 11th November 2019by John GrauerholzI love the lonely landscapes, the empty places, the solitary spaces. I am beguiled by the barren scenery that is not quite desert, yet a geography that is still too unforgiving to be farmland. A soil that is not devoid of vegetation, but an earth where all the plants have already turned brown. […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandewring Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Wisdom Dancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Knowledge Matters, Too (Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race)With all due respect to the intentions behind #blackouttuesday and other online hashtag campaigns, a lot of online activism is most effective at making people feel good for participating, and showing “solidarity.” It’s low in cost (of time and effort) to post … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Fear is the CrisisFor many years now, my conviction has been that the great undeveloped area of human education is a suitable understanding and appreciation of human nature, especially commonalities of the mind—the ways in which we habitually think, and what each of … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continued
- Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 9/26/2020 – Brown Pundits 26th September 2020I have mixed feelings about casting Dev Patel as Gawain. Though my feelings are not strong, they are similar to my feelings about casting white actors as non-Europeans in the past: you get over it, but it takes away from verisimilitude. Please make sure that you subscribe to the podcast (there are links to various […]Razib Khan
- The great panmixia 25th September 2020Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene: The history of human inbreeding is controversial. The development of sedentary agricultural societies may have had opposite influences on inbreeding levels. On the one hand, agriculture and food surplus may have diminished inbreeding by increasing population sizes and lowering endogamy, i.e. inbreeding due to population isolation. […]Razib Khan
- Neanderthal Y chromosomes are paleo-modern? 24th September 2020I don’t have time to blog in detail today so I’ll point you to Ann Gibbon’s story, How Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome. You can find the link to the paper in there. The big issue here is that both mtDNA and Y chromosomes were replaced due to introgression from a population closer to modern […]Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 9/26/2020 – Brown Pundits 26th September 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020
- Instead of a Blog
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]Unknown
- Real Talk on Guns 9th March 2018It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]Unknown
- Death Wish's Yankee Homo Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves with a Knife 8th March 2018Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]Unknown
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018
- Evolutionist X
- Color Wheel Frustration 20th September 2020Remember the color wheel? When you were a kid, your art teacher probably taught you the standard color wheel: If you have red, blue, and yellow paint, you can combine them to make any color (except black, white, gold, silver, magenta, neon anything…) Okay, almost any color. Red + Blue = Purple, Blue + Yellow […]evolutiontheorist
- Conspiracy Theory Theory 7th September 2020Our ancestors–probably long before they were even human–had to differentiate between living and non-living things. Living things can be eaten (and, importantly, can eat you back); non-living generally taste bad, can’t be eaten, and won’t try to eat you. This is a task of such essential importance that I think it is basically an innate […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Clean House, by Tom Fitton 31st August 2020While trapped in limbo with no internet, I read, well, the only thing available that wasn’t about cancer (thankfully I don’t have cancer), Tom Fitton’s Clean House: Exposing our government’s secrets and lies. Overall: This book is four years old and kind of boring. It makes some interesting points, however, which I will try to […]evolutiontheorist
- Color Wheel Frustration 20th September 2020
- Human Stupidity
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020Does the Bible allow to misinform the population in order to avoid “prejudice”? Does the Bible consider humans too immature to be told the truth? What if omitting the truth causes homicides, death, hate, and rape? Who is the sinner, if naïve uninformed people get in harm’s way, because of media cover-ups; if students are […]Programmer
- We know that media are wrong in our field of expertise; yet on other topics we trust them [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect] 3rd September 2020Experts forget how badly their own subject is treated in media and believe that subjects they don’t know much about are treated more competently by the same media. [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.] “You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Lies by media, police, politicians are treated as “isolated incidents” of misinformation, not of wholesale […]Programmer
- Postmodernism: Denial of Objective Reality and of Facts is Dishonest 18th August 2020Postmodernism denies facts and objective reality. The truth is based not on agreed upon facts and evidence, but is contingent on narrative and point of view. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Shameless postmodernist lying utterly corrupted Social Sciences. Postmodernist dogmatism in social sciences and politics causes mayhem and death, even for the “disadvantaged minorities” which […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- SA1160 | Dora Marsden: Vida y obra | León Darío (Spanish) 18th September 2020Escritora, editora de varias publicaciones, literata, filósofa, activista sufragista, luego reinventada como anarquista individualista—egoísta, anarco-feminista! Dora Marsden: Vida y obra” by León Darío (editor of individualist-anarchist journal “El errante”). Spanish-language introduction to British suffragette, egoist and philosopher Dora Marsden (1882-1960). First time in print. Illustrated, 20 pages. Este folleto impreso en una edición de sesenta y […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Karl Marx: The Dad That Failed 1st July 2020The God that Failed is a 1949 collection of essays by men and women familiar with and thereby disenchanted with socialism. While an egoist might prefer to consider individuals as individuals, moment by moment, a socialist will instead visit praise and condemnation on groups based on group considerations. Here, let me try that on for […]Trevor Blake
- Malfew Seklew, Freak Among Reformers 3rd June 2020ON TOUR The Malfew Seklew Egoist-Socialist Propaganda Co. Malfew Seklew, lecturer; Erwin McCall, advertising manager; J. W. Gott, treasurer; W. Barrie, secretary. MALFEW SEKLEW, the New Apostle of the New Gospel, the New Crusader of Egoistic Socialism, the Originator of Immoral Socialism, the Inventor of the New Method of Propagating the New Thought of New […]Trevor Blake
- SA1160 | Dora Marsden: Vida y obra | León Darío (Spanish) 18th September 2020
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