Of culture wars and Mongol hordes; Of immigrants and kings
After us, the people of our race will wear garments of gold; they will eat sweet, greasy food, ride splendid coursers, and hold in their arms »
Our Areas of Research Interest
Science and the Press are broken. Somehow politics has crept in and distorted what they say and what they teach and what we are allowed to »
Passivism and The Procedure
In his "Gentle Introduction, Part 9a", Mencius Moldbug introduces a neat little political methodology he calls "Passivism", and a Procedure to replace the current political machinery, »
A Disney World
"Walt Disney wanted to be frozen," Bob Nelson says, as casually as if he were talking about municipal bonds. "Lots of people think that he was, »
The Ladder
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work is excellent. There's one poem of his, "The Ladder of St. Augustine", that I find particularly compelling: Saint Augustine! well hast thou »
Why Methodists don't go to heaven
A few months ago I was talking to some divinity school students, many of whom were on track to being ordained Methodist ministers. I’m always »
Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security
Back in 2010 or so, I used to hang out at /r/anarchism on Reddit. It was a neat place to talk about how different strains »
Monkey Politics and Political Entrepreneurship
Sometimes people think of politics as this far-away thing that's about elections and Democrats and Republicans. They imagine that if they simply don't talk about elections »
We Support Diversity and Equality
I'm afraid I don't have a source, but these are allegedly headlines from the French Newspaper "Moniteur" in March of 1815, on the subject of Napoleon's »
Reply to Julia Galef on Tradition
Julia Galef, a prominent member of the "Rationality" community, responded in one of her videos a while ago to an argument very like my Structured Argument »
The Tragedy of Light
I’ve never been a huge anime fan, but Death Note is the one show that I’ve really enjoyed. The intricate plot can be simplified »
The Pensioner and the Aristocrat
There’s a small movement of personal finance bloggers who argue that a lot of people should be retiring early – think 35 or 40 rather than »
Social Technology and Anarcho-Tyranny
1. When people talk about politics, they generally fall into one of three groups. The first and by far the largest group basically argues “more good »
The Dark Side of the Weak Galt Hypothesis
One of the facts that I like to surprise people with is that in many East Asian countries, there are no such things as ghettos. Oh, »
Entryism as Exploited Containment Failure Between Subcultures
The post on boundaries was something of a standalone theory prerequisite for a discussion of how subcultures need walls, and what form those walls take. I’ »
The Weak Galt Hypothesis
Nick Land provides a fresh angle of attack at the fertility question. In a world where economic might is the main arena of competition, do countries »
On Saving the World and Other Delusions
1. I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who suffered a crisis of faith of sorts. His startup, which initially had an extremely »
Importance of Boundaries
If you introduce a chemical (eg penicillin) that attacks the ability of bacteria to form cell walls, they lose their cell walls. This kills the bacteria. »
When Did Healthy Communities Become Illegal?
The scene is Upper Monarch Lake, ten thousand feet up in the mountains of the Sequoia National Park in California. If you got here, you climbed »
The Circle of Equity
I want to introduce the central concept of Ottoman political theory I first found reading Norman Itzowitz’s book Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition. The Circle »
Hacking Technological Determinism for Fun and Profit
I’ve recently encountered and more fully grokked some ideas that invalidate my previous understanding of how to achieve political ends. To start with, I saw »
Material and Social Technologies
What causes ascents and collapses? What if the West is in fact in decline in some important indicator? Low interest rates means its hard to find »
Functional Institutions Are The Exception
Every great company is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning . I stress this so often that »
Conquest’s Second Law
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. -John Derbyshire, Conquest’s Laws I have thought about this question on and off, for the »
A Structured Argument for Traditions, and Notes on the Form
An argument for traditions: The space of possible human cultural practices is large. The subspace of 1 which is well tuned, robust, compatible with human flourishing, »
The Allais "Paradox" and Scam Vulnerability
The Allais Paradox is a result in behavioural psychology that shows that humans apparently do not behave in accordance with expected utility theory. Specifically, according to »
This is the Future Primaeval
It has not been apparent until now, but this is actually a group blog, composed of a small group of people with similar ideas which are »
Circumstance Follows Virtue
At my previous job, I worked with an interesting man. He was not all that intellectual or cultured, but there were a few key facts that »
White Man's Burden Revisited
Our good friend Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in 1899. The poem argued for the White nations to conquer the world and uplift their »
A Case Study in Cultural Transmission
I know some divorced folks whose story is somewhat illustrative of the issues we are interested in at this blog. J grew up in a WASP »
Why We Even Lift
No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old »
Filial Piety (Video)
Glorious Chinese propaganda. Makes me want to treat my elders well and live a virtuous life. »
Towards a Sustainable Life Culture
Our ancestors, when able, passed on their wisdom about how to live to the younger generations. They received some useful culture, skills, gods, myths, norms, and »
