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 »
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, »
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 »
