Person And Fetus Indivisible No Avail 2022-02-14 | Thinking Critically About Abortion: abortionarguments.com/p/full-text.html Induced Abortion in America: guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states Abortion Surveillance System FAQ: cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htmPublic Opinion On Abortion in America: pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/17/key-facts-about-the-abortion-debate-in-america Indexed: pewresearch.org/search/abortionCarnegie stages visuals and overview: http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/carnStages/carnStages.htmlpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govFor balance’s sake, here’s a Future-Like-Ours argument for the wrongness of abortion: courses.edx.org/c4x/GeorgetownX/phlx101-01/asset/marquis.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0I3NvK31N4WJe7nlBhTbwMypPjpDUgFvc-dvSCVhZbuYANZBw0jngR90cIf I decide to treat abortion as an important enough issue to warrant revisiting its pro and nay arguments in future videos, let me know if this paper was obnoxious enough or troubling enough in your eyes such that you'd like to see it given a fair hearing and detailed rebuking. I happen to think it's a nothing-burger, falling short of warranting line-by-line attention, but I do regard the guys at Very Bad Wizards more highly than I let on during the video, so I guess for those indirect reasons, the paper's existence is nagging at me enough to throw out this proposal and see if anyone else feels impressed or challenged by it.The VBW podcast is decent listening if you're the type of person who can look the other way when it comes to extremely disappointing views expressed by the podcaster somewhere between 20-30% of the time.
Sexy Not Good For You No Avail 2024-10-10 | Man Was At Ease Callous.0:00-1:40 A Dangerous Toy1:40-3:07 Things That Don’t Fit3:07-5:42 Towards A Gendered Understanding Of Things That Don’t Fit 5:42-6:55 Slang Makes It Worse 6:55-7:49 Fitted For Superiority Complex 7:49-8:46 Why Rap Had To Be That Way / Geopolitics As Makeshift Convo 8:46-9:32 Guys As Projected $luts9:32-10:57 Best Ever Selfie / I Join The Cult 10:57-11:32 He Rightly Heard She Put Out11:32-11:57 Me From 3 Months Ago On Presidential Identity11:57-28:06 Response To Coconut 28:06-30:34 Then Came The Wars And Unpredictability 30:34-32:13 Can’t Even War Game This32:13-35:17 Booze Foments Inmost Nature 35:17-41:46 Bob Wallace’s Muslimy Screed On Women 41:46-46:44 Man Was At Ease Callous !46:44-48:51 Poor Fella Who Did Nothing Wrong / Mount Male Freedom 48:51-51:32 Ezra As Non-Angry Man51:32-1:01:12 Defending E-Wh0res On One Front 1:01:12-1:04:02 Open Your Mouth, Woman! 1:04:02-1:05:05 Unfair To Buddhism 1:05:05-1:06:52 Schop Class In Session: Memory Games You1:06:52-1:10:06 My Thoughts On Dating 1:10:06-1:11:21 Gendered Renovation Of Counsels & Maxims 1:11:21-1:12:34 Anything But Whatever 1:12:34-1:15:26 Oh The Chronology !1:15:26-1:27:06 Sexual Capitalism / Have More Contempt / Back To The Bear / Recall The Bondage Movie 1:27:06-1:30:00 What Makes A Victory 1:30:00-1:31:47 Dullard With Juicy Posterior 1:31:47-1:34:11 If You Watch 'Toxic Femininity' Tell Me About It1:34:11-1:38:57 Sexuality Taboos As Nudity Discomfort/Grossness1:38:57-1:40:16 Anger Directed At 'WEIRD' Hawks1:40:16-1:42:48 South Park’s Ozempic Ep: Moms Were Too Sleezy / Midriffs Galore 1:42:48-1:48:12 Always Again With Cartman 1:48:12-1:51:51 Trolls vs. Graceless Critics (And The Silly Women Who Can’t Tell Them Apart) 1:51:51-1:57:13 Why There Is War / How I Once Thought / Women Spread Ideas Better 1:57:13-1:59:51 Man Wins Nadir Spot1:59:51-2:01:27 Womb Only Knows Egoic Backtalk2:01:27-2:05:20 Ellen Took Time 2:05:20-2:07:44 Muh Gendered Whitelash 2:07:44-2:10:53 Fatkeisha 13 For Life / Dat “So Unsexy” Track Tho2:10:53-2:15:16 I Read J_og’s Tweet / White Guys Take Notice ! 2:15:16-2:16:42 Tradwives Are More Parasitic On Hubby / Wh0res Are If Nothing Else Self-Sufficient 2:16:42 Filthy Rascal I must go deal with annoying IRL matters now, but the links will be added soon. It's a characteristically long video, and I hate not having a links for it immediately. Alas, life is abrupt.
Nietzsche Was Wrong And Deluded No Avail 2024-09-18 | 0:00-3:33 The Anti-Anti-Vice Man3:33-6:31 I Eat At Niches 6:31-7:55 Spiritualized Enmity / Youth As Peace Aversion, Per Niches 7:55-8:57 Why So Reverential?!8:57-10:57 Better At Poetry 10:57-11:53 How It All Ends 11:53-14:28 Niches The Fair Weather Moralist 14:28-15:41 Life Caused All You Condemn 15:41-17:41 Hey Moral Hammer… 17:41-23:15 Niches As Shivering Bag Of Mucus And Bones23:15-25:16 Mob Ends Your Life / Mass Jeerer / Why The Salvation?25:16-31:27 Roots Of Familial Rot31:27-32:15 I Recall The Frankfurt School32:15-32:51 In Lieu Of Static32:51-34:21 Simply Avoid Poop 34:21-35:32 And They Think We're Sick… 35:32-38:07 But Could Be There’s A Silent Majority Unconvinced That Intentional Non-Begetters Are The Sick Ones38:07-44:49 The Father-Daughter Bond / We’ve Had A Bad Run44:49-51:27 Deafening Silence / Life Brings Bereavement51:27-53:26 Schop Too Said Crawl On53:26-58:54 The Amazing, Unjustly Suppressed “Better Limp Than Simp” Video58:54-1:00:51 Whites Who Mean Well1:00:51-1:04:48 How To Watch Black Mind 1:04:48-1:08:43 Best Of / Why I Watch Black Mind 1:08:43-1:10:28 Moving On1:10:28-1:11:34 Don’t Flex For Vanity 1:11:34-1:12:08 How To Manipulate Liars 1:12:08-1:20:09 Majestic Freestyler 1:20:09 I Perform ‘Hate Psalm’ The Original: Hate Song by Porcupine Tree: youtube.com/watch?v=P1D-a-vVYcwAll credit goes to Steven Wilson and the whole PT crew. And So, As With Life, All Things Must Come To A FinTwilight of the Idols: youtube.com/watch?v=el_j3jR3P58Even the best voice of all time couldn't salvage it... sscpodcast.libsyn.com/highlights-from-the-comments-on-nietzscheMuh based supressed video: rumble.com/v5do6ea-better-limp-than-simp.html?e9s=src_v1_uppHARRY MAC: youtube.com/@HarryMack/videos
Better Limp Than Simp No Avail 2024-09-04 | Brand New! I just can't wait for the long-advertised gender videos I guess.0:00-2:51 Porky Told Stories2:51-3:35 Three Cheers For Chess 3:35-7:02 Sick In The Pelvis 7:02-7:57 Safe Empathetic Understanding Man7:57-11:45 That’s Not A Chess Master 11:45-15:58 World Of Terror / I’d Be Too Furious If Near Murderers 15:58-17:28 Drinking Is Bad 17:28-18:02 Avoidist Virtues (Counsels And Maxims) 18:02-24:07 Special Advisory To Young Men 24:07-26:39 Don’t Sweat The SMV26:39-27:40 Overlooked Wing Of Hypergamy27:40-30:44 The Only Ripe Advice: Watching Adult Swim A Lot =/= Directionless30:44-32:33 Freak On! 32:33-37:14 The Best/Only Birthday Polemic You’ll Hear37:14-38:07 Trying To Help In Ways No One Helped Me38:07-39:27 East vs. West: Male Resume As Hypergamy-Catnip 39:27-44:29 How To Advance Male Kvetching 44:29-51:43 The Defiantly Lazy Good Life Alt title based on verbal slip in the audio: The Defyingly Lazy Good Life 51:43-54:49 Olden Motives For Segregation / Keep Your Belle Safe 54:49-57:02 Throat-Clear On Incoming Reply To SkidRowRadio 57:02-59:03 Gender And Visuality 59:03-1:00:34 The Blaire White Challenge1:00:34-1:02:39 Ceding The Point1:02:39-1:04:13 Rubin Is Always Stupider 1:04:13-1:04:33 Pleasure Deceives You1:04:33-1:22:10 Response time, including tangents: Future Is Speculative / Ben Makes Fine Points / Too TERF-y Attitudinally / When To Do Price Controls / On Trans Erasure1:22:10-1:24:31 I Ain’t All That / Only Seem Moody 1:24:31-1:28:42 Cultural Bolshevism As Pressure To Sing “Happy Birthday” (a last minute addon motivated by the tsunamis of antisemitic drivel I’m seeing on twatter; all of it unworthy of serious engagement, prompting my proffering of something equally preposterous)1:28:42-1:46:03 Resumed Response To Ben. Plenty more here. I even get serious.1:46:03-1:47:31- Dame Cries Too Much At Work 1:47:31-1:50:20 Simp Went To Mace Truth (and worse!) 1:50:20-1:58:47 Bouncer Has Memoirs / Boners Are Harmful / Strip Club As Overgrown Butters Racket / Bruv Ain't No Butters / Unfair To Buddhists / Came Home All Clawed1:58:47-2:04:29 Fatherhood And Quality Control 2:04:29-2:08:30 Boys Need Based Fathers 2:08:30-2:12:17 Matt Walsh Is Servile 2:12:17-2:13:04 Okay it’s not a French cartoon in the particular clip I chose here.2:13:04-2:15:03 Pledge To Halt Boners 2:15:03-2:16:22 Y’all Need Therapy More Than Us2:16:22-2:17:09 Clits Wet For Bondage Movie 2:17:09- Ice Ice BabyEx-Bouncer speaks: youtu.be/fIfhe4k8xtc?si=qBMrm-g_OX0xbK34 SkidRowRadio: youtu.be/uS3N42mQCb0?si=cdacAu3jDcAcCusx Maybe I’ll finish the reply and upload the rest soon.Just saying: youtu.be/DaQGElmlAOc?si=8X3nn-k-TXEym0Gb Simp turned burglar and would-be kidnapper: youtu.be/-LUh5NYWngQ?si=3kv773szHtShpcM0 There's more to link, but memory muscle fails oftener now.
The Future Is Bigoted No Avail 2024-08-16 | Blokes who assisted in the making of this video: youtu.be/fdanhEKXsDA?si=-SshtVQopCJZawonHow now brown cow: youtu.be/H-S8H4FZWU8?si=If2jJHq9DpYhawvaThere's much more "reaction" footage from me @ these lads... it'll probably end up in 'Monster Embraces Life' upload. Wow the brits.0:00-2:07 UK vs. US Volk / Volk-Off 2:07-3:15 No one is carrying 3:15-4:10 What even is that inflection? 4:10-6:15 What's the bin for mate?6:15-7:24 Reactionary = Misusing suicidaIity; applying it to nations/collectives. Like, all the time.7:24-8:40 Not The Shrewdest Bunch8:40-9:35 Racially Conscious English Jackass 9:35-10:53 There goes the lil one!10:53-11:27 Couldn't be more generic-xenophilic 11:27-13:23 Cotton Hill Rants On Balaclavas 13:23-14:45 Brock's protégé thwarted by coppers14:45-16:19 Had enough smashy-time yet? / Just give them less of a target FFS16:19-19:31 Must Denounce Harder ! Denounce Harder Forever !19:31-27:06 The Mighty Fury Of Muhfolk 27:06-34:19 Most Everybody Has A Story 34:19-37:07 No one's illegal... taxpayers don't pay for it...37:07-42:27 Female Conjecture In The West42:27-44:35 Man As Performer For Woman / Dame Makes Retirement Plan 44:35-46:13 Britney As Nauseatingly Neotenous Insane Broad 46:13-46:24 Oopsie / (Sometimes Daddy Needs Baby) 46:24-47:29 Win Beastly Prizes47:29-49:17 Yeah but y'all make more attempts and suckle Big Pharma.49:17-50:10 Pot has the opposite effect on Dame.50:10-50:32 What Outrage Bait Looks Like50:32-51:04 What Pride Month In The Middle East Looks Like51:04-52:39 How the algorithm mistreats me...52:39-53:05 Eh, it's not actually the Deep Ecologists; for turning plants into carnivorous agents runs afoul of their pristine non-interventionism. See, even I make mistakes once or twice per decade. 53:05-55:04 Napoleon Complex, Glitter, Mariah Carey vs. Eminem, and more!55:04-56:18 Natural Aristocracies And Intellect 56:18-1:02:42 Miscellaneous Cretins 1:02:42-1:07:48 I Eat The TOS / Back To The M-u-z-z-i-e 1:07:48-1:08:41 My Shocking Views On Halal1:08:41-1:10:40 Lass And Her Syllogism1:10:40-1:11:26 Lass En Masse 1:11:26-1:18:55 Manipulative Nature Of Wombman1:18:55-1:22:35 The Deal With Sex1:22:35-1:25:08 How To: Slavish-Species-Servility Index1:25:08-1:29:59 Let's Think This Out For Once1:29:59-1:31:21 Down With Façade!1:31:21-1:34:50 Ripe Ableism 1:34:50-1:36:35 Exclusionary Athleticism 1:36:35-1:37:46 I somehow make it about Taylor...1:37:46-1:39:51 I Identify As1:39:51-1:40:46 Maybe It's Lame1:40:46-1:41:25 Randomly Previewing !!! 1:41:25-2:04:39 Hot/Cold Response To SkidRowRadio's Comment Reproaching Me On Transgenderism 2:04:39-2:06:50 Normative Bigness 2:06:50-2:08:41 How The Napoleon Complex Resembles Transgenderism2:08:41-2:10:24 Classical Lib Was More Righteous2:10:24-2:12:14 Muslim Doc / Islam Is Blind To Halal Harms 2:12:14 Ends With Impurity VibesFinz*
Volk Bleed Conservative No Avail 2024-08-09 | Chud wasn't fascist. Vote where it matters: youtube.com/post/Ugkx1cQG4ifqCMUCPsPDSacbdZnoMDUmnENQDestiny made it bloody: youtube.com/watch?v=51gcd9uUwGY0:00-4:13 Message For UK Officialdom 4:13-5:00 The Chud Anthem 5:00-5:29 Figured Them Better Prematurely 5:29-8:00 Wrong To Say Fascist / Xenophilia Imposed 8:00-9:33 Bricks Fly / No Stopping Islam (In Chat) / Deluded Granny 9:33-10:50 It's About Language With Me10:50-11:40 Playing Around With Smiths Lyrics 11:40-12:17 WAKE UP OFFICIALDOM !12:17-13:42 Krang Tripled 13:42-14:46 A Stoic Manchild14:46-17:02 It Kills The Fetus / Glib On Miscarriage 17:02-18:18 Conceptually Thin Lifers 18:18 Yeah so the timeline is only good up to here; I'm too steamed about YT blocking this video and me having to redo a tiny 30 sec part of it, then reupload it. Timeline will be completed later. Gotta go jog now. I h-a-t-e this site.2:05:57-2:08:28 Bud Isn't Based In The End2:08:28-2:13:04 It Was Good Until It Wasn't 2:13:04-2:14:21 How Kerry Lost And Took It 2:14:21 I'm Seriously; Let Me Be Weird Or Upstage Me
Natalist Lies And Forbearance No Avail 2024-08-01 | While I have fun derogating some natalists (they so asked for it), I do eventually urge pacifism on procreative matters. But then I resume taking my shots. Much needed shots...0:00-1:03 Poor Kid1:03-1:47 Vance rides that bias1:47-4:42 How They Invert Matters 4:42-6:39 Stunted, Codependent & Quite Incurable 6:39-8:25 You Rightly Worry More8:25-11:12 Freedom And Child / Being A Ripe Bastard / I'd Say It's Percolating11:12-13:33 Cons Are The Instigators Here13:33-16:02 Must They Be Fast Life?! :(16:02-17:28 The Stakes Are Higher When You Beget 17:28-18:09 You Never Have Ultimate Control 18:09-20:32 Where's The Bohemia?!20:32-21:08 Rather Not Lie 21:08-24:44 Toward A Pacifistic Anti-Natalism24:44-27:25 Absolute vs. Game-Theoretic Pacifism 27:25-28:29 Incest For Life28:29-28:57 Lust Is A Lot Like Sneezing 28:57-31:33 Geppetto's Codependence / Hard To Vet Backstory 31:33-34:48 Incestors And My Epistemic Lookism34:48-37:38 I Do The Mama Bear37:38-39:55 Another Goose 39:55-41:09 Even The Colorblind Version 41:09-43:12 If You Miscarry 43:12 Cognitive Spasms Galore*Incest was there: theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791
Who Are The Weaklings No Avail 2024-07-26 | Coom around and find out!See also: Coom and get it! 0:00-5:30 Frightful And Sheltered 5:30-9:53 Way Trumpy Imagery / Recalling Caveat 9:53-11:20 Trump As Comm-Fail Accelerationist 11:20-14:35 Cerebral Cucky14:35-15:03 But Really, What Of "Come And Get It" ? 15:03-18:08 No One Should Care Who's Literally A Cuck18:08-22:56 Trans-Wired, Incompleteness, Mastectomy 22:56-23:43 Kim Suicidez After Poofing Near Mic23:43-24:27 MGTOW To Round It Out !24:27-30:25 No Avail's Explosive Rant On Faith 30:25-32:40 MAGAs So Fishy / What's Off With John?32:40-35:37 Why Do I Care? / Brutes Who Can Talk35:37-36:16 Destiny Jestermaxxed For Poon, However 36:16-38:28 We Need To Talk About Young-Dumb-&-Full-Of-Coom Guys Who Run In MAGA Circles38:28-40:06 At Least Some MAGAs Deplore Their Brethren (On This At Least)40:06-41:31 Why This Is Interesting41:31-42:13 Coming Up NEXT On No Avail!!!42:13-57:30 Preview: Ex Was Possessed / Christian Revanchism57:30-1:00:17 Purple America... C'Mon Man1:00:17-1:01:58 The Huff & Puffers / Go Back To Brute Lane1:01:58-1:02:52 I'm Deep In Trouble Here1:02:52-1:03:27 Nimrod Is Cucked By Nancy (VISUALS ONLY)1:03:27-1:03:57 Birth Of The Anti-MAGA Anti-Squad Ultra-Based Movement 1:03:57-1:05:00 Muh Reagan Teaser / Romney Was Fine 1:05:00-1:05:53 Yanks Can Do Better Than This1:05:53-1:06:35 Shan't Bow To Monotheism 1:06:35 What Should Be Next?
Manchild Debunks Societal Norms No Avail 2024-07-18 | A video with a little bit of everything.Chapter me timbers:0:00-0:50 Latest on Nimrod... will he/won't he? 0:50-2:01 Genk can't down Lib-pill2:01-4:53 Too daft for basics / Hetero Scripts 4:53-7:18 Lib Comedy As Adulty-Mundanity Escapism 7:18-9:01 Formalist Old-Fart Debate Tacticians9:01-10:39 Word From The Censor10:39-14:42 Musical refutation of Haidt's Smartphone trade-offs 14:42-15:49 Nice And More Luscious 15:49-16:51 BREAKING!!!!(I fail at indoorsy survivalism) 16:51-20:17 I went to Twatter and incurred new costs 20:17-25:43 You guys in America... 25:43-26:32 So how much longer then?26:32-27:20 Lifestyles Politicized27:20-27:50 The photo really is iconic though...27:50- 31:40 Preview of drama by twats 31:40-39:06 Say no to theocrats, you swingy dolts 39:06-41:01 You're alright, Alex 41:01-43:10 Kamala Harris: Enough About My Identity43:10-49:09 I Still Like Ezra... But Ezra Has Made His NY Times Bed49:09-50:29 Cultural Critics Who Shield Volk50:29-55:55 It’s Mostly Snobbery / More Bamboo Than Agent / Freedom As Volition Extract55:55-57:10 Hope Follows Discontent / Hope Solace Comforts You :D57:10-59:50 It Was The Cackling 50:50-1:00:21 Dropping The High Ground1:00:21-1:02:57 Genky Truths: Nimrod As Literal-Miracle-Worker1:02:57-1:04:09- Genk And Shmuley Yell-Off On Speed 1:04:09-1:08:44 How To Improve The Discourse 1:08:44-1:09:01 To Overcome Akrasia 1:09:01-1:10:24 Rabbi Turns Heads1:10:24-1:14:51 Shmuley Was Waldo 1:14:51-1:16:23 Megyn is Volk-Appeaser on uppers 1:16:23-1:17:41 Norman On Binary1:17:41-1:23:44 Dolus Specialis as genocide threshold / Banking On Basement-Dweller1:23:44-1:24:48 Up Next: Tate Chunk1:24:48-1:27:02 "I Hate Fat People"1:27:02-1:29:49 All About Volk / Jobs filter social interaction 1:29:49-1:32:19 People As Lifelong Teens & Ticks1:32:19-1:34:03 Destiny Fails Americana Test1:34:03-1:34:37 Seth Knows His Sugar 1:34:37-1:37:48 Folding When Challenged1:37:48-1:41:11 Biden As Boilerplate Crammer 1:41:11-1:43:04 Genky Retrospective / Some Whites Are Likewise Clannish 1:43:04-1:46:26 My Sense Of Cringe / Back To The Causey People1:46:26-1:49:02 Violence And Blinders 1:49:02-1:50:57 Destiny Update / Cons Set The Tone In Places 1:50:57-1:55:53 MAGA Proves Worse Than Norm / No Way To Treat A Manchild / The Epicentre Is Twatter1:55:53-2:00:11 Counsels And Maxims: Men Are Like Children 2:00:11-2:03:10 I Shan't Be Victim!2:03:10- Schop's Gravest Error Right HereFINIf I mentioned anything here that you'd like to track down (I forget whether I might've) just ask and I'll gladly supply.
Never Again And Begetting No Avail 2024-07-05 | This thing was 3+ hours long once upon a time, so thank me. The Chapters: 0:00-0:47 Exceptionally Ruinous Twatter0:47-2:18 Why I Don’t Tweet 2:18-3:37 But Seriously Just Look At Twatter !3:38-3:50 Hey that’s MY Superiority Complex 3:50-10:17 Bow And Atone For Nothing 10:17-14:12 Dull Minds With High IQs 14:12-15:14 MSM Fails To Grant Colorblind Nativism15:14-16:20 Just Gotta Suck Trump Off To Participate 16:20-18:28 Effective vs. Ideological Solutions18:28-21:18 Collective Knowledge And Vatnik Intransience 21:18-23:09 Isolationism As Spoiled Slice Of Americana 23:09-25:56 It’s True With Sam / Passively challenging Sam to a debate on Begetting / Away With Homegrown Dogmas 25:56-28:09 Why I Lean Back 28:09-33:24 Ezra Works Overtime / Pops Has To Go33:24-38:51 Fam Dork Seems Panicked (and other topics!) 38:51-43:57 Black Flag – Family Man / Youth And Lame Friends43:57-44:39 Son of Hamas founder chooses Cow44:39-45:47 Each Day New Twat 45:47-50:54 CAIR And Islamic Coordination 50:54-57:29 Repeat To Win With Dullards 57:29-58:37 Q-anon-Lite Parallels…58:37-59:22 The Reach Around 59:22-1:01:51 Why Sam Left Twatter1:01:51-1:02:31 He didn’t even leave fully!!1:02:31-1:02:50 Are We Destroying Our Words? 1:02:50-1:06:35 Nakba Won’t Do / Covered Muh Basis 1:06:35-1:09:01 Islamist Classics 1:09:01-1:10:02 Kefir Mistaken 1:10:02-1:14:31 Always Again With Cartman / Muh unlisted segment gets blocked / They Live in low-res world 1:14:31-1:15:42 About Existence Tho1:15:42-1:19:33 Work And Filter / ‘Ideal’ Case For UBI1:19:33-1:23:18 Ill Of The Dead / Obituary As Performativity 1:23:18-1:25:32 None Knew The Queen Truly 1:25:32-1:27:57 Just Trash The Dead And Leave 1:27:57-1:28:14 German Says What ?1:28:14-1:33:16 Obligatory Schop Time: Fun with Counsels And Maxims 1:33:16-1:34:35 Let’s All Read Chamfort1:34:35-1:35:49 Who Even Says Beget ?1:35:49-1:42:09 More About Paper Afterall 1:42:09-1:43:47 People Who Hiss At Cautionary Tales 1:45:47-1:47:17 Trump For Comedic Dullards 1:47:17-1:47:24 See now that’s funny 1:47:24-1:49:21 UN As Fake Bulwark Against Atrocity 1:49:21-1:50:29 Lessons Unkept 1:50:29-1:53:15 Life Is Just Beastly1:53:15 Bring Back The FIN !Imposing A Lifestyle: cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-of-healthcare-ethics/article/imposing-a-lifestyle-a-new-argument-for-antinatalism/D31CFBA4E8BB207D7C24A68E415A8AB0There's other stuff that needs linking. Oh well. Luckily I get to take the lazy road since too few people watch nowadays. As in, I can't recall the last time someone pushed back on anything I said because I failed to source it. Why even bother.
Kantian Signalling No Avail 2024-06-09 | This is a video that should have been three. Or more.The timeline/chapters, containing many snarky negs title-wise. I guess the links will have to wait.00:00-05:13 Sucks To Be Wright05:13-06:45 It Wasn't On 9/11, Bob.06:45-08:00 And What About South vs. North Korea, Bob?08:00-10:46 Bob Hears Out Russians 10:46-12:23 Musk As Busy Hack 12:23-12:51 Snoring At Robert12:51-13:14 Drab Man Was Causey 13:14-13:42 Buddhist Who Caught FOMO 13:42-15:46 How Bob Actually Sounds... To Me15:46-18:05 Dull Titles Too18:05-18:52 Matters Of Combat 18:52-19:18 Forever Juvenile 19:18-20:06 Remnants Of Spartan Practice 20:06-20:39 Wet Dream Decoded... 2.0 I Guess20:39-21:40 The More Books You Read...21:40-22:03 Not Really About Kant22:03-23:54 Evo-Psych Means You're More Bamboo Than Agent23:54-25:20 Herbivore Man Island... Turned Gay? 25:20-32:28 Overpopulation: Resource vs. Talent Pool Management 32:38-33:23 "These Guys Are Freaks" Went I 33:23-35:58 Why Manz Was Funny 35:58-36:13 Malthus Was Way Off, It's True36:13-41:50 Evo-Psych Prof Negs My Ego, Motives, Everything41:50-44:38 Egoless Strivings And Impossible Demands 44:48-46:19 Islamic Engine Of The Movement 46:19-48:27 Saved By The Cop48:27-52:09 In Praise Of Bay Area Transparency youtube.com/@bayareatransparency1722/videos52:09-53:33 Too Batty For Fusionism 53:33-54:02 NOT THE TV !!!! ~~~54:02-56:13 PR For Dullards 56:13-56:35 NY As Rude Place56:35-1:01:08 Expats And Nationhood 1:01:08-1:05:20 Hard On America1:05:20-1:07:00 Crass Wins By Definition1:07:00-1:07:35 Correction: Actually Wright's "Why Buddhism Is True" was 2017, his "The Moral Animal" was 1995. Got that?1:07:35-1:08:19 You Want It Longer1:08:19-1:11:21 Alex Endures Hardships For You1:11:21-1:12:19 Frum Did It Here / Soft On Crime 1:12:19-1:12:56 Gramps Lost His Marbles 1:12:56-1:16:21 Ayaan Copes Hard / Sammy Will Dodge This 1:16:21-1:17:32 Last Segment's Title Is Literally True ! 1:17:32-1:19:38 Sam Makes Assertion / Thinks It Was Accident 1:19:38-1:20:30 Meanwhile On Destiny1:20:30-1:22:54 Sam Was Born Rich And Courageous1:22:54-1:24:31 Statehood And Common Denominator1:24:31-1:27:53 Third-Worldist Scott "The Mild" Dick Effect 1:27:53-1:31:21 About Jews Then / War And The Pesky Asymmetry 1:31:21-1:34:32 Realist Zionism / Managing vs. Undoing Threats / Small Boon To IDF Steel Man1:34:32-1:35:30 Bibi For Hague 1:35:30-1:41:33 Normative Status Of Jewish Embattlement 1:41:33-1:43:32 If They Behave / I Condescend To Team Palestine Here, And Quite Mean It1:43:32-1:44:47 (Forget I Ever Downplayed Bibi's Role In All This Briefly Last Fall)1:44:47-1:48:31 CoUnTinG tHe CaSuALtIeS 1:48:31-1:49:55 I Would Retreat / Applied Group-Identity Pacifism 1:49:55-1:53:48 Israel As Earthly Matter 1:53:48-1:57:22 Reckon With Othering1:57:22-1:59:05 I'm glad the hostages are safe now though. Should've said as much. But see how the other side proves my point in this very "4 hostages finally freed" example. 1:59:05-2:02:00 Back To Sam: General vs. Particularized Hawkishness On Jihadism. All that plus a bag of chips. 2:02:00-2:03:17 Acidic Masculinity And Islamized Men 2:03:17-2:03:47 That was a lot of fun. More at 11.2:03:47-2:06:50 Douglas As Hasbara Ignorer2:06:50-2:08:13 Contextualization Of Early Video Stuff Regarding Me2:08:13-2:08:26 Uno, Dos, Tre, Quatro!!2:08:26-2:08:50 Oh Come On Brah / Also Deserves Fast Speed 2:08:50-2:09:44 Not To Be Jogged To!!2:09:44-2:10:57 Otherwise, Hats Off To Spazzy Gamer 2:10:57 The Wronger / I Truly Flew Here
What Even Is Right No Avail 2024-05-27 | Will do the timeline/chapters... soon.Update: Way half-assed timeline for now:00:00-59:25 Before Destiny59:25-1:14:40 Destiny Highs 1:14:40-1:23:11 After Destiny Referenced or merely inserted for illustrative ends: immigrationforum.org/article/legal-immigration-to-the-united-states-national-quotas-americas-immigration-system libertarianism.org/columns/fusionism-why-libertarianism-should-extricate-itself-conservative-entanglements en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusionism scribd.com/document/637813500/Horseshoe-Theory CATO Ain’t Nativist: cato.org/blog/immigration-restrictionists-are-undermining-american-institutions Frum went on Rose: charlierose.com/video/player/308 Nixon takes marching orders from Greta: youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA?si=jzcca4N7zDYhblDy What stupid thinks: akpress.org/propertyistheftakpress.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! Muh vid that can’t be found on google: youtu.be/8UPhNCqdeys?si=Pji2CdQT9DIP-lcG Muh other vid that was used for graphics here, that also can’t be found on google: youtu.be/F4ik2W5vgt4?si=MvUHIqNaam74_ePK (God the audio quality was awful during this era… but this last “Econ Ideology” vid is actually worth your time as it sets the stage for much of this “lol @ Fusionism hackery” commentary I do here)
Nationalism As Assembly Line Identity No Avail 2024-05-01 | 0:00-0:09 RIP Dennett 0:09-3:13 Let There Be Palestine, But3:13-5:04 Getting the insults out of the way…5:04-6:25 True Meaning Of Humanity6:25-7:40 Nations As Traffic Lights 7:40-12:26 Talking At MAGA12:26-13:05 MAGA As Ballot-Box Fantasists 13:05-14:53 All Rise For The Traffic Light Piety Song 14:53-15:34 I think I’m good.15:34-17:42 Impromptu Homeland Talk / Carrie As Moral Saint On Occasion 17:42-21:35 Carrie As Potential Traitor On Occasion 21:35-22:18 That’s Why You Suck / Other Shows (blanked on the fact that I already discussed Breaking Bad last year so ignore the sentence saying I need to discuss it)22:18-23:14 Country And Secrecy 23:14-24:07 Never Say Jingoist 24:07-25:42 America The Rorschach Test(Callback to My Views Don’t Count) 25:42-30:01 Anon Is Based (And IDF-Pilled)30:01-32:46 Wartime As Potent Mind-Virus Inculcator 32:36-34-52 Respek Troops Or Else !34:52-37:26 Am Finally Officially Anti-Nationalist. But why? 37:26-40:31 About The Character Stuff, Stupid 40:31-42:52 Wanna Bet 42:52-43:20 Memba Effective Ambassadors? 43:20 Iran As Worst Nation(I guess North Korea is worse… meh, just riding the wave at the end here) Finnationalreview.com/2017/05/nationalism-patriotism-american-history-conservatives-progressivesLinks to come, probably. There was at least one study I should dig up.
Natalism As Collective FOMO No Avail 2024-04-15 | “Tell viewers about your video” Your wish is my command, YouTube.Except I’ll overdo it, as with most things…Ahem: This is a video about natalism, or ideological begetting. The following content is not suitable for 99.999% of humanity, for the points raised here at no point flatter Natalism and/or ideological begetting. In fact, they do the opposite. Consult your hacky natalist doctor to see if this video is right for you.0:00-0:15 Perky Intro0:15-1:47 Before I Criticize This1:47-6:57 Ideal Worker Careerism vs. Mundane Implications of Shifts/Wagies 6:57-9:23 Men should “care-give” less than womyn. Kids tend to cry out for their mammas more. Even grown men are known to cry out for mamma when the going gets rough (for evidence consult any BLM-funded ‘documentary’ on Cops And Blacks In America). 9:23-10:50 Breastfeeding and my comedic antecedents. 10:50-11:45 Parents as responsible insects. 11:45-13:43 Wonks Who Discard The Ideal Thinker 13:43-14:30 Wonk Goes Full Volk14:30-16:15 More Fam vs. Employment kvetching by parents and their unduly perky tones. 16:15-16:57 Drawbacks of frequently hosting + recording stuff.16:57-18:44 Communal Begetters Reimagine Everything18:44-20:27 Children As Wildcard For Distributive Justice20:27-22:00 Begetting vs. Voluntary-Relationships Maximalism22:00-24:04 Advice To Ezra On Privilege-Confession 24:43-25:14 I have no comeback, actually. 25:14-26:28 Don’t Be A Guilt Tard (again to Ezra) 26:28-27:10 Tangent on group warfare; beating a dead horse on this by now, but somehow still worth it.27:10-28:12 On useless self-imposed whips. 28:12-30:03 The More Things Change30:03-31:30 Toward A Wide Individualism 31:30-32:24 Think Of Echidna! (womyn/serpent hybrid!) 32:24-35:46 Anti-Begetter =/= Anti-Child35:46-36:32 I Kind Of Am Though 36:32-40:09 Me As Anti-Natal Pundit 40:09-42:05 Here Comes The FOMO 42:05-44:06 People Are Great Actually 44:06-46:41 X-Risk As Hardened Question-Begging46:41-46:49 Needs To Feel Challenged By Life46:49-54:08 Deep Serj And Lyrical Pessimism 54:08-56:30 Intro To Jog But After 56:30-57:43 Callback to “Spirit Of The Father” in Cold Light Of Nay57:43-59:40 Redemptive Fertile Regress 59:40-1:01:14 Will Lemmings1:01:14-1:02:30 Et Tu, Non-Fervent Ones?1:02:30-1:05:10 He’s getting worse.1:05:10-1:09:48 Peterson As Cloud-Shape Recognizer1:09:48-1:11:01 Genk Wants It Louder!1:11:01 Holy Hell @ The Speed Of DestinyAnd that’s a wrap. No links, don’t care enough. Everything you saw here (you should be watching literally) is easy to find.But here’s my YT community page where I’m almost as sneering and as armchair-bound lately as in these vids:youtube.com/user/AntiBullshitMan/community (Ignore the username mirage in the URL; I’ve always been No Avail and this weird “Anti-BS” moniker is lost on me I swear!)
Love Was An Inside Job No Avail 2024-03-17 | 00:00-02:35 Pops Ain’t Your Pilot02:35-03:35 Against Metaphor Stretchers 03:35-04:10 Causal Precision And Economic Folklore 04:10-06:45 Most Hyperbolic Civ Thing06:45-07:12 I Only Fly With Joints 07:12-08:24 Risk And Omissions 08:24-09:49 What If We Trusted No One?(We’d be like Survivalists and Primitivists, but without blind trust in kin)09:49-10:57 Hive Can Degrade You 10:57-12:41 Civics For Individuals: A Summary 12:41-13:42 I Voted Not13:42-15:24 So Antlike Over And Over15:24-15:48 Some Conjecture By Me That I Only Recognized As Conjecture Later, And Addressed It In A Follow-Up Audio (@ 27.38) 15:48-17:56 Inverted Libertarianism17:56-19:13 How Framing Matters19:13-21:16 Tales Of Collegial Overreach And Muh Endurance21:16-21:50 Wife That He Got From China21:50-23:15 It’s Not Coercive Tho23:15-23:47 Jerked On Your Screen23:47-24:41 "Cheers To Your Baby" I Said After Dwelling23:41-25:02 Muh Dryer Note25:02-27:38 Just The Nicest Procreator Ever27:38-30:04 Defamatory Speech Qua Partisan Rancor Ought Be Subject To Fines By Default30:04-31:35 Combating Vulgar Essentialism31:35-33:54 Yank Would Say No33:54-35:21 Sexual Hawks And Duckman CallbackSee now there’s a decent analogy right there; that is, (a) calling Tom Hanks a pedo in dog-piles, (b) being a Sexual Hawk who believes all sexual misconduct allegations insofar as they’re made by women/womyn/wombmen. 35:21-35:52 How Volk Decode The World 35:52-36:56 Memba The IDW? 36:56-39:41 Embattled Causey People 39:41-41:40 Obligatory Supra-Meta Segment41:40-43:10 Zealous For Family 202443:10-44:19 Marriage As In-Laws Conscription44:19-45:29 Faith + Family + A Hack’s Notion Of Freedom45:29-47:02 She’s Can’t Have Had Great Parents 47:02-51:51 Marriage As Social Capture + Offensive Record On Screen51:51-53:13 Research Is Needed53:13-54:13 In-Laws As Uninvited House Guests And It’s Normalized 54:13-55:24 Why Involve The State? 55:24 It Was For Procreative Ends*Worked on the thumb first this time, so the rest must wait. But here's two links:Yawn "Biden's Too Old" article yawn: theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/biden-age-trump-polling-2024-election/677648Interesting paper on in-laws from an evolutionary perspective that I’ve barely begun reading, but here you go anyway: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211990Doing/Allowing paper, though I'm barely halfway into it:fionawoollard.weebly.com/uploads/5/5/2/7/55273907/philosophy_compass_1.x.pdfcambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/abs/robust-defence-of-the-doctrine-of-doing-and-allowing/ABCD06DC7D220B179B7C26E3AA096C7B
The Great Repression No Avail 2024-03-07 | 00:00-07:42 It Wasn’t Cultural Marxism 07:42-08:30 Supplement Speech Via Screenshot Or Perish 08:30-10:45 Zealots Are Flattered Oftener 10:45-12:46 Arrow World Order12:46-13:08 Before You Leave13:08-14:13 Dems Can’t Sweep Volk14:13-15:21 Elites By Tenacity 15:21-15:51 The Passé Class15:51-17:35 Work Is Obsessive17:35-18:28 Factoids On Screen About Elon Are Damming18:28-19:06 Your Brain On Work 19:06-21:08 Make Your Own Field Trips 21:08-21:42 Stats And Fatigued Categories 21:42-23:22 Forgetful In Class 23:22-23:36 Nakedly Bare On Screen 23:36-26:45 Work Ups Your Virtue !26:45-27:55 The Speech In Network 27:55-28:12 Hell Of A Spell / Next Self-Styled Orwellian Flub 28:12-28:35 Will Smith Promoted To Happiness 28:35-30:37 What Even Is Asocial Mobility?(If you think I go wrong anywhere in this ‘social mobility’ rant, answer the question above. Alternatively, call it a category error) 30:37-33:58 I’m NOT on social media33:58-34:21 Oh Yeah The Podcast / Hung Up On Class34:21-35:11 Ezra Is Worried About Everything 35:11-36:05 Eli Lake And Jonathan Rosen (On Olden Quacks) 36:05-38:06 Madness Per Freud 38:06-38:39 Wherein I Say The Family Doesn’t Necessarily Make You Sick38:39-39:30 Went Mad, Couldn’t Keep Up With The Joneses 39:30-40:48 What About Actual Nutters?40:48-42:31 Point Of The Audio, And Of The Video 42:31-43:49 Anti-Psychotic Drugs Worked Wonders At Times43:49-44:28 Why The Harsh History ?44:28-45:25 Meant To Say Life Magazine Here, Not Time45:25-46:18 More Like The Great Digression 46:18-48:15 Rosen Talks And I Interrupt A Bit48:15-51:09 Truth And Darwinian Reach 51:09-54:00 Apolitical Alt-Paths / Rationality Bootcamp / Trapped Status-Quo Biases 54:00-57:48 I Shall Oppose Incestuous Births Coercively 57:48-01:02:19 Victims Of Help Steven Wilson – Ancestral: youtu.be/fD_5z8E_cIc?si=EyJq0qPMn3RwnnZ5 01:02:19-01:02:47 Better Late Than Ever 01:02:47-01:07:32 Sexual Hawks / Womyn Against Dick Man01:07:32-01:08:19 Introducing: Male Identity Disposability 01:08:19-01:08:52 Misandrists, Have At It01:08:52-01:14:02 About Duckman Though01:14:02-01:16:05 Picture It: Scott “The Dick” As Uppity Palestinian Hardliner (and also reanimated brown) 01:16:05-01:17:05 Close The Right Bridge For Once! 01:17:05-01:19:39 The Great Contradiction 01:19:39-01:20:28 Delayed Muh YT “Anniversary” Video Yet Again01:20:28-01:20:58 I Turn Amoral Briefly 01:20:58-01:22:42 Just World Muggers 01:22:42-01:23:20 Pro-Mortalist Suicide Hotlines 01:23:20-01:27:32 Deeply Ashamed Former Voter01:27:32-01:29:33 Popping Don’s Cherry (ewww) 01:29:33-01:30:58 Damn Pinkos All The Time 01:30:58-01:31:19 On Videos: Watching vs. Listening Only 01:31:19-01:33:13 People Who Don’t Evolve 01:33:13-01:34:58 Warlike Parochial Minds Fin Fodder for me:Ezra: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-havent-the-democrats-completely-cleaned/id1548604447?i=1000643778108 Eli and Rosen: podbean.com/media/share/dir-9mazt-18d08be9?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share Scott A. on Musk in book review: astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk Against Learning From Dramatic Events: astralcodexten.com/p/against-learning-from-dramatic-events Moral worms:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31338756 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28474440pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31990627 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37962006 Bedlam 1946: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lobotomist-bedlam-1946 Mental imagery: allthatsinteresting.com/mental-asylums Reddit thread and visual CYA graphic: reddit.com/r/dataisugly/comments/11eizqe/graph_of_racial_crime_statistics_proves_that I think that’s it.Onto the other dozen videos I need to visually finish... lord help me.
The People Dying Channel No Avail 2023-12-31 | Pretend it's still November. Video works better that way. 0:00-2:09 Rap Was Salacious [With ambush: Bush Knocked down the Twin Towers (911) - Immortal Technique Mos DEF]False and terrible: youtu.be/6bdr_2IAJWU?si=7rPSkXiLVi6-19_v 2:09-3:14 Another Retro Pill3:14-4:17 Born Again Pessimist 4:17-7:10 Sorrow Productions 7:10-7:50 Being A Criminal Christian 7:50-10:57 Let Jordan Talk 10:57-13:49 Don’t Think Your Folk Off The Hook13:49-31:09 Impromptu Schop Class: On The Doctrine Of The Denial Of The Will To Live31:09-31:56 Steven Wilson – Salvaging Full and you're welcome: youtu.be/Gl2OJe5TwdQ?si=lHRqA5YQI5sUQjcM 31:56-33:48 Comedic Fatalist (Randy And Obstructive Vanity)33:48-37:18 I Dream Of Jihad37:18-39:01 Vote Me Some Cons39:01-40:44 Meant As Unflattering 40:44-40:56 I Never Vote Anyway40:56-43:23 Less Analytical Nightmares Now43:23-46:55 The Hike That Wasn’t / Dog Scares Me Easily 46:55-47:45 If You Love Life47:45-51:42 Poppy And Controversy51:42-53:40 Maybe Try This [solvingconflict.wordpress.com]53:40-54:47 Crows Might Be Dangerous 54:47-56:03 Doing The Nietzschean Thing On Me56:03-57:05 Things Felt Quite Manic Here 57:05 Crow News Alert: It Was The Nataling *gutenberg.org/files/40868/40868-pdf.pdfVets have some views: military.com/daily-news/2023/05/23/study-finds-fewer-vets-back-qanon-many-accept-racist-conspiracy-theory.html Solving the Jew vs. Muslim stuff: solvingconflict.wordpress.com Why Crows Attack: youtu.be/1ekPwFjda04?si=Vw4YGs-tJJaHYfV3Or, as I’d put it: Other-regarding news segment on Crows.Other-species-regarding, that is. Naturally it’s by a Canadian news outfit.
World As Adultist Failure No Avail 2023-12-15 | Oh the continuity!!! 0:00-2:14 I Fail To Stay Calm2:14-8:27 AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!8:27-10:01 Offensive Speech And Meta-Self Commentary 10:01-11:56 I Too Reside In Clownworld 11:56-13:47 Must Tangent To Bash Sis-Souljah Again!13:47-18:17 Back To Me Failz 18:17-19:26 Why Others Fail More So!(Needless Seriousness vs. Faith as the root cause) 19:26-24:21 Psych On: Highs & Lows, Lulz & Dulls, Good Times vs. Studious Twits24:21-27:12 Look What They Do For Fun27:12-27:40 I trust my lawyer who's Jewish(Actual VM from November, cuz why not) 27:40-29:42 Setup for "I trust my lawyer who's Jewish" 29:42-31:20 Eminem Did It youtube.com/results?search_query=eminem+paulFINShadow Protectionism: youtu.be/9uFlypbRKII?si=s3mBgs-8M-aMIympThere you can follow the trail to Baker's work directly. Probably the only time you'll see me plug an economist with few if any caveats. I've only grown more antagonistic to the profession in the interim. I bothered to upload this one to Rumble too for some reason: rumble.com/user/PerfectlyAbstractThe "Rumble Community" is even more money-crazed than what we're used to on here. More on that in future oh-so composed rants.
Prog Hated Frog No Avail 2023-12-07 | I went all out on Pepe.I regret nothing.Unabridged version: rumble.com/v4004rh-prog-hated-frog.html39:54-41:57 Steven Wilson – Northern CyclonicThe track: youtu.be/WaBiMskC5yM?si=SZSxC9fO68v-jvTMExtra complaint: The original timeline became useless as everything is pushed forward because I had to start with the bulletin about the copyright crap. So that also increased my workload.Sister Souljah’s Final Solution: youtube.com/watch?v=dcWgPEUT_x0&ab_channel=SisterSouljahVEVOEli lake’s podcast ep on all this: podbean.com/media/share/dir-pt28b-1bbb8973?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share(it’s his fault)Turns out this "moment" gave rise to a whole pol-barometer thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_momentAs something of a US-pol junkie, I’m ashamed to have only found out about it recently.Anyway, she’s so awful and irrational, isn't she…Frum’s bad summertime tweet: twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1688549299477499904I only glanced at the “loneliness by gender” research, but it’s shown in the video, so here you go...First one that comes up: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224515/#:~:text=Compared%20to%20men%2C%20women%20were,32.40%3B%20p%20%3D%200.018).The second: https://www.iamexpat.nl/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/are-men-lonelier-women#:~:text=Differences%20in%20loneliness%20in%20men,comfortable%20admitting%20they%20feel%20lonely.The rest I didn’t even bother to glance at.In the video I say men are somewhat more lonely but even these quickie investigations got me to see that this might not be true, at least once lifetime averages are taken into account. I’m writing this here because it appears to strengthen my points even more. I should’ve done an audio on it, but this video is already way tardy and I’m low on time and, of course, exhausted.Exhausted, even though I've been off since the 19th. But it's back to work tonight (Dec 1).I didn't upload even one third of all the stuff I figured I'd upload during this vacation.The song at the end was impromptu, took up yet more time, but I started and couldn’t stop, couldn’t resist. State-of-flow type thing, you know how it is. Oh wait, you probably don’t.0:00-3:22 Non-shouty bulletin about the whereabouts of the unabridged version of this video.3:22-3:46 Just awful.3:46-5:20 Sistah Souljah as anti-solitary Team Playa.5:20-12:23 Why anti-white hate is not as rampant as cons tend to think.12:23-16:02 Uncalculated, unfiltered commentary and authenticity.16:02-20:42 Spectating Fun: Sistah Souljah vs. Slick Willy 20:42-21:42 World needs more retro-pills.21:42-23:43 Shameless hobby-horsing by me. (glove fits though)23:43-27:09 "Power" vs. Brainpower(Sistah Souljah should be more concerned about her brain-powerlessness... wish I were clever enough to think of such a line mid rant/response, but alas I too lacked the requisite brainpower in the moment)(Whew, that outta keep me in the clear)27:09-29:39 Thou shall go back to August.29:39-33:18 Isolated Manz33:18-36:50 Prickly Beliefs And Belles 36:50-39:54 Good To Be Atomized(consider the Isolated Manz segment a gender tease, much more on this to come. Frum's tweet is just the start; everyone's wrong and I'm taking no prisoners)39:54-41:57 Steven Wilson – Northern CyclonicThe track: youtu.be/WaBiMskC5yM?si=SZSxC9fO68v-jvTMFIN
Motives For Pessimism No Avail 2023-11-22 | 0:00-1:00 What Did I Have Though?1:00-2:50 Me And Tylenol 2:50-4:21 No Healthy Pessimists In Church4:21-5:54 Bleakness Ain’t True5:54-8:03 Efil Monotonous8:03-10:24 How Not To Pessimist 10:24-10:53 I Still Say We Don’t Organize Worth taking: mypersonality.net/quiz?afid=gdnmpsca&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6vaqBhCbARIsACF9M6m57woAozrZc9zVnkvCY9R1hXOEpkCgi36MOi6G4Sx9U6dtrtgxCjUaArLlEALw_wcB Would like to read this one in full but can't: psycnet.apa.org/record/1946-00840-001
Make The Facts Dance No Avail 2023-11-17 | 0:00-5:51 Peterson Coin5:51-8:06 Islamo-Manicheanism 8:06-9:28 Aid Undelivered 9:28-11:36 Dough Was For Tunnel 11:36-14:00 Costs Of The Afterlife 14:00-15:08 You rasis Piers !?15:08-15:27 Me as dog saliva aversionist 15:27-19:11 One Hostage, More Innocents 19:11-21:01 Sammy and ugly facts21:01-21:19 I’m not about Bibi21:19-22:36 Spirited Counterterrorism 22:36-23:30 Fun with evil turncoat23:30-24:42 Jews and Hawaii24:42-29:46 Porcupine Tree – Circle Of Manias (but non-chronological and extended, for my purposes) 29:46-32:05 At my mom’s now…32:05-33:26 Ma roots for Russia still33:26-34:29 Vics Of The Seventh And You34:29-36:49 Jew vs. Muslim and The English Language 36:49-37:49 Land Kvetching 37:49-39:02 The Phlegmatic Man Who Wasn’t There39:02-40:22 Geopolitical Serbian Moralism 40:22-41:17 Slavs Killing Slavs Again#NotAllSlavs41:17-42:31 Ruinous Communist Nostalgics 42:31-46:33 I’ve seen him here and there…46:33-47:52 Now with song: Ruinous Communist Nostalgics 47:52-50:12 Frum wouldn’t like my takes much50:12-51:55 Wretchedly Timed I Disclaim 51:55-53:46 Drawback of audios / Nuisance expansionism53:46-58:37 People Are Noise (including data!) 58:37-1:04:49 Faith + Solemnity = Genocide Turrets 1:04:49-1:07:54 Back At Ma’s And Dear LordGaza and leadership: fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/23/hold-hamas-accountable-for-human-shields-use-during-the-may-2021-gaza-war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_human_shields_by_Hamas The Jew hate map and index: global100.adl.org/map Ruinous: opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/communist-nostalgia-in-eastern-europe-longing-for-past Gabor Mate thing: youtu.be/SHDBw-wx6w0?si=dz2sNyAsMtEk_7PV Maybe I’ll tackle it more seriously next time. He’s not awful or anything, just too blinkered and naïve about the role Islamic doctrine plays in all this. And he plugged Hedges, an unpardonable sin.Circle Of Manias, without my gimmicky stuff: youtu.be/ni_-JLP2GOM?si=UuhSyxaOkottaNOu Will add more later.
Hijab And Clogged Ears No Avail 2023-11-08 | 00:00-3:05 Israelis And Ukrainians3:05-5:50 Decolonial Cretinous 5:50-6:08 Okay that’s just rude6:08-6:20 Gonna have endless fun with this, I promise you6:20-9:35 The No Avail Pitch 9:35-10:43 Snide Righteous Man 10:43-13:47 Hearing And Dullard 13:47-17:37 Has To Be Schop Here 17:37-18:24 Muh Halloween Project !18:24-20:39 Person Who Shows Up In Hamas Costume 20:39-26:26 Edgelord Acquires Bruises 26:26-28:30 Onto Spooky Reads 28:30-50:50 On The Essential Imperfections Of The Intellect 50:50-50:57 Wherein I loudly burp50:57-1:00:47 Resuming: On The Essential Imperfections Of The Intellect 1:00:47-1:08:44 His name is actually Hijab1:08:44-1:10:18 Mr. Hijab may well be hopeless… 1:10:18-1:11:12 My Platitudinous Vote To End Hamas 1:11:12-1:14:09 I’m On Team Jew, But… 1:14:09-1:16:31 Grieving Deeply1:16:31 Jihad Is Underground 1:19:20-1:20:00 Genk Has A Point 1:20:00-1:21:11 Wherein I Mention AIU1:21:11-1:22:21 Past Celery Now1:22:21-1:25:35 Swerve Kinda 1:25:35-1:26:48 My Views Don’t Mount1:26:48-1:30:13 Me As Audio Addict 1:30:13-1:31:40 Meet Latifa. She seems Vice.(Muslim Hates Jew)1:31:40-1:35:49 Decade long overdue tribute to Derived Energy1:35:49-1:36:59 I didn’t do it***The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous And False: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799 Ezra uno: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-not-this-then-what-should-israel-do/id1548604447?i=1000633197565 Ezra dos: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-polled-gazans-on-oct-6-heres-what-she-found/id1548604447?i=1000633572018 Hijab on Morgan: youtu.be/zZhZxi2aLz4?si=IZXaA5ccga2NAg17Genk on Morgan: youtube.com/watch?v=YRFKkmsDpuwMuh group and statehood: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine#:~:text=Among%20the%20G20%2C%20nine%20countries,South%20Korea%2C%20Mexico%2C%20the%20United Derived Energy’s channel is still up!youtube.com/@DerivedEnergy/videos It’s a long video, so there’s probably more to throw in here, but I’m exhausted as is usually the case around upload time. Tell me if you’re unable to find anything else I discussed here and I’ll find it for you. Fin!
On The Hamas Thing No Avail 2023-10-13 | Don’t be a territorial groupie.0:00-2:27 Intro and sneaky oozy ethnic essentialism2:27-3:21 Me as Territorial Apatheist3:21-4:52 How I react to the reactions on 2023-10-084:52-6:42 How decisively convenient / Sham procedures for verifying who’s done it worse6:42-8:05 Balkans are hopeless on loop08:05-9:45 Humans as flattery-chasers first and foremost, then, maybe, rational agents.9:45-13:13 Strategy Allergy: Western Muslims Who Attend Pro-Palestinian Rallies In The Wake Of This 13:13-14:40 More Jews should legally permit such rallies whenever incitement is not in the cards. As I always say: It’s informative. 14:40-16:13 You’re all so antlike 16:13-18:11 Implications for the already all-too-stifling Overton Window 18:11-19:43 I don’t sweat Serbophobia; past, present and future. I’m not an especially heroic person. No sense in letting me be ethnically braver than you. If you’re Western and Jewish, don’t get swept up in narratives suggesting anti-Semites are a threat to you. (Just don’t travel to TME anytime soon…)19:43-21:55 Athletics analogy: Team vs. Solo competition with implications for attitudinal collectivism and individualism.21:55-23:37 Might be the biggest plague on the mind of man23:37-24:23 Me and my passé facts and figures24:23-26:58 Deindividuation and Fact-Offs26:58-27:23 We’ll always have egos, so treat them like germs and farts; only recoil when it’s someone else’s. 27:23-29:57 Ayn was decent and thoughtful in ways29:57-31:51 Towards group identity pacifism 31:51-33:09 On things I don’t say…33:09-35:50 Maybe we brag too much35:50-38:00 Slippery Facts: Beheading Hamas vs. Collateral Damage38:00-38:10 There’s always kids38:10-39:59 I Ain’t Disposable 39:59-41:40 Here’s whyWhat happened: nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-dont-look-away-from-the-true-horrors-of-what-hamas-did-in-israel Sam shedding light on, ahem, cultural inegalitarianism: samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/338-the-sin-of-moral-equivalenceGroup hawks: arabnews.com/node/2388216/world Muh scary precedent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatiaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Serb_sentiment BE SENSITIVE TO SERBOPHOBIA OR I’LL CALL YOU BIGOT IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!Other stuff I flashed:balkaninsight.com/2020/06/18/croatian-election-campaign-haunted-by-anti-serb-rhetoric carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/protest-tracker Speech attitudes: aei.org/op-eds/jewish-college-students-are-more-likely-to-oppose-free-speech-and-that-should-scare-us There’s much more but I’m tired, updates tomorrow. Night.
Anti-Natal Equanimity No Avail 2023-10-04 | 00:00-05:12 Lean back05:12-09:27 Desire and undesire 09:27-37:15 I actually read The Chapter37:15-39:58 Translation woes39:58-41:49 Pavlovian recall / Ironic drawback of Cynicism41:49-43:52 Implications for living wisely once convinced of pessimism43:52-46:35 No one will live the Roundly Good Life46:35-47:55 Eliminative Pluralism as the analytical pessimist’s ammo against narrow ‘Good Life’ criteria and procreative hubris. 47:55-49:50 Will Pounds You49:50-52:52 Virtue against individuality52:52-1:00:48 Important bits from Schopenhauer’s Psychological Observations essay (best of)Older and better: gutenberg.org/files/40868/40868-pdf.pdf Newer: antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/schopenhauer-the-world-as-will-and-representation-v2.pdf Psychological Observations: web.archive.org/web/20130430151810/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter5.html How parents Lean In: nypost.com/2018/09/10/parents-spend-an-insane-amount-of-their-lives-worrying-about-their-kids thecut.com/2015/03/we-live-in-an-age-of-irrational-parenting.html (Some stats in there; studies I’ve not bothered to read, so I’m only linking to the piece, but there's more linked in there. I’ve read more on “Parents Worry More Than Non-Parents” in terms of data than I can recall/recite. But only an unobservant blind fool would need it statistically anyway) Parental fears and worries, unchecked by rational agents, can lead to more possessiveness, myopic grubbiness, and analytic self-handicapping by said parents: sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perry-hysterical-parents-are-wrong-about-the-right-to-control-classrooms-and-teachers https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/ And with TWO entries on SEP:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/stoicism/ Briefly mentioned: youtube.com/post/UgkxCFHLUmKMcSPzkUQ0gUhkTaOB7REWI8Ij Worth a reread: philpapers.org/archive/PREWPI Maher was too worried: youtube.com/post/UgkxvzvpkuPe5l3dzUoeO-lIT8_vm7YbOfZk Just because I’m super fair, that last one is an example of a proud and outspoken non-parent being dumb and fearful in, ahem, “politically parental” ways.Bye!
Cold Light Of Nay No Avail 2023-09-17 | I’ve Come To Hate More Matters00:00-05:03 Should’ve Said This Previously05:03-08:01 Natural Pavlov And You08:01-11:47 Even The Noblest Pursuits Are Impure (often, mostly, etc) 11:47-13:34 BC On Fire / I Court Parochial ConcernsIf you can help: canadahelps.org/en/donate-to-charities-responding-to-the-british-columbia-wildfires13:34-15:30 Overemployed Not15:30-20:33 Contractual Cunning / Lies Permeate My Profession20:33-22:24 Administrative Downsizing / License Expiry Goes Unnoticed22:24-23:29 Praiseworthy Fearlessness In The Face Of Destitution23:29-25:29 If I Were A Cynic / Button My Hairshirt 25:29-28:41 Chest Hair Is Awful 28:41-36:34 Imaginative Fun vs. Communal Philistinism 36:34-37:56 Expats who weep in joy upon discovery of boundless consumer choice; that is, more philistinism.37:56-42:32 Happy Imaginary No Avail Day!42:32-51:11 No Apologies 51:11-54:52 Didactic Thirst And Omitted Goods54:52-56:15 Plugging a podcast that covers this ground better and non-grumpily!56:15-1:01:07 Fun With Jordan 1:01:07-1:01:25 Why Aren’t You Pregnant YetA challenge for viewers who disagree on any of the main points: Find me a pundit who avoids portraying unemployment, including other similar “good to keep busy” stuff, as unalloyed goods. Hell, find me an influential public intellectual who follows in my footsteps here. To restate my main gripe: All these people (notably the pundits, likely due to inadequate levels of imagination) have allowed the point-systems they track, obsess over and speak of to game them and their minds. They then persuade the public, a share of which who might’ve otherwise had a shot at escaping the gamified circus, but ultimately won’t seeing as there’s nothing visible to imaginatively aspire to. Because dullards dominate the airwaves as well as the online silos. At no point in this video do I say or suggest lower unemployment is all bad. They’re saying (or at least always portraying) higher unemployment as all bad. Overton Window 101, because it’s all they know; it’s the conceptual water they swam in all their lives. They agree unanimously; the child who daydreams in class errs necessarily. This to me is sick and I spit on anyone who supports or fails to challenge the pathological mindset after having it explained to them. But I’m definitely onto something because:Ezra Klein and C. Thi Nguyen on Gamified Systems: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-philosophy-of-games-that-is-really-a-philosophy-of-life/id1548604447?i=1000552204773 Badly Conditioned: simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html Blaise Pascal agrees: azquotes.com/author/11361-Blaise_Pascal/tag/silence Muh Choice and supermarket: illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/11/how-a-russians-grocery-store-trip-in-1989-exposed-the-lie-of-socialism.html (When you interpret this as Soviet or commie apologetics, you misinterpret)That’s Life: youtu.be/Tb8kqNBwKcs?si=7ULmibb34OZBVC7VI forgot what else I brought up that might require a helpful link down here… I’m always in the foulest of moods around the time I need to sort out the links and timelines pre-upload. I’ll never understand people who do this daily or weekly; the effort to organize, to take everything I’m thinking and make it concrete and comprehensible to the world, it’s so draining. Seems the only way to stomach it would be by running on autopilot because the nature of your content allows you to.
How To Lose Patience With Society No Avail 2023-08-23 | Noisy conditions simmer down after a couple of minutes.00:00-02:44 A.I. Stores Memories Now02:44-04:55 Would You Go That Confessional?04:55-14:52 Secretive Steepness14:52-19:48 Actual Rugged Individualism19:48-26:37 Cynic As Norm Violator 26:37-32:40 Am I The Jerk Here?(The snob, maybe?)32:40-34:24 Scientific Wellness Man34:24-35:57 Scientific Forgery 35:57-42:19 Insensitive Jokes At Work42:19-46:34 Termination Edging 46:34-50:06 Mind Pollution – An August 9th Jog Rant Containing Self-Analysis 50:06-50:20 Muh Draft Audio As A Reminder To Spout All This What liars like: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.773441/full Lying For Money book review: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-lying-for-moneyAudio: sscpodcast.libsyn.com/your-book-review-lying-for-money TLDR: Fraud is now omni-fraud! Cynics Were Always Right: https://iep.utm.edu/cynics/
My Views Dont Count No Avail 2023-08-10 | I Shan't Be Factional00:00-03:33 Too many audios03:33-06:01 Canada As Reserved Place06:01-10:57 Strata Orwellian10:57-13:28 Apt Views Take Time13:28-16:34 It’s all cats / Comparison to pets and strays16:34-21:30 Muh Convoy and stunted notions of freedom21:30-23:37 Cavalier seekers of truth hamper you23:37-29:13 My kind of punditry29:13-33:31 Fed up with scammer calls and who cares33:31-36:07 The Voice36:07-37:51 Most unimportant clarification37:51-41:04 About that agnosticism…41:04-42:43 Prelude to June 1242:43-59:22 Groundhog MAGA Day…There’s more to this segment, it can be broken up into smaller, shorter parts. For istance, there's a chunk somewhere within this that should be titled "Local vs. Symbolic Politics" but I don't know where exactly and I don’t feel like rewatching it right now , but you'll know when/if you get to it. Like so:???-??? Local vs. Symbolic politics. 59:22-1:01:22 Cost of doing good civics (overview only)1:01:22- Who else is pardoned for being swept up in crap?FINpress.un.org/en/2023/sc15264.doc.htmGuess I’ve some other links to include here… but meh, I won’t bother to unless the specifics are asked for. In other vids I often write “I’ll add more later” after I include a bunch, and I almost never add the rest, and it almost never matters. Neither should this.I'm still peeved at myself for not having uploaded it last week, as it was 99% done then, and I just sat on the 1%, but at least the thumb we got out of it far surpasses whatever low-rent thumb I'd have come up with last week.
The Will Is Bloodless No Avail 2023-07-21 | You don’t just land on Nihilism.00:00-08:50 Tankie agrees with you.08:50-14:26 Actual Intro / Normative Need For Normativity. 14:26-17:35 Analytic paradigm as the Audit Of Isms. 17:35-20:20 Issues with Time and inferring too much atemporally.20:20-24:00 Will shan’t be deadened. 24:00-29:14 Good for nothing nihilism. Riddle me something wiser.29:14-41:37 I Nearly Accept Idealism. 41:37-45:14 Based and Winded. 45:14-48:18 Belated groundwork and small correction.48:18-51:21 Porcupine Tree – Sleep Togetheryoutu.be/UIFTUVTefBk For musical intermissions in previous videos, I’ve only used demos or tracks that exist apart from PT’s main catalogue, or stuff from Steven Wilson’s solo career. But this one closes out their most beloved record. As such, I’m half-anticipating a strike for having it here. This is just in case you choose to rewatch the intermission only to find the music gone. I can always change the song, but no replacement will work in terms of matching the images (unless I really feel like wasting my time to find something nearly as fitting). So enjoy while you can. Hope I’m wrong to worry!51:21-01:15:38 Watching old Raw between philosophy.Okay so there’s more to the second half than I’m willing to break down timeline wise. TLDR: Along with wrestling fans, I insult the promoters, the current neutered nature of the industry, the nostalgia indulgers, Vince McMahon, fashion lovers, fans of carnivals and monster truck rallies, CRT/book banners, DeSantis and theoretical conservatism, fair weather paternalists, people with fervent gender ideologies who use “gender ideology” to denote other groups but never their own, and I’m sure many other targets I can’t recall now, all dispersed across 51:21-01:15:38. Basic income experiments around the world: visualcapitalist.com/map-basic-income-experiments-world Muh formal freedom: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/#DisStiUse Critical read for grasping why I approach metaphysics differently/humbly now: colinmcginn.net/epistemology-as-metaphysics Mark’s post on Schop from the Partially Examined Life: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/05/01/schopenhauers-idealism-how-time-began-with-the-first-eye-opening Note: Their full podcast on Schop (linked in the post) underwhelms. The commenter LemonCookies explains why in the podcast’s comment thread, though I disagree with parts of his criticisms too: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/04/27/ep114-schopenhauer-will The Standpoint Of Idealism: Part 1: ia801301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_25_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3 Part 2: ia801301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_26_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3 Part 3: ia801301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_27_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3On Man’s Need Of Metaphysics:Part 1: ia801301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_51_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3 Part 2: ia601301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_52_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3Part 3: ia801301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_53_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3Part 4: ia601301.us.archive.org/17/items/world_will_idea_v2_1507_librivox/worldaswillandidea_vol2_54_schopenhauer_128kb.mp3 I was going to link to the texts, but the only version containing full chapters I could find was: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_World_as_Will_and_Representation It’s overflowing with errors, mostly compositional (words randomly separated by several spacebars). Awful. More on text-only Schop later.Al Snow on why athleticism is (at best) secondary in wrestling: youtu.be/tV5YOslMuOQ Notice how his understanding of ‘worker’ differs from the grappler or athletic-minded ones spouted by 'smart' wrestling fans.There's more, but can't see the character count display and am fearful of it.Oh yeah, you need to properly watch the video to spot that I did correct my "brain develops by 7" remark in text only. I'll say more about that slip in the future. Lots more to say about all that.
Just Eugenics No Avail 2023-05-19 | Full essay by Diana S. Fleischman: dissentient.substack.com/p/eugenicistAs short-form defensive treatments of eugenics go, this one’s unmatched. And I know of no superior long-form ones, for that matter.Intuitive eugenics: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6224511 “Participants were asked to select in a forced choice paradigm, which of two acts of inbreeding with actual family members they would want to avoid most. We found that the estimated fitness costs explained 83.6% of participant choices. Importantly, fitness costs explained choices also when the self was not involved. We conclude that humans intuit the indirect fitness costs of mating decisions made by close family members and that psychological inbreeding avoidance mechanisms extend beyond self-regulation.”The Cousin Marriage Controversy In Historical Perspective: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605922 Patterns of Nonrandom Mating Within & Across 11 Major Psychiatric Disorders:jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2494707 The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status QuoBias in Applied Ethics: nickbostrom.com/ethics/statusquo.pdfIt's no secret that I'm no a fan of the coauthors of the last paper, but that doesn't mean I blind myself to the good work they do, when I see them do actual good work.Disability Rights, Prenatal Diagnosis and Eugenics: A Cross-Cultural View: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10897-005-0573-0More links to come.Correction @ 18:30: Author wrote “homophobia” but I read it as “propaganda”. Also at 20:35: Author wrote “criminal record” but I read it as “criminal background”. Also at 2:38: Author only wrote “health problems” but I read “mental health problems” mistakenly. Noting the misreads here as I’m too tired (see: lazy) to go back and dub in corrections.
Some Needs Are Hateful No Avail 2023-03-17 | Animals who can talk.Timeline:00:00-00:40 Low-effort Petersonian polemic, even by trad standards. 00:40-10:28 Outdoorsy rant against what I just subjected you to, and much more. I lash out at Peterson; decoupling anti-natalism from noise and setting up what’s to come. 10:28-14:58 Why biology and rationality are always at odds, and why this is a problem for Peterson and his devotees. 14:58-22:40 Freedom from sociality.I gloss how such a turn would undoubtedly (or at minimum plausibly) bolster many of the cherished values and primary aims held by i.e. self-avowed free speech absolutists. 22:40-25:00 Drawbacks to audios. Related to this; reasons to question the (in all likelihood) incurious minds of people who find it easy to edit for hours uninterruptedly, sometimes even for days, who are thereby ones ordinary viewers hear from the most because they upload more despite knowing less. Them knowing less isn’t necessarily a reflection of their poorer minds, but merely for being pressed on time. Compare to people who know more because they (know it is prudent to) contribute little to nothing outwardly, or whose penchant to upload and contribute outwardly is outmatched by their scattershot curiosity, who thereby grow more inwardly by choosing not to repress said curiosity, and thus not being pressed on time. 25:00-27:42 On “New Man” hype: Decoupling theoretical vs. practical components of my bio-skepticism. Bioenhancement for me is a largely, though not completely, theoretical project and discourse. There are people doing practical work surrounding it, but in small numbers and none of them are affiliated with lobbying groups (as far as I know). Hence the narrow political Overton Window has no business dictating anything to them or to me. The unpopularity of these views becomes a problem only when advocates aim to impact public policy, or arguably when they petition for public funding. Aside: I realize that AI discourse is surging rapidly right now, but that’s too infused with dry argumentation about the nature of computation, minds, and brains, all of which should (and easily can) be decoupled from the largely theoretical discourse on bio-skepticism vs. bio-conservatism. 27:42-31:08 On neglected dimensions of ideological fanaticism, immoderateness, moderateness, etc. 31:08-39:50 Natalist Gulag. 39:50-49:32 Muh Ancestry as tacit Standpoint Epistemology.Watching this back, what’s covered here may be the sneakiest, most easy-to-miss courting of standpoint theory, despite being fairly common. Nothing I’ve read in the SE canon connects SE to how an agent’s emotional investment in their ancestors, when it looms large, can prove as distortive (i.e. to impartiality) as the regular facets of group identity and relativity that SE-minded philosophers focus on.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpoint_theory 49:32-56:52 Why there is racial tension.Hint: It’s only rarely structural.56:52-1:00:03 Speechwriters, symbolic responsibility, David Frum, and Iraqi blood. 1:00:03-1:03:42 Sufficiently good lives are possible and this doesn’t discredit the procreative asymmetry. Repeat after me: Anti-frustrationism is not necessary. 1:03:42-1:07:18 Gulag revisited: Conscience and NINOs.1:07:18-1:12:30 Reluctant vs. enthusiastic itch-scratchers: Implications for philosophical discourse. 1:12:30-1:23:50 Meaning and mobsters.Or:Mobbed by meaning. 1:23:50-1:38:29 X-Risk histrionics. Or:Drool marks the spot: Why Toby Ord’s (and longtermist EAs in general) push to X-risk mitigation unavoidably leads to a giant existential Ponzi scheme. *Bad Jordie full: youtube.com/watch?v=e7ytLpO7mj0&ab_channel=JordanBPeterson Existential puss: youtube.com/post/UgyV_vxlRi0vRBepo6x4AaABCQ Challenges to bioconservatism: youtube.com/channel/UCpEhWWl68-3I5t7wNYNyiRg/community?lb=UgkxQw51bU6sqsG5k7ysAlg10tTh7grkOYgB Less hypothetically, for those interested: youtube.com/@scfu/videos Podcast with Hanson covering findings from his book The Elephant in the Brain: youtu.be/oxAEJbyPgdQ Relevant as it's just one of many works cementing the conflictual realities between aspirational rationality and our social nature. The author only disappoints by never posing the types of button and button-like scenarios that I pose here, and by not being condemnatory to those who'd cling to what they're used to, simply because it's familiar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_in_the_Brain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886923000752#s0050 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156#s0125 webofwealth.org/2019/11/the-moral-modalities-framework-an-introduction researchgate.net/publication/351577986_What_Is_Antinatalism_Definition_History_and_Categories
Bossy Reign Is About Over No Avail 2023-02-16 | I Only Fail On My Terms.Timeline:00:00-07:27 Intro with corrections/clarifications for what’s ahead. 07:27-25:10 Student disposability is all I see now. None of the reformers are ahead of the curve enough to get students to think along the lines of pre-institutional self-regarding metrics for intellectual self-development. I’m no one’s worker bee and I resent the idea that part of why (most of why?) I was enrolled had to do with getting me to ‘produce’ later in life, and by extension consume. If we’re forced to attend school, fine, but it can’t be for other-regarding or communal aims. As a longtime taxpayer, I'll only tolerate such aims (i.e. enhance workforce and productivity) in meager amounts, considering the *public* and taxpayer-funded nature of schools that most often sin. 25:10-34:39 No one in charge of education cares about any of the people who know they’re not morning people. Gym can remedy some of this, for some, but only when it’s scheduled as the first class each day. 34:39-39:56 Tangential explosive rant on disciplinarians and adultists. 39:56-42:15 Intermission / I bless you with Steven Wilson’s magic. You’re welcome. Full track - Cut Ribbon: youtu.be/AImxNYDNkeo 42:15-50:02 Hereditarian Whiteout and Team Blue.I’m sure most of the teammates believe they’re attentive to individual variation. But perversely, their unwillingness to account for (even soft) heritability only hinders the individual students they (most of them?) sincerely (most of the time?) endeavor to help. I cited reading speed differentials as the example again, but there’s much more.(Team Blue = everyone who believes [and truly is] comparatively best served by the DNC machine and stands opposed to the RNC machine)50:02-56:30 Plugged Singer’s book on the Darwinian ‘Left’. Also broached childhood play and how badly neglected it’s been.56:30-1:15:00 I Swerved into gendered and intimate partner violence, connecting them to individual differences in LHS. It’s absurd to believe that nothing within LH is explanatory and that this is about the culture of misogyny. Fixating on nebulous root causes which aren’t even half the story won’t save lives.I’d like to break down numerous things within this chunk for a more fine-grained timeline, but I’m too exhausted now and my back hurts from typing hunched over on the couch. Just want to upload the video already. I know there’s lots here and will fine-grain this section sometime later.1:15:00-1:17:53 Left/Right as the original thing.1:17:53-1:18:58 Hereditarianism as brochure. 1:18:58-1:20:15 Valid and invalid fodder for establishing sensible narratives within gender discourse. 1:20:15 Better for men to lose the gender war playing on impartial mode than to win at the expense of their personal integrity and ideological consistency (i.e. by playing fire with fire). As always: Be the optimal thinker and arguer, not the optimal activist. Forget it.Links in a bit.
Marks And Other Fiction No Avail 2023-01-28 | Philosophical Ways Fail To Reach.Recording dates: Jan 4 / Jan 6 / Jan 12The timeline, because I'm courteous:00:00-07:20 Prelude and sampling. 07:20-13:30 Compulsory Schooling and disciplinarian obfuscation. 13:30-31:33 Graded by ignorance. 31:33-38:17 Adultist social engineering is by far the most ignored and taken-for-granted form of social engineering, and I would argue one of the most sneakily harmful. Results are always mixed, with children who clearly benefit from hyper-regimentation getting the spotlight and children whose lives are cumulatively burdened by the same getting the evaluative shaft, or otherwise shifting the blame onto parents or the individual minor. . There was more to the audio in this segment but I decided to cut it after minute 7, for time. 38:17-47:50 My views on Breaking Bad’s handling of Hank Schrader’s character and his epic non-arc. 47:50-52:38 My views on Breaking Bad’s handling of Walter “Flynn” Junior’s character, explaining my disappointment over the missed opportunities here as I see them. I don’t think any of the points I raise are ablest, but on some formulations of ableism they absolutely are. In which case: So much the worse for those elastic variants of ableism. I better not get any strikes for including mere still images from the show!!52:38-1:03:00 Don’t be straightedge, beware of associational logic. Been meaning to devote some video time to this for a while now. Seemed a good fit.1:03:00 I analyze a moral mistake by me from earlier in the video and offer tutelage for dealing with similar faults on related themes. Note: The mistake was purely expressive, thus morally tame. In the video I say “extremely bad” but that’s stretching it. It’s not nothing, but it’s not “extreme”. Insofar as speech-acts are intelligibly types of acts, they’re rightly subject to moral feedback, and even moral scrutiny. I don’t believe I deserve scrutiny on this, but I’d have deserved negative feedback had I not recorded and included the introspective follow-up at the end.
Wet Dream Decoded No Avail 2022-12-15 | Evolutionary Mind Games and You.Recording dates: December 2nd, December 9th, and November 21st.00:00-11:45 Agree or disagree: All gender politics and heretofore recognizable “ideological zones” are beneath you, if you have a head on your shoulders. There is nothing worth preserving and we’d do well to forget the history of gender discourse, and start anew. 11:45-19:18 I tackle Drag Queen Storytime! The notable thing here has nothing to do with “OK Groomer” or with combating the paranoid crazies. Pay more attention to the people (usually parents) who are intensely upset by this for reasons that stop short of all Q-anon narratives.19:18-31:46 Pedophilia and morally relevant misconduct. Rationalists nowhere to be seen. 31:46-36:44 Is it really true that most men have been “too easy”? (Emphasis on the most)36:44-40:52 Why I go easy on paranoia within the Manosphere. 40:52-48:02 Apple News is breathtakingly brazen in its propagandistic exclusion of terms designed to identify male-only issues. Two examples are mentioned. 48:02-56:48 Sociosexual plagues: Scarcity Mindset for men, Abundance Mindset for women. Naming it is step one. The earlier you expose it and teach boys about it, and why it’s there, the more of a chance you’ll give boys to react correctly when they’re sex-starved and can get sex from a misandrist, as sketched in the “Wouldn’t ___ if you paid me” scenario.56:48-1:20:10 Ye’s porn addiction & religious workarounds obstructing true understanding.I speculate that piety, spiritual solemnity, servility to god, etc... serve evolutionary purposes in providing “Darwinian Airbags” to thirsty men who (deep down) don’t like being thirsty but feel they need to signal how hetero they are as this increases odds of having sex / copulating. Building a reputation of being content with one’s own thirst is likely the best strategy for this. And men who (in the process) sincerely convince themselves that they’re at ease with their thirst become even better at signaling “no homo” to prospective mates (thus female sexual empowerment is only bad because “Jesus Said No”. Scripture to the scripture!). Similar enough observations can be made with male bonding / feels-sharing. It's never gay in god's house. 1:20:10-1:23:26 Not Chivalry.1:23:26-1:32:50 Beware all things communal when truth-seeking. Nobody listens.1:32:50-1:35:20 Tougher obstacles than censorship: Cognitive Ease over Cognitive Strain, normalization of and capitulation to audience capture, thirst for clarity (esp. moral clarity), chasers of views/exposure/clout by any means necessary.“Most decision-making is highly irrational and the experience of rationality is frequently an illusion”: https://gregglab.neuro.utah.edu/2018/10/14/the-art-of-killing-other-peoples-ideas/ 1:35:20-1:38:10 Why are the best so often ignored? (“Best” ala fairness, honesty, impartiality, open-mindedness, at times worldly knowledge, etc.)1:38:10-1:40:41 Boosterism ruins everything.Still not sure what’s more grotesque to me: Boosterism by those looking to make easy money out of hyperemotional partisan ants, or Boosterism by the ants themselves who are naïve enough (i.e. utterly caught up in The Now) to literally experience fear at the prospect of losing politically. Who do you hate more? I should do a Poll on this at some point.1:40:41-1:43:50 More on Just World edging. thedecisionlab.com/biases/just-world-hypothesis1:43:50-1:50:48 Joker narratives misdiagnose and lead you astray. Post criticizing dumb "The Joker Tried To Warn You" video: youtube.com/post/Ugkx6_0YJNk0LQxKAU6wT8ey0i4O0GloG4tC
Clownworld Is Androcentric No Avail 2022-11-24 | Will is too restless.Recording dates: October 27th and November 17th 2022.November 21st saw me do another 30 minutes, thinking I’d add it to all this. Then I saw how long this is on its own. So I’ll save the rest for the next video.Timestamps, for those who asked: 00:00-08:23 Obligatory the-algorithm-sucks vent. Except it’s getting worse.08:23-14:35 Dissident Speech And Freedom Of Reach revisited: http://antibullshitman.blogspot.com/2021/02/dissident-speech-and-freedom-of-reach.html 14:35-27:35 On SkidRowRadio’s uncalibrated contrarianism. 27:35-30:30 Bit more on deliberative shambles.30:30-38:15 Acclimating to agreeability in social relationships gives way to blinkeredness, incuriosity, doxastic slovenliness, and the Ultimate Attribution Error: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error People aren't shamed for having so much of their social lives built around agreeability (as distinct from compatibility) along cultural and ideological lines. Too many people don’t know what it’s like to have their core beliefs challenged in private, non-civic settings, by otherwise non-antagonistic agents in their life. It took low-res DJT for rubes in America to learn this about each other.38:15-44:35 Solving “MGTOW vs. MSTOW” slippage. 44:35-51:13 Who needs to “work on their social skills” objectively speaking? If you necessarily exclude the popular and the influential, you’re as blind as Peterson. Just World Overdose. 51:13-1:01:03 The lived experiences of YouTuber Black Mind: youtu.be/rWVsZ9bdVpA The more rabid of an inclusivist one presents as, the more likely they are to exclude his type of lived experiences and observations from the equation, as those things complicate their simplistic (oft-unidirectional and gynocentric) axis of oppression narratives.1:01:03-1:07:41 How to: My non-melodramatic approaches to pointing out the uptick in misandry. It's not threatening, just dumb. 1:07:41-1:13:25 Simping by proxy. Don’t underestimate its reach. Beyond time to recognize that it’s worse than ordinary simping, mostly because of how much more frequent it is.1:13:25-1:26:34 Nightlife is lookist and exclusionary. Drones love to deny this (or at least downplay how wide-reaching the issue is). Whereas Incelian ideology exaggerates its overall reach and has true believers convinced that all society is lookist 24/7. The truth is more boring, but I think “Nightlife is lookist” is the best slogan for it, certainly locally here with the admissions fees. 1:26:34-1:27:27 Intermission! Sneaking in vintage Steven Wilson for your benefit. Vermillioncore: youtu.be/nHYjR3pLxOc 1:27:27-1:33:37 More on Black Mind, hybristophilia, colorism, fighting to impress women, the Black Manosphere, etc.1:33:37-1:46:38 Clarification on Gymcels: It’s more about HGH and gym rats devoting obscene amounts of time to get and maintain abs. Working on non-abs areas is probably fine when a man knows why it's done (i.e. surmounting bullies and other posturing apes hijacked by intra-sexual male competition drives). But it’s easy to self-deceive on this. It’s possible to be motivated both by defensive and non-defensive/gynocentric drives. Lifter beware.1:46:38-1:51:35 Say no to Big Chivalry. 1:51:35-1:53:20 On male-only slurs . Arbitrarily fine.1:53:20-2:00:21 Sex Ed curricula is advanced by cowards. They teach some dimorphism but stop short of male vs. female sexual strategy. I speculate it's because shushing on it leads to boys thinking comparatively and viewing options and standards as coextensive, leading them to accept bad deals later on from women unworthy of them. Ovarian game.2:00:21-2:04:05 A glimpse into unprecedented levels of female solipsism.nypost.com/2022/08/09/im-a-marilyn-monroe-lookalike-and-get-death-threats-for-how-i-look nypost.com/2022/07/07/teacher-fired-over-raunchy-onlyfans-for-putting-reputation-at-risknypost.com/2022/08/23/woman-sparks-outrage-with-thong-bikini-at-family-water-park/?dicbo=v2-a007b9ac6f2bf6c8aab4135435be1f10 (Yeah it's probably clout-chasing by them so technically I may be guilty of contributing to those ghastly ends by spreading it here. In my defense, I only bring it up after the two hour mark, when barely anyone is watching. And they’ll feast on clout no matter what. Each of them tallies millions of hits and there’s no such thing as bad press [in their myopic minds]. I just think the SP episode is a good antidote and is all but forgotten, so revive it).2:04:05-2:05:35 The seduction community is no better. In fact, they’re the lemmings.2:05:35-2:07:09 Stop using “coward” incorrectly. Other words work.2:07:09-2:09:40 Conscientious abstracta! 2:09:40-2:10:51 Narcissism Pride movements to join LGBTQ+. I’m calling it now. 2:10:51 Too brief to timestamp.Rationalwiki wants to stigmatize innocuous fun: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clown_WorldIf you let them and cower, you’re hardly better.Out of space!
No Country For Based Men No Avail 2022-11-04 | Olden Peterson cavalierly discards own rule: youtube.com/watch?v=WmjKNGsQG7g&ab_channel=TheAgendawithStevePaikin Minute 41 onwards. Guess “Tell The Truth” didn’t seem as important a rule until prominence came knocking…youtube.com/watch?v=lpnvGA-wJIE&ab_channel=SkyNewsAustralia At least Piers had the good sense to call him a polemicist right out the gate. I love how JBP just looks on and doesn't mind.unherd.com/thepost/the-incel-movement-isnt-getting-more-extreme qualitativecriminology.com/pub/z1961qto/release/1 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/ twitter.com/honestwamen/with_replies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynocentrism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcentrism youtube.com/channel/UCpG3XvqZxQpysgJZ2FYgeDg/videos I didn’t include all the audios, by the way. At two hour and forty two minutes, this is more than enough. Since I’m doing a trilogy, I’ll just upload the remaining audio (where I discuss the Will and Mind in relation to this) in part two. Part three will contain the most dangerous and censor-minefield theme. Briefly got into that here when I referenced femicide laws and groups that do vs. don’t deserve special protection status. I planned on including a link to the Black Pill somewhere. Checked various sites that are usually decent at providing summaries only to find that none are fair and balanced on this. The only site offering a proper, non-slanted overview of it is one that’s too risky to include here as it’s likely to be detected by censors. And I don’t even think the Black Pill is universalizable. Still, it’s clear that most summaries of it are way off, probably deliberately. Do your own cautious research. Edit: Close enough: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_son_hypothesis
Nuclear Agents With Binary Takes No Avail 2022-10-17 | Putin’s essay: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 I call it “The Horse’s Mouth” essay.Budapest Outline: treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280401fbb Full Memorandum: treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdfWhy care about the memorandum: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/12/05/why-care-about-ukraine-and-the-budapest-memorandum/ Minsk: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements So many treaties: treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/v3007.pdf When I say the epistemically cautious observer will take his cues from IR theorists and committed FP wonks, I’m thinking about this last link and the sheer volume of these documents. I’ve not read through it. I’d wager that 99.99% of the people spouting strong views and binary takes on which side is worse overall haven’t read it either. The few people who store so much of this in their heads truly are in a better position to tally treaty violations and other legal breaches. But they know not to waste time arguing with ghouls on twitter and the like. And that’s not to say that the Violation Tally is the most important thing here. It never was, which partly explains why I’m not slavishly devoted to reading and memorizing the contents of these mountainous texts and signed commitments. They’re important, but the fact that anti-Western actors play negative sum games more frequently (and always remorselessly) is more important!Legal positivism is another problem I should’ve named and targeted in the video. Technically, legal doctrines like positivism are meant to implicate each nation’s internal legal affairs only, but that’s no reason to ignore their (unspoken) distortions of how people think about interstate conflict abroad. In my experience arguers under the grip of legal positivism don’t realize they’re influenced by it. Nothing else explains the common resort to “West ignores laws all the time” mouthed as a checkmate, or as a plea for non-instrumental blame equivalence (or worse). When you encounter this, you must explain that the speaker is implicitly sold on a very odd and, I think, indefensible view of the law’s role in human life. A legal constructivist, for example, easily dispenses with such claims. Obviously getting the normative underpinnings of law right carries massive implications on “The West vs. The Rest” and how that debate is best approached. Arguers don’t appreciate how fine-grained this pre-factual part of the debate is. This doesn’t mean legal constructivists are necessarily forward-looking in terms of how they view law’s relation to moral and other types of normative force. Constructivists may differ on all that, just as any of us can believe in Cosmic Justice (read: recognition of Just World Fallacies) and still differ on the question of Cosmic Justice being necessarily forward-looking, backward-looking, or a blend of both (i.e. telic/deontic particularism). Arguably legal formalists can use their own theories to nip positivist distortions in the bud in ways that differ from how I as a constructivist would. We might rename legal positivism “Legal Totalism”, adding some rhetorical bite to its much needed critique. A number of other non-positivistic schools can offer their own sturdy bulwarks against equivalence talk. But it’s hard to be convincing here unless people realize that competing legal frameworks exist, exert pressure on their pre-factual judgment, and can be named and debunked. Most importantly, the more reliable ones are not just applicable at home but abroad (critically now, given the world we’ve inherited). I should’ve said all of this in the video, but there was too much other ammo I had to fire. I’m broaching all this in the low-bar because I don’t want to tack on additional recordings to include yet another piece of the puzzle as that makes the video ever-longer and it’s already one hour longer than I had intended before pressing rec. Shrug.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_positivism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(international_relations) Arguments for constructivism: journals.openedition.org/revus/5897 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_formalismI’ll run out of space if I keep adding links here, but this is less than half of everything I planned on glossing and linking. So I’ll just say: Go to Anne Applebaum’s twitter feed to see the antithesis of a “70/30” approach by someone who by all accounts should know better. Or read anything she has written elsewhere over the last few years. She’s still not a net-negative force in this debate, but she can do better in terms of proportionality, impartiality, goodwill and not assuming things about 70/30 commentators.
Life Truly Is Appalling No Avail 2022-09-07 | But not categorically unbearable.Ted’s rampage: youtube.com/channel/UC2RtPcjZkkCwh9NhQeC9QpQ/videosMy response here begins at 7:00 sharp.Reasons and Persons along the scopes of possibility: users.ox.ac.uk/~mert2255/papers/population_axiology.pdf Other:philosophynow.org/issues/139/Philosophical_Misanthropy study.com/learn/lesson/misanthropy-overview-examples-what-is-a-misanthrope.html Generalism vs. Particularism:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-particularism-generalism/ Should’ve had this one cued up during the video, but didn’t even get around to flashing it on the screen post-recording like I said I would. Blah. I just want this video uploaded and over with.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/ I’ll do the minutely timestamps later, too tired/lazy now.And yes I’m still in something of a cough/sick grip.
My Irritation Index No Avail 2022-08-25 | 00:00 Choose Thankless Paths Of Assured Harsh Resistance. Live with the fallout. Complain about it in the occasional video. Hate it on every level. Repeat.06:40 Flattery leads the way in the arts of persuasion. Not enough decent people on the lookout. No one demands better. It never bleeds out.09:40 The push-pull quicksand. I discuss how fawners of academia come in different shapes and sizes. They mostly argue among themselves. The makings of a dialectic dystopia.More needs to said on the issues I’m having with Amy Wax, Heather MacDonald, Glenn Loury, etc. I dropped them far too quickly here and moved on to other stuff. But it’s precisely the thing that I know ought to drive me bonkers, in that my specific counters are never articulated, and are probably never even cognized by any of the spotlighted debaters. 18:02 People have nothing to offer. Smart, educated people... nothing. 24:09 Panel as humanized algorithm. Format as obstacle.31:23 Fuel for my contempt of people who add to the newsy chorus on a weekly or daily basis, who truly think themselves productive for it. If you don’t care about this, or if you simply don’t hate those people the way I do, I want you to let me know so we can argue it. Now more than ever, I realize that it’s no a trivial slip up to do what they do, and I’m 100% justified in letting it get to me. If you spend a fair bit of time online and it doesn’t get to you, you’re in the wrong. This is the water we’ve always had to swim in, and it’s not our doing. No one should negate or repress that anger away. Or worse yet, no one should notice the problem and carry on irritation-free. 34:19 Trump Engagement Syndrome ala the Mar-a-Lago raid, or search, or whatever your polemical jockeying needs to cast it as. (I used “raid” in the video not because I care to paint a particular picture of it. I like to speak freely and non-tactically, and “raid” was the first word that spring to mind. Had I been worried about seeming sympathetic to MAGA per rhetoric alone, I’d have inserted a corrective to "raid" in the video, not just here only. And if you think that I should’ve done that, I doubt you’re absorbing the points I’m making.)45:25 Death and consciousness, eliminative materialism, aggregation, separateness of persons, with arguable implications for procreative ethics. Huge issue, I barely scratch the surface.56:19 My coffee turns cold!56:37 The Newsy People. The Substack leash. Hell on earth.01:01:47 Anti-Bayesian vibes and illusory smoking guns.Mentioned in the video:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimology#Victim_proneness‘Victim proneness’ being the superior term for the point I was trying to make with the “epistemic flattery” observations. More on victimology: uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-assets/83271_book_item_83271.pdf “Death, Nothingness, And Subjectivity” paper by Tom Clark: naturalism.org/philosophy/death/death-nothingness-and-subjectivity Glenn and Wax: youtube.com/c/GlennLouryShow/search?query=amy%20waxGlenn and MacDonald: youtube.com/c/GlennLouryShow/search?query=heather%20macdonald I’ll return here later to add what I’m now forgetting to include.
Thinking Out Loud For Real No Avail 2022-07-30 | Timestamps and menu:00:00-06:51 Mostly Intro. Interrogating the seemingly trivial can lead to fresh observations and self-exploration. Call it the Triviality/Novelty pipeline. Brief overview of a few social implications this carries and how it should shape the future of this channel (and ideally all serious channels). 06:51-09:33 Beware the figurative “We” usage. If you’re not guilty of X, never describe issues with X using “We”. Even I slipped up once later in the video and used it in the way I hate seeing it used. Rant segues to thoughts on non-judgmentalism as a presentation style, or as insincere flattery. Be on the lookout for “chummy” communicative strategies. There are so many critics of Suits and Corporate Culture utilizing suit-like tactics for their own PR purposes. They keep getting away with it because the question “Why even care that someone uses “We” figuratively?!” has a down to earth vibe and just seems punchy. Perfect example of a complaint I have that is deceptively trivial.09:33-19:30 The worthlessness of nearly all conversations in the wild. Issue loops into the above gripes. 19:30-27:04 Try your hand at a more socially courageous version of you whenever (or if) you’re around the breed of person I’m stuck being around. It might build you up from within. Not long after I began blurting out unspoken thoughts and risking backlash, new unaired intuitions and dormant negative judgments began to slide into my conscious thought stream. Free up space in your mind by uttering your thoughts more often in social settings and the same might happen. Or even when no one else is around (yeah, technically talking to yourself, big deal), mouthing along may prove effective. 27:04-31:48 Prevalence of low-quality banter, casual gossip and forgetfulness vs. The Loss Of Community. I question what people commonly attribute as the main drivers of America’s mental health crisis, and speculate that too much is made of the loss of community and not enough on the need (some have) to escape community further still. People are unreliable and boring and dealing with them is often a stressor. I’ve always found stress to be among the biggest drains on mood and mental health. Social isolation, particularly in adulthood, was never a factor. Here too, I'm suspecting that a silent plurality resembling my isolation-tolerance may well exist, maybe even a silent majority. This is what “social studies” textbooks should actually teach in elementary school: individual differences leading to tolerance or intolerance of one's own mind. But no one demands this, because they’re boring, unimaginative and epistemically unreliable. Evidently, curricula crafters aren't immune. 31:48-38:50 Siblings and crowded upbringings as fail-proof firewalls against independent thought. Speculation only, personal anecdotes, unavailable data.38:50-48:30 Creative musicians and artists vs. musical entertainers. Analogized to: Creative vloggers vs. vloggers led by “How To Succeed On YouTube” tutorials. Includes angry rant on inconsistent standards in digital culture.48:30-51:34 The Right To Promulgate Anything. 51:34 TOS complaints and YT’s lackluster competitors.53:25 Insight vs. Impact. Further contextualizing some things I’ve said before about the clear demarcations everyone should have in mind here, as my earlier comments on this were incomplete.56:40 The urgency mindset creates dignity compromisers. Don’t give in.59:25 The Dobbs ruling and my whiffs of schadenfreude. Because “Friends Of Religion” who are nonbelievers would fail to diagnose the root of this problem if their lives depended on it, which is sometimes literally the case.1:09:43 More on “siblings vs. independent thought” implications in early childhood.1:13:46 The Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara’s vs. Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death. Spot the though-lines.I decided to spare you the prelude I planned to attach at the end. Video is long enough already.Dobbs' dissent: documentcloud.org/documents/22067295-dobbs-dissentAudiobook version of Postman’s book: youtu.be/5Ln9IvjSXBs Ezra Klein interviews Bhaskar Sunkara:nytimes.com/2022/06/10/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-bhaskar-sunkara.html Then & Now's tiptoey video on consumerism: youtu.be/wmDoUa4f-NMRandom plug: youtube.com/user/AntiBullshitMan/communityPretty much where I “blog” now, in that I’m too lazy and impatient to sacrifice the time and nerves required to complete any of my longer draft posts. With the community tab, shorter writeups somehow feel acceptable in a way they never did when I’d formally blog. Probably all subjective.
Existential Jaws And Procreative Asymmetries No Avail 2022-04-28 | Conditional Reasons And The Procreation Asymmetry: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phpe.12139PDF version: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phpe.12139Related themes:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonidentity-problem/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-affecting_view#Variants https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gametes-donation-sale/
Invaluable Dreams And Lapsed Autonomy No Avail 2022-01-07 | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-normative-utility/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/principle-beneficence/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/law-limits/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machineShedding empirical light on the Experience Machine: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2017.1406600I didn't even know this work existed at the time of recording. Unfortunately the paper on Welfare Invariabilism vs. Variabilism is no longer publicly available. Only the abstract is:https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/694272I'll update this with the relevant link if I find a way to access the full paper.
Anarcho-Obscurantism And Victimless Omelets No Avail 2021-12-24 | Dud: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ Inspired by: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/ World Government entry by SEP, with invocations of World Federalism, containing critically useful needle-threading of the two positions:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/world-government/Origins and history of bog-standard Federalism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/federalism/ World Federalism on wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federalism#Overview The movement: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federalist_Movement In the video I mentioned that none of the IR scholars and theorists whose names I recognize are on record as being members or supporters of this movement. But it’s worse than that, because all the notable figures listed as comprising the movement’s most well-known devotees... are all deceased! Thirteen figures, all dead, and all of whom have been dead and buried for 50+ years. So not only does the movement appear to be underrepresented by influential and respected IR figures; it's also overrepresented by corpses. Unitarism in detail: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state Closely related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicameralism Extinction Rebellion: https://rebellion.global/Otherwise known as the “Movement that would benefit from gaining even an entry-level understanding of Population Ethics and the unresolved puzzles therein”.No, they’re not actually known as that. That’s just my unsubtle jab at their “X-Risks over S-Risks” proclivities and overhasty assumptions. So here I need to ensure that these subtleties are teased out and then straightened out, just in case the video left any of it unclear or ambiguous.So about S-Risks: s-risks.org I tamely resent thinkers who reach explicit long-termist "X-Risks over S-Risks" conclusions and who are aware of exactly what it is that they’ve elbowed out in doing so. But it’s always worse when the people thinking along similar enough lines don’t appear to even grasp that there is an S-Risk factor against which they ought to be balancing their X-Risk mitigation baselines, and ideally reconsidering them in favor of S-Risk mitigation. From everything I’ve observed, Extinction Rebellion types come with the latter muddled or full-fledged unthinking approach.But this is not why I brought them up during the video, as will be clear for those who heard me out. Still, it’s important to not lose sight of fact that the effects of Climate Change could easily lead to a significant spike in S-Risks, completely apart from how those same CC forces go on to shape the attendant X-Risks. So it’s ethically sensible to be somewhat concerned with CC, as was during the December portion of this video. CC is a worthy concern, even though the loudest cheerleaders who demand sweeping action against CC are largely the conceptually muddled types observed in movements like Extinction Rebellion.Overview of why S-Risk mitigation is more important than any other long-termism project: longtermrisk.org/s-risks-talk-eag-boston-2017
Political Essentialism As Anterior Identitarianism No Avail 2021-11-26 | The malleability of political attitudes – Full: https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/80023626/strandberg_thesis.pdf Abstract only: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publication/493f3f22-a664-4909-b427-d3ab3c95f34d Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America: nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01012-5 Democrats and Republicans found to be equally susceptible to false attitude feedback: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001898 Abstract – “Party over Policy” modes of analytic distortion: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599246 Related: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30148387 Somehow I failed to highlight the following crucial part from the above link during the video, which I really wanted to do, so here goes: “In addition, we found that participants' analytical skill correlated with their correction of the manipulation, whereas political involvement did not. This study contributes to the understanding of how confabulatory reasoning and self-perceptive processes can interact in lasting attitude change. It also highlights how political expressions can be both stable in the context of everyday life, yet flexible when argumentative processes are engaged.”Health and exercise contribute to preserving a well-ordered society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527002517717299Or as they put it: “The Effects of Physical Activity on Social Interactions: The Case of Trust and Trustworthiness”Fun sad-fact: No past or present foundationalist political theory lists “health + exercise” of the to-be-governed population as one of its normative building blocks. Major setback.Yes, I checked: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies They’re making lemon-free lemonade, all of them. Do not drink.Contextualism full: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-017-9358-1A Variety Of Contexts in Contextualism as a method: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/53735 Psychologism, or what Haidt does: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychologism/Didn’t get around to this one at all: bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways “How East and West think in profoundly different ways”Relevant read because Haidt insists that The Big Five personality model and its political implications apply to electorates worldwide. That’s absurd, and this one article clinches it.SEP stuff:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-character-empirical/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-psych-emp/ I’ll have more to say about these two (barely skimmed in the video) entries at a later time.I'll also proofread all of this and add any source that might currently be missing. Let me know if you spotted anything that I may've left out.
Delusive Heroism And Sober Fears No Avail 2021-08-15 | Response to: youtu.be/e3EsCIjvrSwOn Preference Hedonism: kevinleung.com/archives/arguments-in-defense-of-preference-hedonismAmericanized vs. Europeanized: Enduring differences in western young adults: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/europes-young-not-so-woke/598783It is a thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_biasLearned-tweaked helplessness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessnessRelated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)The estimated heritability for several psychiatric disorders is 80% or higher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_genetics#Heritability_and_geneticsNote that attempts at sweeping conclusions in psychiatric genetics (as with genetics proper) remain stubbornly controversial. See this abstract from the paywalled article on the same: nature.com/articles/nrg2381"Having a close family member affected by a mental illness is the largest known risk factor, to date.[6] However, linkage analysis and genome-wide association studies have found few reproducible risk factors."But regardless of all that, the issue is with Academy Of Ideas' laughable portrayal of mental illness as that-which-is-caught-by-satefyism. I've never seen him raise the more obvious and prevalent source. It's almost as if he doesn't mind mental illnesses *when* they're a manifestation of the natural order, because then the sufferer is presented with the opportunity to heroically overcome their negative effects. Just as he doesn't embrace living dangerously when the danger is posed by a prospective despot who can be prevented from acquiring power in the first place, thus leaving the freedom-loving population deprived of the glorious adventure of toppling the despot, and surely rejoicing in what would've been the difficult and risky task. As if facing a less-dangerous despot is overall worse than facing a more-dangerous-climate or more-dangerous *insert elements here*. So mindless.Ryan Dunn's story: youtu.be/wsAB8ITqRlU
Comedy And Wrath No Avail 2021-06-09 | Absolutely simple: absolutelymental.comWhoa: absolutely-mental.libsyn.com/ep-1-why-do-we-dreamUltra-technical approach to attitudes, misfiled as value: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fitting-attitude-theories/Best filed under aesthetics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-concept/#AesAttDid I mention anything else that warrants a link? If so, tell me and I'll update as always.
The Scheduled Life No Avail 2021-05-26 | A typical piece dealing with the Achievement Gap: https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/what-is-the-achievement-gap/A (somewhat) more sensible take on the Achievement Gap: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/rethinking-achievement-gapThis video only glosses the drawbacks of work / full-time employment for the employed, so here’s something closer to an unabridged overview:slate.com/human-interest/2018/04/is-your-work-killing-you.htmlI vented in the video about the routine-instilling nature of work, because this is what personally affects me the most about being employed. Realistically though, a more impersonal summary sees the harshest drawbacks stemming from what takes place within the shift itself. So as much as I want to complain on a personal level, in more detail, I know that pointing to the available research is the way to go. I’m nowhere near as unlucky as the profiled subjects and general trends reported in the above article.Related: fastcompany.com/90230330/how-our-obsession-with-productivity-evolvedThis productivity-is-everything mindset is arguably unjustified as it leads to masochism and aimless bean-counting. With each passing year, I inch closer to concluding that the genuine upsides (of productivity concern) are not enough to ultimately compensate for the many downsides. But if you find that the productivity story is more complex than that, let's hear it.Robin Hanson: School Isn’t For Learning: overcomingbias.com/2010/08/school-isnt-about-learning.htmlAKA why I even bothered bringing up the Radical Proposal towards the end of the video.Hanson on The Case Against Education:overcomingbias.com/2018/01/read-the-case-against-education.html(Not a fan of Bryan Caplan, by the way, but I've found that his work on education is way more hit than miss, so I'll include Hanson's praising of that work)Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation:sprigghr.com/blog/hr-professionals/extrinsic-intrinsic-motivation-examples-whats-the-differenceThe New Orleans School Experiment: youtu.be/OW0y7Dj1_0Y Charter Schools: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school Critical Pedagogy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_pedagogyList of autodidacts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts I’m probably forgetting something again, so this low-bar will be updated the moment I recall whatever that something is. It might just be a feeling of incompleteness for having a gone through a full description section without linking anything from the SEP. Feels weird, man.
Deserved Restorativism No Avail 2021-04-09 | Does suffering suffice: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230304 Appendix: figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Does_suffering_suffice_An_experimental_assessment_of_desert_retributivism/12159231 How to adjust Utility for Desert: http://web.mit.edu/bskow/www/research/utility.pdf(the omitted / un-played paper) Mentioned SEP articles:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-punishment/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desert/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-intergenerational/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ramsey-economics/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#CompAccoSour https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-arguments/ Also relevant:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reconciliation/ Note: On a couple of occasions I said “Experimental moral philosophy” when what I meant was “Experimental moral psychology” as that’s the title of the area of social science conducting the relevant research on people’s inner moral lives.Deeply moving letter: youtu.be/78SOjurJkHk(It’s not often that I catch myself disliking attempts to lampoon the overtly sentimental and/or mawkish… but these letters and poems, to my psyche, cannot be mocked. Few things in this world make the cut when it comes to that; but they’re just that good at being exemplars of poignancy and non-dramatic tragedy.)Guess I should have tried to track down similar enough letters by actual inmates. Maybe compiling and presenting them would’ve furthered the case I was building. Only now that I’m uploading the file and composing this low-bar did it dawn on me that I should’ve tried to find and include all of that in the video prior to rendering it. Oh well.As always, if I missed any mentioned works, I'll update this space the first chance I get.
Comparative Privilege And Evaluative Boldness No Avail 2021-03-18 | Responding to: youtu.be/FZjr9sYVLkYCritical Disability Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disability-critical/My disdainful reaction: youtube.com/post/UgwsOToMZjRqF1JkaPp4AaABCQMy “Privilege Overview” comment in full: youtube.com/post/Ugz-BZJTQbWFNf55AQx4AaABCQPaper alleging serious interplay between Privilege and Good Health outcomes: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7884-9Linked here because it perfectly illuminates why Murray jumps the gun when it comes to the types of objections he casually lobs at privilege-spouting zombies. Some of them are less zombie-ish than others. This is important.From the abstract: "The goal of this article is to advance understanding and action on health inequities and the social determinants of health by introducing a framework for transformative change: the Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship. First, I introduce the model, which explains how social structures produce both unearned advantage and disadvantage. The model embraces an intersectional approach to understand how systems of inequality, such as sexism, racism and ableism, interact with each other to produce complex patterns of privilege and oppression. Second, I describe principles for practicing critical allyship to guide the actions of people in positions of privilege for resisting the unjust structures that produce health inequities. The article is a call to action for all working in health to (1) recognize their positions of privilege, and (2) use this understanding to reorient their approach from saving unfortunate people to working in solidarity and collective action on systems of inequality."Murray invoked health/unhealth, but the author here shows that she is far from unmindful of these things. Her concerns are genuine, and remain so even if she is ultimately wrong about poor health outcomes being (non-trivially) bolstered by, or linked to, the usual Axes Of Oppression set-in-stone narratives. These probable falsehoods are, if nothing else, superior to pure obliviousness.Also referenced:Michael Sandel's Tyranny Of Merit: amazon.ca/Tyranny-Merit-Whats-Become-Common-ebook/dp/B084M1W9WBDaniel Markovits' Meritocracy Trap: amazon.ca/Meritocracy-Trap-Foundational-Inequality-Dismantles/dp/0735221995My reaction: youtube.com/post/UgzIthqUetgZq86WEUZ4AaABCQI'll add whatever else I may need to add, a bit later, when I remember what it might be. This site has gotten even more user-unfriendly since I last uploaded a video (six months ago).
Messianic Populism Intensifies No Avail 2020-09-24 | A response to the #Unity2020 FAQ: articlesofunity.org/faqAnd to this: youtu.be/b4H-0S89pxU Dan Crenshaw’s wobbly commitment to truth-telling: washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/20/dan-crenshaw-trump-coronavirus-defenseCentralist governments have lower rates of corruption: jstor.org/stable/4092365 About this: What's your reaction? Gasp? Or closer to meh? Ultimately I’m going with meh. But if Corruption is at the root of so many macro-level problems, as Bret maintains, then I’m wrong to react this way. We mustn’t say 'meh' to any of it and, consequently, we may entertain a shift to unitarism in an effort to clamp down on all the damn corruption. But it’s not worth the squeeze, for the simple reason that Corruption isn’t as massive a problem as the rhetorical populist imagines (or tells you to).Getting a handle on non-zero-sum compromise at the policy level would go a whole lot further than dwelling on corruption. A good intro for adopting this mindset: longtermrisk.org/gains-from-trade-through-compromise Compiled data on The Pledge Paradox: theconversation.com/do-politicians-break-their-promises-once-in-government-what-the-evidence-says-127761Of the above, I can vouch for:Fulfillment of Parties’ Election Pledges: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Power Sharing: (Abstract) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12313 Full: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/ajps.12313 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_promise#Fulfilling_promisesCongressional scholars making the case for Asymmetric Polarization: amazon.com/Even-Worse-Than-Looks-Constitutional/dp/0465031331 Synopsis: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2014/06/13/asymmetrical-polarization-undermined-thoughts-on-the-new-pew-research-centers-report-on-political-polarization/ Robert J. Gordon’s book on the special century (1870-1970) : amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/dp/153661825X But for balance, see this semi-critical overview of Gordon’s work: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/85f9/d79d1d50070c35135a4774675b1c869a8c17.pdf SSC subreddit: reddit.com/domain/slatestarcodex.com Activity has slowed ever since Scott “paused”/deleted his blog due the doxxing concerns courtesy of the New York Times. (Lots of archived quality stuff to read there, regardless.)Recent update on that, for anyone interested: slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation If I made any other bold or peculiar claim and am yet to link to it here, it’s because I can’t recall what it might be at the moment and can’t bear to re-watch the full video right now. But I’m pretty sure I covered everything! If not, let me know what’s missing and I’ll update this space, as always.
Uncancel Molyneux. Rebuke Molyneux. No Avail 2020-07-24 | Response to: youtu.be/CIBKsqQ-ircStefan’s new home: bitchute.com/channel/JqEoP64bHDmk See also: freedomain.comDidn’t know that Twitter also deleted him until I went to his site. Everything I said about YouTube’s TOS applies to Twitter’s TOS. Having violated none of it, he should be reinstated. The only petition I could find involving him is a 6 year old one, so if anyone knows about a newer one, point me to it and I’ll include it here. It’s 14 years of work in this case. Wiped out. Without cause.Knowledge and attitudes towards modern genetics and genomics: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256916/pdf/pone.0169808.pdfA scientifically realistic, non-deterministic, non-racialistic view of behavioural genetics is possible/credible and is explored here by Erik Turkheimer: http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20Online%20CV/(51)%20Turkheimer%20(1998).pdf Plutocrat against plutocracy: ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming/transcript?language=enCapital markets in the 21st Century: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/capital_markets.pdfPoverty-relief / welfare-trap stuff:Internationally, the long-term effects of tax-transfer safety-net provisions have reduced poverty as intended, and are shown to be better at doing so compared to those in America precisely *because* they are more generous: http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/188.pdfStudy compares the U.S. to 14 other nations economically similar to it (affluent, industrialized, tech-savvy workforces). It examined, for that period “15 of the 18 most affluent OECD-member democracies with populations of at least three million”. The remaining nations (Austria, Japan, and New Zealand) were “not included due to lack of adequate poverty data”. More importantly, this is the only cross-national study that employs an absolute measure of poverty to gauge the pros/cons of welfare programs and other anti-poverty policies. Other cross-national studies employ relative measures of poverty (and run into predictable methodological duds as a result, as the authors explain).The 2nd study also assesses poverty rates across nations: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~noy/300texts/poverty-comparative.pdf“Once again, American transfer programs do least of the nations in this comparison group to help low-income families with children. A substantial fraction of the variance in non-elderly cross-national poverty rates appears to be accounted for not by the variation in work, but by the cross-national variation in the incidence of low pay, as shown in Figure 2. Because the United States has the highest proportion of workers in relatively poorly paid jobs, it also has the highest poverty rate, even among parents who work half-time or more. On the other hand, other countries that have a significantly lower incidence of low-paid employment also have significantly lower poverty rates than the United States.”Wiki’s (easy-to-digest) cross-national comparisons speak to the above findings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state#Effects_of_welfare_on_povertyIncludes absolute as well as relative/positional poverty figures pre and post welfare. If Molyneux and fans of statelessness wish to abolish all such programs, being charmingly oratorical about the ‘failures’ won’t convince anyone who’s even faintly aware of the above. Opponents must demonstrate with *better* data why the trends are negative rather than positive. But they’re not even trying, because it’s not about the data. Opponents of anti-poverty programs decided what they like and dislike long ago.Semi-related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spendingAnd: epi.org/publication/ib339-us-poverty-higher-safety-net-weakerFinally: Censorship not only wrongs the censored but is also, at times, counterproductive to the aims of the censor-happy doofus: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
