Elites usually have many advantages, not just sexual. After all, if one is a member of the elite and one has to hustle and scramble for only fairly go...
Is getting laid a lot incompatible with philosophical goals? I wouldn't think so, as long as getting laid a lot isn't one's primary, secondary, or eve...
A more serious question is this: When hunter-gatherer bands started forming up into tribes, and became self-labeled as "Jack's Tribe" or whatever, wha...
True, but dar-winners don't start out by thinking of themselves as mere "mortal evolved biological organisms". Human dar-winners should think of thems...
Be the culture you want to create? As you say, preposterous, but suppose you want to do it anyway... You'll have to find a location where polygamous f...
I find "gobsmacked" to be both repellant and very evocative. It means literally, smacked in the mouth, or shocked by a blow to the mouth, as in "shut ...
The etymology of 'spiel' suggested that the meaning, "a sales pitch" is late 19th century -- relatively recent. As a matter of usage, 'spiel' is at it...
I'll drink to that. Our golden retriever could make 3 departure distinctions: She was going to get a ride, she was going get a walk, she wasn't going ...
I like that. There is another skein: the Dionysian vs. the Apollonian drive. I think it was D. H. Lawrence who criticized Benjamin Franklin for being ...
Oh, persiflage -- a word I have needed for a long time. Thank you thank you thank you. Unfortunately persiflage reached peak popularity during the fir...
Had I my life to live over again and could customize it, I would like to be a securely tenured history professor at a fat, well-endowed university whe...
The biggest and best criticism of the US health care system is that it doesn't deliver one of the primary benefits people think it should deliver: Bet...
You might find the review of Pinker's book ENLIGHTENMENT NOW in Quillette. Scientism is used here, as suggested above,"other people's views of science...
I agree that people who claim to be transgendered are quite sincere in their belief that something is amiss with their personal identity and sexual se...
I am sometimes sarcastic, always sincere, and I never troll. I regret putting communication barriers in the way. I have heard complaints about Canadia...
It's not making mistakes, it's faking you out. And if you beat it, it was because it decided that you were due for a positive reinforcement. If you ch...
You didn't hit your head while sleeping. You were wide awake when an agent of the Alt-Right snuck up on you and hit your head very hard with a copy of...
We can't decide to "want to change", but we can "want to change" and we can change. This idea supposed that we don't initiate our feelings -- we don't...
As it says in the American Constitution, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the proper placement of jam & cream on scones"... I assume the ...
He was pretty much the same. He's 89 now; I don't think he travels around much giving talks, now. I saw him at the U of M quite a few years ago, then ...
Quillette, like another earlier, lively, and defunct magazine, Lingua Franca, focuses on the affairs of the Academy. Peterson does too -- he being an ...
When a reader picks up a fantasy or science fiction book to weigh buying it, the decision will be made in just a few pages, maybe 1... 3... maybe 5--n...
Rotary International does good work, and it's a good networking organization. I would think you would find it beneficial to belong. There have been se...
For a few years I worked in an AIDS-service agency that had attracted quite a few unconventional types who believed in crystals as healing devices, pr...
Oh, there actually is a POMO Indian tribe in California. Amazing. I thought you were joking. They must find incomprehensible white PoMo English majors...
I should probably read Chernow. Chernow's bio gets good reviews, but that doesn't mean that JDR was not a ruthless capitalist. His son, JDR Jr., the o...
So, what did your fellow Rotarians do about this example of atrocious behavior (on the part of their fellow Rotarian?) Were your neighbors Slavic? Sla...
Yes, I remember that particular philosorumble. When we talk about differences between men and women, gays and straights. smart people and stupid peopl...
A writer in Quillette proposed that the discussion of transgenderism ought to be based on actual biology, rather than the more political foundation we...
Some observers think we do live in a parallel society, as you described. That might be an extreme interpretation of reality, but there is certainly so...
Rockefeller's "cooperation" was achieved through a web of deception, devious transactions, and crude power. Of course Standard Oil was profitable -- i...
Do you really think that ensuring everyone is kept happy is the simplest thing to do? From my experience, keeping even several people happy at the sam...
Before I read your post, I had done a quick GooSearch for the percentage of women in mining, and I looked at the same site you posted. Did you notice ...
I wasn't trying to suggest that once the masses discover that there is no more gas at the pump, they will at once turn to cannibalism. That will happe...
It is always interesting to think about the perfect society, but I agree with T Clark: It is too late for this . At least, it's too late now; but the ...
I understand what you are saying, but gazelles and lions are not human, and we should not judge them as if they were humans. Darth, I don't know if an...
When humans engage in horrible acts we can, we should, we must judge it, because judgement is part of our world. Hunting antelope may be natural for w...
Because barbarism is a human category of experience. Ripping up plants and chewing them to death is the way animals derive energy. It's not subject to...
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