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Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald, a short book I wrote about the late great comedian, is available on Amazon.
Category Archives: Sociology
A Critique of Critiques of KM’s Critique
In terms of Kevin MacDonald’s very important and overlooked work on the JQ, the past week has seen some major Overton Window shifting vis-à-vis the academic article “Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy: A Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s Theory” … Continue reading
“The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany” by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
As part of the Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology series, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany by Cynthia Miller-Idriss is slated for publication on February 13, 2018. From the Amazon description: The past decade … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-Right, Sociology, White Identity
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The Online Relevance of René Girard
In The Weekly Standard, Joseph Bottum, professor of cyber-ethics at Dakota State University, writes a cuck piece on the Great Statue Removal Frenzy, but in this passage astutely discusses the contemporary relevance of René Girard (“The Joy of Destruction”): In … Continue reading
Robot Apocalypse – Pt. 3,183
From the WSJ (“Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO”): BARCELONA—Within 30 years, artificial intelligence will be smarter than the human brain. That is according to Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp., who says … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Nanotechnology, Sociology, Technology
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UFO Sightings & the Anglosphere
This blogger does some interesting number crunching on data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), such as this chart representation of worldwide UFO sightings per 10 million people: Notice how the reddest areas are where the world’s “white” people live … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, International, National, Sociology
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The Rise of the Term ‘Weaponized Information’
In “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine”, the authors begin: “This is a propaganda machine. It’s targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It’s a level of social engineering that I’ve never seen before. They’re capturing … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics, Sociology, Technology
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“Childhood forecasting of a small segment of the population with large economic burden” is a study in Nature illustrating what the Pareto Principle (i.e., the 80/20 rule) reveals about social costs: ABSTRACT: Policymakers are interested in early-years interventions to ameliorate … Continue reading
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election Hunt Allcott, New York University Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University January 2017 Abstract We present new evidence on the role of false stories circulated on social media prior to the 2016 US presidential … Continue reading
Douthat: Books for the Trump Era
In “Books for the Trump Era”, apologetic, hat-in-hand, cuckservative, and token NYT’s “conservative ”Ross Douthat recommends some reading for those on the Left still stunned by Trump’s win. After name-dropping, to prove he’s well-versed in liberal authors (“Look, I read … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture Wars, Literature, Sociology
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Culture Arises From The Cult
“We must remind ourselves, to begin, that culture arises from the cult: out of the religious bond and the sense of the sacred grow any civilization’s agriculture, its common defense, its orderly towns, its ingenious architecture, its literature, its music, … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Sociology
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