"Contemporary man ... attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to fit it." — Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (1973)

TRADEOFFS DO EXIST Several things are true at the same time. (1) First, woke is cancer, and US universities are one of the primary sources of this cancer. They are the furthest left organizations in the world, and still radically out of sync with the people who fund them. This

I've recently been helping a zillennial friend in Canada house hunt and I cannot tell you how radicalizing the experience has been. Absolute shitholes going for 2x their worth. Houses listed at 4-5x what they were bought at just a few years ago. Swarms of investors clamoring to

Liberal sends a message to his Trump supporter mom, “Just wanted to check in to see how your grocery prices are doing”

Defiant L’s Orating to his mother on social media may be why he has to orate to his mother on social media. I'm guessing she's busy eating dinner with her other sons.

pagliacci the hated 🌝 Yep. As it turns out, actually managing an economy is an important technocratic skill. The effect of this is potentially revolutionary.

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ Astonishing. You boast credentials, and have no idea about that which you speak. Your education and credentials are nothing.

How can rapists, pedos and terror offenders escape prison while somebody who writes an off-colour tweet can get 31 months in the slammer? How can it happen, you ask?! Let me explain. The elite are axiomatically against prison on ideological grounds. They hate it. They believe

Bryan Ferry. Newcastle pub. 1975

The people lost their religon. The spirit of Protestant Christianity, as a public religion, has volatilized into "the individual" - an automata - in the mass technocratic state. If we are being serious, this is already "post-liberalism," and has been since the postwar

Tommaso di Maria Coddled Affluent Professional Their secular religion has no repentance- it also lacks charity, redemption, forgiveness and grace. Expect nothing from them but sputtering failure and a sound like nails on chalkboard as they realize they have everything already and nothing to offer and will lose it all in

Angelenos eat here - we don't have to share the place with transplant tourists from shitty suburbs of Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis (or wherevs) - it isn't "authentic" enough for them...

"One of the better frames for understanding college administrators and managerial types is that they are aspiring social engineers."

The Hill is out with my column on the recent opinion (and the chilling jurisprudence) of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jackson’s expressed sense of liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the court itself... thehill.com/opinion/judici…

I could have pretty much drawn her without ever having seen her. Super Highly Educated, I'm sure. Of course she is Queer. She is ending hate and racism for all of the world, on all of our behalf. Because she is so amazing! 🧙‍♀️✊️🦄🌊 The Singularity being revealed is stunning.

Theo Jordan Lockjawed AWFL "Got rid of the Indian, kept the land."

Post-Floyd, we are seeing a whole new genre of Los Angeles car chases.

Driving out anyone unwilling to lie about reality and punish those who wouldn't join in was very much a feature and not a bug of this movement -- the selection effect has produced a leadership class made up exclusively of those devoid of moral and intellectual integrity who can