As re "privilege," this is a good reminder that you know nothing early on about another (hu)man's struggle. Do they have cancer? Did they win the lottery? Judging people as individuals, as vs. members of crude race/sex categories, is the most basic level of not being a jackass.

Colin Wight At the end of the day, material reality is the ultimate bully forcing us to believe certain beliefs. And that’s why material reality is oppressive and epistemically violent. Mother Nature is a fascist.

i learned this in decision theory as “observation cost,” but i do like the idea of calling it a “measurement cost” underscores the point that obtaining information is an activity which often requires great effort and risk!

a secular notion of Right and Wrong makes sense if you take these concepts to mean “that which has heuristically been shown to improve likelihood of long-term survival [of posterity]” and “the opposite” unfortunately most atheists today do not understand this and live by vibes

The tragedy of the young and pretty woman is that, like all humans, she has to infer the truth of the world through how the world appears to her. We see meanings and infer reality, not the other way round. In a social world, things are further distorted by how you bend reality

Wilfred Reilly This is literally material reality. Every human in history has had to work to not starve or freeze, unless someone (family, close friends/clan members) was willing to take care of them. I am willing to do that for my wife and kids, maybe temporarily for a very close friend. I am

women uphold the patriarchy

Tbf, we gave too much credence to the "what about long term spent fuel rod storage" problem - studies, Yucca Mountain, etc. The correct answer is, "well what about it" Bury it, stick it in a cave, put it in a parking lot, who cares

Wilfred Reilly Capitalism sucks because you have to choose between working and starving. Socialism is superior because you get to do both.

this anecdote is about a chinese-american friend who usually leans left he kept telling me how much he hated the democrats for making him vote for trump

early 20c mathematics had an adequate theory of curved and smooth spaces, as well as a solid understanding of pointed star geometry, but couldn't elegantly handle combinations of the two. then came the groundbreaking foundational work of a french collective, the Boubakiki group

when a gal is far-left and doesn’t realize that she’s far-left, everybody else appears to be far-right from her perspective

If you want to understand the connection between the managerial state, post-modernism, and progressive ideology, I beg you to watch this short video. It will explain almost everything that is happening now politically in the first 30 seconds.

Elephants Are Now Birds

if it doesn’t have a name yet, it could be called reverse colonization

This is type of conversation is productive and healthy

As a physician, scientist, & faculty member, I have been careful about speaking about hot button issues I spoke out during COVID about myocarditis & other issues I felt compelled to weigh in on the divide between academic elites vs science & public opinion on gender affirming

"The central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the Shire") and the appalling destiny to which some of them are called, the terrifying discovery that the humdrum happiness of the Shire, which they had taken for granted as something normal, is in reality a