America in Afghanistan

I recently watched some Obama officials testifying before Congress on the Afghan situation. These men work for an ideology dying from a million lies eating its insides like worms, an ideology whose immune system has been hijacked by these parasites and now selectively rejects truth. How could they cough up the accursed truth? How could they even digest it in order that it might then be coughed up? They speak truth only accidentally or, upon encounter, angrily reject the alien substance. Look how General McChrystal was vomited out. Among the insane ruling class, the truth is an alien pathology.

Science?

http://www.thephysicsforum.com/trash-can/121-ctmu-b-s-brilliant.html
This is a thread on a grand theory of reality by Chris Langan, purported IQ 180+, which Langan claims is based on pure logic. Yet, I rather suspect some lapses in logic. Plus, it's deliberately written in a manner contrived to exhaust the reader. Nevertheless, the last post on the thread above quite annoys me: a debate on science is here ended because it is not based on "current scientific understanding." Does the moderator not realize that this understanding is always evolving when it is not revolutionizing? Science that stands still is dead. Also, the thread contains no substantive criticisms of the grand theory--that is, no indication that the theory is even out of the bound of current understanding. But, it's not PC--he claims to prove God's existence, and the big no-no that tends to follow, intelligent design. Also, he favors eugenics.

Chess Testing

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/hypothesis-iq-and-chess
I am surprised at this result, if accurate. Probably Kasparov, one of the all time greats, has a highly imbalanced intellect in terms of his natural talents. I expected a 150 (1 in 3000) or higher with significant imbalance. That he's only about 135 indicates much more imbalance than I'd expected. A genius, though, is by definition imbalanced--though typically even their weaknesses exceed the average.

Does Krauthammer Know He's a Leftist?

http://charlierose.com/watch/60306163

A smart guy, but his political positions resemble those of Democrats from the 60s through the 80s, depending on the particular issue. Can there be any serious doubt that the next generation of "conservative" columnists and opinionators will more closely resemble more recent generations of Democrats? I'd like to hear his response to these Moldbuggian tropes:

The great power center of 2008 is the Cathedral. The Cathedral has two parts: the accredited universities and the established press. The universities formulate public policy. The press guides public opinion. In other words, the universities make decisions, for which the press manufactures consent. It's as simple as a punch in the mouth.

The Cathedral operates as the brain of a broader power structure, the Polygon or Apparat - the permanent civil service. The Apparat is the civil service proper (all nonmilitary officials whose positions are immune to partisan politics, also known as "democracy"), plus all those formally outside government whose goal is to influence or implement public policy - ie, NGOs.
(There's a reason NGOs have to remind themselves that they're "non-governmental.")

....

For a hardened denialist such as myself, who has completely lost his faith in all these institutions, attempting to understand the world through the reports and analysis produced by the Cathedral is like trying to watch a circus through the camera on a cell phone duct-taped to the elephant's trunk. It can be done, but it helps to have plenty of external perspective.

And for anyone starting from a position of absolute faith in the Cathedral, there is simply no other source of information against which to test it. You are certainly not going to discredit the Times or Stanford by reading the Times or going to Stanford, any more than you will learn about the historical Jesus by attending a Latin Mass.

Leftism Eats Itself

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/penalty-marriage-obamacare_767194.html
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/01/the-new-federal-wedding-tax-how-obamacare-would-dramatically-penalize-marriage
This is just another transfer, a huge one, from the productive classes of society to the parasitic classes (esp blacks, mestizos). It might discourage gay marriages, though. The Left has gone from a philosophy of softening the blows of being an incapable and of making unproductive personal decisions--to a practice of encouraging willful incapacity and frivolous personal decision-making--not to mention luring them into the temptation of deliberately gaming the system. This both corrupts and infantilizes the population; it empowers the professorial-bureaucratic-media complex, the Cathedral. The Left has reached the point that it is now destroying wealth (not just spending it) faster than the private sector can generate it. This is the crucial inflection point that an unchecked Leftist tendency always reaches. In America, due to our innovation infrastructure and our lucky positioning in human history, and despite the concentrated, energetic, bipartisan Leftism of the last 70 years, it has proven to be an unusually long road.

Racial Profiling

Dost Doubt the Powers of Propaganda and Mass Delusion?

http://www.isegoria.net/2010/10/no-child-has-ever-been-killed-by-poisoned-cand/

Whaling on the Left

Guidebook to the vast corpus of Moldbuggian assaults:

http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/

 

I recommend reading one of the 3 introductory series he wrote: How Dawkins got pwned and A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations are superb--An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives is also good if you're desperate to dose yourself with another 50,000 words.

 

Moldbug will never be popular because he crushes cherished delusions Left, Right and Center--then Left again for good measure. But, when he turns his powers to interpreting U.S. history (for the last 100 years synonymous with world history) he sports like a killer whale at play, one that found passage from ocean to lake, now the only predator that matters among freshwater creatures that have never seen his like before. His activities may amount to a succession of executions, but there is an art on display and a power and a wonderful whale-sense for selecting victims that sustains the interest perhaps indefinitely.

Men's Rights and the Anatomy of Reaction

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/women-battle-online-anti-women-hate-manosphere/story?id=20579038
The Southern Poverty Law Center--a bunch of commies, jews, fags, and slags who've appointed and proclaimed themselves supra-Christian accusers of all evil in this world, holier than Jesus--think Chateau Heartiste and other assorted bloggers who operate from a realistic male perspective are evil, violent, malicious, mendacious. The "manosphere" is increasingly a branch of the "reactosphere" since (except the Christian reactionaries) both are grounded in reality--a reality which both political parties deny. When the leftist media comes down on you, it's a sign of headway. Also, a lesser light among the lefties just did a typically incompetent and inaccurate hit piece on Nick Land, the British philosopher who writes "Outside In." If you look at the map of Dark Enlightenment thinkers below, the connections are telling: with the exception of the Christians, all of these groupings revolve around some key aspect of reality that the Left denies or omits. Eight groups are listed, three count:

1. Techno-Capitalists,
2. Ethno-Nationalists,
3. Christian Traditionalists.

The relations among these three are predictably problematic. In theory the first and second or the second and third could come to terms in formulating a new dispensation--though difficulties abound. But, the first and third can only clash. Of course, 'twas was not always so. In centuries past capitalist and techno were not so tightly aligned, and capitalism itself is not an existential threat to Christian life and thought. Catallaxy is not anti-Christian. But, in these days of genetic engineering and evolutionary science, of neurological pharmacopeias and expanding machine intelligence--the technological underpinnings of twenty-first century capitalism represent conceptual catastrophes for Christian theology. In practice, it may be that two camps will coalesce--the Techno-capitalists with some sympathetic Ethno-nationalists, and the Christian Traditionalists with another contingent of Ethno-nationalists.

The future lies with the Techno-capitalists, whether they achieve more power in the West or not. The Christians cannot countenance the nano- and bio-tech revolutions. If empowered, they will crash the technoplex and render their realm geopolitically prostrate, as Land's "relentlessly self-enhancing" oriental realms scout new destinies. As to the Ethnos, though their present importance shines clearly through dusky leftist miasmas, what does the meaning of ethnicity reduce to when time comes that all humanoid inceptions aspire to become genetically engineered triumphs of power and aesthetics? Their perspective on reality would have to evolve so radically in face of such techno-leaps as to vanish their identity. Or, they could turn techno-denialist like the Christians. Either way, tide-taken relics of advancing storms, the time of the Ethnos draws down . Science has grown to the dimensions of a Demiurge--learned to throw lightning--and, cast under His dominion, the lesser deities will learn their place soon enough, or be new made in his image.

Vive la France?

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/10/marine-le-pens-eurosceptic-front.html


'Twould indeed be slightly ironic if the French were to lead the way out of the Brussels trap, this transnational bureaucratic dictatorship, successor disaster to the Soviet Union. It matters not a whit to me who leads, so long as it happens. And the French have been infatuated with the political about-face for 224 years. Also, they've frequently allied themselves with the Russians, who've returned to a semblance of strength and self-respect. Another incentive: to distinguish themselves from their great historical rivals, Britain (where Socialism is again on the march and only Muslims have free speech) and Germany (which is still prostrate with "national guilt" and reveling in masochistic denigrations of itself). And to snub the Americans, as this emphatically would, also forms a priceless triumph for the French, high and low--especially with a walking caricature of political correctness trying to perfect socialist tyranny from the White House. In any case, I'd rather contribute to "le Front National" than to either of the twin tools of cowardice and corruption "competing" America.