When I rewatched some of the classic Scorsese movies a while ago, I noticed that there is a very obvious division of labor among the sexes: The men do the important work, and the women spend the money. Men make big, consequential decisions and women are either just there or they make dumb, small decisions… Continue reading Would Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino have been Possible in the 2000s?
I have written a few articles about the economy, in particular the tech industry. Among others, I presented arguments that tech is a clown-world career. The bigger question, though, is whether it is worth pursuing clown-world careers. There are ebbs and tides in the culture wars, and clown world has persisted for a long time.… Continue reading Clown-World Careers are Ultimately a Dead End
This year I have spent a bit of time on watching movies, but not just as a means to passing my time. Instead, I consider them lenses through which to view the Western zeitgeist. Indeed, if you think a bit about the action on screen it is often quite fascinating how crude the metaphors are.… Continue reading Man of Steel (2013) is Pro-Immigration Propaganda
While the United States there is a bubble of everything, i.e. housing, healthcare, and education are more expensive than ever before, Europe has been faring a little bit better. Only housing is completely out of reach for the vast majority of non-boomers whereas healthcare and education have not gotten that much more expensive. The sudden… Continue reading Was the Recent Housing Boom a Scam to Benefit Boomers?
This year has seen a lot of high-profile commercial disasters in the movie and vidya industries. It is all-too-easy to make fun of game or movie studios that burn a solid nine figures in order to push an agenda. More interesting, though, is looking at the mechanisms in place behind it. I felt motivated to… Continue reading The Woke-Industrial Complex
Before I start, let me preface this article by saying that I originally wanted to publish it in April this year but did not get around to. As time progressed, however, I was wondering if I would see my original hypothesis hold in the short term. Now, over six months later, I think that what… Continue reading We Need to Worry About Blacks and Jews!
In a recent post I explained why “tech” is a clown-world career. I had two follow-up thoughts, which point in the same direction, and led me to predict that it will be a long while before we see excesses in the tech sector again, if at all. The first thought builds on a comment left… Continue reading The Tech Industry Will Remain Stagnant
It was not so long ago when the tech sector was booming, including cottage industries that promised everybody a six-figure job, no matter how untalented they were. All it took was a six-week “boot camp”. Shockingly, this racket worked for many years. I will first look at how this could happen, before I describe the… Continue reading Tech is a Clown-World Career
Leftism is a loser mentality. People endorse leftist ideology for one reason alone: they realize that they cannot compete fairly and openly, so they want to band together and rub the productive members of society of their wealth, income, and even status. They vilify even the merely comfortable middle class. Of course, there is also… Continue reading When Leftists Encounter Meritocracy
There was a time when women first and foremost defined themselves as nurturers, wanting to take care of their husband and children, her aging parents, and the household. They furthermore held the community together by engaging in idle chatting with other women in the village, and helping local news spread. In modernity, there is a… Continue reading Megan Fox and the Self-Perception of the Modern Woman
A few weeks ago, a bridge in one of the larger German cities collapsed, seemingly out of nowhere. This happened in Dresden, which is probably only known to people outside of Europe for the Allied bombing campaign. Presumably the Allies thought there were child soldiers hiding in tunnels and the Germans were using civilians as… Continue reading Infrastructure Collapse is the Tipping Point of Clown World
The other day I had to get up early for an errand. On the way, I crossed paths with primary school class. It seems they were on an excursion. All the kids were holding hands in pairs. Of course, doing so is good practice, assuming the kids follow this simple instruction, as it makes it… Continue reading Forced Race-Mixing in Primary School
Sweden is hardly the center of the world, let alone the Western world. However, Sweden has served as the canary in the coalmine for immigration. In the 1970s, the manufactured mainstream opinion was that Sweden should become “less boring”, so they opened the doors to immigrants from all over the world. Today, life in Sweden… Continue reading Is Sweden Able to Turn the Ship Around on Immigration?
Here is a simple exercise for your critical reasoning skills: when following mainstream news, you quite frequently come across rather disturbing stories. We hear that cancer rates are up. There are now also turbo-cancers around. Young people get cancer, too, something that used to virtually never happen. Similarly, for a couple of years, there has… Continue reading Experts Baffled: Fewer Pregnancies, More Cancers
The original idea of the Olympics was to compete in sports that were not just of a recreational nature. You could make the argument that every single discipline of yore had direct or indirect applications to warfare: riding a horse, running, throwing javelins, jumping, rowing, archery, etc., were all highly relevant skills before the industrialization… Continue reading The Olympics After the Inclusion of Break Dancing
