The influence of US media on European culture can be seen in many places. A good recent example, besides people getting fatter and fatter, is Halloween. All Saints’ Day, the first of November, is an old Christian holiday. This could be a reason why Halloween, an utterly clownish event, has been pushed so hard by… Continue reading Trick-or-Treating in Diversity Land

Among the various European countries, you will find excellent national cuisine. In some countries there are more proud of it than in others. At the top are probably the French, and at the bottom the Nordic countries. Given how poor the latter used to be, this is perhaps not much of a surprise. After all,… Continue reading Did National Cuisine Decline Too?

Until not too long ago, you could find channels on YouTube that showed videos of the day-to-day life in various Western cities in the middle of the 20th century. For some reason, the ones I knew are now gone, probably because of the extremism on display. Yet, whenever you come across such footage, you cannot… Continue reading The Sweatpants-ification of Society

One of my acquaintances works in the penal system and he sometimes tells me about particularly remarkable, er, clients. The most recent stand-out was a brotha, in his words a pretty eloquent and superficially impressive character, not in the least comparable with a brotha from da hood. Yet, this guy seems to score high on… Continue reading Permissive Societies and the Brotha Dilemma

I just came across the video below, which shows some of the most densely populated areas in Asia and thus the entire world. It immediately stood out to me how clean those areas were and how orderly people behaved. Just watch a few snippets of this video to see what I am referring to: As… Continue reading Housing Density and Social Decay

We have talked before about there seemingly being fewer and fewer young, attractive women around. This is not much of an exaggeration. This week, I am in one of the larger Western European cities for a business trip, and it is quite obvious that the times have changed. I am staying in a centrally located… Continue reading Young, Attractive Women Have Largely Disappeared

I recently came across one of the most ridiculous tech stories in a while, and given how much of a clusterfuck this industry has become, this is not an easy feat. In short, a Google executive claims that he has been sacked by the company because he rejected the sexual advances of his manager. I… Continue reading Google Fires Chad for Refusing to Fuck Unattractive Female Superior

One of the biggest recent grifts is getting women and “underrepresented minorities” into STEM, albeit I wonder if the recent wave of mass layoffs will have a cooling effect. Surely, a lot of their supposed “allies” have found themselves without a six-figure job that consisted of little more than having breakfast, lunch, dinner, and red… Continue reading There is no Sisterhood

I recently learned that some science journals have started the bizarre practice of including a visual representation of the results of a paper. This is called a “graphical abstract” or a “visual abstract”. In my view, this demonstrates that there is large-scale cognitive decline in society. Not only are the masses getting dumber and dumber,… Continue reading Graphical Abstracts Show IQ-Decline in Science