A topic I have circled back to repeatedly is the decline of both high-brow and low-brow culture. It is bad enough if you just look back at the last ten or fifteen years, but if you look further back, the decline is absolutely unbelievable. Earlier today, I was reminded of a Beach Boys song, California… Continue reading Cultural Decline in a Nutshell
Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking of the relation of society to beauty. Whereas beauty used to be actively promoted by our rulers, in contemporary society the exact opposite is the case. What is worse, the status quo is so bad that you may not even realize how perverted society has become… Continue reading The Disappearance of Random Hot Women in Media and Society
In my article on why Math Olympians are generally unattractive, my main point was that physical attractiveness opens many doors. Thus, a highly-gifted yet highly-attractive teenage boy or girl has many more opportunities than someone who is highly gifted but also highly deficient in the looks department. Thus, the alpha-looks and alpha-IQ crowd tends to… Continue reading The Value of Beauty in an Enforced World of Ugliness
Ever since ChatGPT was first released, there is incessant chatter about human labor being increasingly replaceable. We have read that even high-skilled professions like software development will be eviscerated by an AI, presumably one that ultimately writes itself. All it took was some business guy ask ChatGPT how to write a loop that counts up… Continue reading AI is not an Equalizer
I just finished watching the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which recently had been mentioned in the comments section. This film pairs two of the biggest stars of their time, Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. In the 1990s, this was comparable to pairing up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, albeit both of them look a… Continue reading The Interlocked Dual Fantasy Story of Pretty Woman (1990)
I detest a lot about the unhinged left, in particular their never-ending word games. In this article, I point out two instances, one related to immigration and the other to higher education. They are completely obvious, yet we have a multi-billion media apparatus that wants to tell us that blue is akshually red and that… Continue reading Leftist Word Games: Non-Illegal Illegal Immigrants and Non-Free Freedom of Speech
