There’s going to be a workshop on anti-Semitism on campus. I signed up and I hope they won’t teach us how to be better anti-Semites.

Our university (and the federal government) invests money into researching proving that DEI exists in other countries. These are the same people who want to decolonize the university, which is an irony they are intellectually incapable of noticing.

People on Twitter have been self-righteous over ordering food on DoorDash for days. Both the supporters and the detractors of the practice have reached extraordinary heights of self-righteousness on the issue. I suspect some of them cried because of how touched they were by the sense of their extreme virtue of either ordering or not ordering in DoorDash. You’d think they are fresh off saving a bunch of babies from dying in a flood based on how messianic they feel over their position regarding DoorDash.

I’ll give only one example but there are dozens of them:

They go on and on like that. It’s one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen.

I respect Murray for his work but here he’s talking out of his butt. It’s an age-old fantasy of intellectuals that “simple folks” are more virtuous than the not-so-simple and have access to some sort of innate wisdom. In the 19th century, Russian revolutionaries called themselves “narodniki” (or “peoplists”) and would join “the people” in miserable villages to find true values and a revolutionary spirit. Needless to say, they found nothing but bovine resignation amidst outrageously disgusting daily habits and deeply perverted sexual mores. Narodniki themselves were beacons of clean living amongst these brutes.

Solzhenitsyn mocked the intelligentsia’s quest for virtue among the IQ-deprived in his novel The First Circle. The ultra-intellectual protagonist finally manages to join “simple folks” and, to his horror, discovers that the congenitally stupid are just as nasty, pathetic and vicious as the brilliant. The only difference is that they are more easily scared and more subservient.

There is no”indigenous way of learning.” There’s no alternative math and no easy, “natural” virtue. Murray is moved by the same feeling of guilt that animates Leftists to come up with “sacred indigenous wisdom.”

Intelligence doesn’t make you a good person. Neither does stupidity. But guilt will turn you into a liar, and that’s not a virtue.

One WEF-trained technocrat, Parag Khanna, envisions this nascent “Civilization 3.0” as a single planetary body.

“Connectivity, not sovereignty, has become the organizing principle of the human species,” Khanna told an adoring TED crowd in 2016. “North America does not need more walls. It needs more connections.” Appearing at the Skift Global Forum five years later, he spoke as a true Davos Man. “We’ve gone from the Great Lockdown to the Great Reset, and soon we’ll have the Great Migration,” he declared proudly. “I believe we will go from nearly zero migration in 2020 to a resorting of billions of people in the unfolding post-pandemic era.”

How do global leaders maintain peace and safety amid this engineered chaos? Digital intelligence coupled with technocratic systems of behavioral control and the robotic Greater Replacement.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon

In academia, I learned that many of our brightest minds are more interested in social status than the truth. Possessing more brains than guts, they play the glass bead game, shifting facts and theories around into whatever configuration will get them tenure.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon: Transhumanism and the War against Humanity

I’m in love with this book, people, but I still have 200 pages to go before I can review it. I’ve never even heard of this Joe Allen, and he’s almost exotically smart. Dark Æon is better than Surveillance Capitalism because the author is more profound as a human being.

I take back my entire previous post about intelligence concentrating on the Left. Allen is a conservative, and he’s extremely bright. And he openly recognizes that the lure of fluidity prevents him from being the kind of Christian that he’d like to be and the kind of human that it’s worth being.

Yes. Most smart people tend towards what the Left today is. It’s an important observation but the long article at the link never explains why.

The reason is that neoliberalism (or new Leftism) is exhilarating. It’s very enjoyable to smart people because it promises incredible rewards. And often it delivers.

Neoliberalism picks off the weakest first. It devastated blue-collar workers before anybody else. Now it’s doing the same for the lower-level white-collar workers. It will come for many (but not all) brainiacs, too.

Any conversation with children about drugs must start with the recognition that drugs are extremely enjoyable. It’s the same with neoliberalism. It speaks to the deepest, most pleasurable desire in human beings, which is to be godlike, to control everything, to be able to do everything, to decide and occasion everything. It appeals to hubris, which is the greatest temptation any of us can face.

The smarter people have more inner resources to resist the chaos that giving oneself over to these pleasures brings. As a result, it’s harder for them to see the downside. They will see it eventually but by that time it might be too late for them to do anything about it.

The moment the Left started to discredit itself by engaging in loud anti-Semitism, the Right decided to best it at the Jew-hating competition. If we can’t win anything worthwhile, let’s win the Hitler-praising contest, shall we?

The strategy of “let’s antagonize every voter category to make sure nobody ever votes for us” is bringing great electoral results. Not.

Instead of peeling off the other side’s voters, we are repealing voters.

Google “Candace Owens news” if you don’t know what I’m on about.

Absorption in the digital realm leaves kids feeling detached from their physical bodies. Virtual identities, invented through online play-acting and unwieldy pronouns, fuse with actual identities.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon

When very young people spend a lot of time interacting with a screen, they don’t grow into a normal awareness of their physicality. Their bodies are not completely real to them because they aren’t truly felt. The result is a subconscious but overpowering need to turn the body into a problem, endow it with festering wounds in order to be able to feel it. These wounds can be physical or mental but they are always invented and their purpose is finally to feel something.

As the technium expands, it transforms human nature. We are a civilization in transition. In many countries, the affirmation of transgender identity is enforced by law. Discrimination and “misgendering” are punishable by stiff fines, public shaming, and professional ruin. The Iron Rainbow hangs over our heads.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon: Transhumanism and the War against Humanity