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I mean, yes. But the question is, could the technology have been achieved without the liberalization that accompanied it? And can the technology exist without having a liberalizing effect?
Yarvin knows that this is a major question, and he’s written about it a lot. He believes that yes, both things are possible. I’m not persuaded because there should be some major limiting factor to stop the technology (including of the medical kind) from being all about extreme self-indulgence.
It is, of course, an absolute accident that I ended up with a chronic disease requiring constant, minute attention to food, frequent mealtimes, the carrying of snacks, and the capacity to bring everybody to fearful attention with the words, “I’m getting hungry.”
I haven’t worn headphones for 15 years. I never held any or had any dealings with them. This is why I missed important technological advances that happened in this field.
Harsh life circumstances—also known as a lineup of irresistible books on Audible—forced me to get headphones. I spent a miserable half hour trying to locate the “on” button to turn the little bastards on. Their surface was smooth, though, and no button presented itself. Driven by utter desperation, I placed them into my ears with a vague hope that the button would reveal itself that way. To my shock, the moment the headphones popped into my ears, they started working without any need for an “on” button.
I’m like a savage who came from the woods and discovered the joys of polyethylene. (This is a reference to a family that missed half a century of history in the taiga and, after re-establishing contact with civilization, was impressed by nothing as much as single-use plastic bags).
Yesterday’s hoax about Macron’s Kleenex was also created by a woman.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. These things are always created by women of a certain type. Menopausal, unattractive, gasping, and overheated. This is as entertaining as watching how many men traumatized by menopausal mommies jump up and down, trying to please the symbolic mommy by spreading the crazy story.
It takes at least 3 generations to create a thoroughly cultivated individual, says Renaud Camus. This was always widely known. Even in the USSR we’d say that a member of intelligentsia needs three university degrees – his own, his father’s, and his grandfather’s.
Today, however, it’s radically unfashionable and even dangerous to state this obvious truth.
“We prefer to sacrifice culture out of a horror of heredity,” says Camus. This form of hyperdemocracy destroys actual democracy because it creates de-cultured patchwork societies which are societies in name only. Those who are supposed to be the bearers and the conservationists of the shared culture are terrified even to think of themselves that way.
Mess on the floor, guests are coming.
You tell your five year old to clean up her mess.
She doesn’t.
You threaten and try to persuade.
She doesn’t.
Seems everyone responding to me would just beat her up.
I wouldn’t, but let’s say I do.
She still doesn’t and is now just screaming.https://x.com/NateLF4/status/1921426644671098925?t=Z7cBkCxuZHO4im8By4r8aA&s=19
Poor dude, seriously. My heart goes out.
This “she refuses to do what I say at 5” should not be a thing. It’s downright dangerous because if there’s a need to leave, duck, stop, turn around, etc to avoid physical danger, a child should know to follow commands without starting a debate. Heavy traffic, airport, a vagrant acting erratically, a crush of people at the mall, a sudden tornado warning – there are many situations where it’s crucial for a child to obey immediate directions.
Plus, it’s not good for a child to witness an internally chaotic, anxious dad. Or mom, obviously.
The issue this man describes does not arise from anything he can say to the child or any “parenting technique.” It comes from how he feels inside. If he feels calm and authoritative, this won’t happen.
The girl in the story doesn’t mind cleaning. She minds a weak parent who is not the head of the pack (cf. how cleaning is needed not because it’s necessary for the family but because guests are coming. ) She’s acting up because the lack of a strong, calm parent is causing her anxiety. It’s a survival mechanism.
Threaten, persuade – these are strategies of the weak. The strategy adjusts automatically once you adjust who you are. The father needs to ask himself why “guests are coming” makes him shrink inside. Therein lies the cure.
Of course, different ages demand different things. It’s good for a child to obey immediately at 5 but not great at 15 (and terrible at 20). As with absolutely every physiological function, the parent gradually hands it back to the child. By 15, the child should have her own inner authority to leave a situation with, for example, an aggressive vagrant. Or a sexually demanding boy. By 20, cleaning her own space should be an internal need. None of this happens through exhortations or lectures. It only comes from growing a non-chaotic inner space. A well-ordered lower bulb.
“The couple had sex without her consent.” It’s cute how all the #MeTootery immediately went out of the window when it’s necessary to defend an illegal immigrant rapist.
The shamelessness of these people has no limits.
Do these people realize how incredibly organized and disciplined one has to be to live in this tiny house and not turn it into a garbage dump within days? Individuals with that degree of psychological health don’t end up homeless. They end up living in mansions.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
If you want to understand the birth rate decline, I implore you, go on TikTok tomorrow.
It’s become an annual train wreck I absolutely cannot look away from. Women, en masse, log on in tears to record how badly their day went – it usually involves being ignored by their husbands/kids, not being given presents, or having to do things for their MIL instead of the day being solely about them.https://x.com/HannahDCox/status/1921213671386091688?t=4lzTWqIOxX7c3huTlicbqA&s=19
I’m not on TikTok but yes, this is a whole phenomenon on social media. The other day I posted an X example.
This is like people who can’t enjoy food. Their digestive system is broken, and the only way for them to derive any enjoyment from it is to have a special occasion where everybody gathers around and praises them for eating.
Imagine saying, “I’m unappreciated as an eater and people can’t even show up to celebrate that I eat a single time in a year.”
“I’m unappreciated as a person with two legs.”
These are precisely the people who’ll line up to purchase “experiences” because the circuit that communicates their bodies and their brains is broken. They need an artificial one that they are ready to pay for.
My kid was trying to imagine what heaven looks like and concluded that it must be exactly like her regular life because what can possibly be better?
Every day is Mother’s Day with such a kid. Or with any kid. Because there’s nothing better in the world than being a mother.
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