I also can’t disagree with Yarvin’s description of the American Democrat-voting nobility:

Blue Americans are some of the best Americans. Everyone in the world should, and most people in the world do, want
to become blue Americans or live among them. And they can be completely trusted to govern themselves.

What they can’t be allowed to do, ever again, is govern anyone else. Blue Americans need to be separated from all authority over non-blue Americans including their old client classes—the way slots addicts need to stay out of Vegas.

This is true. In spite of an occasional they/them, these are people who live in clean, beautiful enclaves, form strong families, and donate generously to charity. They govern themselves effectively but are incapable of understanding other people. All their ideas for others are predicated on the belief that everybody on the planet is a highly organized, WASP puritan with a Nordic nervous system and gigantic amounts of interiorized guilt. Since that is not the case, the Dem nobility destroys every community it touches while having the best possible intentions.

Almost everybody I know is a blue American, and they are absolutely wonderful people who want what’s best. Yarvin is right yet again.

Since most voters participate in democratic politics only as an expression of their fear and loathing of their cultural enemies, and since the only way they know of winning is to dominate the other side, the only story of victory they know is sadistic domination.

This is from Curtis Yarvin’s Gray Mirror. If somebody disagrees with this, I’d love to hear their argument, but it sounds like a very exact description of what’s happening to us.

We are people who can’t limit our appetites and tame our emotions. We are a raging maw of desire but our libidinal object is not the other but the self. We need constantly to prop up our belief that we are prescient and in control because without this skill the instability we inhabit becomes too scary. It’s not each other that we hate but the unpredictability. But we can’t put that into words or come close to this realization intellectually because the whole point is to deny that there is any unpredictability.

The sadism in our political space is a ritual burning of the mirror image of the self that didn’t figure things out flawlessly. The enemy is what the self could have been if disinformation / propaganda had their way with one.

The civil war we hear so much about is waged inside the self that is terrified of being discarded and punishes itself for being discardable.

The only two conferences I’ve been to that were useful were in Germany. The ones I spoke at in the US, Canada, Spain, UK, and the Dominican Republic were a travesty compared to how conferences are done in Germany. There are two main features of German conferences that make them worthwhile: the focus of the talks and community.

German organizers turn each session into a community. The participants are not indifferent people who show up separately to read their talk and then scram as fast as possible. People show up together, hang out, then work together. Everybody stays the entire time the whole three days. Showing up just to read your talk and disappear is impossible. You won’t be invited again. As a result, people get to know each other as human beings and not machines that churn out words. The conference develops its own lore about funny things experienced together as a group. There are shared jokes and shared memories.

Obviously, I’m talking about conferences in my field and lay no claim to how things are organized in other areas. Neither do I suggest that all US conferences are built on the model of “show up for your session and disappear after it.” I’m only speaking about what I experienced several times a year every year since 2000, the year of my first conference.

Another great thing about German conferences is that people don’t talk about one tiny aspect of their research that nobody else in the room understands. And nobody reads pre-canned narratives. Instead, people speak like normal human beings about their entire project. And how they got interested in it. This way, it’s not boring for those who aren’t into this specific thing, which nobody ever is.

For instance, yesterday I listened to a talk about a Polish journalist who wrote a book about his experiences during the war of independence in Angola. It’s relevant to our field because a Spanish filmmaker made a movie based on the Pole’s book. I thought it would be the most tedious thing ever but actually I loved it. The talk wasn’t about some tiny aspect of the movie but about the whole project. And that made it human and interesting.

In short, in North America, we should throw away the entire way we do conferences. We should learn from Germans because currently our conferences are a complete waste of time and money. There’s zero reason to go to them at all because you can just as easily email your talk to the participants and they will ignore it just like they do at conferences.

Good job, Germans. Now that I’ve experienced this in Southern and Northern parts of the country, I understand that this is not a bug but a feature. You rock, my friends. We have a lot to learn from you.

Also, I just have to mention that the way coffee, tea, fresh fruit, mineral water, and excellent quality snacks were provided for free throughout the 3-day event was impressive.

Of course, this is a secondary connection area that was built for reasons nobody can identify and that is always empty. But who cares about little things like reality when you can burn with rightful anger over some dumb political point.

This carelessness proliferates on both sides and nobody has the moral advantage here. People believe all sorts of lies that flatter them. They act like the space of flows should be a high-trust society, refusing to realize that it’s not possible.

Never seen this before:

I’m ready to go home.

People are upset about the admittedly stupid woman who took a baby wombat away from its mother in Australia. Yet they can’t comprehend why anybody objects to the existence of surrogacy.

I talked to a Cuban Communist today. A lovely dude with an absolute soup for brains. He hates capitalism and believes in the cause of the Cuban revolution. But guess where he lives? Yes, in the US. I asked him how come and he stared at me, sincerely failing to understand the question.

The Cuban Communist is, of course, completely pro-Russian.

“The US is for Ukraine, so I can’t be,” he explained.

“So the US controls your brain,” I said. “You don’t have your own thoughts. Whatever the US does, you think the opposite is true. Heard about independent thinking or is that an unfamiliar concept?”

After that he started quoting Engels at me, and that was that.

When men pout about the “no fault divorce”, it’s very cuck energy. Nobody leaves a great marriage. Take the health of your relationship into your hands and stop seeing yourself as an object. You want the state to tie your woman to you because you are, what, impotent to do it, pun intended?

Women who whine that they do too much housework are just as annoying. Try to participate on your own relationship, is my advice.

Middle-aged German women dress with excellent taste and femininity. I’ve actually written down a couple of outfits that I want to imitate. Striking good taste and exceptional elegance.

There are also many Italians at the conference, and Italian women don’t make an effort to look nice. They are so beautiful, with such striking facial features and fantastic figures, that they feel they don’t need to. How do they maintain these figures well into their sixties? Don’t they eat pasta?

Of particular loveliness at the conference is an academic couple composed of an Italian man and a Spanish woman who have traveled with their troop of small children and take turns chaperoning them around campus. These are clearly conservative scholars who are living in accordance with their beliefs.

No taxes for people who make less than $150,000/yr is the supercharge this economy needs to IGNITE.

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) March 13, 2025

The governor of Illinois made it impossible for us to charge tuition on families with the income below $100,000. People thought it was great until it turned out that their kids can no longer learn such things as physics, borrow books at the college library, or get a job on campus because there’s no money to pay for any of it.

Free stuff sounds great until you realize that the quality of whatever you get for free is so poor that it’s worse than getting nothing.