Science Funding and BLM

~ Clarissa ~ 9 Comments

This is true. I was officially told that we must reorient our research towards the importance of the BLM in Hispanic countries to get funding. When I said that BLM is a US fad with no relevance to anybody else, this was greeted with shock. “So you don’t want to get funded?” I was asked.

Please take a moment to ponder this. The federal government prioritizes funding to people who manufacture evidence that American ideological hangups are shared by the rest of the world. People are desperate for funding. The only research that counts for anything is often the research that receives external funding. Nobody cares that I have publications coming out the wazoo in prestigious peer-reviewed journals around the world because I get zero external (meaning, outside the university) funding. I don’t get tempted but many people will. Think about the consequences of that. A quarter of all funding is an enormous figure. We are destroying our country’s scholarly advantage by doing this.

This will have terrible effects down the road.

Anxiety

~ Clarissa ~ 7 Comments

Anxiety is fear that has lost its object. Find the object, and anxiety will leave.

Hero Worship

~ Clarissa ~ 17 Comments

I’m personally very indifferent on this subject but Trump’s supporters who are against foreign aid must be livid, right?

Nope. They are not. Because God forbid we have principles instead of hero worship.

Cheating Fathers

~ Clarissa ~ 10 Comments

Everybody’s piling on this dude but he’s only observing a physiological reality. Men don’t automatically bond with their babies like women do because men don’t carry them inside their bodies. Women have a 40-week advantage to get to know their babies, build a relationship with them, adapt to their life cycles. Men don’t have that. They often don’t have anything like the powerful release of hormones that women experience when giving birth. Every woman who has given birth knows what it feels like. It’s a transformational experience.

After a baby is born, women derive an enormous amount of tactile contact from their relationship with the baby. The father, in the meantime, has his tactile needs that used to be satisfied by his wife largely unmet. What would we have him do? Breastfeed? Quit his job and cuddle the baby all day? Some people are more tactile than others. What if a dude is very tactile and suddenly his only source of tactile comfort has gone away? What is he supposed to do?

The guy who posted the question was called every name in the book but he was only saying what many people know. The male and the female experience of early parenthood is completely different. We are doing ourselves no favors by pretending that it isn’t happening.

Florida Update

~ Clarissa ~ 20 Comments

How is it going, people in Florida? Does anybody have an update?

Very worried over here.

Support for a Massacre

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

Yes, what a mystery. How could we ever figure it out?

Neoliberalism’s Students

~ Clarissa ~ 41 Comments

It’s impossible to explain how the economy works to overheated prattlers like this woman. They are used and abused by every slick operator in sight and they get angrier and angrier because the world is too complicated for their intellectual capabilities.

This is the great flaw of democracy. The masses need to be reassured and made to feel important. It’s like driving a car in very bad traffic with a wailing toddler in the back seat.

I don’t know, at least neoliberalism teaches the fans of this screamy “Tony” a lesson about what they should concentrate their attention on. Maybe neoliberalism is better and we should just accept it.

I saw this post because it mentions Ukraine but the actual issue is not the point. My social media in 2020 were filled by identical shouty Tonys who were convinced they would die on the spot if everybody didn’t remain locked down indefinitely. These are all manifestations of the same phenomenon. The world is complicated, and people freak out because they don’t have the intelligence to process it. Before, they had God and knew they didn’t need to understand everything. But now they have appointed themselves God, and the responsibility is overwhelming them.

Here’s more proof on a completely different topic:

Since there is no God, the only explanation is that the hurricane must have been caused by people’s actions. Be it global warming or evil globalists changing weather, it doesn’t matter.

Democracy without God means these Taras and Tonys get to keep us all hostage to their anxiety. So maybe it is doomed since we’ve ditched one of its main pillars of support.

My Body Double

~ Clarissa ~ 6 Comments

I know! A few years ago, I posted photos of her on my FB page, and people who know me in RL accepted them as pictures of me.

I mean, come the bloody ef on, if I do my hair like this, it’s totally me:

I almost started to believe I’d had a previous life but then I tried reading Kristin Lavransdattir, and realized that if I’d possessed a literary gift in a preceding existence, that’s not a book I would have written.

It is kind of weird to know there was somebody looking like me, living in Norway, of all places. I’ve always had deeply loving feelings towards Norway, so there’s got to be something there.

A Good Journalist

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

I didn’t see any fear in Harris’s eyes but good for him that he tried to press her for a serious response. That’s a good journalist. It’s kind of shocking that such journalists still exist.

If only we had journalists capable of referring to that “bipartisan immigration reform bill” Harris keeps referencing as what it is, a large-scale amnesty for illegal immigrants, the likes of which we haven’t seen since 1984.

We have a huge problem with being utterly incapable of getting out the message and constantly falling for the Dems’ manipulations that have us fight on their completely dishonest terrain.

Will Neoliberalism Bring Back the Nation-state?

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

This is a typical neoliberal sleight of hand. We are told that it’s our fault that these neoliberal policies are inflicted on us. If we didn’t expect the nation-state to provide welfare, the narrative goes, that would somehow strengthen the nation-state. We are too spoiled, too flawed, too demanding. If we were more neoliberal (more self-reliant, individualistic, healthier, always young) and less in need of a nation-state, that would bring back the nation-state. The nation-state is supposed to come back as soon as we stop needing it.

I guess that’s why we are seeing these crowds of migrants crossing the border consist of old people, folks in wheelchairs, and mothers with droves of small children. Miles of footage of migrant crowds, and not a young, healthy male in sight. We should give up our disability and old age protections, and immediately all these infirm elderly migrants will immediately skedaddle back home.

Ramaswamy’s position is an extension of “let’s defund the police to reduce crime.” Policing is the number one welfare guarantee of the nation-state. Strangely, defunding police didn’t produce the desired result. But why should we learn anything from that experiment and stop to ponder different models of statehood? No, let’s do more of the same and expect a different result.

Instead of telling us that we deserve mass migration because we are too flawed, politicians could propose to eliminate the adjudication of illegal immigrant cases on the territory of the US. But, once again, nobody is even hinting that this is possible.