Yes, because “being politically active” now means posting dumb memes online. People are “politically active” by sitting alone and feeling aggrieved.

This is a complete perversion of the initial meaning of “politics” which in its original Greek meant “affairs of the polis”, or “shared life together”. Today, people are most political when most alone. Everybody is too sensitive to discuss politics with others, so it’s only when they are alone with their phone that they let themselves express their political beliefs. And those beliefs are limited to vague, directionless pouting because that’s the only thing one can produce in solitude.

I don’t put my trips and family vacations on social media because the kids at Klara’s school have different lives, and it would be horrible, embarrassing showing off. Of course, Klara tells her friends but children have a way of processing such things through play that renders them normal.

As a result, my only outlet is here, and I’m happy to report that N and Klara are coming with me to Spain for the first time this summer. N is already learning Spanish on Duolingo. This was 100% his idea because I have given up on teaching languages to husbands since the first effort ended up in a divorce.

The opportunity to bring together such central parts of my life is exhilarating.

People have gone completely nuts. How can intelligence not be heritable? The rest of the article is partisan, emotional crap, as well, but the underlined sentence is beyond that.

Of course, intelligence is heritable, and the author of the article clearly lost the genetic lottery in this aspect.

That people ascribe moral value to IQ is their problem. They could just as well do it for height and then run around, trying to dispute the glaringly obvious.

I’m glad people are starting to get it.

Instead of cowering in fear of Russian threats, Ukraine destroyed one third of the entire Russian Black Sea fleet and achieved its objectives.

There’s a great lesson for everybody’s life here. Don’t listen to the dire warnings of the professionally senescent and the congenitally subservient. Decide what you need and go after it.

My most popular post in 4 years is about to get relevant again.

I know people who very sincerely believe that in 2020 California voted overwhelmingly for Trump but the results were falsified. I’m as sad for them as for those poor souls who are convinced that police kills many black men in America, so that post was an attempt to help.

As a result of participating in a conference from 4 to 6 am, I found out that I can still read aloud very well at that time of the night but my speaking skills deteriorate massively and also that I start fidgeting in annoying ways.

To speak at 4 am, I have to get up at 3 to do my hair and makeup and listen to some news. So it’s actually quite early.

At the kids’ gym the other day, I saw a mother drag away a little girl in diapers – DIAPERS – while screeching, “No tablet! No tablet if you don’t leave immediately!”

This woman melded a toddler to a machine and is actively teaching her that communing with the machine is more important than physical activity. And hey, at least she took the kid to the gym first. Most didn’t bother.

It isn’t an evil techie elite that is making people do this. It’s apathy, laziness and entitled pouting.

And there’s a lot of this kind of stuff.

Before I speak about the book, I have to warn everybody that it has a 3-page preface by Steve Bannon. If that’s too traumatic, then don’t read. For the alternatively situated, I have to mention that Allen despises Elon Musk (although not for the same reason that the Left does) and has no interest in Trump (also for different reasons than the Left). If that traumatizes you, also don’t read.

Now that the sensitive snowflakes are gone, I can tell everybody else that Dark Æon is a messy, ranting, raving, extremely erudite and highly entertaining gem of a book. People in Amazon reviews complain that it’s hard to understand and, yes, AI is not an easy subject. Allen does everything possible to help the reading go down easier but you still need to have a developed human intellect to understand artificial intelligence.

The main idea is that our techie elites are driven by a two-pronged fear. They are terrified of death because they have an overinflated sense of their own importance. And they are also convinced that the AI will soon become so powerful that it will end humanity in its present form. Nobody really knows what the AI will ultimately become but the fear is already here, especially among the creators and investors of the AI. As a result, they have become convinced that the only way to address these two fears is to strive for a technologically augmented humanity. At least, for the humans who matter. Those who don’t matter (like me and you) can be used as a pool of experimental subjects. If some don’t agree, they can be shut into basic-incomed but otherwise rejected enclaves of useless people. Or humans 1.0.

This plan will ultimately fail because God is great (Allen is very religious) but it will do a lot of damage in the meantime. Allen outlines a detailed plan of what each of us can do to preserve our own normal human subjectivity and says that everybody is personally responsible for maintaining the lines of cultural transmission.

I’ll say more later but let’s sit with this part for the moment.

Three years after launching her Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong held an intimate session at the 2012 World Economic Forum. It was one of her three appearances at WEF events in New York, Jordan, and Davos. Her stated mission was to call all faiths to embrace the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This is big a problem if—hypothetically—liberal elites would have their own country flooded with dissonant immigrants, then require digital IDs and digital currency to track and control the chaotic results. Following the Golden Rule, they’ll wind up doing that to your country, too, for your own good.

Allen, Joe. Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity

This is exactly what we fear will be done to us in Ukraine.