Abstractions (Continued)

If there is one thing I do, it’s write about fringe topics that no one is asking me to write about. I tend to think about and draw conclusions about things that no one else is pondering. This post is no different. Sorry if you were hoping for different! From …

Blankslatism: An Essay

With God, equality and worth are metaphysical matters. Without God, equality and worth collapse into empirical and physical matters, governed by arbitrary philosophical abstractions. The result is blankslatism. Blankslatism is, ultimately, a rejection of God, yet often done so in the name of God. Consider this. In the Bible, the death penalty …

Manosphere Update

The blogs of Bnonn Tennant and Michael Foster (itsgoodtobeaman.com and bnonn.com) are no longer available. The former site has been deleted, with its DNS A record deleted. The latter is returning a 404. I’ve written about both men over the years and interacted with their material on a number of occasions. …

Hypergamy and Pathology

This is part of a series. See the index here. Hypergamy and polygamy are related terms that originally referred to marriage. Hypergamy, as traditionally defined, is marrying up into a higher caste and polygamy is having more than one wife at the same time. These days even monogamous marriage is on …

The Argument From Authority

Have you ever heard of, or seen, the Hering Optical Illusion? How many of you believed that the two long lines are absolutely straight? How many other people do you think would insist, on the basis of an apparent appeal to authority alone, that this is the case? Well, it’s …

Blankslatism Strikes Again!

The following is what happens when you ignore the reality of genetic influences on populations: I’ve raised five children in the same nurturing environment. I’ve incessantly “talk-maxxed” them all. Nevertheless, the verbal ability of those five children on a variety of standardized tests is, as predicted, perfectly correlated with their …

It Depends…

I was not a fan of Bill Clinton, nor of his sexual indiscretion. But of all the things to criticize him for, this quote is not one of them. Bill Clinton is among the most intelligent presidents of all time, with common estimates of his IQ  ranging from the high …