In continuing on the debate over the viability or lack thereof of the Universal Basic Income (UBI), from Slate.com: What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life? That’s What We’re About to Test Despite the the fact that the likelihood of a UBI in America is pretty much nil, that didn’t… Continue reading The UBI Revisited
The Facade of Democracy
And for some good news, maybe we’re closer to the ‘dark enlightenment’ than commonly believed, with democracy being mostly a facade. From Taki: Aborting the Working Class Martin Gilens is a political-science professor at Princeton. Over the course of the past decade, he has authored and coauthored several books and papers in which he argues… Continue reading The Facade of Democracy
Intellectualism Signaling
In earlier posts here and here I discuss signaling, but I want expound on this further, specifically ‘intellectualism signaling’. Signaling is actions and mannerisms that are intended to boost one’s social status among like-minded peers. Such mannerisms can include actions (writing, activism, etc.) and aesthetics (physical appearance, materialism, etc.). I define two types of signaling:… Continue reading Intellectualism Signaling
The Economic Calm
Lately there have been a lot of ‘weird’ posts on this blog – stuff about IQ, signaling, and intellectualism, and the like. If you go to the archives, back in 2011-2013, not once did I mention IQ (maybe one time in 2013 I think) and no mentions of SJW, Social Darwinism, or HBD either. It… Continue reading The Economic Calm
Social Taxonomy
This taxonomy aims to unify these blog posts, as well as certain aspects of society and economics under a hierarchical framework. The idea is that I can classify an article or a blog post somewhere in this taxonomy. Define: wealth = A intellectualism = B individualism (Randianism/Objectivism) and or authenticity = C Taxonomy: Primary: ‘smartist… Continue reading Social Taxonomy
Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2
Part 1 Continuing on the article… No. 1: read a fucking book… No. 2: learn something… No. 3: stop buying so much shit…. Everything he’s listing that he wishes were happening is already happening, at least as I can perceive based on my own observations in the field. As further evidence of how America is… Continue reading Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2
RE: How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
From Medium: How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization he show ended in 2004. The same year that Facebook began, the year that George W. Bush was re-elected to a second term, the year that reality television became a dominant force in pop culture, with American Idol starting an eight-year reign of… Continue reading RE: How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
The Wealth Inequality Obsession
There have been more articles than usual about social science issues such as wealth inequality, ‘the 1%’, student loans, offshoring wealth, and so on. I counted ten such articles on Hacker News in the past week alone, all of them viral: Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012) The 1%… Continue reading The Wealth Inequality Obsession
Post-2008 Themes
Lately there has been a plethora of these ‘how-world-is-changing’ type articles on social news sites, and they seem to do well, as measured by comments, interactions, and shares, so here is another one: The Crisis of the Blue Model Within a decade … between a third and a half of the current employees in finance… Continue reading Post-2008 Themes
The Daily View: Dumbing-Down, Poverty in Africa, Space-X, Job Creation, Race & Crime
From Sott.net: The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the “dumbing down” of America The verdict may still be out as to whether or not America is dumbing down…I wrote two articles that offer an opposing view, that America, contrary to popular belief, may not be dumbing down: http://greyenlightenment.com/is-america-really-dumbing-down/ http://greyenlightenment.com/is-america-the-intellectual-capital-of-the-world It may… Continue reading The Daily View: Dumbing-Down, Poverty in Africa, Space-X, Job Creation, Race & Crime