We’ve been saying for a while here at Amerika that the USA is going to go third world from a series of factors: Destruction of culture by commerce. Corruption in government, thanks to a clueless electorate and powerful media. Decay into illusory behavior thanks to democracy and wish fulfillment entertainment. Third world-style breeding habits. Reckless [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Race genetics likened to racial profiling
Forensic experts are increasingly relying on DNA as “a genetic eyewitness,” says Jack Ballantyne, associate director for research at the National Center for Forensic Science at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, who is studying whether a DNA sample can reveal a person’s age. Researchers are identifying genes that give rise to a person’s [...]
Liberal bias in media and government
It’s not liberal bias, yet it ends up being liberal bias. People who want to be in elites imitate other elites, which are those who adopt cutting-edge, altruistic programs. In their imitation, they simplify this to a form of competitive altruism that is also the root of modern liberalism. But they’re not doing it to [...]
Conservatives are Satan
A liberal commentator gets riled as she attacks neoliberals, er, “conservatives”: When have Conservative Americans ever been correct about anything? At the nation’s founding they were Tories, during the Civil War they were slave owners during the Depression they were the cause, in the Second World War they were isolationists. They opposed virtually every program, [...]
The Psychological Novel
Tom Wolfe used this phrase for the type of novel currently in vogue, as it has been for the past fifty years: the psychological novel. He is also known for his attacks on literary realism, or the idea that literature can linearly evoke reality through gritty detail, scenes of underage sodomy, and other details. However, [...]
Nationalism rediscovered
Bit by bit: Britain needs a strong sense of national identity and national purpose to get through the current recession, Gordon Brown said in an interview published today. The prime minister said that the process of globalisation was forcing countries to be clearer about what they were as nations in order to provide a sense [...]
Do we dare not norm?
This article had me rolling: First Worlders have a moral obligation to give away thousands of dollars — thousands! — a year of personal income to eradicate Third World poverty? Right. Even when Americans had jobs and 401(k)s, they weren’t exactly emptying their wallets for the 1.4 billion people who live in absolute destitution — [...]
Good liberal discovers nature is immutable
On the day he should have graduated from high school, Andrew was instead being treated in a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic. But he seemed to improve, and we were hopeful. Upon release, he was placed in a series of behavioral health centers and group homes. This is where his real education began. He’d [...]
Overpopulation
In the news: JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably. Porritt said: “Population growth, [...]
Clean air extends lifespan
New NIEHS-supported research findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that improvements in air quality have increased average life expectancy in the U.S. by approximately five months. The researchers tracked particulate matter air pollution in 51 major metropolitan areas from 1978 through 2001 and compared those data to death records and census [...]