The media, the popular kids at work/school, the government and all your favorite celebrities champion a single idea: that we all must be equal, and the mercury in the thermometer is race and civil rights. Their focus is not on race per se, but they use it as an indicator for measurement of their progress. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘crowdism’
Isolato
One reason this society is like standing in a cold rain storm: there is no agreed-upon way to be a good person, short of that weird form of politeness that consists in deference to all except when there is personal gain immediately at hand. Modern politeness is this strange sado-masochistic role in which the correct [...]
Social conservatives
Another four-year cycle, another American election gone to the left because the right is disunified. Popular sentiment blames the social conservatives for this. After all, they are the lone group refusing to come to the table, compromise, and join the system of government where economics and popularity determines what is “real.” People power, individualism and [...]
Secret
For most of our lives, we carry a secret with us that poisons our blood and makes us afraid to hope. When we finally get old enough that we don’t care, we’re also old enough that people shy away from us in case we’ve learned something. People hate having their illogical plans sunk by someone [...]
Paralytic
The art to making it big as a blog is to tell people that something screwed them. However, it’s best not to pick actual causes, but intermediate ones. Beating a real cause takes a lot of power. Getting a bunch of people mad at an intermediate, or mad enough to buy your book, is much [...]
Equality is a Muslim God
Equality is not a god that accepts and ministers to failure, like Christ, nor a god that prefers moderation, like Siddartha’s dharma. Nor is it a god satisfied by material offerings, like the ancient spirits of the world. Equality is a god that demands perfection, punishes weakness, and calls for the destruction of unbelievers. It [...]
Split up
The sad thing about intelligence is that it is only a survival trait when applied intelligently. Like any other tool or weapon, intelligence serves any master, and thus serves no master. If we are a society of individualists, intelligence becomes a weapon we use against one another. Hypothetically, the situation might be different in a [...]
Patience
Computers, by their very nature, are a virtual reality. Pop a bit here or there, calculate a result, and you get a definitive answer — if not a number, a one (yes) or zero (no). Life isn’t like that. First, you rarely get such clear-cut answers. Second, you don’t get them at 3.6ghz. It takes [...]
Oblivion
The path to oblivion lurks behind every step we take and each moment of any day. As in life itself, we can choose at any time to make an act of self-destruction: throw ourselves in front of the oncoming train, drink the turpentine, or pull that convenient plastic bag over our faces. Each moment can [...]
Consequentialism
The worst aspect of mass politics is that none of the basic terms are defined. “Conservative” is a loose grouping of likes/dislikes, and liberal is a social identity. From that, each person tries to abstract out some heuristics in order to make an educated guess as to any issue. Since appearance is separated by reality [...]
