What makes society so destructive? Day after day, we see our elected leaders making stupid and terrible decisions — with the consent and often encouragement of the populace. Most seem to at best treat it as an amusing sideshow, and at worst, attempt to sabotage it by choosing nonsense answers and ideology. Much of this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘crowdism’
Every land gets the government it deserves
A popular refrain these days is, “No good deed goes unpunished.” People like to say this, and in normal conversation, it’s too controversial to decode it because it is so popular. Let me tell you what it actually means: “I do good deeds, and I’m sick of doing it, because there’s no reward, but I [...]
Hall of mirrors
Movement and rest are relative terms. Imagine that you are traveling on a train. It may be moving at a high speed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t sit back and enjoy your morning coffee. Now picture your fellow travelers. Perhaps they are sleeping or reading the paper. Most look as if they are only [...]
They’re using you
Years ago, this blog started some of its analysis about Conservatism with the means-ends question. It’s a common sentiment that Conservatism is “ends over means,” which translates into the idea that if the goal is accomplished, it doesn’t matter what method you used to get there. To some degree this is true, because among purposeful [...]
Reality versus appearances
It can seem strange, or out of place, even, that a Danish conservative might submit an article to an American website. I am after all a conservative who take prides in his cultural background and language. Why should I be interested in a website named after another country? The answer may lie in the mysterious [...]
How conservatives differ from liberals
In 1789, a movement was launched within the West to destroy the West. This ideology was designed not to cause an effect in the world, but to cause an effect in the mind, so that those who adopted it could pretend they were doing good things and living a great life while in fact they [...]
All I Really Needed to Know to Avoid I Learned in Kindergarten
Back in the 1980s, before memes were memes, a popular meme circulated on mimeographed sheets called “All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” It later became a best-selling book. It was a list of a dozen or more rules based on the teachings of kindergarten classrooms. The gist of these were that you [...]
Scapegoat ritual
Modern politics forces people into polarity. This is not an issue of left-right, but really a question of “what issue will decide the election?” We tend to pick politicians, and vote for plans, based on a single consideration at a time. This is part of the way group dynamics work: in order to get change, [...]
How Crowdism destroys all good things
The first secret of Crowdism is that it is never unique. It is a universal human tendency that ruins things, like laziness or narcissism. It does not require anyone to invent it, because it is invented in all of us. It is an inherent pitfall to intelligence. Some might call it hubris. Crowdism is what [...]
We are the robots
Our ancient societies evolved much like a species does. Over time, they tested out their hypotheses about how the wide world out there operated. They kept the ideas that worked, and pitched out the rest. From that came culture, wisdom and even religion. Part of this original culture was that we had social castes, which [...]
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