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Tag Archives: politics
Book Review: Red Plenty
I. I decided to read Red Plenty because my biggest gripe after reading Singer’s book on Marx was that Marx refused to plan how communism would actually work, instead preferring to leave the entire matter for the World-Spirit to sort … Continue reading
Does Class Warfare Have A Free-Rider Problem?
Here are two comments I’ve gotten on this blog in the past few weeks: Progressivism is under massive selective pressure to actually cause problems because that leads to more power for progressivism. Sasha and Malia Obama will get affirmative action, … Continue reading
Book Review: Singer on Marx
I’m not embarassed for choosing Singer’s Marx: A Very Short Introduction as a jumping-off point for learning more leftist philosophy. I weighed the costs and benefits of reading primary sources versus summaries and commentaries, and decided in favor of the … Continue reading
The Invisible Nation – Reconciling Utilitarianism And Contractualism
[Attempt to derive morality from first principles, totally ignoring that this should be impossible. Based on economics and game theory, both of which I have only a minimal understanding of. And mixes complicated chains of argument with poetry without warning. … Continue reading
Meditations On Moloch
[Content note: Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!] I. Scattered examples of my reading material for this month: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom; Moloch by Allan Ginsberg, On Gnon by Nick Land. Chronology is a harsh master. You … Continue reading
A Paradox of Ecclesiology
[Epistemic status: Sloppy. You’re going to have to read between the lines and fill in some of the holes here.] I. Some rationalists study ecclesiology. I used to think this was dumb. Now I appreciate it a little more. Let … Continue reading
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Two-Income Trap”
– but which didn’t fit naturally into the review. Today’s bankrupt families are deeper in debt than their counterparts just twenty years earlier, and their overall financial picutre – assets and debts – is worse. In 1981, the median family … Continue reading
Book Review: The Two-Income Trap
A long time ago I wrote a kinda-tongue-in-cheek defense of keeping modafinil – a relatively safe and effective stimulant – illegal. My argument was that if everybody can use stimulants to work harder and sleep less without side effects, then … Continue reading
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
I. Forty years ago, Robert Nozick proposed a very strange utopia, which he considered the culmination of libertarian principles. Ten years ago, Mencius Moldbug proposed the same utopia, considering it the culmination of conservative principles. Three years ago, unaware of … Continue reading
Compound Interest Is The Least Powerful Force In The Universe
I. I’m still iffy on Vox. Some of its reporting is excellent – their article on Governor Cuomo and the shift away from progressivism in the Democratic Party was especially enlightening. Other parts, especially the editorials, are atrocious and utterly … Continue reading