Thinking Out Aloud

Christine Roy, Unsplash. My poor blog, how I have neglected you. I have abandoned you for my Substack, which is Lorenzo from Oz. It is here . I have written there on lots of things. In JUL...

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The destructive non-electoral politics of institutional capture. Source: Economic Policy Institute . Have done two new posts on Substack. On Helen Dale’s Substack, I have posted on how t...

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Source: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. Blogging has been very light here. Mainly because I have been doing a lot of researching and writing for various major projects. Also, I now have a Subst...

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Ever since their inception, states have dominated the extraction of surplus. Tomb of Menna , Wikipedia commons. Two concepts that, in their anti-commerce forms, get in the way of understanding ...

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The problem with using a distorting social lens. Source: https://theweek.com/politics/1002300/progressives-are-aggressors-in-the-culture-war-too A common trope of commentary, both inside a...

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Property law rests on conventions that evolved before it and that can operate without it, or even against it. Waiting for the opening of a speakeasy in 1921 (Wikipedia commons). Black markets, ...

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Opinions that mark one off as one of the smart-and-the-good can have a disastrous effect on policy and organisations. Source In her review of Andrew Doyle’s recently published book arguin...

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And bad things come from pretending it was. Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. Wikimedia commons. A friend forwarded me this email: > NEVER FORGET: HOLODOMOR MEMORIAL DAY >  ...

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We are the cultural species par excellence, and so the species that creates its own niches. Beaver dam, Hesse, Germany. The ecologist Paul Colinvaux, author of the classic text Why Big Fierce A...

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There have been four major out-of expansions by Homo sapiens. Source: Jared Diamond, Peter Bellwood, Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions, Science, 2003, Vol. 300, Issue 5619, pp. 5...

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Intent is not the only thing to judge policies or theories on. Source: https://www.iied.org/climate-activism-time-covid-19 Within the expanding debate and political controversies over CRT (C...

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Folk are intersex because of how their biology is within complex and varied manifestations of two sexes. Participants at the third International Intersex Forum held in Malta, December 2013. The...

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Official health has a persistent pattern of presenting as science-based things that are not. Source. Taken from here , original research and data from here . Despite the efforts of the wilder s...

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Why those who struggle with the physical world lean conservative and those who deal with the abstract lean progressive. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/charts-show-the-political-bias-...

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The history of the US has generated persistent racial derangement. It has been far more of a case of structures generating racism than of racism generating structures. Source . People have ...

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Much of contemporary feminism is engaged in an unfortunate game of let’s pretend. In any sufficiently complex and mobile species that uses conjunction of gametes to reproduce, the only evolut...

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Yes, ancestry matters but not in the way that makes race talk sensible. A 1904 depiction of Asian ethnicities. The early medieval scholar Regino of Prum wrote the following: > Diversae na...

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Just because something is used propagandistically does not mean it is not a thing. Patriarchy is authority being presumptively male. The more presumptively male authority is, the more patriarcha...

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If believing X makes one a good person, then avoiding evidence to the contrary preserves one’s virtue. Don’t see, hear or speak anything that threatens my identity and standing. Contempora...

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The human disasters of actually existing Marxism flow directly from Marx’s theories. Two toxic theorists and three mass murdering tyrants. The most obvious feature of Marxism is that it has b...

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Progressivism has great strategic and rhetorical power, and recurring intellectual patterns, yet institutions it dominates tend to decay. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birth_rate_in_C...

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Not only is the logic of belief not necessarily the logic of believers, the use of scripture is itself subject to evolutionary processes. Charles de Steuben, ‘Bataille de Poitiers en octobre ...

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Cousin marriage in the Middle East works differently than does cousin marriage in South India. Dr Alice Evans has a wonderful blog post , essay really, on why the situation of women in South Ind...

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The Women’s movement is a product of conditions that existed in Western society but nowhere else. Feminism was a product of North-Western Europe (and the settler Anglosphere) for very specific...

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In the American West, both Euro-American and Chinese-American societies had a shortage of women: but that had very different consequences for women. Annie Oakley in the 1880s. Thanks to the Chr...

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