Amerika

We haven’t done a linkpost in some time. That has been my fault, as I’ve devoted time to other things and fallen behind on my reading.

The interesting times in which we live continued their rambling progress toward a “convergence of catastrophes” (Guillaume Faye) which will unravel the comfortable illusion of our time. We thought all that struggling for our lives and engaging in wars was for previous generations. But life is as tenuous as it has ever been, and that keeps us on our toes.

As the empire of denial starts to fade, people are turning back to focus on the brass tacks of existence, namely consequentialism and some form of reverence or appreciation for the divine. Without that glue to hold us together, we become over-educated squirrels munching junk food on sofas, waiting for the soundless hawk descending with its piercing claws.

• Larval Subjects: Extended Mind and Political Theory
• Information Processing: What use is game theory?, High investment parenting 2: quality vs quantity, Asian admissions in Boston Globe, Earnings effects of personality, education and IQ for the gifted
• Kali-Yuga: 1: Reflections on a link about the State snatching kiddies from their mommies &tc.,
• Darwinian Conservatism: Azar Gat on War (2): The Failed Rebellion of Ascetic Morality Against the Natural Desires
• Postmodern Jesus: Other People, Missed Opportunity, Noise and Fumes, More Light
• Bruce Charlton: Child death and demographic change (and evolutionary change), The intellectuals have had their chance – and blown it…, Science and sin, Political correctness and power-seeking egalitarians, A culture of suicide
• The Scientific Fundamentalist: Why Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Wrong about Evolution, but conservative policies work better, How Is Steven Pinker NOT Like Michael Jordan?
• Gene Expression: Spiritual scientists without God
• Gornahoor: Hermetic Maxims, Power as Causality, Nonduality
• Brussels Journal: True Finns Vis-A-Vis A European Transfer Union, Trial by Jury Is More Important than “Equality”, How To Convert Moral Outrage Into Convenient Inaction
• Confederate Colonel: Back to Basics – Good Grooming, Libya and the War of Northern Aggression, White Slavery
• Dienekes: Single Out-of-Africa origin of humans: more trouble for the theory, Global demographic expansions followed agricultural spread, Genetic structure of West Eurasians
• Faith and Heritage: 2016 Projected End of “Age of America”, Strict Immigration Controls Save Denmark a Billion per Year, On Interracial Marriage: The Moral Status of Miscegenation
• In Mala Fide: The Death Rattle of the American Empire, Bureaucracy; or, How I Learned to Hate the Government…, The Coming Horror of Social Spending Cuts, Five Things We Can Learn from SWPLs, Post-Capitalist Economics: A Proposal, The Beached White Male, How Multiculturalism Killed the Socialist Dream, The Hive Mind: Eusociality in Humans
• Race/Evolution/History Notes: Ethnic background of the British Royal family, Elite Afr-Am sprinters more admixed than Afr-Am non-athletes?, Similarity in Recombination Rate Estimates Highly Correlates with Genetic Differentiation in Humans
• Attack the System: Collapse? We never saw it coming
• Sarah Maid of Albion: How I became a ‘Racist’ – By Tim Heydon, An Update on Censorship at Leeds University, Those Moments of Fear, Loneliness and Despair
• Primordial Traditions: THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY, THE MODERN ECONOMY AND KFC (THE WORLD ECONOMY) – Part XI
• Secular Right: Western vs. Moderate Muslims, Christopher Hitchens & the KJV (2), Civilizational collapse, part 642: Studying the bus schedule in English class–for credit!, Magical Thinking Watch: Endless Female Victimhood, Working Hard, Working Smart, No Double Standards Here, Not At All
• Sofiastry: Conservative Majority!, Prole Behaviour, White people with dreadlocks, Fat people have terrible personalities
• The Archdruid Report: Alternatives to Absurdity, ,
• Southern Agrarian: A Man to Till the Ground, from Faith and Heritage
• Vox Day: Another victim of feminism , The inevitable return of racism , Hiding the Hatred
• OneSTDV: The Liberal Version of “Try Your Best”, Excusing Black Murderers, Two Spheres of Discourse, Exotic Minority Groups
• Turnabout: From living order to transcendence
• The Thinking Housewife: Ascending the Stairway, On The Childlessness of Intelligent Women, A Hungarian Rebirth, The Difference Between Nostalgia and Learning from the Past, The Lie of Unequal Funding, Why Radical Democracy Punishes and Eliminates Beauty
• Steve Sailer: The Wealth of Nations, Why the elite bash teachers, California, Latino and Asian Voters Mostly Sat Out 2010 Election, What’s Obama hiding?
• Audacious Epigone: Scientific Literacy by Church Attendance, Women lie more about sexual activity than in the past?, Diversity helps US claim first prize in single parent department, Like father (country), like son, Scientific Literacy by Race, Republicans are more scientifically literate than Democrats or Independents are
• Dennis Mangan: Darwinian Double Whammy, No Invasion Here!, Bin Laden’s Economic War, Striking Fear Into the Heart of Brussels
• Youth for Western Civilization: Lamar Smith’s Op-Ed, The Big Disconnect

News:

• Boston Globe: Where does good come from? (see also: Even Robots Can Be Altruistic), What does ‘friend’ mean now?
• Techcrunch: Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
• Nature: Education: The PhD factory
• Newsweek: High-Quality DNA
• NYmag: Pursuing Self-Interest in Harmony With the Laws of the Universe and Contributing to Evolution Is Universally Rewarded
• Der Spiegel: Judge Files a Criminal Complaint against Merkel over Bin Laden Comments, ,
• Vanity Fair: A Veteran of SEAL Team Six Describes His Training
• The Telegraph: Children are born believers in God, academic claims , UK journalist suggests that the unemployed, or people on low incomes, should not be allowed to vote
• NYT: The Politics of Solipsism, What does it say about America when the murder rate in Flint, Michigan is worse than the murder rate in Baghdad?,
• Nieman Lab: On The collective Intelligence and The “Genetic” Structure Of Groups, ,
• ABC: Some black holes may be older than time
• Miller-McCune: Why Whites Avoid Movies With Black Actors