Laura London on Substack
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Laura London on Substack
This is one of the risks of taking on the role of the defender: if the dream is to lose yourself in a cause, you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve succeeded, and that there’s hardly anything left of you. Women, who are socially conditioned to be selfless, can be particularly susceptible to a version of heroism that sucks them dry.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
It stuns me that ~50% of people under 30 say that Mangione was justified in that murder. (The best take on this: An Astonishing Level of Dehumanization, from Peter Wehner in the The Atlantic .)
25 Predictions for 2025 (Part II)
It’s what tells those pulling the triggers that they’re killing for a higher cause, that they’re morally superior to those in the gunsights. It’s the revolutionary ideology that justifies the ruling class.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
This is factually correct in a narrow sense, of course, but it’s also true that historically white men have been more adept at organized violence than any other group, and quite prolific at it. This is not something we should be ashamed of. Literally every single comfort we have was bought by our ancestors with his blood and/or the blood of his... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.