culture war dynamics

“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”

your worst sin is that you’ve formed opinions not from careful reflection on lived experience, but from the assertions of others

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

―Oscar Ameringer

I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.

the era of the Agenda having authority over thriving, successful individuals is over. people are starting to think for themselves again, and whenever they do so out in public (like sydney did here), swaths of people behind the scenes who have felt trapped by the Agenda cheer and feel more and more free. this will continue. and the ideologically... See more

I am comfortable with doubt and am constitutionally resistant to moral certainty, herd mentality and dogma. I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts – I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when... See more

choosing a side only feels good because it allows the mind to re-right itself into certainty while suppressing the fear of not knowing.

There’s a new genre of company that is Timeline Native. Timeline Native companies are birthed on the timeline and exist more so on social than in real life. The narrative around the construction of the business is the core product. The widget or service which they produce is beside the point. The product is us being able to decide and announce if... See more

we are suffering from an epidemic of "cocktail party thought". a huge part of our country can only conceptualize the world through nice little facts and counterintuitive gotchas. they view the world like its all one big atlantic article. not a big mess of blood, flesh, and souls