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On James Lindsay, Liberalism, and “American Realism”
For the past several months, James Lindsay has been on a crusade against something that he is calling the “woke right.” In general, I think that this discourse has produced way more heat than light, and to be truthful, if you follow me on Twitter, I’ve been pretty guilty of a fair amount of that…
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How I Found Out I Wasn’t a Conservative
Waking Up from an Illusion I suppose I must have recently finished reading Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. It was Arnold who gave me the awareness of culture as against “machinery.” Culture was the pursuit of the Good, of “sweetness and light” in Arnold’s words. What he called “machinery” was simply a tool used towards that…
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The Body Count Discourse Is Actually Retarded
but not in the way that you think As all things in Hellworld do, it begins with a tweet. It may not need explanation, but the original post was in response to a discussion in which Ben Dreyfuss expressed his befuddlement that men even care at all about how many other men a woman has…
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Stop the cap. Everyone knows what “woke” is.
We have now reached peak bullshit. When asked in a recent interview for El País if the reelection of Donald Trump meant “the woke is broke,” Judith Butler responded, “I don’t even know what the woke is. It’s just a slur that the right wing uses.” This is the bleeding edge of rhetorical acumen, folks,…
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Low Effort Movie Reviews: Smile 2
Lackluster Concept / Great Execution I think this series gets unfairly written off as bottom-of-the-barrel slop –mostly due to its premise. High-concept horror generally lends itself to the kind of low-quality-and-we-know-it dreck that people will only watch when they’re getting hammered in the dorm rooms or you’ve crammed them in an airplane for ten hours.…
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Another Case of Academic Autism
So I’ve already bought my digital copy of Haidt’s latest, The Anxious Generation, but have not gotten down to reading it. Nonetheless, Rob Henderson, coiner of the concept of “luxury beliefs” and guy I follow on Twitter, has read it and has also been highlighting relevant and interesting passages and posting the pics to Twitter.…
The Barking Years 