The Liberal Mind Cult… Journolist always had a seedy quality about it–sweaty, zero personality partisans indulging their petty, rage-filled politics in a conformist atmosphere–so it's not surprising that when it came to the subject of Obama and race, they were positively psychotic.  While not enough is going to be said about this on the neocon-castrated Right, we've got a few things to say at My Posting Career.   

Inception… My and other takes on Christopher Nolan's Inception can be found at My Posting Career.  Quote:

"What Inception has in common with Nolan's earlier Memento is the theme of mental damage leading to a crisis of identity and awareness. Here of course Nolan is exploring purely amoral aspects of the mind, impulses that the conscious mind is mainly a servant to–complications of our animal evolution and highly developed cerebrum. Nolan's fascination with the mind's workings leads him away from the conscious rationalizations of the moralizer and toward the interrogative analysis of the psychologist."   

Armond White's assault on SWPL… The kids are not alright, they are pathological, as is the entertainment they jerk off to.  I have a post up on one of the few bright spots in film criticism, at My Posting Career–along with some thoughts on the latest homophile infatuation.   

I'm with Gibson… Mel Gibson dared to use some salty language–in private!  Naturally, the usual suspects are going out of their minds with rage about this.  Are you with Gibson?  I'm with Gibson.   

Sorry, Apple apologists… I'm back from my vacation in Shreveport.  I wish table games were more predictable than the reactions of Apple apologists to bad news.  It would make playing them much more profitable.   

The Jewish WASP… Comments on Paul Gottfried's (excellent, as always) article, The Death of the WASP at My Posting Career.   

All weev, all the time… Visit our weev thread at My Ruin Career DOT COM.   

From high trust to low trust… Some thoughts on America's transition from a high trust to low trust society at My Posting Career.   

Education and Inequality… The further reinforcement of class barriers occurs in education.   

Jewish humor… From Steve Sailer's Iron Man vs. Golem post, a discussion of Jewish humor (and the witlessness of commenters) developed at My Posting Career.   

Sociopathy in Organizations… Why Venkatesh Rao's "Gervais Principle" is nonsensical.   

Epistemic Closure… In the time it takes for a poorly argued liberal idea to traverse the blogosphere, you can almost oppress the rights of a lesbian prom date.   

Ethnic separatism… Here is the reason I don't follow Kevin MacDonald to advocate a separatist European identity.   

Final thoughts on The Culture of Critique… Having written an extensive summary of Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique, I give my final thoughts on it here.  From the beginning:

I was going to canvass some of the responses to MacDonald's book, but why not just quote from the SLPC's considered, measured review:

 

Kevin MacDonald is the neo-Nazi movement's favorite academic. A psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach, MacDonald, who also is a board member of the white supremacist Charles Martel Society, published a trilogy that supposedly "proves" that Jews are genetically driven to destroy Western societies. MacDonald also argues that anti-Semitism, far from being an irrational hatred for Jews, is a logical reaction to Jewish success in societies controlled by other ethnic or racial groups. After the publication of a 2007 Intelligence Report exposé detailing MacDonald's anti-Semitism, his teaching duties were reduced and many of his colleagues publicly condemned his racist research.

More at the above link.   

Whither Judaism and the West?… My latest (and overdue) installment on Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique covers the concluding chapter, a look at what the rise of Judaism means for the West.  I'll be adding my final thoughts on the book later, but if you ever wanted a quick but comprehensive overview of this remarkable volume, you know where to look.   

The Top 25 Media Whores… MPC user mlad took a look at The Daily Beast's Top 25 Centrist Columnists and Commentators.  First of all it's called The Daily Beast–there's nothing journalists, who mostly harbor fantasies of being real writers, love more than semi-obscure references to their worthless profession.  Obviously these people and the non-entity cocksucker who wrote this brown-nosing piece will have much to answer for when heads roll.   

Some dare call it...ObamaCare… The debate over health care continues on My Posting Career.   

Modern conservatives… A note about modern conservatives (and the declension they represent).   

Stuff White People Like: The Movie… If you could take all the stuff white people like, cram it into one movie…this would be that movie.   

The limits of human scale… I've posted a long piece on scale and society.  Here is the introduction:

Introduction

Our society is seriously out of scale.  This fact has produced a range of dysfunctional behaviors that we have incorporated into our behavioral framework, creating further imbalance.  The end result will be atomization, depopulation, and social chaos.  The only remedy for this problem, long term, is reduction in scale, achieved by reorganizing nations into manageable and relatively homogenous populations, population and immigration control, and restraint of technological, economic, and social policies which give rise to problems of scale.

This remedy is not, I must stress, a devolution–it is not a reversion to the past, much less an idealized past free from worry.  In any composition of society, there will be tension between traditional and progressive outlooks, there will be complacency and conflict and all the usual human evils.  Nor is the primary concern Malthusian, that is an unsustainable growth in resource consumption (although this too is a problem we face as a result of scale, it is not my focus here).

By scale I mean more than mere population growth; I refer also to the scale of complexity created by the West's conversion to a multicultural, globalized social model.  In this model, all distinctions including race (meaning ethnicity), nationality, culture, and religion are viewed as subordinate to the division between the managerial class and the managed class.  Thus effective democracy is blunted and masses of people are shifted and reorganized in accordance with the decisions of a managerial class.  Aside from the negative consequences brought about by heedless change, a second order of effects is seen in the dramatic increase in social complexity and the need for citizens to accomodate radically different (and in some cases incompatible) outlooks.   

Shutter Island review… My review of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.   

Culture of Critique part 7… Examining the seventh chapter of Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique, this time focusing on Jewish involvement in the immigration debates.   

Reagan: Hero or Zero?… A considered view of our 40th president.  Were the liberals right, and we're all just racist, sexist, consumerist monsters for voting for him?  I offer my modest demurral.   

Nassim Taleb… In a new post up on My Posting Career, I discuss some of the ideas from Nassim Taleb's books Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan.   

The problem of over-optimization… Further thoughts on Wither the white middle class?   

Matt Damon and Sam Rockwell were robbed!… Let's talk about the most useless awards ceremony in the history of film!   

Women in the workplace, redux… A few more thoughts on some of the changes that have come about on the coattails of women's suffrage.   

Psychoanalysis and the Culture of Critique… I summarize and discuss Kevin MacDonald's presentation of psychoanalysis as a Jewish science in the latest installment of my overview of The Culture of Critique.   

Women in the workplace… What is the real reason for the eviction of women from their role as homemakers?   

Mel Gibson owns… Who else can make a fat local news personality quiver like a bowl of jelly just by staring him down?