'Original sin' is the way our tradition formulates fundamental scepticism about human capacity to 'get things right' in European (but not Scottish) Enlightenment fashion. Hard to imagine how a cultural tenet could be more thoroughly vindicated. ...
... Radical failure of all explicit human projects is to be devoutly prayed for.
... The cremation of utopia in Solemn Providence is the greatest and most beautiful thing.
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If the Ashkenazi cognitive elite tilted left in the same proportion that the WASP cognitive elite tilted left, we'd really be screwed. No indication of that, intriguingly. The right gets the seriously bright ones.
... Other side of this coin is WASP midwits tilting vaguely 'conservative' (but in a way so dumb as to be counterproductive), while Ashkenazi midwits (~108 IQ) tilt solidly full gay race communism.
... The greatest champion of Ashkenazi leftism was so intellectually awesome he's mostly known for having a fallacy named after him.
... A pseudonymous identity is the true model for classical liberalism. Complete formal equality without an iota of implied substantive identity. Fatal for traditional aristocracy and for communist dreams. America is founded upon this. Cryptocurrency is its inheritor. ...
... Zero socially negotiable privilege. Zero identifiable disparate impact. Zero identity politics. If only we had been able to hold onto it. Inevitably, it will be back.
2028 is already gone for them. (It will be some utter clown.) But 2032 on a "We're going to dig up the rotting bodies of historic Democrat Party corruption more zealously than the Vance GOP" ticket? Completely imaginable. ...
Bracketing Israelis, the one thing Jews are typically dumb as bricks about is promoting Jewish interests. It's actually amazing. ...
... Key point here, I think, is that midwit vociferous Jews find it utterly irresistible to reinforce antisemitic Jewish stereotypes, and they're just smart enough to do this better than the antisemites themselves can.
... Obsessively rereading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and thinking "I could save you."