Heard another NDIS story

I have never been as blackpilled on this country as with the NDIS

Generations of Australians built a fine nation only for a few "well intentioned" to dust $50bn p.a on crooks

An entire industry of grift - called "disabled" so you can't criticise I literally am not sure I want to be part of a country so retarded as to build such a grift bucket for the most degenerate elements in this country

Every single story is enough to stab your eyes out

Then every time the dumbest guy comments "oh but it helped my brother"

No one goes harder than Camille Paglia

"Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theater, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Male homosexuality played a similar catalytic role in Renaissance Florence and Elizabethan London. At such moments, male bonding enjoys an amorous intensity of self-assurance, a transient conviction of victory over mothers and nature. For 2,500 years, western culture has fed itself on the enormous achievements of homosexual hybris, small bands of men attaining visionary heights in a few concentrated years of exaltation and defiance." "The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man’s cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God’s enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God’s true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent."

🚨New Kvetch:

I review Clinton Fernandes's Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena

I have never read a book where I’ve penciled in as many hard-etched underlines in agreement at the same time as literal ‘lol’s in the margins.

Link in bio There is no forum for debate in Australia on defense. The question for policy makers is never what do Australians want, but rather, what does the US expect of us? They do not ask how best do we defend this country? They ask how best do we stay front of mind for our US peers?

I get to wake up, drop the kids off to school, put buds into my ears, ride to work and listen to Tyler Cowen interview Noam Chomsky and you’re telling me God does not exist? Chomsky:

Vietnam was the most hideous crime of the 20th century

I read Bronze Age Mindset. Disappointed

Reads like the fevered dream of an over-read adolescent male. It's appropriate he refers to Paglia a lot - he is her poorer adolescent male cousin. Esoteric adolescence

Astrology for men Positive take:

BAP touches on many subjects I'm interested in and directionally sympathise with: hero-worship, masculinity, the Age of Exploration and Conquest, our gerontocracy, feminisation, frontierism, ethnic dynamics, historic skepticism, charisma, brotherhood

No one is as acerbic & erudite as Harold Bloom. An unusual combination. He spits fire

"I recall [an academic] telling a NYT interviewer that "We are all feminist critics." That is the rhetoric suitable for an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation." "Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde... He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere... President Clinton's inaugural poem, by Maya Angelou, was praised in a NYT editorial as a work of Whitmanian magnitude, and its sincerity is indeed overwhelming"

“ON JULY 25, 1946, on a lonely dirt road near Monroe, Georgia, in Walton County, two young black couples, both recently married, were being driven home by a white farmer who had just posted six hundred dollars’ bail for one of the black men who had been accused… of stabbing his white employer in the arm during a fight. As the farmer drove onto a little wooden bridge, he saw a car blocking its far end, and as soon as he stopped, another car drove up behind him, its bumper nudging his, trapping him on the bridge.

Watched Top Gun Maverick

What an incredibly pessimistic take on US power, especially for all the Twitter hurrah

Old men, old planes, old tech, old flames, old elites, good old days

Fake enemies, fake noses, fake tech Our hero (Tom Cruise) is a fatherless bachelor still picking up single mums, jumping out of windows to evade their kids

The American Dream

(Jennifer Connelly is admittedly in top form as an heiress of some kind. Switching out the original chick was the right call)

Eres como una mariposa
Vuelas y te posas, vas de boca en boca
Fácil y ligera de quien te provoca
Yo soy ratón de tu ratonera
Trampa que no mata pero no libera
Vivo muriendo prisionero
Mariposa traicionera
Todo se lo lleva el viento
Mariposa, no regreso
Ay, mariposa de amor Mi mariposa de amor
Ya no regreso contigo
Ay, mariposa de amor
Mi mariposa de amor
Nunca jamás junto a ti
Vuela amor
Vuela dolor
Y no regreses a un lado
Ya vete de flor en flor
Seduciendo
A los pistilos
Y vuela cerca del sol
Pa' que sientas lo que es dolor

New Kvetch: Stalin's War

I cover the moral complexity of the Eastern Front, Stalin's crimes and successes, US largesse re the USSR and Soviet infiltration of US (and more)

Link below. Photos of my grandpa in the Red Army (he made a photo album from a German soldier's journal) First, on Eastern Europe's complicity in fascism:

It's complicated

New Kvetch:

- Who is the enemy? Who is the idiot?
- WWII Rashomon
- Nazi suicides
- Great Expectations
- The Sages on Sex
- Tyler Futurism vs Effective Altruism
- Ted Goia tips for public speaking WWII meme game

Just picked this up, and have to say, something remarkable on almost every page

Will share questions/ thoughts How could workers die at *20x* the rate of soldiers during 1942-43?

How did the 189 GM senior execs die?

Was industrial manufacturing just that dangerous?

I suppose this is before the most intense period of American fighting in Europe or Pacific