It's slightly unsettling how much better life is when you put your phone on DND 24/7. The ping of a notification now just a faintly uncomfortable memory.
A friend just pointed out a nice way to think about neuroticism: it's, in many ways, close to being 'trait unhappiness'.
And no one wants to be around chronically unhappy people, right?
Ah yes of course, squeezing my wife's butt, mind you not because I'm a lustful perverted freak that's attracted to her,but because of health and longevity reasons.
Whomever decided to make the Microsoft Teams status indicator change from green to yellow after two minutes of inactivity. I hope you shit pineapples for the rest of your life.
In an increasingly multicultural society, declining trust and demographic competition drive people to organize into ethnos blocs that outcoordinate atomized individuals and turn politics into a struggle over resources and state power. As those blocs harden, the state increasingly governs the resulting instability through authoritarian, technocratic means, making the future ethnos below and technocracy above.
Blank-slate universalism was never a durable operating system. It was an ideological luxury sustained by states already bound by a dominant historical ethnos, inherited norms, and deep reserves of common trust. Multiculturalism consumes that inheritance while denying it was ever necessary. As ethnic heterogeneity rises, generalized trust erodes, civic solidarity thins, and people sort into blocs that supply identity, protection, and reciprocal obligation. As universal institutions lose credibility, obligation retreats to groups whose members can reward loyalty and punish defection. The common society recedes; the in-group becomes the decisive political unit.
Ethnos blocs possess dense networks, internal discipline, and the power to coordinate turnout, institutional pressure, and social sanctions. Atomized individuals cannot match that unity. They are fragmented, cross-pressured, and easily outorganized. Public choice accelerates the process. Each bloc captures concentrated benefits while dispersing costs across everyone else. The state adapts by distributing appointments, exemptions, selective enforcement, and legitimacy through recognized groups. Appear as a bloc or forfeit the seat.
Heterogeneity reorganizes political life around group competition. Elections become demographic contests. Appointments become ethnic allocations. Policy transfers status and resources among blocs. Political defeat becomes collective dispossession; institutional control becomes group security. Ethnicity becomes the currency of collective power. Individualists must accept political irrelevance or become a counter-bloc. Once every population must form a bloc to survive politically, the creedal order has died.
Lee Kuan Yew understood the regime consequence. A deeply plural society cannot be governed by sentimental assumptions of spontaneous cohesion and procedural neutrality. When communal blocs compete through the state, it must manage them from above through housing policy, administrative allocation, surveillance, and speech controls. In the contemporary West, this machinery is increasingly digital: data collection, algorithmic monitoring, platform control, and behavioral regulation.
Multiculturalism hardens ethnos below while building technocratic authoritarianism above. The less a population can govern itself through common trust, the more coercion the state needs to hold it together. In an increasingly multicultural society, the future is ethnos, and the government of ethnos is technocracy.
Book shops are insane. The demographics of pre 1997 Britain with bookshelves absolutely groaning with propaganda and historical retcons. It's like the liberal class has been self-radicalising in a bubble for decades.
People forget that controlling immigration to protect the labour market was a centre-left to leftist idea for most of history. Now it’s apparently fascist.
This story is actually insane. The police picked up a 16 yr old girl that was kidnapped by Omar (the guy Shiloh Hendrix insulted) and his brother at a gas station. They raped her for two days. She was found "sleep-deprived, dehydrated, and had not eaten recently" according to the nurse that examined her.
They found her glasses in their trailer. She identified them perfectly in a lineup.
Then, in the middle of the case, prosecutors discretely dropped charges with no explanation and no oversight. "In the interest of justice," they said.
This was just one month before the Shiloh Hendrix incident. During the Shiloh Hendrix trial, we find out that Omar's son, who is actually 9 even though it was claimed he was 5, already wears a ankle monitor because his father lets him wander off and steal things. As is expected, the father has faced no consequences for this.
In Minnesota, a single word is worse than kidnapping and raping a young girl. Two Somalian men abducted a young, vulnerable girl, then were shielded by the government and faced zero consequences. Personally, I think the charges were dropped to avoid their deportation.
On the flip side, a productive member of society gets probation, a jail sentence, and 200 hours of community service over a single word, with no violence involved in any way.
We can't live like this. We can't live in a country where foreigners are above the law, yet get to twist the law into a weapon against productive American citizens.
LOLITA was released 28 years ago today.
Jeremy Irons accepted the role only after deciding the film treated Nabokov’s novel as a tragedy rather than a romance. That approach became the foundation of Adrian Lyne’s adaptation.