One of the main reasons I no longer have any respect for rationalism is that so much of life is counter-intuitive. People's behavior, especially. Perhaps it is only counter-intuitive to those of us of a certain age have been taught how important it is to be nice, turn the other cheek, do unto others, etc. This is why red-pilling was such a bombshell to many, because it revealed how animalistic people's motivations are, especially our own.
Even after being red-pilled, I am still constantly taken by surprise at how my fellow humans function. Even though I know it is true, I still struggle with how I have to manipulate my students. Here is an example:
In one class, my students are called upon to complete some legal forms. The legal forms are not provided. I know from long and bitter experience that if I provide the forms up front, the students will complain about all of the hard work the assignment requires because some of the forms cannot be simply filled out, and must be retyped. If, however, I give the students the assignment without the forms, and only provide them less than 24 hours before the assignment is due, the students are grateful because I swooped in to save them in the last minute. This seems counter-intuitive to me, because the behavior is not rational. It is, however, predictable and observable.
A Woman's Function is Laborious
One woman’s view of life as a wife and homemaker, a mother, a Christian, a traditionalist. I was #alt-right before there was a name for us. Nota Bene: Comments subject to deletion at my whim, for no good reason. If this site really, really irritates you, do what I did in a similar situation and get your own blog.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
Monday, February 27, 2017
Smile!
I am preparing one of the final classes I will be teaching
for an online for-profit university. I
say “one of the final” because the institution is circling the drain, and I was
only offered two classes from them in the last twelve months. This may well be my last class overall, and I
cannot say that I am sorry to see this University go from my stable of schools.
Generally, as the student loan boondoggle has dried up and
student enrollment continues to plummet, non-profits have consistently demanded
greater performance from their instructors.
Their behavior makes perfect sense—online adjuncts are fungible and will
do anything for the ever-decreasing paycheck. The pay per class is today
slightly less than it was ten years ago, but the expectations for performance
are much, much greater.
You may be thinking, “Well, that must be a good thing! We should demand high performance from
educators.” You probably think the
university expectations come from higher standards of, say, continuing
education in the instructor’s subject matter expertise, or greater emphasis on
academic rigor. You would be wrong.
No, the high expectations come in the form of “student
engagement,” which means making super-vapid and up-beat “welcome to class” videos. Now, as an introverted sperg, I would rather
be boiled in acid than try to be perky on camera. I can talk for hours about my areas of
concentration, but the schools do not want that. They want me to “be encouraging.” And smile!
The purpose of these videos is to put at ease the target
demographic of online for-profit universities—mainly women and minorities. This demographic already eschews the written
word for videos, so it makes sense from a marketing perspective that these
schools want to project more a “World Star Hip Hop” rather than a “Project Gutenberg”
vibe. It still rankles me, however.
While we may not be able to help them, we shouldn’t be actively trying
to hurt them, and it hurts them to continually pander to their underclass vices
instead of trying to (however imperfectly) inculcate in them middle class
values.
But I am not being paid to think. I am being paid to pander, and pander I
shall. Yo, yo, yo, your best friend da
professor in da house!
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Just Another Day
A lot of folks have been talking about the recent retarded
tweet from some BLM spokeswoman, who said that “white ppl are a genetic defect of blackness.” Vox Day posted about
this, Styxhexenhammer666 made a YouTube video on it, etc. Meanwhile, thousands marched in Milwaukee to protest Sheriff David Clarke’s audacious attempt to
enforce existing laws. It was billed as
another “Day Without Latinos.”
This event didn’t get much coverage from the alt-right, at
least from what I can see. The reason why is that the United States is, at
heart, the racist country that Latinos have always accuse it of being. In many ways,
we have proven the point of all of those marching Mexicans—we just don’t see ‘em. The American psychic landscape remains black
and white. Everything is analyzed through the lens of white versus black
American culture.
Wisconsinites probably did see safer schools and
neighborhoods with all those criminal aliens and fellow-travelers clustered
together away from people who had to go to work. I am sure that Milwaukeeans
will enjoy the prolific trash heaps that they will have to clean up after the
protestors are bused home to wherever they came from. But aside from the hassle
of having yet another traffic jam, this protest was a dud. While Americans
(white and black) do want illegals gone, Hispanics do not have much
resonance in American culture, good or bad. They have contributed less to
American culture per capita than would be expected, given that many Latinos
have been living in the American Southwest since before there was a United
States.
For better or worse, Black Americans have had an inordinate
impact on American culture, greatly beyond what would be predicted from their
representation in the population (12%). While the footprint of Black culture is
over-sized, the footprint of Hispanic culture is under-sized. Where are the breakthrough Hispanics artists,
scientists, civic leaders, or philanthropists, for example? Aside from food, what impact has Hispanic
culture made on American culture?
Thus, when the alt-right considers pervasive threats, it
makes sense to focus on some random social media bleat than on an
anti-deportation march. What happens on a #DayWithoutAMexican? Apparently the
same thing that happens with him—not much.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Not today, dear-- I have a headache
We have all been sick for several weeks now. Ugh. No blogging today.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
They Always Double Down
Many of you have listened to the American Enterprise Institute panel hosted by Charles Murray, in which Bill Kristol made such memorable comments as, "If things are so bad with the white working class, don't you want to get new Americans in?" As the Supreme Dark Lord could have predicted, of course, (((SJWs))) always double-down. Did Kristol apologize and grovel in the way that all white heterosexual Christians do when they even inadvertently or obliquely insult a privileged group? No, of course not! He doubled-down on Twitter, stating "I was on a panel w/ Charles Murray and neglected to bow before the conservative form of political correctness...."
I always enjoy watching people self-destruct in public. I think pundits like Kristol realize that they lived through a profound paradigm shift, and they missed it. They didn't see it coming, and they cannot describe it now that it is here. It seems many of them are trying to blow themselves up before they go. I guess they think it is better to burn out than fade away.
I always enjoy watching people self-destruct in public. I think pundits like Kristol realize that they lived through a profound paradigm shift, and they missed it. They didn't see it coming, and they cannot describe it now that it is here. It seems many of them are trying to blow themselves up before they go. I guess they think it is better to burn out than fade away.
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