The Future’s So Bright?
Nuclear fusion, if successful and widespread, would solve the ‘climate crisis’ Gen Z is so worried about
Tagged: progress
Linky Friday #188: Master of Muskiton
The intersections between energy, crime, religion, and Elon Musk.
Linky Friday #166: Everything Is Awful
This Week: Asia, Education, Health, Money, Work, and Progress!
Culture is the villain
I’ve had this sort of nebulous notion that culture itself is a problem. Not any particular culture, mind you, but rather the entire concept of culture. The exclusivity of the group over the individual....
Our monument won’t be a hole in the ground
Conor Friedersdorf posts this video of radical conservative Bryan Fischer: Conor writes: In the clip above, Bryan Fisher of the American Family Association reminds us that until very recently, many U.S. jurisdictions imposed unconscionable...
The death of custom and the rise of nationalism in the post-colonial state
An observation: whenever some outside force – the colonial powers of the 19th and early 20th century; the Soviets in Eastern Europe – disrupts the traditions and customs of an occupied or dominated region,...
Against Progress
Provocative stuff from Robin Hanson: Social norms are slavery. Factory work is worse than farming is worse than foraging. “School, propaganda, mass media, and who knows what else have greatly changed human nature, enabling a...
Neo-Traditionalism, Community, and the Post-Postmodern Gentleman
Scott coins an interesting term: post-postmodern. The essence of the post-postmodern man, it seems, is a sort of meshing of Reason and Tradition that eschews both the ignorance and outdatedness of many old practices...
