Saturday, March 24, 2012
Casting pearls...
There doesn't seem to be much use in continuing to use a certain free online dating website. My profile or my comments may be too beta, or it may be I lack sufficient physical attractiveness. Why put so much effort into it when it is unlikely that I'll find someone "equally yoked"? Or with the same sort of moral, intellectual, and cultural education? To think that I deserve to not go on dates or have a "relationship" because of past and present sins is probably just a temptation. There are plenty who have less moral scruples who are more successful. So if some women cannot appreciate virtus, why waste any energy on them?
Today there was a short memorial service at the cemetary for Mrs. W. It was raining, but the service was short, maybe 10 minutes long. Afterwards all were invited to have dinner over at New Port. I have to say that the food there tonight was only average, which is rather surprising since the quality is usually better. (In fact I think that the restaurant tends to be one of the better ones in the area.) Carb overload...
Minimalist Running
The Key To Successful Minimalist Running
by Danny Abshire and Brian Metzler
Online Shoes
NaturalFootGear intoduces some new shoes.
AltraZeroDrop
Vancouver Running Symposium
by Danny Abshire and Brian Metzler
Online Shoes
NaturalFootGear intoduces some new shoes.
AltraZeroDrop
Vancouver Running Symposium
Labels:
barefoot running,
running,
shoes
Items of Interest, 24 March 2012
Joe Sobran, Jefferson was Right
The Christian Humanists Challenge the Machine
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC co-Editor
Patrick Deneen, Birzer Against the Machine
The White Savior Industrial Complex
Srdja Trifkovic, Just a Regular French Youth
PJB, Tolouse: The Dark Side of Diversity
Rod Dreher, Race and the "Important Conversation"
Gl Piggy, Ditch the Hoodie
The hoodie: comfortable and versatile, eliminating the need for separate headgear on cold nights. But too much association with the "bad elements" of society?
Robert Bales: Lone Nut or Scapegoat?
A WSJ review of Kevin Gutzman's book on Madison: A President Oft-Overshadowed.
Obama Administration Releasing New Rules To Expand Ability To Hold Citizens' Data
Former Navy SEAL: “Cold Civil War, but for how long?”
???
Three New Books from League of the South
The Automatic Earth: To Where Our Oppositional Culture Takes Us
Egypt's next pope
Counterpunch:
Their Pope Dead, Egypt’s Copts Fear Worse Times by Patrick Cockburn
Occupy World Street! by Thomas H. Naylor
Alexander Cockburn, The Myth of the Knowledge Economy
Dave Lindorff, Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown
Ralph Nader, CEOs Contemplate the Occupy Movement
Economics:
Center for a New American Dream
Why the end of economic growth can bring more happiness
A review of The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg.
Farming:
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan
by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)
Catholic:
NLM: Scholarly Liturgical Articles, Antiphon, 2010
The Adoption of Christianity by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons: The Creation of Two Different Christian Societies
(I'm not impressed by the first paragraph.)
Cheeky Complaints Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts
Feminism:
The Spearhead: Chivalry—Whether or not it’s dead, it’s not for us regular men.
How feminists define gender traits
Vox Day, Sl_tgate and Society
Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone
Diet and Health:
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 10): ‘All Things Thyroid (Thyroid 101)’ | Chris Kresser (mp3)
The People of PaleoFX
9 Food Cures You Can Grow at Home
The 5th MovNat Principle: Vital
I think there is something to what MovNat is trying to teach with respect to human mobility and strength development. This week the founder says something like this on his FB: "Matriarchal societies are wiser."
Roussea taken to an extreme, with the noble savage replaced by the noble savage woman. He has not experienced the misandry that follows feminism taking over a society yet? How many hunter-gatherer groups could be properly said to have been matriarchies? Has he not done research into that point? He doesn't claim to be recovering that sort of ancestral fitness, but it is close. Too much reaction against "civilization" for his own good?
Movies:
SDG reviews October Baby.
Movie review: Rachel Weisz a passionate force in 'Deep Blue Sea'
More emotional porn for women?
(Apple)
TV:
Mad Men Returns, Cocky and Confident As Ever
More crap coming to television! Hooray!
The Christian Humanists Challenge the Machine
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC co-Editor
Patrick Deneen, Birzer Against the Machine
The White Savior Industrial Complex
Srdja Trifkovic, Just a Regular French Youth
PJB, Tolouse: The Dark Side of Diversity
Rod Dreher, Race and the "Important Conversation"
Gl Piggy, Ditch the Hoodie
The hoodie: comfortable and versatile, eliminating the need for separate headgear on cold nights. But too much association with the "bad elements" of society?
Robert Bales: Lone Nut or Scapegoat?
A WSJ review of Kevin Gutzman's book on Madison: A President Oft-Overshadowed.
Obama Administration Releasing New Rules To Expand Ability To Hold Citizens' Data
Former Navy SEAL: “Cold Civil War, but for how long?”
???
Three New Books from League of the South
The Automatic Earth: To Where Our Oppositional Culture Takes Us
Egypt's next pope
Counterpunch:
Their Pope Dead, Egypt’s Copts Fear Worse Times by Patrick Cockburn
Occupy World Street! by Thomas H. Naylor
Alexander Cockburn, The Myth of the Knowledge Economy
Dave Lindorff, Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown
Ralph Nader, CEOs Contemplate the Occupy Movement
Economics:
Center for a New American Dream
Why the end of economic growth can bring more happiness
A review of The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg.
Farming:
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan
by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)
Catholic:
NLM: Scholarly Liturgical Articles, Antiphon, 2010
The Adoption of Christianity by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons: The Creation of Two Different Christian Societies
(I'm not impressed by the first paragraph.)
Cheeky Complaints Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts
Feminism:
The Spearhead: Chivalry—Whether or not it’s dead, it’s not for us regular men.
How feminists define gender traits
Vox Day, Sl_tgate and Society
Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone
Diet and Health:
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 10): ‘All Things Thyroid (Thyroid 101)’ | Chris Kresser (mp3)
The People of PaleoFX
9 Food Cures You Can Grow at Home
The 5th MovNat Principle: Vital
I think there is something to what MovNat is trying to teach with respect to human mobility and strength development. This week the founder says something like this on his FB: "Matriarchal societies are wiser."
Roussea taken to an extreme, with the noble savage replaced by the noble savage woman. He has not experienced the misandry that follows feminism taking over a society yet? How many hunter-gatherer groups could be properly said to have been matriarchies? Has he not done research into that point? He doesn't claim to be recovering that sort of ancestral fitness, but it is close. Too much reaction against "civilization" for his own good?
Movies:
SDG reviews October Baby.
Movie review: Rachel Weisz a passionate force in 'Deep Blue Sea'
More emotional porn for women?
(Apple)
TV:
Mad Men Returns, Cocky and Confident As Ever
More crap coming to television! Hooray!
New neighbors coming...
One of the houses on the street is being sold, and despite the rain today, there are many interested buyers going to the open house. As I expected, many of them are Indians, and the rest are E. Asian (probably Chinese).
Bluegrass Today: Rhonda turns 'em loose
With some videos of their appearance on WAMU's Bluegrass Country.
A medley:
I think I posted this before:
A medley:
I think I posted this before:
Overheard at a local track and field:
Boy running at the end of soccer practice: "I'm so COLD!"
Girl attending a separate soccer practice, walking in the opposite direction but near the boy: "Shut up!"
Boy: "Calm down, princess."
I don't know if the two know one another; maybe it's something typical of elementary school students, but they were both in middle school. Someone's overdue for learning some basic manners? How rude would it be to say, "Shut up," to a stranger? Girl power: aggressiveness and rudeness? Are their coaches doing them any favors by promoting team sports for girls, if it's at the expense of femininity?
Boy running at the end of soccer practice: "I'm so COLD!"
Girl attending a separate soccer practice, walking in the opposite direction but near the boy: "Shut up!"
Boy: "Calm down, princess."
I don't know if the two know one another; maybe it's something typical of elementary school students, but they were both in middle school. Someone's overdue for learning some basic manners? How rude would it be to say, "Shut up," to a stranger? Girl power: aggressiveness and rudeness? Are their coaches doing them any favors by promoting team sports for girls, if it's at the expense of femininity?
Friday, March 23, 2012
5 hours of John Taylor Gatto
(via Complementarian Loners)
The Ultimate History Lesson_ A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
Parts 2, 3, 4, 5
Plus there are the following:
John Taylor Gatto on Compulsary Education and Permanent Childhood
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt: The Secret History of Western Education - alt
The Ultimate History Lesson_ A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
Parts 2, 3, 4, 5
Plus there are the following:
John Taylor Gatto on Compulsary Education and Permanent Childhood
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt: The Secret History of Western Education - alt
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face
How much of this is linked to obesity in women or bad diet?
How much of this is linked to obesity in women or bad diet?
Labels:
diet,
feminism,
health,
health care
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Cantonese
I should have checked the date of the UCA article.
Uh, girl altar servers. Normal in the Roman rite in Hong Kong; still...
The music is interesting, even if it doesn't sound Greek/Near Eastern. I don't know what the source is.
Uh, girl altar servers. Normal in the Roman rite in Hong Kong; still...
The music is interesting, even if it doesn't sound Greek/Near Eastern. I don't know what the source is.
Items of Interest, 22 March 2012
John Michael Greer, America Crossing the Line
Thaddeus Kozinski, Sacred Ambivalence: A Reflection on Remi Brague’s “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible”
Fabius Maximus: America enters the dreamland, part of our culture of defeat
Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II
Jordan Bloom, If the Individual Mandate is Constitutional, the Commerce Clause has No Limits
John Médaille, The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf
Paul Gottfried, Tea Party Constitutionalism
James Antle, Weak Tea
Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses
Réunion du Pape Shenouda III-21.04.2010:Le péché de langue
pathways radio: The Economics of Happiness (mp3)
Energy:
Tom Murphy Interview: Resource depletion is a bigger threat than climate change by James Stafford (EB)
Catholic:
In Defense of Bells: Their Use and History in the Roman Liturgy
Byzantine liturgy in Chinese ‘a success’
I wish that some audio or video were available.
Mgr Lefebvre + s'abandonner à Dieu
Feminism:
No Long Ladies
Trampling the Nag
St. Birgitta: The Disjunction Between Women and Ecclesiastical Power
The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome’s Attitudes to Women
Education:
Cultivating the Affections by Dr. Peter Vande Brake
Movies:
Steve Sailer reviews Whit Stillman's latest.
Music:
Performing in the Bay Area this weekend: Brittany Haas and Lauren Rioux
Two rising stars in the Appalachian fiddle world come together for a mini 'fiddle festival'
Pat's Product Review: Benchmade CSK II - Combat/Survival Knife
AH-64 Apache mishap caught on video
Thaddeus Kozinski, Sacred Ambivalence: A Reflection on Remi Brague’s “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible”
Fabius Maximus: America enters the dreamland, part of our culture of defeat
Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II
Jordan Bloom, If the Individual Mandate is Constitutional, the Commerce Clause has No Limits
John Médaille, The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf
Paul Gottfried, Tea Party Constitutionalism
James Antle, Weak Tea
Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses
Réunion du Pape Shenouda III-21.04.2010:Le péché de langue
pathways radio: The Economics of Happiness (mp3)
Energy:
Tom Murphy Interview: Resource depletion is a bigger threat than climate change by James Stafford (EB)
Catholic:
In Defense of Bells: Their Use and History in the Roman Liturgy
Byzantine liturgy in Chinese ‘a success’
I wish that some audio or video were available.
Mgr Lefebvre + s'abandonner à Dieu
Feminism:
No Long Ladies
Trampling the Nag
St. Birgitta: The Disjunction Between Women and Ecclesiastical Power
The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome’s Attitudes to Women
Education:
Cultivating the Affections by Dr. Peter Vande Brake
Movies:
Steve Sailer reviews Whit Stillman's latest.
Music:
Performing in the Bay Area this weekend: Brittany Haas and Lauren Rioux
Two rising stars in the Appalachian fiddle world come together for a mini 'fiddle festival'
Pat's Product Review: Benchmade CSK II - Combat/Survival Knife
AH-64 Apache mishap caught on video
A Southron gives his point of view
on the Constitution and such; Mr. R. M. Peters at "Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism" - see, for example, this and this.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Items of Interest, 21 March 2012
Almost got run over tonight! That ------- is lucky that I didn't trust his driving or visual skills.
For the feast of St. Benedict (on the old calendar of the Roman rite): Pax Inter Spinas by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Suscipe Me, Domine
Paul Gottfried, German Sabotage and America’s Entry Into World War I
Kevin Gutzman on Jack Riccardi: "James Madison and the Making of America" (mp3)
The funeral of Pope Shenouda III - in pictures
(via Byzantine, Texas)
Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment
The great, invisible brain wave in the sky by Gene Logsdon (EB)
From January: Happy 130th Birthday, A. A. Milne: “Happiness” and the Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh
Relocalization:
Building Businesses That Stand For Something
Preparing for the unimaginable by Dave Pollard (EB)
Peak Oil and Energy:
Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street Speculation?
Peak oil, keeping reality in mind
Education:
Laziness by Any Other Name
Diet and Health:
Mark Nugent, Will Red Meat Really Kill You?
Gary Taubes, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat
Catholic:
Garbage Generation
Life after RC: Pressing for an investigation
Brennan Pursell, How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms
Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate moment..."
Music:
Pretty Little Girl from Galax video
Movies:
Whit Stillman Q & A: 'Damsels in Distress,' 13-Year Hiatus, Upcoming Ska Rocksteady Project
For the feast of St. Benedict (on the old calendar of the Roman rite): Pax Inter Spinas by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Suscipe Me, Domine
Paul Gottfried, German Sabotage and America’s Entry Into World War I
Kevin Gutzman on Jack Riccardi: "James Madison and the Making of America" (mp3)
The funeral of Pope Shenouda III - in pictures
(via Byzantine, Texas)
Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment
The great, invisible brain wave in the sky by Gene Logsdon (EB)
From January: Happy 130th Birthday, A. A. Milne: “Happiness” and the Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh
Relocalization:
Building Businesses That Stand For Something
Preparing for the unimaginable by Dave Pollard (EB)
Peak Oil and Energy:
Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street Speculation?
Peak oil, keeping reality in mind
Education:
Laziness by Any Other Name
Diet and Health:
Mark Nugent, Will Red Meat Really Kill You?
Gary Taubes, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat
Catholic:
Garbage Generation
Life after RC: Pressing for an investigation
Brennan Pursell, How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms
Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate moment..."
Music:
Pretty Little Girl from Galax video
Movies:
Whit Stillman Q & A: 'Damsels in Distress,' 13-Year Hiatus, Upcoming Ska Rocksteady Project
ARC'TERYX LEAF Urban Wolf from ARC'TERYX LEAF on Vimeo.
Podcasts links
Recent episodes of the Kunstler Cast:
KunstlerCast #198: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 2 (mp3)
KunstlerCast #197: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 1 (mp3)
KunstlerCast #196: JHK’s Veganism
I haven't listened to #196 yet, so I don't know if he was still on the vegan diet at that point but reconsidering it, or if he had already decided to quit.
Extraenvironmentalist #38 Hard Times (with Nicole Foss) - mp3
Finally, the link to the official Tonight Show episode with Ron Paul from Last night. (Ron Paul, pt 1)
Dr. Ron Paul, Frank Caliendo and The Wanted - Backstage
KunstlerCast #198: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 2 (mp3)
KunstlerCast #197: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 1 (mp3)
KunstlerCast #196: JHK’s Veganism
I haven't listened to #196 yet, so I don't know if he was still on the vegan diet at that point but reconsidering it, or if he had already decided to quit.
Extraenvironmentalist #38 Hard Times (with Nicole Foss) - mp3
Finally, the link to the official Tonight Show episode with Ron Paul from Last night. (Ron Paul, pt 1)
Dr. Ron Paul, Frank Caliendo and The Wanted - Backstage
Labels:
James Howard Kunstler,
podcasts
Ron Paul on Leno
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Wealth Pumps
What happens as a result of political and economic centralization of power.
Damien Perrotin discusses the situation in France.
Damien Perrotin discusses the situation in France.
This is only made worse by the structure of the French state itself. France formed by amalgamating small feudal principalities during the middle-ages and by conquering border lands afterward. As a result, all its infrastructures are centered on the capital region, which works as a wealth and manpower pump, extracting resource from the provinces to fund the lifestyle of the Parisian aristocracy and the infrastructures it needs. The railroad network, for instance, is organized around the six big Parisian stations and most big corporations have their seat in Paris, as close as possible to the political power.
Theoretically, most regions receive more from the state than they contribute, but it is an illusion. A great part of the money that flows out from Paris is made of pensions, wages and touristic spending, what we call the residential economy. They increase, not alleviate dependency.
Public spending, notably in education, is aimed at providing the core with the skilled manpower it needs, triggering a permanent brain drain from the periphery toward the Parisian region, and of course, the economy of the periphery is organized according to the need and the interests of the core. Under the guise of “national solidarity”, wealth movements are organized and controlled by the state, which makes the poorest regions yet more dependent on the core and prevents independent accumulation of capital, either human or material.
The result has been a pattern of regional specialization, with the superior functions, and most of the national wealth, concentrated in Paris.
Items of Interest, 20 March 2012
Sights and Sounds from the Abbey of Le Barroux
Mark Mitchell, Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism
Calhoun, Jefferson, and Popular Rule by Lee Cheek
Daniel Larison, The Short American Century: The Conservatism of George Kennan
Paul Gottfried, Leo Strauss, Immigration, And Israel
PJB, The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville
Fabius Maximus: With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Change erased much of America
America, Rome and the Moral Imagination by Cindy Rollins
The End of the New Deal Coalition and the Transformation of American Politics by Thomas Storck
Something with Dr. Marshner:
Contraception Mandate and Formal Cooperation
Christendom College Theology Professor Explains Moral Implications for Catholics
Some thoughts for John Breen from John O'Callaghan, Thomist, on "health", etc.
David Walker:
Economics:
Making 9 Million Jobless "Vanish": How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics by Daniel R. Amerman, CFA
Land Rent - the Genesis of the British Class System
Relocalization and Sustainability:
Why the Church needs to return to its pastoral roots: permaculture visions of a rural minster by Reverend Rob Brown |
Ralph Nader, How Greece threatens you and how going local offers the only refuge
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work
This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work from lexicon of sustainability on Vimeo.
The Future of Food
Toward Energy Literacy
Education:
Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity
In long-expected move - legislators, school districts outlaw the children
Diet and Health:
MDA: Dear Mark: Excess Skin After Major Weight Loss?
The LLVLC Show (Episode 557): GAPS Diet Creator Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride Uses Nutrition To Heal Gut Health (mp3)
The LLVLC Show (Episode 558): Matt And Stacy From ‘Paleo Parents’ Encourage Kids To ‘Eat Like A Dinosaur’ (mp3)
Guest Post by Dr. Stephen Gangemi: MovNat and Kids
7 MovNat Lessons from an Uncoordinated Stay-at-Home Mom
NPR: Cameras Follow World's Greatest Sushi Chef
CMT: Sierra Hull, "Easy Come, Easy Go"
See more from this live performance here:
An Anonymous 4 Retrospective
BBC Four to broadcast Angelic Voices
Watch the New Josh Turner Video, 'Time Is Love' by Hunter Hauk
Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations'
Less turn and burn for special operators
SOCOM task force looks at dwell time, quality of life
Mark Mitchell, Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism
Calhoun, Jefferson, and Popular Rule by Lee Cheek
Daniel Larison, The Short American Century: The Conservatism of George Kennan
Paul Gottfried, Leo Strauss, Immigration, And Israel
PJB, The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville
Fabius Maximus: With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Change erased much of America
America, Rome and the Moral Imagination by Cindy Rollins
The End of the New Deal Coalition and the Transformation of American Politics by Thomas Storck
Something with Dr. Marshner:
Contraception Mandate and Formal Cooperation
Christendom College Theology Professor Explains Moral Implications for Catholics
Some thoughts for John Breen from John O'Callaghan, Thomist, on "health", etc.
David Walker:
Economics:
Making 9 Million Jobless "Vanish": How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics by Daniel R. Amerman, CFA
Land Rent - the Genesis of the British Class System
Relocalization and Sustainability:
Why the Church needs to return to its pastoral roots: permaculture visions of a rural minster by Reverend Rob Brown |
Ralph Nader, How Greece threatens you and how going local offers the only refuge
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work
This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work from lexicon of sustainability on Vimeo.
The Future of Food
Toward Energy Literacy
Education:
Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity
In long-expected move - legislators, school districts outlaw the children
Diet and Health:
MDA: Dear Mark: Excess Skin After Major Weight Loss?
The LLVLC Show (Episode 557): GAPS Diet Creator Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride Uses Nutrition To Heal Gut Health (mp3)
The LLVLC Show (Episode 558): Matt And Stacy From ‘Paleo Parents’ Encourage Kids To ‘Eat Like A Dinosaur’ (mp3)
Guest Post by Dr. Stephen Gangemi: MovNat and Kids
7 MovNat Lessons from an Uncoordinated Stay-at-Home Mom
NPR: Cameras Follow World's Greatest Sushi Chef
CMT: Sierra Hull, "Easy Come, Easy Go"
See more from this live performance here:
http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/733748/live-cmt-sierra-hull-best-buy.jhtml - Sierra Hull - Sierra Hull Videos
An Anonymous 4 Retrospective
BBC Four to broadcast Angelic Voices
Watch the New Josh Turner Video, 'Time Is Love' by Hunter Hauk
Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations'
Less turn and burn for special operators
SOCOM task force looks at dwell time, quality of life
Today, the father one of one of the students was sporting a "Wing Tsun" shirt. Affiliated with this school?
Hypergamy
An explanation offered by a reader of VFR:
More at another blog.
See also: Deeper questions and Roissy tells Murray to "man up".
Hypergamy means that women are attracted to men who are "above" them--superior to themselves and, ideally, to other men as well. This can be either social dominance, in the form of wealth or social status, or personal dominance, in the form of physical strength or force of personality. The social dominance of men over women, being a function of traditional patriarchy, has been negated by female empowerment. With women more or less equal to men in socioeconomic terms, only those few men who are of much richer or higher status than the common run of men are perceived by women as socially dominant.
This leaves personal dominance as the weightier factor influencing the modern woman's choice in men. As for physical strength, modern man has little opportunity to display his superiority in this area outside of sports. Not long ago, even the lowliest manual laborer could establish and reestablish his virility daily by performing tasks beyond the ability of most any woman, and thus partially offset the disadvantage incurred by his lower social status relative to other men. Mechanization has largely neutralized this male advantage as well. The other venue in which brute physical strength was displayed was fighting, which was once tolerated if not outright encouraged but is now so severely sanctioned (at least for white men) that the only ones who can afford to engage in it are those with nothing left to lose. Once upon a time, even good men were occasionally violent. Nowadays only bad men are violent. If violence is outlawed, only outlaws will be violent.
Which brings us to the final point. The only way that an increasing number of men can distinguish themselves is by resorting to the one type of dominance remaining to them: dominant personality. This covers a wide range of qualities: leadership, decisiveness, confidence, determination, independence, resourcefulness, risk-taking, charisma, intelligence, wit, etc. What needs to be noted about all these is that, while they initially appear to be unreservedly positive qualities, they are in fact morally neutral (as are all the other forms of dominance mentioned above--a physically strong man is not necessarily good, nor a rich man, nor a high-status man, despite the fact that we would all prefer to be strong, rich and powerful). A personally dominant, "manly" man may be either good or bad. We could just as easily re-word the above list as: domineering, impulsive, arrogant, pig-headed, selfish, inconsiderate, irresponsible, reckless, devious, and yes, violent. Whether we choose positive or negative terms to describe them, these are the "alpha" traits that women subconsciously associate with high-status men. Of course, the "alpha" qualities they crave are really epiphenomenal, merely superficial markers of the things they really need, not the things themselves. Thus, to a woman judging men in the raw, unmediated by any societal evaluation, a man who puts on a convincing act of being confident and charismatic is as good as a man who is confident and charismatic and has the accomplishments to prove it. And when this act is accompanied by the brute physical violence forbidden to men who play by the rules, the combined effect is intoxicating. Women are attracted at the visceral level to the raw masculinity, which they in turn interpret at the conscious level in the most hopeful light possible, taking wishful thinking to heights unimaginable to us men. A temple built atop a sewer indeed. "But to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiend's." There is thus no contradiction in a woman imagining herself to be seeking safety from a "strong" man who excites her and ends up abusing her.
Patriarchy valorizes qualities that men value in other men, dominant or not, "beta" qualities such as loyalty, honesty and industriousness, and converts these into a currency that women value: social status and the financial resources that accompany it. In this way male and female values become aligned. In the past, women's judgments of men were mediated by male authority. Nowadays, however, women are evaluating men on the basis of their own subjective, gut-level feelings, which, while accurate indicators of the thrills they can expect from the relationship, are poor indicators of their prospects for long-term happiness.
More at another blog.
See also: Deeper questions and Roissy tells Murray to "man up".
Labels:
courtship,
decline and fall,
feminism,
love,
patriarchy
Monday, March 19, 2012
How long before James Howard Kunstler goes paleo?
Karen De Coster thinks he is already primal. I think he is progressing towards it, after being vegan for a while.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Items of Interest, 18 March 2012
Rod Dreher, Why Conservatism Can't Win
St. Calhoun, Part I by Bradley J. Birzer - Part II
Brig. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera to be deputy commanding general at USASOC
Intelligible Goods, Marriage, and Intellectual Conversion by R.J. Snell
Executive War Powers Have Strict Constitutional Limits
Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science
Paul Gottfried, Obama's Grievance Politics
“National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?
Wisconsin Senate Passes Healthcare Freedom Act
Conservatives Slam House GOP For "Betrayal" of States' Rights
Free Sterilizations Must be Offered to All College Women, Says HHS
Church Not State by D.G. Hart
Christians must choose between faith or worldly relevance
Grit Artisan: The Other Side of Racism
Study Finds That Corn Insecticides Are to Blame for Deaths of Honeybees
Nations, Liberalism, and Science by Peter Augustine Lawler
Economics:
Richard Heinberg, What is Sustainability
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
The Truth About “Free Trade” by David S. D'Amato
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy by Kevin Carson
Catholic:
William Oddie, Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline
The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation
Education:
E. Christian Kopff, Greek to US: The Death of Classical Education and Its Consequences
Shannon Hayes, From Homeschooling to Unschooling
Diet and Health:
The 4th MovNat principle: Practical
Triathlete’s paleo diet with bone broth dramatically reduces osteoarthritis pain
Music:
Watch Jason Aldean's 'Fly Over States' Video BY HUNTER HAUK
Heejun Han Performs Right Here Waiting on American Idol
Stile Antico "Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart" : Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion
More poseuwear:
Glock Apparel
Larry Vickers:
Product Review Haley AK-74 Rifle
TV:
Person of Interest Renewed!
Can I get a job with Benchmade? Fed grant to help Oregon companies hiring & training .
St. Calhoun, Part I by Bradley J. Birzer - Part II
Brig. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera to be deputy commanding general at USASOC
Intelligible Goods, Marriage, and Intellectual Conversion by R.J. Snell
Executive War Powers Have Strict Constitutional Limits
Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science
Paul Gottfried, Obama's Grievance Politics
“National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?
Wisconsin Senate Passes Healthcare Freedom Act
Conservatives Slam House GOP For "Betrayal" of States' Rights
Free Sterilizations Must be Offered to All College Women, Says HHS
So will the American bishops and Catholic institutions work with states to block Obamacare so that at least the Church will be protected in some areas? Or will they just play along with the rules of the nationalist system so that they can act the martyr?
Because of the latest developments, it once again appears that it might be better to support the Grand Oligarchy Party even though it gives scraps to social conservatives, because it at least won't be as radical as Obama if it controls the executive. Though there is no reason to think that the party will resist changes coming from any of the branches of the National Government. It will undoubtedly continue to promote oligarchy and as a result, pave the way for further destruction of economic freedom and community.
Is there a way to get around the requirements of Obamacare by changing labor contracts, so that employees are more like contractors or consultants?
Church Not State by D.G. Hart
Christians must choose between faith or worldly relevance
Grit Artisan: The Other Side of Racism
Study Finds That Corn Insecticides Are to Blame for Deaths of Honeybees
Nations, Liberalism, and Science by Peter Augustine Lawler
Economics:
Richard Heinberg, What is Sustainability
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
The Truth About “Free Trade” by David S. D'Amato
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy by Kevin Carson
Catholic:
William Oddie, Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline
The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation
Education:
E. Christian Kopff, Greek to US: The Death of Classical Education and Its Consequences
Shannon Hayes, From Homeschooling to Unschooling
Diet and Health:
The 4th MovNat principle: Practical
Triathlete’s paleo diet with bone broth dramatically reduces osteoarthritis pain
Music:
Watch Jason Aldean's 'Fly Over States' Video BY HUNTER HAUK
Heejun Han Performs Right Here Waiting on American Idol
Stile Antico "Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart" : Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion
More poseuwear:
Glock Apparel
Larry Vickers:
Product Review Haley AK-74 Rifle
TV:
Person of Interest Renewed!
Can I get a job with Benchmade? Fed grant to help Oregon companies hiring & training .
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