Thursday 16 December 2021
Need to Expand sCOTUS
[There's nothing particularly "supreme" about the current collection of authoritarian, CONservative, anti-humanists.]
.Elizabeth Warren Explains Why USA Needs to Expand the "Supreme" Court > .
Saturday 4 December 2021
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Sunday 28 November 2021
Saturday 27 November 2021
Friday 26 November 2021
Conversion Cons
If you can't change a person's sexual proclivities, trans-engineer their physiology and/or secondary sexual characteristics. If you can't cope amongst males, claim to be a female.
23-1-8 Causes of Trans Explosion? - Helen Joyce - Trigger > .24-3-31 Dark Nature of Online Trolls - Magee > .
Thursday 25 November 2021
Monday 22 November 2021
"Groomer" Schools
ώ Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education - NewD > .
2) James Lindsay reads through a 2019 academic paper called "Queer futurity and childhood innocence: Beyond the injury of development" by Hannah Dyer of Carleton University, Canada. The paper covers the intersection of early childhood education and Queer Theory. James reads through this paper in full, offering commentary and revealing just how insidious and dangerous the agenda in the public schools is (Critical Race Theory is, honestly, among the least of our problems, if you can believe it). Prepare to be appalled at what the Critical Marxists who have taken over our education system have in mind for our children.
ώ Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children - NewD > .
1) Through brand names like "comprehensive sex education" and one of its parent programs, "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)," "Western" government schools have been turned into Groomer Schools. Parents are beginning to notice. What many will not understand, however, is that this isn't just a fluke of our weird and increasingly degenerate times. It is, in fact, a long-purposed Marxist project reaching back into the early 20th century. James Lindsay explains the long history of the sexual grooming that has come into our schools through Critical Gender Theory and Queer Theory as they have crept into educational programs. The podcast provides an explanation for how sexually explicit materials, gender ideology, pornography, and strippers have made their way into "Western" government schools, including for young children.
3) More and more people are waking up every day to the fact that our schools have become an undeniable catastrophe, and they're starting to realize alongside that fact that it isn't an accident. It is purposed. It is intentional. It is a strategy, and it uses our children as pawns for achieving a nightmarish agenda, no matter how much damage it does to them to achieve it. In this Groomer Schools series on the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay has already walked you through the long Communist Party strategy to use sex education in schools to destabilize society and sever ties between generations and just how specifically grotesque this grooming sexual agenda is. In the third part of the series, Lindsay puts these two pieces together, explains their purpose, and illustrates how Critical Race Theory works alongside Queer Theory (grooming) for a blatantly Maoist purpose: to create an American Red Guard meant to overthrow our society and start all over from a new Year Zero. James Lindsay describes the evil Maoist tactics being employed in our schools to turn our children into Revolutionaries for the purpose of undermining America and the West.
Monday 15 November 2021
Monday 8 November 2021
UATX - Liberalism Resurgent
ώ The Great Awokening with Bari Weiss | Goodfellows - Hoover > .ώ IQ2 Conversation: New UATX University Offers "Forbidden" Courses > .
24-2-15 Bari Weiss c Natan Sharansky: Epidemic of Weakist Antisemitism - Free > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .
24-1-23 “Treason of the Intellectuals”- Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge > .
Kathleen Stock - Hounded Out for Trans Views - Triggernometry > .
Kathleen Stock: I won't be silenced - UnHerd > .Kathleen Stock OBE: Trans Women Aren't Women - New Culture Forum > .
UATX Teaser - The University of Austin (UATX) > .Awaking to Problematic Wokeness - Blake >> .
Virtue-Signaling Neo-Puritanism - Guy Lewis >> .
Universities devoted to the unfettered pursuit of truth are the cornerstone of a free and flourishing democratic society.
For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.
For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.
[Needless to say, apparently fearing competition from liberal education, the "woke's" knickers are in a twist.]
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We count among our numbers university presidents: Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunes, and Gordon Gee, and leading academics, such as Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz, Vickie Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen.
"On our quads, faculty are being treated like thought criminals."
University of Austin (UATX) is a proposed American private liberal arts college announced in 2021 to be located in Austin, Texas. It has been described as anti-cancel culture and anti-woke. According its website, the proposed college plans to accept graduate students in 2022 and undergraduate students in 2024. They have not received nonprofit status and are reliant on a fiscal sponsor. As of 2021 the institution is not accredited but reports that it is seeking accreditation.
Our project began with a small gathering of those concerned about the state of higher education—Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Heather Heying, Joe Lonsdale, Arthur Brooks, and I—and we have since been joined by many others, including the brave professors mentioned above, Kathleen Stock, Dorian Abbot and Peter Boghossian.
We count among our numbers university presidents: Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunes, and Gordon Gee, and leading academics, such as Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz, Vickie Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen.
.......
"The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you’ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles. Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful."
The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful."
The University of Austin was launched on November 8, 2021 with the publication of an article by founding president Pano Kanelos, formerly the president of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), in journalist Bari Weiss's Substack. Substack (founded 2017) is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.
University of Austin's founding faculty fellows include Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Kathleen Stock, although Stock clarified it is not a full-time role and that she will not move to Austin. Other founders include former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, and former president of the American Enterprise Institute Arthur Brooks.
Kanelos has said the institution will be focused on "the intrepid pursuit of truth" and exposing students to "the deepest wisdom of civilization." The institution reportedly raised $10 million in private donations in the two months prior to launching. Within days of the launch on November 8, 2021, Kanelos said he had received more than 1,000 requests from people to participate in the institution, indicating such a need for this type of school. The institution aims to raise $250 million to launch the undergraduate and graduate program during the initial few years.
Perfect comment in response to a puerile shoot-the-messenger ad hominem: "Thank you for your considerate and valuable contribution to the discussion. We are all now more enriched in wisdom and humanity after having read your cynical ad hominem attack on people who are trying to improve the nature of our public discourse rather than succumbing to nihilistic pessimism. May your inspired words be among those chiseled in stone so that they are preserved for generations to come."
∞ Dicktionary ..
∞ Education ..
∞ Sociopolitical Dysfunction ..
∞ Education ..
∞ Sociopolitical Dysfunction ..
Arts and Humanities ..
UATX - Liberalism Resurgent ..
Missing (or ignoring) the point (NeoPuritan "liberals" seem content to eschew rationality):
Saturday 6 November 2021
Weakist Authoritarianism versus Liberal Freedoms
19-11-22 Resisting Wokeness [Weakness]: Andrew Doyle, Douglas Murray > .
24-2-15 Bari Weiss c Natan Sharansky: Epidemic of Weakist Antisemitism - Free > .
24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .
20-3-19 Why Melanie Phillips left the Guardian and the weakist "left" > .
Our culture war is not a distraction: Apathy is tantamount to surrender by Andrew Doyle
"What has become known colloquially as the “woke” movement is rooted in the postmodernist belief that our understanding of reality is entirely constructed through language, and therefore censorship by the state, big tech or mob pressure is fully justified. In addition, this group maintains that society operates according to invisible power structures that perpetuate inequality, and that these can only be redressed through an obsessive focus on group identity and the implementation of present discrimination to resolve past discrimination. This is why the most accurate synonym for woke is “anti-liberal”."
...
"The goals are certainly oppositional, but the terms
are vaguely defined and often muddied further through obfuscation. Rather than
a reflection of antipathies between Right and Left, today’s culture war is a
continuation of the age-old conflict between liberty and authoritarianism. John
Stuart Mill opened On Liberty (1859) with an account of the
“struggle between Liberty and Authority”; the only difference today is that the
authoritarian impulse has been repackaged as “progressive”."
Saturday 30 October 2021
∞ Sociopolitical Malfeasance
Abandonment of Truth ..
Against Self-Flagellation ..
Anti-Vax CON ..
Anti-Vax CON ..
Blame Games ..
Bots - Professional DISinformation Farms ..CCP Amplifies Control-Freakery ..
CCP has bought Cambridge? ..
DISrupter-in-Cheat Religion ..
DISrupter-in-Cheat Religion ..
Dissecting Alphabet Dysfunction ..
Finally! Against Reverse Discrimination ..
Value in the Eye of the Speculator ..Free Speech in the West ..
Generational Issues ..Males Allowed to Sexually Abuse Female Prisoners ..Moral Failure - Boris & Vlad ..Neo-Racism in US Education ..
Generational Issues ..Males Allowed to Sexually Abuse Female Prisoners ..Moral Failure - Boris & Vlad ..Neo-Racism in US Education ..
NO context ..
Opportunity Imbalance - Education, Social Mobility ..
Socioeconomically Dysfunctional USA ..
Totalitarian Dystopias ..Socioeconomically Dysfunctional USA ..
Nature/Nurture
Social Media Propaganda Campaigns
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Monday 25 October 2021
DISrupter-in-Cheat Religion
An odious symptom of USian religio-cognitive dysfunction ... the most despicable candidate to usurp a flawed system
Friday 22 October 2021
Generational Cohorts
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| Timeline of generations in the Western world as in its Wikipedia article with notable events by CMG Lee. The retirement and life expectancy ages are approximate due to variations in place and time. In the SVG file, click or hover over a generation to highlight it. See references on Generation for sources. |
Social generations are cohorts of people born in the same date range and who share similar cultural experiences. The idea of a social generation has a long history and can be found in ancient literature, but did not gain currency in the sense that it is used today until the 19th century. Prior to that the concept "generation" had generally referred to family relationships and not broader social groupings. In 1863, French lexicographer Emile Littré had defined a generation as "all people coexisting in society at any given time."
Sociologist Karl Mannheim was a seminal figure in the study of generations. He elaborated a theory of generations in his 1923 essay The Problem of Generations. He suggested that there had been a division into two primary schools of study of generations until that time. Firstly, positivists such as Comte measured social change in designated life spans. Mannheim argued that this reduced history to "a chronological table". The other school, the "romantic-historical" was represented by Dilthey and Martin Heidegger. This school focused on the individual qualitative experience at the expense of social context. Mannheim emphasised that the rapidity of social change in youth was crucial to the formation of generations, and that not every generation would come to see itself as distinct. In periods of rapid social change a generation would be much more likely to develop a cohesive character. He also believed that a number of distinct sub-generations could exist. According to Gilleard and Higgs, Mannheim identified three commonalities that a generation shares:- Shared temporal location: generational site or birth cohort
- Shared historical location: generation as actuality or exposure to a common era
- Shared sociocultural location: generational consciousness or "entelechy"
There are psychological and sociological dimensions in the sense of belonging and identity which may define a generation. The concept of a generation can be used to locate particular birth cohorts in specific historical and cultural circumstances, such as the "Baby boomers" [Western Generations]. Historian Hans Jaeger shows that, during the concept's long history, two schools of thought coalesced regarding how generations form: the "pulse-rate hypothesis" and the "imprint hypothesis."
- Lost Generation, 1883 to 1900: came of age during World War I and the Roaring Twenties.
- Greatest Generation, 1901-1927 "G.I. Generation", Interbellum Generation): came of age during the Roaring Twenties, while younger G.I.s came of age during the Great Depression and World War II.
- The Silent Generation, (Traditionalist Generation, "Lucky Few"), 1928-1945: came of age in the post–World War II era, Korean War, Vietnam War.
- Baby boomers (sometimes shortened to Boomers) 1946-[1954]-1964: relatively large demographic cohort, Vietnam War, counterculture of the 1960s.
- Generation Jones (later Boomers), 1954-64: came of age in the "malaise" years of the 1970s.
- Generation X (Gen X, baby bust) 1965-1980: includes different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.
- Millennials, 1981 to 1996, Generation Y, Gen Y grew up around the turn of the 3rd millennium. The Pew Research Center reported that Millennials surpassed the Baby Boomers in U.S. numbers in 2019, with an estimated 71.6 million Boomers and 72.1 million Millennials.
- Generation Z (Gen Z, "Zoomers"), 1997 to 2012 [whiny, self-obsessed weakists]
- Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha), early 2010s to mid-2020s. First born entirely in the 21st century. As of 2015, there were some two-and-a-half million people born every week around the globe, and Gen Alpha is expected to reach two billion in size by 2025.
Saturday 16 October 2021
Thursday 30 September 2021
Monday 20 September 2021
Information Retrieval
2018 Data Mining: How You're Revealing More Than You Think - ScSh > .
2018 What Does Facebook Really Know About Your Personality? - ScShPs > .
Information Retrieval - Doyle >> .
Information retrieval (IR) is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.
Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a software system that provides access to books, journals and other documents; stores and manages those documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.
Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a software system that provides access to books, journals and other documents; stores and manages those documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.
Tuesday 31 August 2021
∞ Authoritarianism
A is for "Academic Freedom" ..After the Fall (2021) ..Apathetic Disapproval & Sociology of Mobs ..
Bots - Professional DISinformation Farms ..
Weighing "Weakism's" Worth ..
DARVO →
Debt-Trap Indoctrination ..
Democracy - Precious, Fragile ..Entrenching Weakist Intolerance ..
Democracy - Precious, Fragile ..Entrenching Weakist Intolerance ..
Saturday 28 August 2021
After the Fall (2021)
21-10-1 Nationalist Authoritarianism & Future of Democracy | Ben Rhodes - FSI > .
20-12-10 The Future of Authoritarianism - V-Dem > .
Ben Rhodes – a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst – joins FSI Director Michael McFaul at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies to discuss his new book, "After the Fall," which investigates why nationalist authoritarianism has been on the rise globally for the last 30 years. Rhodes combines personal stories with broader themes to offer a pointed commentary on why anti-democratic trends are gaining traction and what can be done to counter them.
Friday 27 August 2021
Bohemian Club
The Bohemian Club is a private club with two locations: a city clubhouse in the Union Square district of San Francisco, California and the Bohemian Grove, a retreat north of the city in Sonoma County. Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journalists, artists, and musicians, it soon began to accept businessmen and entrepreneurs as permanent members, as well as offering temporary membership to university presidents (notably Berkeley and Stanford) and military commanders who were serving in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, the club has a membership of many local and global leaders, ranging from artists and musicians to businessmen.
In New York City and other American metropolises in the late 1850s, groups of young, cultured journalists flourished as self-described "bohemians", until the American Civil War broke them up and sent them out as war correspondents. During the war, reporters began to assume the title "bohemian", and newspapermen in general took up the moniker. "Bohemian" became synonymous with "newspaper writer". California journalist Bret Harte first wrote as "The Bohemian" in The Golden Era in 1861, with this persona taking part in many satirical doings. Harte described San Francisco as a sort of Bohemia of the West. Mark Twain called himself and poet Charles Warren Stoddard bohemians in 1867.
The Bohemian Club was originally formed in April 1872 by and for journalists who wished to promote a fraternal connection among men who enjoyed the arts. Michael Henry de Young, proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, provided this description of its formation in a 1915 interview:
The Bohemian Club was organized in the Chronicle office by Tommy Newcombe, Sutherland, Dan O'Connell, Harry Dam, J.Limon and others who were members of the staff. The boys wanted a place where they could get together after work, and they took a room on Sacramento street below Kearny. That was the start of the Bohemian Club, and it was not an unmixed blessing for the Chronicle because the boys would go there sometimes when they should have reported at the office. Very often when Dan O'Connell sat down to a good dinner there he would forget that he had a pocketful of notes for an important story.Journalists were to be regular members; artists and musicians were to be honorary members. The group quickly relaxed its rules for membership to permit some people to join who had little artistic talent, but enjoyed the arts and had greater financial resources. Eventually, the original "bohemian" members were in the minority and the wealthy and powerful controlled the club. Club members who were established and successful, respectable family men, defined for themselves their own form of bohemianism which included men who were bons vivants, sometime outdoorsmen, and appreciators of the arts. Club member and poet George Sterling responded to this redefinition:
Any good mixer of convivial habits considers he has a right to be called a Bohemian. But that is not a valid claim. There are two elements, at least, that are essential to Bohemianism. The first is devotion or addiction to one or more of the Seven Arts; the other is poverty. Other factors suggest themselves: for instance, I like to think of my Bohemians as young, as radical in their outlook on art and life; as unconventional, and, though this is debatable, as dwellers in a city large enough to have the somewhat cruel atmosphere of all great cities.Despite his purist views, Sterling associated very closely with the Bohemian Club, and caroused with artist and industrialist alike at the Bohemian Grove.
Oscar Wilde, upon visiting the club in 1882, is reported to have said "I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life."
A number of past membership lists are in public domain, but modern club membership lists are private. Some prominent figures have been given honorary membership, such as Richard Nixon and William Randolph Hearst. Members have included some U.S. presidents (usually before they are elected to office), many cabinet officials, and CEOs of large corporations, including major financial institutions. Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (including the Federal Reserve), utilities, and national media have high-ranking officials as club members or guests. Many members are, or have been, on the board of directors of several of these corporations; however, artists and lovers of art are among the most active members. The club's bylaws require ten percent of the membership be accomplished artists of all types (composers, musicians, singers, actors, lighting artists, painters, authors, etc.). During the first half of the 20th century membership in the club was especially valued by painters and sculptors, who exhibited their work on the premises, in both permanent displays and special exhibitions, and did not pay any commissions on sales to members. Many of the club's artists were nationally recognized figures, such as William Keith, Arthur Frank Mathews, Xavier Martinez, Jules Eugene Pages, Edwin Deakin, William Ritschel, Jo Mora, Maynard Dixon and Arthur Putnam.
The club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", a line taken from Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The club motto implies that outside concerns and business deals are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, though discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.
List of Bohemian Club members .
Belizean Grove – Women-only club in New York City modeled after the Bohemian Grove
Bilderberg Group .
Trilateral Commission .
The Family (club) .
Rancheros visitadores .
List of American gentlemen's clubs .
Membership discrimination in California social clubs .
Wednesday 25 August 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
∞ Resisting Prejudice
Alphabetic
[Fight] With Me! ..1963 MLK Dream Speech ..NeoSexist Crisis in Feminism ..
Generic Prejudice
Islamists' Prejudices
Islamists' Prejudices
White Supremacy
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