The Washington Outsider

I did a podcast.

Mar 14

I had the good fortune to speak with Irina Tsukerman. Check it out.

Abstracts:

What’s Free Black Thought?
CRT as a Non-Evolution of Black Protest Politics
Culture as Edification vs Narratives for Aggregating Power
Outreach to Young People, Parents & Common Sense Resistance
The Anti-Woke Problem - Humility of the Philosophy of Science
The Hardening of Multiculturalism
The Struggle is Internal

The very last question is the one that vexes me and was one of the things on my mind as I wrote The Intelligence Problem.

Stoic Observations

The Intelligence Problem

In 1980, I decided that I was losing my mind. I had been working a union job and basically the only reading I did was motorcycle and audiophile magazines. I didn’t know a thing about literature. One day I decided to write a poem. It was horrible. I realized my imagination had shrunk to pea size. I had become a Basic. So I forced myself to read. I starte…

3 months ago · 11 likes · 7 comments · Michael DC Bowen

So taking these to longish thought experiments leads to a conclusion I shied away from which is basically this, globalism is going to fragment. We’re going to be squabbling with smaller sets of ourselves and there aren’t going to be constructive unifying theories and concepts that will unite our societies and polities. It’s going to have to stay broken that way for a long time, until such time that the amount of information needed to create, sustain and defend sovereignty can be worked out for entities smaller than nation-states as we know them. Either that, or we face complications in law and policy that supremely frustrate ambition and liberty. Federations suck.

I look most expectantly as the Republic of Texas as something of a model going forward for the right sized sovereign. California is a fair sized model too, I just don’t like the way it operates. My work is going to keep me focused on the West & Mountain States, so I’ll learn something from that as well.