Fin.

i should follow more people. get my attention, fags

on reflection, “should” for “want to” is a hell of a linguistic tic

It’s not half as bad as “How about...” for “We’re going to do this, otherwise I’m going to throw a fit.” A former friend of mine who was 30 years old did this all the time.

A few other points:

-Laof and I once had a conversation about how high verbal IQ could affect the work of someone involved in mathematics. We more or less posited that the systematic thinking facilitated by being verbally gifted could allow for meta-level contributions (to math or other fields).

- Verbally based disciplines exist on a spectrum from purely logical and “concretely verbal” to more creative and image-based. Sociology and linguistics would tend towards the former, while history and literature likely towards the latter. Furthermore I am quite convinced that these “creative” psychometric variables that we don’t have labels for are only weakly correlated with IQ.

happyacres

Average IQ By College Major

A bunch of recent posts on reddit and various blogs have inspired me to make an effort post about IQ, Verbal IQ, personality, and their relationship with academic disciplines. The only thing holding me back is that only about 4 people who virtually know me from Reddit will read it.

@purpletigerbot Several points, and I guess I’ll write a longer version soon.

- Disciplines in the humanities and social sciences barely filter students for IQ anymore. If a large amount of humanities students (the less talented ones) simply pursued other certifications, more rigorous classes and curricula could be employed. I.E: Literature departments would graduate students who could read in several languages, anthropology departments would produce students with a knowledge of Western intellectual history and a non-surface level familiarity with some other cultural traditions. In graduate departments, more interesting research would also be conducted. Testing for reading comprehension, general knowledge, and language aptitude would filter out the verbally talented from the “I’m not good at math so I’ll study English” cohorts.

- One thing ignored by even those who recognize the validity of IQ is that the verbally high IQ individual is usually quite qualitatively different from someone involved in math and physics. In all of my experience, the personality differences between these two broad groups is more significant than what they score on IQ tests.

- American egalitarianism and the American right’s obsession with “FREE MARKET” ensures that many high IQ individuals are not accorded much cultural capital nor general respect, and have less attractive job prospects. This pushes a huge amount of high IQ people (whose abilities tend towards greater verbal abilities) to the left. Alt-right zombies or euphoric kids on Reddit want to tell you that most graduate students in things like English or History are indeed, stupid. Having known far too many, no—they simply are not “stupid,” they are just naive and not particularly lucid. (The part about job prospects opens a whole other can of worms I can’t get into right now.)

- High verbal IQ leads to excessive metacognition. This, combined with a few other psychological tendencies ensure that you have a large amount of people who could make great contributions in the arts, culture, and so on, but have almost no avenues to do so.

- The irony of a great deal of critical theory lies in the fact that it presents complex concepts and was formulated by people several standard deviations above the average in terms of verbal intelligence. However, the egalitarian impulse in critical theory leads to vulgarization and then the complete breakdown of any qualitative judgment of writing, thought, or art. I’m not just talking about the Frankfurt School. An apt example for you (didn’t you say you studied history or English or something?): students no longer feel the need to learn languages or history, or even have a passing familiarity with the history of Western or non-western literature and culture because they believe that armed with “theory” they can offer more sophisticated and meaningful readings.

happyacres

Average IQ By College Major

sev larns ye an cooking: sevkfast

the basic form of a sevkfast is:

1) the bacon

the bacon is the most important part of the sevkfast, since it provides the material used in cooking the rest of the sevkfast, namely bacon grease.

ingredients:

bacon (three bacons is a good number of bacons)

instructions:

put bacon in frying pan

turn heat on to like medium or so

flip the bacons after a few minutes

wait until the bacons are done

at this point it is permissible to make a BLT

2) the chicken

the chicken is the meatst important part of the sevkfast, since it provides the meat used in sevving the rest of the day, namely chicken.

ingredients:

a chicken breast

instructions:

dice the chicken breast

put chicken cubes in frying pan

turn heat on to like medium or so

flip the chicken cubes every once in a while

once they’re almost done, chop about a third of a tomato and throw it in

once the chicken is done, add parmesan

you can also add the bacons if you haven’t eaten them yet

3) the potato

the potato is the i don’t own any mason jarsst part of the sevkfast, since it provides the material used in using the rest of the bacon grease. also the bacon detritus that fell of the bacon when it was cooking.

ingredients:

a potato

instructions:

slice the potato as finely as you can, potatoes take forever to fry

put potatoes in frying pan

turn heat on to like medium or so

flip the potato shards every once in a while

once the potatoes are done, add parmesan

4) the other things

possible other things include: lentil soup, lentil salad, yogurt and muesli, grits, oatmeal, cereal, a donut, etc.

this is not a fancy breakfast, but it is a good breakfast of reasonable size which can be prepared in about half an hour.

polyaletheia

My regular breakfast is best yogurt with best muesli. Best yogurt is the one with the most fat in it, which AFAICF is Zoi Plain, with 18g/8oz. Best muesli is Dorset Cereals “simply delicious”, but I have to order it from Amazon now because the local supermarket stopped selling it. Second best is Alpen “no sugar added”.

My special when-i-can-be-bothered breakfast is two whole eggs plus two yolks fried in olive oil, served with lox trim on top, huge amounts of freshly-ground pepper, and maybe a piece of pita bread underneath to soak up the oil.

Haven’t been on tumblr in awhile. All of this is just one big what-the-fuck-is-going-on-now.

#post-trump

argumate

neo-paganism vs. LARPing

In certain milieus, this would be theory vs. praxis.

argumate

ah this was the one.

yup.

nowhites

some of you non black poc would jump happily into the arms of white supremacy to avoid being associated with black people and its….. a shame. to say the least

moonmamii

I would rather die protecting all poc then to ever give in to the white supremacy. It’s really a big shame though, being very active in my city for blm and getting feed back from other non black poc to have the audacity of saying “black people are just whining, and should stop breaking the law, or go back to Africa”. LIKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD? We should honestly unite against the evil here. white people, and their poisonous, raping culture.

nowhites

now if we could just get everyone who isnt white on the same page we could stomp out white supremacy and white supremacists like the roaches they are

tomasnau

That’s a pretty racist assumption to assume everyone who isn’t white has the same interests.

problematic-pussy

Lmao is your argument here legitimately that it’s racist to believe that PoC would collectively benefit from the dismantling of white supremacy? Like, is that seriously a sound argument to you?

You blocked @tomasnau without giving him a chance, lmao, so I’m here.

Like I said just a moment ago, US blacks collectively want to rule over everyone else, including other so-called POC and get the rest of the planet into submission through shaming. Which isn’t going to work. Even if you do manage to do what you want, it’s just going to signal to the rest of the planet that the USA is not to be trusted since its ruled by crazy genocidal people who are willing to go against their own countrymen, and more to the point, you’ll turn on other races fast since you still won’t be in the majority even then.

You all will have to learn to live with everyone else – not to mention yourselves, although judging by intra-black issues like “colorism” and black men being yelled at by black women, it’ll be a while.

“People of Color” is a category that appeals to the lowest common denominator: not being of pure European stock. If that is a robust means of organization, well...

punkrocktaire

tag urself I’m Halloween

wrapscallion

How does one take part in either levitation or “Skull & Bones”?

skull & bones is a secret society at iirc yale. this seems eminently sensible, esp. since the cia has recruited heavily from yale for as long as it’s existed

I’m postmodernism.

what, no. i’m postmodernism. you’re fornication

fire walking

Edgier, gayer, more vulgar version of Alain de Benoist.

@nahuelkura!

You should feel very honored. However, I’d say it is only 10% valid because Monsieur de Benoist likes capitalism even less than your average tumblr leftist does.

A brief observation regarding contemporary “feminism”: Like @accountt1234 once said, most interesting and bright women self-identify as feminists. The answer to why this is the case is both self-evident and somewhat complicated. The majority of my friends are women, but in terms of my closest friends, there is parity in the sexes. Moving on.

A fundamental error that plagues contemporary feminism and manifests itself on the surface level is the belief that people are blank slates. I’m not even talking about gender/sex/biology!/etc, that everyone gets up in arms about. I’m talking about the fact that most things most pop-feminism critiques are actions and attitudes held by conventionally masculine men. The most vital point is this: traditionally masculine men are never going to change being conventional men. If you are like me, and grow up with a rather androgynous personality surrounded by extremely conventionally feminine women and conventionally masculine men, you realize these psychological tendencies seem even more rigid than height, intelligence, hair color, etc.

Articles and books written from a feminist perspective about “men” might spur a few typical males here and there to think about a very topical action like staring at girls in the street or in bars. However, the much larger effect is that you make conventionally masculine men angry because they will never change their minds because they are always right (yes, I’m kidding), and to non-masculine men you are just preaching to the choir. When real or imagined misogyny continues, criticism of “men” increases, thereby alienating would-be allies who would otherwise be naturally inclined towards self-identifying as feminists.

polyaletheia

I’m in favour of somewhat more traditional gender roles, but I think any such movement is going to have to be led, ironically, by women. Also it’s going to be better off if it’s clearly dissociated from both Christianity and white nationalism.

hearmywordsworld

I’m not interested in pretending to be masculine to accommodate your tastes. Sorry not sorry.

polyaletheia

No worries, you can be an outlier.

Lolololol.

@bloodandhedonism But bro my long stints of voluntary celibacy are preparing me for my role as your spiritual advisor when you become Prince Dyed-Hair of a techno-futurist city state.

Option 1: Guénonien/Evolian/Catholic Traditionalist priestly ascetic who avoids women.

Option 2: Sexual permissiveness within the bounds of “alternative aesthete” with primarily “alt” girls.

Both end up bearing resemblance to things I don’t want to be—

Option 1: I don’t like Mormonism. I don’t like the Cleavers.

Option 2: A quarter step away from bro proledom.

“But it doesn’t have to be one or the other!”

Oh yes, yes it does.

I don’t even know where to begin. This is worse than pokémon go itself or even a superhero movie.

marcusseldon

I think I just cannot engage with feminist writing about emotional labor, romantic relationships, fearing men, etc. anymore, even though I think there is some truth to the things feminists say about these things and I have tried (pretty successfully I think, though I think temperamentally I wasn’t particularly prone to many of them anyway) to internalize those truths.

For one thing, the rhetoric is vastly generalized and the claims are extreme and very much exaggerated–and furthermore it is often very angry and coming from a triggered place–which is very upsetting to me and feels very dehumanizing of me as a man.

Again, there is some truth to these claims and I have tried hard not to be an example of those truths.

On top of that, I think the women who write passionately and frequently about these issues are not representative of normal women, or at least not the women I interact with in my life. The women in my life do talk about things that roughly correspond to what I believe is the seed of truth behind this feminist discourse, but they do not seem to share the same set of (or frequency) of these experiences as the women who write about them online do, nor do they interpret all their interactions with men through such a paranoid and dehumanizing lens. They mostly see individual men as individuals. They see me as individual.

And that is what matters.

The disgusting posts I see about “emotional labor” written by “feminists” on tumblr usually equate to “I hate men because they are not traditionally masculine enough.”

( @sevzem )

@nahuelkura said: Honestly, you’re probably right.

Oprah has real, broad appeal – her talk show and media empire, her zo-ist philosophy, her feelgood thoughts sent into the void before the internet became huge – and in the rare times when she dipped into politics more directly (which she never did as much as say, Rosie O’Donnell, if I recall correctly), she did a lot selling Obama to African-Americans back when they were still waffling on him being not quite the right kind of black person.

Beyond that, she’s just incredibly inoffensive and hard to hate. She’s quite mockable, but I have a hard time recalling real bile ever spewed at or about her. And while she by herself can never deliver yuge huge numbers of black (or overall nonwhite) voters to the GOP, she can deliver enough by her mere presence. She’s feminist, sure, but bearably so for most people. No worse about it than Sarah Palin ever was.

As a vice-presidential candidate, her job is to deliver votes and cover for demographic deficits the presidential candidate has, and hopefully will never have to take the big job herself.