Anyone around the block long enough to remember the Jargon File [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/] is old enough to remember when the hacker community had a strong live-and-let live ethos that respected excellence and actively worked to promote achievement. Now, I can think of few communities more mired in leftist monoculture and woke. Stallman was never of the right, but he's far from the only casualty in a purge that has pushed out greats such as Eric S Raymond. How did a community that deal…
I've spent some time pointing out that the left [https://thelastredoubt.com/no-boundaries/] hates [https://thelastredoubt.com/hatred-of-boundaries-and-the-death-of-meaning/] boundaries [https://thelastredoubt.com/borders-count-at-all-scopes/]. Recently, Brian Niemeier wrote on "locus of control", and how control freaks have an external one. > If you’ve read a self-help book, been to therapy, or attended a motivational seminar, you may be familiar with the locus of control concept. Someone with…
I have a few more complete posts getting put together, but here's a few things I thought were worth looking at. First, author Jon Mollison - I cannot recommend enough his stories in The Penultimate Men, and truly enjoyed Barbarian Emperor as well as Moon Full of Stars - on why we're booing at the olympics. In part it's not because "the best gymnest ever" lost, but because she's a loser. And so is much of what she represents, and those who say we should take her side. There is…
I was discussing Moira Greyland's The last Closet [https://thelastredoubt.com/how-deep-the-rabbit-hole-goes/] with someone last night, and in the mood of drawing connections, my last post [https://thelastredoubt.com/it-all-works-together/] came to mind. I've discussed before, this post [https://thelastredoubt.com/hatred-of-boundaries-and-the-death-of-meaning/] among other places, how the left hates any form of boundary, be it national, personal, or sexual, constraining their behavior, and how…
First - I've also got a recent post on strategies for dealing with the lies we are fed [https://thelastredoubt.com/the-bullshit/] . I've written before on "tribal knowledge [https://thelastredoubt.com/what-is-not-seen-offshoring-and-triba/]" and how important it is to maintain a deep knowledge store [https://thelastredoubt.com/tribal-knowledge-and-antifragility/]. On a related note, over at Chicago Boyz, they discuss the impact of the loss of knowledgeable people [https://chicagoboyz.net/arch…