Vox Day notes [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/12/of-irony-and-libel.html] that he’s the subject of an article at the Black Gate [https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/07/unempathic-bipeds-of-failure-the-relationship-between-stories-and-politics/] that calls him a neo-nazi. He’s more than adequately capable of defending himself, and certainly has a horde of minions that are capable of assisting him. No, I actually want to address two other things she wrote, two underlying assumptions that show bo…
I don’t usually watch much of Sargon of Akkad anymore. While his routine was funny at first, it has devolved into a largely “point and say ‘how stupid'” exercise in the vein of Jon Stewart. That said, as a self-admitted leftist he nevertheless has a degree of intellectual honesty that largely escapes the left, and sometimes he catches something interesting. So – I watched the following video, which indeed had some of the Young Turks crew shutting down a Q&A session in full petty totalitarian mo…
Related to yesterday’s post on shitty (often literally) modern art, The Didact pointed me to a Paul Joseph Watson video I had not seen on modern art being (in many examples, literally) rubbish.…
Over at Return of Kings there’s an outstanding article on why modern art is so uninspiring [http://www.returnofkings.com/103305/why-is-modern-art-so-uninspiring]. It digs into several sources, notably Tom Wolfe: > What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of The New York Times saying: In looking at a painting today, “to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial.” I read it again. It didn’t say “something helpful” or “enriching” or even “extremely valuable.” No, the word was cruci…
Today is a bit of a digression, but when I was in middle school, I had picked up at the local hobby shop a black rulebook with a painted sleeve cover showing a group of people exiting a spaceship parked on (apparently) a vacuum plain via pressurized corridor, with guns. It was for a science fiction RPG system called “Traveller”, and took over for me from D&D as my primary RPG of choice. I’d spent hours in middle school running ship designs to get the best possible combination of weight/cost/dis…