Narcissus and Echo – A Modern Analysis
May 5, 2020
An interesting and somewhat scary take on the ancient folktale of Narcissus and Echo. Found on 4chan:
Category: philosophy
Failure of Feminized Societies
April 28, 2020
An interesting article on the nature of female dominant societies: The Female Imperative is too exclusionary to permit sufficient social cohesiveness. From a VP reader in China: An interesting experiment – I decided to test Vox’s idea that women working was bad for society and gender relations in general. I can get away with little … More Failure of Feminized Societies
The myth of the Chosen One
April 7, 2020
An interesting observation written by an anon on 4chan: The myth of the chosen one is as old as human history, and perhaps the greatest fantasy humanity has collectively had. The powerlessness one has in being made special by birth is in stark contrast with the dog eat dog reality in which one must toil … More The myth of the Chosen One
A transsexual man speaks on male privilege
March 18, 2020
A very interesting treatise from a man who was born biologically female on the differences between how they were treated by society as a woman and as a man:
Billionaire
February 27, 2020
When you’ve already have all the money you could want, what else can you go for?
“Inclusive” Job Hiring
February 20, 2020
When satire becomes dangerously close to real life practices:
What did the horse say to the black man? The trolling of a telemarketer
February 6, 2020
A couple of years ago I was on the receiving end of numerous telemarketing calls from a medicare scam. They called multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times per day. The scam was operated by a company that targets senior citizens, and would offer to send them knee or back braces for free or for … More What did the horse say to the black man? The trolling of a telemarketer
Instagram Vs Reality
January 30, 2020
The female equivalent of sucking in the beer gut:
Beaver transcript – On Statistics
January 9, 2020
Something from Beaver that’s pretty related to our current society, given the funny statistics we’ve been seeing for the past years on things like unemployment or inflation rates: Sanity is not statistical. George Orwell wrote those words in 1984. Back then, the meaning of this phrase was that it does not matter how many people … More Beaver transcript – On Statistics
Provisional lives
December 28, 2019
A horrible trap many people fall in. At the coming of a new year, it’s a good time to see if you might be stuck in the same rut:
Temple of Zagan 