All Thoughts Being Equal

I.   I'm slogging my way through Nick Land's summary of the Dark Enlightenment (a.k.a. Neoreaction) as research for a presentation to the Western Libertarians, and I come across this interesting tidbit in an otherwise headache-inducing discussion of race human biodiversity race: The history is damning. ‘Sociables’ have always had it in for the obnoxious, often declining to marry or do business with them, excluding them from group activities and political office, labeling them with slurs, ostracizing and avoiding them. ‘Obnoxiousness’ has been stigmatized and stereotyped in extremely negative terms, to such an extent that many of the obnoxious have sought out more sensitive labels, such as ‘socially-challenged’, or ‘differently socially abled’. Not uncommonly, people have been verbally or even physically assaulted for no other reason than their radical obnoxiousness. Most tragically of all, due to their complete inability to get on with one another, the obnoxi...

[Note: This is a parody of a recent Alternet/Salon piece called "The 7 strangest libertarian ideas," which was silly enough to warrant a mirror-satirization. Try to decide before section II whether I'm super committed to the implied ideology or not.] I. Few movements in the United States today harbor stranger political ideas than the self-proclaimed feminists. The Tumblr school of feminism is at least as far outside the mainstream on the left as, say, a rather doctrinaire old-school form of anti-Masonism on the right. The difference is this: The mainstream media isn’t telling us that we’re in the middle of a “Anti-Masonic moment.” Anti-Masonic politicians aren’t being touted as serious presidential contenders. And all the media chatter we’re hearing about a “Feminist moment” ignores the very harsh, extreme and sometimes downright ugly ideas that are being disseminated under that banner. It’s great to have allies like MoveTheFuckOverBro working alongside other Am...

Greetings. Here's how things are changing. My new Squarespace site is up, but will be updated slowly. Please go check it out , it's very nice. This blog will stay a blog. Not that I don't love my shiny new Squarespace, but I think it's best to leave that as a more polished, "professional" site with serious business and all that. In particular, comments will be activated here and not there. Feeds are different now. I have three different streams of content: essays, fiction, and blog posts. Keep in mind that blog posts are going to be a mishmash of all sorts of stuff now, whereas essays and fiction are just that. Blog posts are now http://feeds.feedburner.com/stephenmeansme-blog Essays are now http://feeds.feedburner.com/stephenmeansme-essays Fiction is now (complete the pattern) http://feeds.feedburner.com/stephenmeansme-fiction If you want everything in one convenient RSS-y package, that would be http://feeds.feedburner.com/stephenmeansme-all ...