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March 23, 2015 by henrydampier 20 Comments

Can The Queer Bubble Be Popped?

The celebration of all things genderfluid and all varieties of sodomy tends to emanate from the American university system. Because professors tend to work feminism, queer theory, and gender theory into as many subjects as they can, genuflecting before these theories is a requirement for graduation. Failing to show sufficient respect to sodomites, cross-dressers, and self-mutilators is grounds for expulsion.

This selects for people who are at least able to demonstrate tolerance for these strange minorities. The people who can tolerate identity politics gain favored access to government work, corporate jobs, and other functions that reward them with money and social status. Through this process, believing in queer theory becomes high status, because its believers have status.

It’s impossible, then, to attempt to make those beliefs low status, because they are beliefs held by high status people. The way to change the status structure is to displace the people who hold those beliefs from their position of status.

Anything else confuses cause with effect. The cause of the belief being high status is the power and status held by the people who hold the belief. The belief is just a convenient cudgel to use against challengers. It’s not an entirely arbitrary cudgel, though, because it also causes major negative side-effects to the culture which elects to elevate it.

One of the reasons why we have seen such growth in the influence of these boring, convoluted, and disgusting academic theories is because of this selection effect. As universities have grown their enrollments and inflated their tuition fees, the value systems that they espouse have become more influential and resonant within corporate and state power structures.

Advertisers respond to this phenomenon — they are pursuing the affluent and powerful demographic. That same affluent, influential, and powerful demographic has been preselected to be at least tolerant if not fanatical about cultural Marxism. The creatives are not conspiring to teach the word of Adorno to an innocent population — they went to college, learned queer theory, and are trying to reach the affluent part of the population who have also been initiated into the high status culture of ugliness.

If they did not at least learn to conceal their disgust, they were probably not able to make it through university, and that puts substantial barriers in front of anyone seeking white collar employment.

Similarly, the TV script writers are not bringing plots of tween boys kissing to a population that believes it to be sinful. They’re bringing it to the relatively wealthy people who already believe that it’s a higher expression of love than problematic heterosexual romance.

Cultural conservatives tend to fight on the wrong terms, believing that superior arguments and tradition can win out over raw power.

Power determines which values can be enforced by violence and social sanction. It’s not the other way around. To change the value structure, you need to weaken the people and the institutions that they control.

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March 20, 2015 by henrydampier 3 Comments

Hülsmann on Fiat Money Distortions

Guido Hülsmann speaks capably here about how fiat money banking corrupts society as a whole.

If you don’t have the time or the inclination to go through more texts on economics, this speech explains the profound and pervasive corrupting influence that central banking tends to have on countries. It also helps to explain its attraction to states. When a small number of financial institutions hold most of the wealth in a society in the form of financial titles, it’s trivial for the state to confiscate assets if it needs to.

It also helps to explain why the modern elite tends to be characterized by such an overweening greed to enhance their relative position relative to the rest of society. Central banks are often portrayed as guarantors of societal equality, but they instead tend to encourage a small, hyperactive group to domineer over the rest, owing to their loss aversion. Since everyone is continually being expropriated by the expansion of the supply of money and credit, it pushes people with the most monetary wealth to compete much harder than they would otherwise.

Even if you have no interest in this issue in particular, it’s a good introduction to the topic of banking and finance in general.

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March 11, 2015 by henrydampier 21 Comments

Businesses That Separate Working Women From Their Savings

In all the discussions about feminism as an ideology, few of the articles about how to handle it involve economically exploiting the ideology to punish its adherents. There tends to be a little bit of tut-tutting about how liberals mint profits off of the ideology, but not much as it relates to scalping those same profits to discourage the adoption of the new life pattern.

Here are the big ones that I can think of:

  • Student lending and for-profit education
    • Sham courses at stupendous margins — get them hooked and paying interest for most of their working lives. There may be a default risk, but the government guarantees the face value of the loans.
  • Facilitating legal-ish prostitution
    • This has generated at least one high-growth startup success story in recent years
    • Someone has to pay for those student loans
  • Fertility treatments
    • Get them in their late 30s and 40s — they’re at peak earning power, have some savings, and are willing to spend it all on high-risk gambles repeatedly until they run out of money and eventually creditworthiness
  • Therapy
    • High-end therapists and psychiatrists earn $100s an hour
    • Prescriptions can be billed to insurance
    • Even casual users of drugs like Xanax need dealers
  • Romantic literature and film
    • The most lucrative genre of media today
    • Can be produced on a minimal budget, unlike male-targeted action films which need special effects
    • Mix and match genres and characters with the same basic formula
  • Legal services
    • Convince women to get divorced, provoke them into suing and re-suing people until they run out of money or their targets run out of liquid assets
  • Plastic surgery
    • Women naturally decay and become ugly
    • Promise them that they can look younger with surgery and implants
    • Separate them from their money
  • Childcare
    • They can get government assistance for this
    • All working women with kids need it to one degree or another
    • Higher end working women are willing to pay premium prices for care that they see as ‘better’ or more up-class
  • Retirement advice geared to women specifically
    • Women tend to be worse at making financial decisions than men are
    • They tend to be looking for an authority figure to manage their finances for them
    • They will pay a premium for this service and respond well to female-tinged financial marketing messages
  • Charity pitches
    • Childless women tend to respond well to images of surrogate children
  • Profligate pet care
    • Toy dogs are surrogate babies
    • They will spend enormous amounts of cash on their ‘babies’
  • Drugs and alcohol
    • They are always unhappy and feeling empty, so you just sell them the material to temporarily fill that hole
  • Real estate
    • Women will spend a lot more on real estate in ‘better’ neighborhoods
    • They are very socially sensitive to what sorts of neighborhoods they live in (will pay higher rent)
  • Fancy food
    • Working women tend to not know how to cook, so you can reap profits from them by paying people low wages to cook for working women
    • Even if it’s not actually ‘gourmet’ food, plausibly modeling the food after dishes portrayed as ‘gourmet’ on television and in magazines can result in higher profits
  • Hyper-fitness
    • Single women sometimes want to embody the androgynous fantasy of having the strength of a man and the sensual body of a woman
    • They demand ‘personal training,’ diet books, etc. etc. to realize an ideal which is difficult to achieve for most
    • Need becomes more acute as they age and become less intrinsically attractive
      • ‘Wall’ years after ~28 best age to target
  • Hyper-fatness
    • The flip-side of hyper-fitness — sell them muumuus, clothing with lots of elastic, and fat acceptance seminars to make them feel less ashamed over their unhealthy condition
  • Elderly, lonely women can be separated from their money trivially
    • This can be somewhat illegal, but elderly women with money are so helpless that they are practically ATMs

The businesses that load the woman up with cash early in her life primp her to to have that cash be taken from her later in life.

Given that marriage rates are declining at a fast clip, all of these lines of business should grow over time, so long as feminism remains a popular ideology promoted and supported by the state.

To the extent that men are penalized by the state for being men, and ownership becomes less secure, more cash will temporarily go into the hands of women, who tend to have poor impulse control, a low future orientation, and make more emotionally-driven rather than logical decisions.

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