Chaos Patch (#26)
(Open thread, with a little purely-decorative herding.)
Subsequent to the Matthew Opitz post at LW (linked yesterday), Leon Niemoczynski asks: “I am wondering if there is room for ‘bleak theology’ within the NRx framework, or whether theological NRx would just be ‘bleak theology.’ (See HERE and HERE.)”
A memetic analogy: “… burning children alive was an effective means of making people into Canaanites. The Canaanite memetic system reproduced, while Canaanites did not, just as progressivism reproduces, while progressives do not.
Arnold Kling on Gregory Clark.
Beyond the spectrum.
Occidental religion — we’ve come a long way baby.
Kristor on moral hazard.
ISIS’s enemy is Saudi (and boredom).
Go Scotland.
Do we really have to talk about ‘gamergate‘? (Given that it’s so obviously an engineered distraction from this stuff.)
The nine timelines of the Primer plot. (Even if you don’t think you give a damn about Primer yet, you do in the future.)
