Leonard Peikofff’s recent book, The DIM Hypothesis, covers this. He argued that Christianity would re-emerge by default because nothing else offers a human telos. (He was an Ayn Rand acolyte.) At the time I read it I just thought, “Hmm … that’s an odd conclusion for a Randian.” But now I see that he was spot on.

There’s also a tribal affinity thing going on, like with the Mormons. It costs you something to be a Christian, but to not be one out in the middle of Texas and Tennessee and Alabama is worse … more isolating.

And they aren’t really “booming” any more, prog hysteria after the ’04 election (the “Jesusland” map, the film “Jesus Camp”) notwithstanding. The evangelicals peaked in the late 80s and have pretty much been in continuous decline ever since Jim Bakker got busted.

What will women vote for once they get suffrage?

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What happens to Economics of the Home on a national scale when 2 partner incomes are requirements to raise kids?

These are both questions which have consequences. Bad ones.

Now as far as the your question goes:

>Once we get unstuck from the mud and become rigorous in the analysis again..and yes it’s all quite stuck…no doubt about it…where are we going?

I do not think the analysis was ever rigorous. Many interesting tomes and ideas are discussed but NRx hasnt cleared the hump of blogosphere comments and twitter. I see on google hangout much more decent and interesting discourse which not only kindles local community action but truly opening new avenues of thought that have been hidden away in dusty libraries for years. Actually spending some times to work on how to think and setting higher standards for what we think (judged against effective metrics, which is part of the problem figuring out.) is a necessary step. Moldbug isnt the high water mark (Hopefully!)

Its why I ask Kgaard to be specific and detail what he thinks is wrong and figure out what the context is for his statements. Much of his recommendations I agree with to a certain extent and I think its necessary to have disagreements as long as work is done as a result.

Its not stuck as much as the prior momentum was just insight porn. Now that the actual thinking and research have to happen the ball can get rolling. Of course at the same time real life has to go on and actually inspiring a community is necessary. Fighting the Morally bankrupt demons that infect our families minds, taking back control of our money, training ourselves to defend life, finding ways of gathering young men in effective institutions. Its all simultaneous. Macro/Micro cant be unbalanced.

Now where are we going? Depends on your personal goals. I want to see if NRx has what it takes to actually think hard and work hard. I’m working hard to put the money where my mouth is both in thought and action. 2015. There are grandiose dreams but I like to keep things simple for now.

I’ll throw a few books your way for an ebook but I’m not a professional writer so I have no idea what the scene is for that kind of work.