2026-05-31
An article written last year on the death of the post-left. In my younger, more virulent days, I had the label of "post-left" attached onto me by some friends. It made sense; being a Joe Rogan acolyte was cool back in like 2015, but nowadays there's a clear funnel that people of my milieu took. We wanted to break into the class consciousness, have a full picture of the systems at play; but instead all we became was a new contingent to sip the Kool-Aid of the groyper alt-right nouveau. Here's the thing man: guys like me are easily persuaded by where the memes are funniest. My problem, however, is that while the left can't meme, the right can never be cool and get women to be sexually attracted to me. So where is a man like me to go? I'm not sure, but the one thing I do know is that the political "solutions" of tomorrow aren't going to be found on major web platforms. I hope to find myself in the rooms where I can actually feel like a part of my community and work my influence in a positive, tangible way. Online, nothing ever happens.
Someone recently turned me on to Ploopy, and I've been wanting a trackball mouse for some time. They look so cool, right?
I think a lot of folks have heard of Ethnoguessr by now, but it's one of my fun daily games I like to play. Most people are into these hot indie or AAA video games with thousands of lines of code written just to render some stupid shades. For me, I like to consider myself like an old man who plays my fun little daily minigames just to pass a little bit of time. I also found a good website to play Go on, and man lemme tell ya, that game is hard. I'm still a total beginner, and I've been practicing here and there on the 5x5 board. The strategy for Go is deeply complex, and while I've never been a majorly strategic thinker, it's been a cool way to keep my mind sharp in a way that feels healthy.
A post on blogger burnout, which I pulled from the illusory Bix. It's a real thing, that demon of perfectionism. But the way I see it, the imperfections are what really counts, especially writing in the face of LLM precision and cultural dominance. People like those imperfections, and while it might not be guaranteed to reach a wide audience, it will reach one nonetheless. As I've said many times before, if just one person reads my writing and feels changed by it in some way, the job is done. But you've gotta do the job in the first place for that to happen.
This is an article written over twenty years ago on the ideological incoherence of conservatism. The Mises institute, being an organization that strongly endorses Austrian economics, is fair in making a libertarian critique of neoconservatism. Especially during the Bush era, neoconservatives became increasingly statist in their rhetoric, which made sense given the propulsion of the US into the war with Iraq. What's strange is that neoconservative politicians, usually running as republicans, have had to figure out many weird ways to convince their increasingly libertarian constituency of a generally national socialist platform, while still maintaining a front of loosely libertarian values. When I think of all those republican ads of politicians with guns, that's the kind of dissonance I'm talking about. Many boomer republicans want the convenience of statism, but without any of the trade-offs. That's why we see those guys harp on about taxes and illegal immigration while collecting social security checks. Funny world we live in, huh?
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