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Physicist and pioneer of quantum theory, Erwin Schrödinger, once famously said that "we cannot stand behind consciousness", which is true: there is an inherent qualitative distance between the observer and the observed which is apparently unbridgeable. With that said, none of this necessarily...

Male or female?

It's genuinely disorientating to try to envision Muscato as a millennial. Without thinking about it too much, I probably would have guessed he was in his 50s.

I'm fairly sure low testosterone is associated with premature aging, which would seem to make sense in Nick's case, because despite only being 22, he somehow looks more like a 40-year-old man who's recently gone through a midlife crisis, come out as gay, and then left his beard of a wife for...

It's been over a day since Donald Rumsfeld died. I like to wonder that the reason no one has posted this yet is that no one misses the old warmonger.

I believe it's related to what Sigmund Freud referred to as the super-ego. As a small child, I always found it interesting how the prejudices and preoccupations of any particular god always seemed to reflect those of the people that worshipped them. As I got older, I eventually came to the...

I'm surprised they split up, honestly. I thought the codependence was too strong, and I have my doubts that either of them will be able to find anyone better. I wonder if that will force them back together at some point.

If OP really is the guy in those videos, I'm thinking he's either a deep cover troll or a lonely shut-in with a humiliation fetish, because both this thread and the YouTube channel associated with it are weapons-grade cringe.

The US effort in Afghanistan was doomed to fail for the simple reason that the tribal mentality of the people there makes functional statecraft impossible. Another big problem is that the US military has to hold itself to rules of engagement that the insurgents they're fighting have no interest...

Probably because they've bought into the neo-Malthusian idea that if Western countries don't have above-replacement fertility, then the rest of the world will continue to grow in population and "take over" the world. It's an idea which has long been discredited by the evidence provided to us by...

In an alternative timeline, John McAfee could perhaps have been one of Silicon Valley's richest billionaires, but since he left his namesake decades ago, it's estimated that his wealth had dwindled to no more than a few million. The man was completely deranged, and his descent into escalating...

Trump is quintessentially American in the sense that he's a symbol of America's curious love of vulgarity. Like many things American, Trump is gaudy, pompous, lowbrow, and most importantly: fake. He's essentially the human equivalent of a McMansion with a pickup truck parked outside; as American...

It doesn't have to overwrite human nature; it just has to change the way it manifests. There are plenty of ways that our nature can be channeled in wildly different ways depending upon the environment, and there is perhaps no better example of this than our relationship to food: whereas once...

The industrial revolution did uproot the millennia-old social norms of agrarian civilization, and to pretend otherwise is flatly delusional. I don't see how evolution could be held up as a refutation of this point, either, since the entire lesson of evolution is that changing environments...

The Virgin Russian Federation National Anthem vs. The Chad Soviet National Anthem: На здоровье, fellow comrades:

I wouldn't be totally surprised if the groom in that picture really is Tariq Nasheed. Have we ever seen Milo's husband and Tariq in the same room? It would make for a great cow crossover.

The narrative is really quite simple: humans are an intellectually curious and innovative species, and this innovation and curiosity has radically altered the way we live our lives: most notably since the advent of the industrial revolution. Ideological assumptions about how we ought to live...

It's only a banal observation if you ignore why society has changed over time, which goes back to the point I made earlier about the human propensity to learn and innovate. Society didn't move away from the principles conservatives advocate because some pink-haired woman on a college campus...

I can dismiss them as parochial, because that's precisely what they are. The Amish are a fringe curiosity; not a serious model for the future of humanity. My focus was on the topic of this thread, which was "how to revive conservatism". My suggestion was that it doesn't need reviving, because...