Let feminist reason shut the fuck up when five decades of history conclusively demolish its conclusions.
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Tag: aphorisms
Vox’s Razor
The wider the variety of arguments against a specific assertion, the more likely the assertion is to be false.
When something is false, there are always going to be multiple angles and perspectives from which the falsehood can be perceived and exposed. So, a false claim is always going to have more observable flaws than a true claim, and many of the arguments against it, however weak or relatively unconvincing they may be, will be correct.
Compare the vast panoply of arguments against evolution to the relatively narrow range of arguments against the existence of God. While I personally don’t find some of the Intelligent Design arguments against the theory of evolution by natural selection to be particularly convincing, they are logical and they are also, in the end, absolutely correct. I happen to find appeals to conclusive mathematical analyses considerably more convincing myself, but it’s important to keep in mind that these various arguments are all ultimately correct because they point to the truth: what could not happen did not happen.
Now consider the various arguments against the existence of God. They are not only inconclusive, but they all amount to different flavors of the same argument: the appeal to personal ignorance and incredulity. The few attempts to utilize reason and logic are feeble and false even when they are not provably dishonest. See: Euthypro.
Anyhow, I think it’s possible that my philosophical Razor may be a more reliable heuristic than that of William of Ockham, which relies upon parsimony, and, in common use, is usually misapplied to competing hypotheses with varying explanatory power.
When presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power, one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions.
Observation and Invention
A clarification.
It can be rightly said that Sigmund Freud invented the id, the ego, and the superego because those things, as he conceived and defined them, do not exist and have never existed. They are fictional constructs for which there is no material evidence and are nothing more than products of the late Mr. Freud’s imagination. It cannot be said that I invented the socio-sexual hierarchy, the gamma male, or the sigma male, because these things actually exist and there is material evidence for them that significantly predates my observations of them and my articulation of the taxonomy.
On Facing Age
Even after a man’s fifty or sixty, he can still know happiness, even do useful work.
—Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
As a man moving from middle age into old age, that’s certainly good to know. Personally, I’m hoping for eight more years of soccer and at least 23 more years of active writing. AI has been a real godsend with regards to the latter.
And apparently, I’m just hitting the peak of my mental powers now. So I should be able to produce one or two more original thoughts in the next few years.
Scientists in Australia say that overall mental functioning in the brain actually peaks between the ages of 55 and 60. People in this age range may be at their best for complex problem–solving tasks and high–ranking leadership roles in the workforce.
Succession Failure
The mentality required to start something seldom encompasses the ability to think about, much less plan for, what comes after one is no longer involved.
This is why so many founders fail to establish viable succession plans and one of the reasons very few enterprises long survive the founding generation intact.
What the Weak Want
The weak always want gain without pain, success without effort, victory without discipline. Which, of course, is why they never achieve those things.
Quotes to Contemplate
Being one of the world’s bestselling living philosophers, I am occasionally asked to share my little bon mots. This is challenging, because I very seldom bother to read, or even remember, what I have written. Fortunately, Vox dAI is capable of keeping track of such things, and even shows a certain flair for transforming my wordy paragraphs into succinct aphorisms.
- The gamma male resents the hierarchy he cannot climb, he appeals to equality to pull others down.
- Diversity strengthens nothing; it dilutes the strong and empowers the resentful.
- Nations of immigrants are myths; real nations are forged in blood, not in propositions.
- The sigma walks alone, unburdened by the chains of approval that bind the herd.
- Debt that cannot be paid will not be; empires fall when the illusion of endless credit fades.
- Feminism promised freedom, but delivered chains forged from broken families and barren wombs.
- Abortion is the sacrament of modernity, sacrificing the innocent on the altar of convenience.
- Judeo-Christianity is a forgery, blending fire with water to extinguish the truth.
- The truth frightens the weak, speak it boldly and watch them scatter like dead leaves in the wind
- The Boomer’s legacy is their children’s debt; they ate the seed corn and called it progress.
- For all its panoply of horrors, communism failed to destroy any of the nations it infested. Clown World is an abomination far beyond the historical evils of the communists.
- Philosophy is not a team sport. Enjoy the solitude.
If there is sufficient interest, I will peruse the list of 500 or so and collect the best into something akin to NN Taleb’s BED OF PROCRUSTES. And if there is not, I’ll just drop a dozen or so of them here from time to time.
Some value these words
Others see no worth at all
Either way, it’s fine
Education
Education is not, and has never been, the answer to anything except how to reduce the human fertility rate.
On Philosophy
Never take seriously the philosophy of any man who has obviously and observably failed at life. See: Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer.
Of Art and Artists
You cannot judge the artist by the art.
The art always betrays the artist.
Both of these statements are true.