An American Manifesto

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The Panic of 2008 - Contents

Experiencing the Financial Panic of 2008

Women in the Public Square in Brief

I think that the question of women in the public square is the big question of our time. I was alerted to this by German sociologist Georg Simmel.

Simmel recognized that 19th century technologies "made for less labor in the household." This caused unease among middle-class women, who now sought activity outside the home.

Obviously, Simmel wrote, the public sphere, the world outside the home, in the short term would still be defined by men for men, but in the long term women would transform the public square to suit "a more feminine sensibility."

But what does that mean?

For me, the point of the male-created public square is to create a public space where the old male culture of revenge justice (an eye for an eye, a life for a life) is replaced by the culture of law and politics. In this culture revenge is reduced to the "wait until next time" of failure in politics and sports. Men still fight, but not in blood sports. Today, men have a Culture of Insult where men exchange insults in a playful way, rather than in a lethal way.

Thus, the shape of our political institutions reflect the age-old need to curb the power projects of men. As politics is civil war by other means, the whole point of politics is in fact to direct the male aggressive instinct into political wars rather than actual fighting wars. And then, since men tend to abuse the rules of any political system, there is a need for checks and balances to limit the harm that can be caused by men of overvaulting ambition. That is what the public square is all about.

Now, the previous culture of women was different. They got on in the old village culture with gossip, which is two women talking together about a third woman. And they penalized defaulters -- the woman that all the women agreed was a problem -- by naming and shaming, and in extreme cases, by ostracism.

I have an example of how the women's culture works, from Spirit and Flesh, a book about a fundamentalist church by liberal sociologist James M. Ault, Jr. In the fundamentalist church the men held all the formal offices, but the women ran the church through their husbands. Notice that this means the women never get into conflict or suffer a microaggression or leave their safe spaces, or venture into the public square. But they still run the place.

But feminism proposed the notion that women could and should live openly in the public square. In the mid 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex told us that the ideal was the "independent woman." She would live alone, work in a career, conduct sexual relationships as she pleased, and be subordinate to no male patriarch.

Only Simone was wrong. Women don't want male strutting careers, or casual sex, or exchange of insults in the public square. Women don't relate to the public square, not at all. But then, "what do women want," as Freud asked. They don't want, they expect. And what they expect is:

Women expect to be protected.

And thus women want nothing to do with the public square, which is a place where you go out unprotected, except by your wit and knowledge and ability to hold your own in a word fight.

The public square is a relic of the duel, the fight between two men for dominance, only conducted today with words rather than fists. That is not how women live, or interact. As I say, women communicate one-on-one over coffee and in that conversation they do not disagree with each other, not at all. They talk about other women, as in "I can't believe she said/did that." The public square is not just a thing invented by men for men. It is inaccessible to women because they are women and their brains are wired differently.

In today's culture we see the woman's culture penetrating the workplace with notions like microaggressions and safe spaces. Back in the Sixties, colleges abandoned the "parietal" system in which colleges took over the supervision of adult children from parents. But now colleges are involved in all the minor questions of college life; This trend is all about women disliking direct confrontation and calling it a microaggression and wanting to control people indirectly. A safe space is the complete negation of the public square, where you have to stand up and "act like a man." What happens to the public square if you are not allowed to confront other ideas with your ideas and if you run for a safe space if you hear something that makes you feel bad? I don't know.

Nobody should doubt the emotional wear and tear that come from living a life in a male skin suit, doing that male swagger and male hierarchy thing while still being a woman inside that instinctively is programmed to live a completely different life, a life not of deeds and glory, but of feelings and emotional responses to life.

Irregardless, the whole question of women in the public square is only going to become more and more important. As women slowly decide that they don't really want to live in the bracing air of the public square and would rather rule the world through their husbands, as of old.

Women in the Public Square Table of Contents

Pejorative Politics - Table of Contents

Confronting the Left's Pejorative Politics

Taking on the Powerful
"A Nation of Cowards"
The Year of the Race Card
The Wages of Hate
Let's Play the Race Card
Trumping the Race Card
No, New Yorker, YOU are the American Tragedy
Exactly Who Calls Himself a White Supremacist?
What Do "Toxic Masculinity" and "White Supremacist" Have in Common?
Anti-Barker: Don't Know Much About Philosophee
Why Don't We Normals Have Anti-left Pejoratives?
If You Call Someone a Racist You are a Hater
Accepting the Fact of Exile In America's Jacobin Terror
Of Course I'm a Racist. How About You?
The only thing to do is to own it

Of Course I'm a Sexist, How About You?
I believe women need more protections than men

Of Course I'm a Homophobe. How About You?
Reality is that you should be afraid of homosexuals, because "cancel"

Pejorative Politics: Nothing New Under the Sun
The way to deal with pejoratives is to embrace them

On Race, Is It All Over Bar Shouting?
It's time to push back on race

Which Is Worse: Trump's Insults or The Racist Canard?
If women don't like Trump's insults, then whatabout accusations of racism?

Our Elite's Crimes Against Humanity
Its solutions for workers, blacks, women and LGBTs were the wrong solutions

Canceling People for Racist Tweets
When you can be fired for quoting Shakespeare

Facing the Racism Issue Fair and Square
You have to reply with an insult
Time to Kill The Racism Virus
Understanding the Power of "Fascism"
You call someone a fascist if you want to shut them up
Codex of Preferred Progressive Pejoratives
My "1584 Project"
The year they started sending the "waste population" to America
Two Strikes Against the Ruling Class -- in One Day
Now You Know Why the Germans Did Nothing
Trump's Biggest Failure: The Race Issue
We Can't Go Away and Hide in our Little Platoons
See, Even Democrats Don't Care About Climate Change
Sen. Ron Johnson Pushes Back on "Racist." Sorta
The Day the Universe Changes. On Race.
"Gammon:" The Latest Leftist Hate Pejorative
Implementing a National Liberation from Lefty Colonialism

Perfect Plan - Table of Contents

My Perfect Plan to Make America Great Again

0. Perfect Plan in Brief

1. Communism Week: My Perfect Plan
Teach the workers the ways of the market, and teach creative people tolerance.

2. Tribe vs. City: Which Will Win?
Guess what! Tribalism is bad for business.

3. The Three Peoples Theory and Work
How each of the Three Peoples experiences work.

4. The Six Worst Injustices of the Liberal Domination
Keeping workers down, attacking middle class, wrecking education, retirement, health care, charity.

5. The Politics of the Three Peoples
Obviously, they want different things from politics.

6. Real Critical Theory. How About a Critique of Leftism?
Let's do critical theory on the left using Three Peoples theory.

7. SOTU: Trump Celebrates Middle America
But not a word to the educated elite.

8. What Comes After Conservatism
Try to understand what each of the Three Peoples needs

9. Accepting the Fact of Exile in America's Jacobin Terror
We have to "develop an independent set of religious and social beliefs"

Jordan B. Peterson -- Contents

Consequences of Jordan B. Peterson

1. Dr. Jordan Peterson is ready to go to jail for free speech

2. "Skeptical Neutrality" and "Courageous Trust"

3. The Real Reason Columbus is a Scandal

4. What Do #MeToo Want?

5. Real Critical Theory: How About a Critique of Leftism

6. Suppose It's the Democrats That are Behind the 8-Ball

7. The Great Reaction Also Includes Neo-sacrifice

8. Can Men and Women Recover Their Lives from Leftism?

9. Maps of Meaning: The Why and Who of Jordan B. Peterson

10. The Cure for Administrative-State-itis

11. Reds Under the Bed. Again.

12. Maps of Meaning: What Failure to Respond to Chaos Looks Like

13. The Grand Narrative of the Postmodernists

14. 350 Million Years of Hierarchy: Get Used to It

15. Humans Demand Good vs. Evil

16. Down in the Swamp with the Brennans and the McCabes

17. In Media Res: Peterson and Stark

18. Ancient Myth and My Three Peoples Theory

19. Omnibus Bills and Us

20. Myth and Religion in an Age of Science

21. Women, Kevin, Can Be As Mean As Pepper

22. Sure We Fight, But Then What?

23. The Three Forms of Social Control

24. Is This Peak Activism?

25. But First, Humans are Tribal

26. The Alt-right Takes Out After Jordan Peterson

27. Jordan B. Peterson's "Maps of Meaning:" It's a Start

28. Jonah's "Suicide:" The Bigger Problem

29. Peterson and Jung and Nietzsche, Oh My!

30. The Wages of Women in Leadership

31. Dealing with Activism's Affect of the Week

32. At Jordan Peterson's Road Show

33. Reality Hits the 19th Century White Ethnics

34. Women and Agency

35. The Two Paths: for Rich Kids After the Death of God

36. Values not Facts Make the World Go Round

37. The Three Peoples and Power

38. Yes, There is Objective Truth, But We Don't Know It

39. Why I Think Jordan Peterson is Important

40. The Poverty of Power

41. Let Us Imagine a New Culture

42. Now the Psychologists Come Out Against Traditional Masculinity

43. To What Do The Three Peoples Subordinate Themselves?

44. The Left's Religion of Political Power

45. Three Peoples: There is No One True Faith

46. We Must Bring the Past Back to Life

47. Leftism: First the Fear, Then the Hate

48. Where Do We Go From Here?

49. It's Too Soon for a "Dissident Right"

50. Liberals Legislating Liberal Morality

51. Yes, Secularists Do Too Have Religion

52. Lefties: Getting the Hero's Journey Upside Down

53. When the Other Shoe Drops

54. The New York Times' Problem

55. Our Ruling Class Does Too Have a Religion. And How.

56. Lenin's Philosophy of Force

57. Conservatism: What Comes Next

58. The Problem with the Notion that Power is Everything

59. Nietzsche on Knowledge and Reality

60. Canceling People for Racist Tweets

61. Three Peoples: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong?

62. When Will the Dems Cry Uncle? Not Yet.

63. The German Turn: How Germans Invented the Modern World

64. What Next in the Battle of the Sexes?

65. What is Best in Life for Children of the Privileged?

66. Looking at the Good Side of My Culture-of-Insult/Culture-of-Complaint Notion

67. Pelosi's Far-Left Bill: The Bigger Problem

68. What Path Should We Follow?

69. The Creatives Attack Dignity. Of Course They Do

70. The Sacrificial Hero Ancient and Modern

71. The German Turn

72. Three Religions for Three Peoples

73. Gorsuch Decision Means Back to the Drawing Board

74. What is the Good Life Better than the Left -- for Women?

75. What I Believe

76. Message to Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over

77. The Terminal Bossiness of the Educated Gentry

78. The Three Peoples and Revolution

79. Rebuilding "The Meaning of Life" with 26-year-olds

80. Now Penguins are Getting Triggered

Thomas Piketty's Capital -- Table of Contents

A Detailed Analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital

Introduction

Part One: Income and Capital

Income and Output

End of Growth

Part Two: The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio

Changes in Capital

New World Capital and Slavery

Capital/income Ratio in the Long Run

Capital's Share of Income

Part Three: The Structure of Inequality

Inequality and Its Concentration

Two Worlds: France and the US

Inequality of Labor Income

Inequality of Capital Ownership

Merit and Inheritance in the Long Run

Global Inequality of Wealth in the 21st Century

Part Four: Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax

A Global Tax on Capital

The Question of the Public Debt

Conclusion