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Metahistory

The Imperial Turn

From Steve Sailer's post on the possible link between less lead in our environment and a drop in crime: My impression is that popular culture today has gotten rather authoritarian or militaristic. Cops used to be portrayed as big dumb Irishmen, easy to outwit. But now, they'

That's what happens when you drink the Kool-Aid

John Walker reviews Janon Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget to hiliarious effect. I've long been a skeptic of the kind of technological libertarian fantasy world that is exemplified by Glenn Reynolds' Army of Davids. It all seems rather silly to me, but it is

The Transition to a Traditional Society

Since I have an interest in the metahistorical theories of Spengler and Toynbee, I have an expectation that modernity is close to its natural end. Not forever, just for now, because modernity is not unique, but is something that reoccurs in human history. My friend John Reilly has noted that