Kicking. Squealing.
1. Razib Khan points to a German study which found that cuckoldry rates hovered around 1% of all births. This counters the common claim that 10% of births are the result of cuckoldry.
2. A peek into what Pax Dickinson does as chief technology officer at Business Insider. This guy is one of my favorite twitter personalities. Given Pax’s libertarianism/anti-liberalism, I sometimes picture him as Seinfeld character Eddie Sherman, the fatigue-wearing ex-soldier-turned-copywriter whose gruff exterior is out of whack with the swanky and well-heeled Peterman catalogue for which he works.
3. Rod Dreher’s quick blurb on an atheist church in England. How long until it turns into a pub? Like Christians, atheists need inducements in order to gather together. And both would ultimately rely on social pressure to maintain the size of the herd. Alcohol and entertainment is its own end. But what does an atheist church offer besides immediate entertainment and satisfaction? This all redefines what church means. I’m not a believer myself, but I also have no anxiety about people who believe in something bigger gathering together to do just that. If I gather together with others and imbibe entertainment or engage in fellowship, this is only for my own immediate satisfaction. Calling it something other than that is just pointless.
4. Walter Russell Mead on one way in which state pensions and the blue model are dimming the future of the younger generations.
5. Jason Collins on the heritability of fertility and family size. Satoshi Kanazawa believes this makes no evolutionary sense. Heritability always has some explanatory power, but it seems that the starting point here must be the cultural influence that growing up in a large (or small) family has on the desire to perpetuate that pattern.
6. Matt Forney is hustling. The post is within the context of Mike’s advice to me. The suggestions and the examples aren’t bad, but it is solely for people (bloggers/writers) who want to use an internet platform to make money first and foremost.
The Mead article was on private sector pensions being an unspoken problem robbing from the young. The private sector pensions can pose a problem, but there’s a major difference: they are not union negotiated. A company can change its pension policy usually with board approval, and they grandfather employees when they can. So many of those pension plans, which have higher accounting standards than public programs, are running into the same problem whole life insurers are, and that is finding yield even when you have a low ROI % goal. This is another way ZIRP is killing the economy just to keep the Wall St TBTF banks afloat.
What is the goal of spreading the 10% cuckoldry number: make men distrust their wives, give women the idea that they can cheat without consequence or just to make us feel okay when we fail? I’ll lean towards the same reason why gays and their straight advocates always want to say 10% of people are gay, make it feel like it is more normal.
You were/are a good sport for taking Mike’s advice in stride and answering earnestly.
Kudos for not needing to get snide or butthurt. It speaks to your character.
thanks. i did feel that mike misunderstood my intentions with the blog by thinking that i’m in the game for the same reason he is (i’d like to make money too, but i don’t want to do it selling anything other than my own ideas and opinions; this probably means i won’t make much money, but i’m OK with that).
also, the advice was tied to the opinion that i’m wasting something by writing about racial topics or other such things. so the advice came with that extra criticism of my chosen subject matter. i can’t say that i liked that so much, but it’s not the end of the world. Mike and Matt provide a degree of inspiration. keeps the drive alive.
Re: Mead, it’s not simply older workers profiting on the backs of younger ones. Another way to see it is as a net benefit to those in the old economy, at the relative expense of those in the new economy. For example, I pursued climbing the rungs of the academic STEM research ladder, then moved to biotech, then to finance (assuredly not TB and not TBTF, alas). In my mid-fifties, my pension is my 401(k). Which is nothing to sing about, with respect to matching or performance.
Big boy pants, so ‘sucks to be you’ is fair enough as far as it goes. As a fairly widespread unintended consequence of both “natural” change and public policy, this probably isn’t particularly beneficial to society as a whole.
Re: #3 – As an Episcopalian, watching my church drift into political correctness and unitarian-universalism, I came to the conclusion that if it’s all just metaphor and it’s really just all about love, I’d be better off playing golf on Sunday. In fact, that’s the decision I set for myself: convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, or play golf on Sunday. I chose the former, and have never looked back. I visit with other parishioners and I get to visit the Saints as well. I venerate the ancient prophet Elias, the Theotokos, St. Nektarios and others. They all help me out. The atheists would say it’s all an elaborate construct so just attend a TED talk on Sunday. I say more power to them and I sincerely hope they have a great time. Better than the Anglicans who don’t even know why they meet any more or what all the smells and bells are actually about.
If I’m the Eddie Sherman of online media, then Chuck is the Good Will Hunting of the Olive Garden.
Is it really surprising to you that you might get different cuckoldry results looking exclusively at Germans? As for the 10%, I had always heard it came about from studying blood samples for an unrelated reason when they stumbled upon the cuckoldry rate. This may mean they weren’t dealing with true representative samples (i.e. samples came from large city, from blacks, etc.). I always assumed it was overstated for those reasons.
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More fun from the Cuckoo Circus, apparently now online advertising based on statistical trends is racist: http://search.slashdot.org/story/13/02/04/2153243/racism-in-online-ad-targeting?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed#
Comments are interesting. There are actually some red pill hints in there.
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So its confirmed Matt’s entire lifetime income from “hustling” is less then I make in a month and he’s done it selling trash like porn links and fitness DVDs.