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The question of why to remake a famous male-centric movie with female leads is confusing? The prepared answer from the Media is that it makes money but there are so many examples where the result is actually a commercial embarrassment; why not just make original female-centric movies? Because there’s a more sinister reason for the “Jane Wick” movies, at least as viewed from a masculine perspective...

Equity, also known as equal-pay-for-equal work, hides in the sheep’s clothing of same-pay-for-same-work but is decidedly more insidious and certainly more hypocritical. Equity is the idea that nurses are equal to engineers and should be paid the same. It falls under the egalitarian umbrella: that effort, not outcome, should dictate reward; and that fairness requires giving special consideration to...

The agitators against Systemic Racism have no interest in ending racism; in fact, they’ve said racism is an unsolvable problem, and by their definition, in every practical way, it is. So-called “Systemic Racism” is Western culture: one based on self-determination, work ethic & conscientious behavior. Without these things, society would fall apart, which leads to a second question: what are the...

When those that believe government is responsible for you are critiquing those who believe you are responsible for yourself, they use a line of attack called “Critical Theory,” a debate strategy developed in Germany in the 1930s drawing on the ideas of Karl Marx. CRT claims that white supremacy and racial power are maintained primarily via the law, and propose to change the law, including The Cons...

The Covid hysteria took over so completely because there was a generation of Walking Dead TV show watchers primed for it. In the show, zombies who are infected are called the Undead, but the equivalent in real-life are the unWoke. People are infected by hearing Wokeness, which invades their envy, resentment & sanctimony systems, overriding logical thought. The Woke then wander the earth destro...

Wokeness is a secular religion: rioting in the streets in like attending service, cancelling is hunting witches, and their scripture is the demonization of Western culture. Nietzsche's concept of Slave morality, where the losers in the population adopt values opposite of the winners, is the reason why Christianity overtook the Roman empire; there were simply too many people who considered themselv...

Advice needs no review buts let’s review anyway: 1. “Empathy” is a codeword for egalitarianism. 2. The 7 advantages of fame cannot be overstated. 3. Censorship indicates the lack of a logical counter-argument. 4. Gaslighting starts with narrative that someone’s ideas are crazy. 5. Careers are more luck than anything else. 6. You can recognize wisdom by someone’s accomplishments, not their wealth o...

Self-awareness is understanding you, and external self-awareness is understanding how other people think of you. One way to envision it is to think of one of those pictures of a famous person’s face that when you look closely, it’s actually made up of thousands of different little pictures of that person. The impression someone has of you is formed by which of the little pictures they’ve seen. Unf...

Science author Jonathan Huie speculated: “Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong; the question is which half.” It’s not a stretch to believe that lots of the things you’ve learned so far, especially decades ago, is wrong. It’s more problematic to put a number on it, certainly something as provocative as “half,” however, there is a convincing theory that almost all knowledge we think we k...

Make Your Life Better My life is very full; I have no time for people or things dragging me down. Why spend even 1 second on a cretin when you could give that second to someone you like? This leads to a slew of similar advice: first-and-foremost, don't pursue anything that makes your life worse; don't engage in any discussion, don't have any friends, don't do any job that doesn't make your life be...

I’ve determined I have a different value system than other people: I think being the only-ever simultaneously licensed doctor, lawyer, accountant & engineer is the most impressive thing in the world; more than entertainers, more than athletes, more than billionaires (though Elon Musk comes close). I wonder which of the things I do are unique enough to skew my outlook? First there’s the things...

Why is the Mona Lisa considered one of the best paintings in the world? You’ve seen it: unattractive portrait with no expression in muted colors. It didn’t used to be considered exceptional, what happened? Turns out, at the beginning of the 20th Century, when newspapers were just getting color, it and some other undisplayed paintings were stolen. It was the only one that had features large enough...

Star Trek started as a show with the theme: “To seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.” A handful of reoccurring crew members of the Star Ship Enterprise would travel the universe, going from galaxy to galaxy, experiencing strange new things every week, then wrap it up in an hour, and good luck next episode: no baggage, no continuing storylines, nor tr...

Advice & recommendations come from all directions by people claiming to be experts. There is so much of it, and it’s so often conflicting, that people don’t know who to believe. It would be better if there was some way to tell if a person giving you advice was truly competent & qualified. Wealth is not an accurate measure of wisdom because it basically falls from trees, so you must use oth...

Life isn’t fate, and it isn’t merit, it’s primarily luck: the odds against you even being here far outweigh the number of atoms in the universe. Your life is similarly long odds if you consider how many events had to occur for you to be the person you are today. The myth that you can plan what you’re going to do in the future is a delusion, akin to thinking you’ll be able to pay your rent every mo...

Logic is the most powerful debating tool. Unfortunately, many people can’t recognize an illogical argument unless it’s pointed out to them so the logical thing to do for people proposing illogical arguments is to silence logic. Worse, many people are forced to be illogical because logic would frustrate their goals: for example, if logic dictates that someone else should be in charge, or the facts...

A term that has come out of obscurity but works well to precisely define a debating fallacy is “gaslighting.” Gaslighting’s most common display is when somebody starts a sentence with “you’re crazy…” In that exact sense, gaslighting is an attempt to cast someone else as mentally impaired so that their desires & opinions mean nothing because their judgment is suspect and can be dismissed out of...

Everybody wants to be famous, or they should because fame brings benefits like nothing else does: 1. Opportunity: famous people are offered things that no one else is, especially privilege. 2. Credibility: when a famous person talks, whether or not they’re experts, people listen. 3. Sincerity: money doesn’t underlie the relationships famous people have; being associated with a famous person is eno...

Let’s review some of the concepts surrounding philosophy & psychology: 1. “Narcissist” is what a loser calls a winner. 2. Everyone has an inferiority complex because everyone suspects they’re a fraud. 3. Skeptics can never be convinced, and cynics don’t much like people. 4. The philosophies of Existentialism, Absurdism & Nihilism are measurements of optimism. 5. Reductionism underlies libe...

Egalitarians have goals almost entirely opposite the pursuit of liberty: equality vs. merit, responsibility for others vs. being responsible for yourself, and decisions are made by elites vs. making your own. They also have an opposite value set, which can be easily identified by words like “happiness,” “equity” & “empathy:” feelings over facts. Empathy is by far the worst because it reverses...

Evolution has become a religion ensconced in the trappings of science. Even though there are glaring inconsistencies, it’s adherents vociferously defend every hill and dismiss anyone who dares question the orthodoxy as a heretic. One need not be a theist to reject some of the tenets of evolution, but those who believe in God did provide the concept of Irreducible Complexity that pushes back agains...

Egalitarianism, the idea that all people are equal, appeals to those who are measurably not equal, and in a society that rewards inequality, that makes the stakes the highest possible, meaning any science that supports inequality must be demonized. This is what happened to the notorious 1994 book “The Bell Curve” which argues using irrefutable data & scientific analysis that intelligence is th...

Populism is anti-elitism, and it’s trending around the world. Populism, by its very nature, lies outside of politics and is antithetical towards democracy, though it also relies on numbers. Populists think a group of people who consider themselves special, and run everything for their own benefit, must be overthrown. Populists accuse the political, economic, cultural, and media establishment of pl...

Reductionism is the idea that complex things can be described in terms of simpler parts; mathematics is the premiere example; all math reduces down to the simplest concepts that can describe immense complexity. Science also attempts to reduce explanations to the smallest possible entities: forces, molecules, cells, and the even more reduced components of those. Computer science is wholly based on...

Most philosophies have little bearing on life, more sophistry than useful, while others don’t even try but simply state life has no meaning: Existentialism, Absurdism & Nihilism being the most well known of those. Existentialists, of which there were many proponents in the 20th century like Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger & Jean-Paul Sartre, suggest people can construct their own meani...