One cannot use reductio ad absurdum as an argument, because the SJW cannot understand that you are being sarcastic. And thus, you get labelled as a Troll: the best illustration here is Theodore Beale (Vox Day) who many disassociate themselves from because the boy is rude and provocative. He does have reasons, including the fact that the American version of my ethnic group stole all his land…. but that argument only works if you are of the Left. Which, to his credit, Vox is not.

The base assumption Vox’s critics is that rational and scientifically justifiable are equivalent to right. Because Vox says something may rational and scientifically justifiable, he must therefore approve of it. This is, of course, stupid.

Rationality is morally neutral, as is science. Neither have moral value in themselves, they can only be used as tools discover, elucidate, or develop pre-existing truths.

Just because something is does not mean it that it ought to be. Vice versa also stands, any ought should fully take into consideration what is. Confusion of is for ought leads to a moral-stuntedness, confusion of ought for is leads to inhumanity.

As if these people are going to win: as if we are like that. Most of those who are on the bleeding edge of reaction are somewhat cool, and when their life improves they move on. Which is the way of things. Alte, commenting on the end of the Spearhead:

Being bored out of my mind got me thinking some interesting things, though. When you’re busy, the creative juices just dry right up. Everything I write now is crap because my mind is occupied by dull things like studying vocabulary and sitting through meetings.

As for Welmer, he has this amazing chillaxed management style that kept us all from eating each other alive for longer than I’d think is humanly possible.

And regarding the Manosphere losing steam… it’s gone so mainstream now that it’s not all that exciting to write about it. I wrote stuff that could have gotten me arrested once and now I hear people saying the same thing at the Kaffeeklatsch. The radicals always move on to the next big thing because they want to push boundaries. Ya don’t want to promote the same ideas your mom does.

The side that is yelling most, generally, is the side that is losing. The side that projects illogic is the side that has flaws in its arguments. And the day that we cannot have a decent disagreement, or have to read books only by those who are approved (Have I reflected lately on how much I like a Trotskyite called Eric Flint and a functional leftist Jacobean called Charles Stross? I dislike their politics as much as I dislike Michael Z Williamson’s neopaganism and the Mormonism of Larry Correa and Orson Scott Card. But I buy books from all of them… because they can write)…

… we stop being human and become cogs in a machine. May that never be. And for those who wonder why I still blog… look at the Lectionary. If I feel smug, the word smacks be back into my correct state. At least daily.