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America’s fascination with warrior culture and veterans

March 5, 2023 / culture, libertarianism, morality, politics, popular culture, psychology, war / Leave a Comment
Americans are a war-like people. Americans have been continuously at war almost every single year since the founding of the country. In fact, there have only been 15 years of peace in the last 246 years since the country was founded. And, at least in the last century or so, every single war the United States government Read more [...]

Wakanda Forever’s racism

February 8, 2023 / narrative, popular culture / Leave a Comment
I recently watched Wakanda Forever, because I generally enjoy watching Marvel's superhero movies, although they've been plagued by a decline in quality over the last few years as they increasingly pander to the woke communist crowd. I was shocked to see the blatant, overt racism espoused by some of the characters on Read more [...]

Censorship leads to violence

February 3, 2023 / culture, libertarianism, narrative, parenting, politics, popular culture, psychology / 2 Comments
A lot of social media companies use anti-racism and anti-violence policies as an excuse to censor people. Even though these policies are always way more far-reaching than originally planned, and most speech being censored just ends up being "anything that isn't the current mainstream narrative", it's likely that many of Read more [...]