People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black "leaders" to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn't spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood? It's their bread and butter.
The biggest lie the legacy media makes is narrative: choosing what to write about and what not to write about
Just how bad is the bias in the media in favor of its own oppression narratives? This chart quantifies some of it: Unarmed white victims of police violence get only a tiny fraction of the news coverage that black ones do — maybe about two to three percent as much.
“Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success.” — Friedrich Hayek
Creativity arises from ability to play:
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1764301768677306839?s=20
John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will
Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground is a brutal attack on overthinking. The protagonist is a "modern" man getting high on his own reason. He's a coward but thinks it's ok because he can play with abstractions well. (Plot twist: it's not, in fact, ok)
Carlyle in 1841: "A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things."
Chesterton on how an open mind is no more a virtue than an open mouth: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
Catharine Cox studied 300 geniuses of history
Found persistence matters more than IQ:
"High but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence"
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