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The Gay Question (Asylum Mag): homosociality vs sodomy
An explosive thesis: the centrality of male homoeroticism to premodern production of manliness and great men. We're all familiar by now with a few key ideas:... (web.archive.org) posted 2w ago with 25 replies received history life family

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Here's the canonical reply to this mode of inquiry:... 2w ago received

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Pretty sure homoerotic behavior (whether involving actual sex or not) does not contribute to, but poisons and degrades, male groups and friendships.... 2w ago received

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Men used to form friendships through hunting, building, fighting, and working together—activities that were necessary for survival and building anything meaningful. You trusted other men because your livelihood depended on it. Sure, some abused that trus... 3d ago received

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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts.... posted 3w ago with 21 replies received eugenics life family

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In the domain of our careers it is best to play to our strengths in order to be maximally competitive. In the realm of the personal and romanic I think the addressing our weaknesses and filling in our gaps is most important. It is a meme but "try ball room... 3w ago received

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Before all that, love thyself 2w ago received

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Roland-Garros and aristocratic institutions
I watched the French Open men's final on Sunday. The combatants were Jannik Sinner, a 23 year old German-blooded Italian, and Carlos Alcaraz, a 22 year old Spanish Moor. Great match, but I miss the elegance and athletic beauty of Federer. As a man of tenni... (www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com) posted 2mo ago with 1 reply received eugenics family

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Good post but I'm gonna disagree with the framing. tbh the hyperspecialized "start training for a sport while you're still in the womb and make it the sole focus of your life" stuff never seemed aristocratic to me. I understand the aristocratic focus on sp... 2mo ago received

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No to conventional education
I was thinking , connecting to how it would be better to educate a young prince, on how to get a better and more rounded education than conventional. More and more people every year are getting non-conventional education, many are homeschooled, others just... posted 6mo ago with 3 replies received family

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The important thing to pursue is a coherent, modern program of liberal arts. That's not Great Books. Great Books is a off-target 20th-century reaction to the late 19th-century collapse of the liberal arts.... 6mo ago received

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First, I agree with most of what you say, though I want to make a case for classical languages like Greek or Latin as the natural means to learn the first three.... 6mo ago received

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Creating Top Tier Educational Institutions Once Again
Harvard... posted 6mo ago with 2 replies received family

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The SSC articles on Hungarian education are pretty interesting. This one is about a homeschooling regimen that produced chess grandmasters:... 6mo ago received

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Ranking Socio-Economic Factors
I understand this tweet thread as saying there is some feature F that is mostly innate that determines the wellbeing and health of a society. Some people have F and when they're with others who have F, they naturally create the Good Society the way beavers... (x.com) posted 7mo ago with 7 replies received eugenics family

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I like the luther analogy. Let's stop buying the indulgences, and start calling out the true nature of socio-economic salvation. But what does that entail in practice?... 7mo ago received

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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).... posted 12mo ago with 6 replies received family

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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture.... 11mo ago received

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The internet social apocalypse and its solutions
folks over on twitter are complaining that all the twisty little passages full of unique social subcultures have been dissolved into a single global free market of slop. Elon giveth, and Elon taketh away. It seemed like an interesting topic so let's have a... posted 14mo ago with 9 replies received politics family

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I honestly don’t see much change over the past few years. Twitter was pretty good but not amazing then, and it’s pretty good but not amazing now. My group chats are much like they were before, maybe a hair sharper. What differences are you guys complai... 14mo ago received

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Instead of being nostalgic, it occurred to me that I might give an example of a platform that has survived the social apocalypse...... 14mo ago received

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What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 14mo ago with 1 reply received family

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I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 14mo ago received

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Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do?... posted 1y ago with 31 replies received eugenics life family

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Rereading Proverbs 31 it's clear how much it's gesturing at founding a *specifically great/noble* family as being part of the calling.... 1y ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 1y ago received

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Pamphlet excerpt
A friend has been distributing a pamphlet and I wanted to share this excerpt:... posted 1y ago with no replies received family

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Jubensha; The Chinese Game The West Needs, But Has Never Heard Of
https://deng.poker/jubensha posted 1y ago with 6 replies received family

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Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?
A common theme I see in some circles online is that many political opinions and other social convictions are downstream of aesthetics. This leads to a sort of propagandizing via art and literature, appeals to physical beauty, etc.... posted 1y ago with 15 replies received politics family

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This feels like overthinking. Mathematicians are lefty because mathematicians are academics and academics are lefty. Call it aesthetics or whatever why people are drawn to what are propagandized as beautiful ideas within their formative environments, but I... 1y ago received

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That is to say, if everyone who can be good is attempting to be good, then we need no other plans. If God is real then He will guide us; if not, then our efforts are already in vain. 1y ago received

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The lesson of Greta Thunberg
I have been thinking a lot about Greta Thunberg for the past few months. I must be the last one. Her reappearance at an Extinction Rebellion protest confirmed her irrelevance. Brief commentary on that was generated only by the anonymous wag that edited the... posted 1y ago with 4 replies received politics family

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About generations, I've noticed in my own life that I get more out of the older generations every time I become more mature. Now in my 30s with some kids and successes under my belt it's quite pleasant to learn from and help out the olds in my life. I thin... 1y ago received

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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.... posted 2y ago with 24 replies received philosophy rationality family

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Rationality is the virtue of thought and I think it's good to keep the term around, but it isn't the father of virtue, since sometimes it is prudent to stop thinking, and because a lot of activities are better without thought.... 2y ago received

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government... 2y ago received

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