As someone who has been consuming this stuff my entire adult life, I can say that the quality of right-leaning content on the internet nowadays is generally terrible. There's neocon/libertarian mainstream stuff, which was always mostly crap, then there's "dissident" right stuff which inevitably devolves into anti-semitism/Neo-Nazism (or least E. Michael Jones-ism in Catholic circles) or bizarre retarded conspiracy theories like the "Great Reset" or thinking date rape is "based", which negates any reasonable points these people could make. In the background of all this, there is a massive chilling effect on speech due to the harsh social consequences of expressing any non-PC views in public, which is made worse by the fact that it is nearly impossible for a sufficiently popular commentator to avoid being doxxed. The libs are super-conformists and the "dissidents" are increasingly paranoid and reflexively contrarian as a result. Then there is the general decline in reading and the rise of addictive social media making everybody stupider. People on all sides basically see the world through simplistic internet memes and think those who believe in different simplistic memes are subhuman demons.
Thank you for maintaining a high-quality, thought provoking blog and not putting it behind a $5 a month substack paywall. Hopefully you will find more time for this in the next year.
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Merry Christmas, Doc.
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(It's been a very busy week)
As someone who has been consuming this stuff my entire adult life, I can say that the quality of right-leaning content on the internet nowadays is generally terrible. There's neocon/libertarian mainstream stuff, which was always mostly crap, then there's "dissident" right stuff which inevitably devolves into anti-semitism/Neo-Nazism (or least E. Michael Jones-ism in Catholic circles) or bizarre retarded conspiracy theories like the "Great Reset" or thinking date rape is "based", which negates any reasonable points these people could make. In the background of all this, there is a massive chilling effect on speech due to the harsh social consequences of expressing any non-PC views in public, which is made worse by the fact that it is nearly impossible for a sufficiently popular commentator to avoid being doxxed. The libs are super-conformists and the "dissidents" are increasingly paranoid and reflexively contrarian as a result. Then there is the general decline in reading and the rise of addictive social media making everybody stupider. People on all sides basically see the world through simplistic internet memes and think those who believe in different simplistic memes are subhuman demons.
ReplyDeleteThank you for maintaining a high-quality, thought provoking blog and not putting it behind a $5 a month substack paywall. Hopefully you will find more time for this in the next year.
@ Anon
ReplyDeleteThanks.
I agree, the quality of commentary out there on the "Right" is very poor at the moment.
I'll do my best to keep up the content.
Best Wishes.
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