A cautionary tale, and a plea for change “But are you strong enough now for a truly big fish?” —The Old Man and the Sea Have you ever had a Big Idea—an idea with the potential to transform the way people think about their society and culture? Imagine that you had such a Big … Continue reading "THE IDEA THAT GOT AWAY"| Thoughts of Stone
Women and civilizational collapse Complaints of “toxic” workplaces. Mass hiring of diversity-equity-inclusion commissars. Open-borders immigration sold to the public with tear-jerking images of refugee children. Trans mania spreading everywhere from kindergarten classrooms to corporate C-suites. Personal pronouns in work email signatures. White women kneeling in prayerful mass protests after yet another African-heritage male with … Continue reading "MISTRESSES OF MISRULE"| Thoughts of Stone
Is the USA in a Flight 93 situation? United Airlines flight 93 was the one that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11/01, instead of being flown into the US Capitol. The reason it crashed into a field in Pennsylvania was that a group of passengers, ordinary peace-loving Americans, put aside their fears … Continue reading "“IF WE DON’T, WE’LL DIE”"| Thoughts of Stone
A hypothesis about the origin of some female psychological traits One of the traits that women seem generally willing to acknowledge as their own is a greater affinity for “inclusivity” and the related “equity.” In other words, compared to the average man, the average woman seems to have a stronger preference for a society … Continue reading "WOMEN, INCLUSIVITY AND THE PALEOLITHIC"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening as a social mania In prior essays on this site and elsewhere, I’ve argued that the spread of wokeness and its recent marked intensification (the “Great Awokening”) is best seen as a social contagion—of feelings and sociocultural ideas that broadly reflect women’s maternal instincts, and are much more transmissible among women than … Continue reading "A SPIRALING FRENZY"| Thoughts of Stone
The Right’s “sympathy for the devil” has weakened it at a crucial moment The sanctions against Russia—both the official economic sanctions and the unofficial, often petty-seeming sanctions such as banning Russian owners from cat shows—arguably represent the first great “geopolitical cancellation” of this new feminized era in the West. This cancellation obviously goes far … Continue reading "PUTIN AND THE FALL OF THE WEST"| Thoughts of Stone
The West’s—and the Right’s—shame World War II ended less than two decades before I was born, yet I’ve always felt that it belonged to much more distant age—set off from modern existence by its different ways of thinking and doing, different patterns of speech and dress, grander scale of horrors and heroism, even the … Continue reading "I STICK MY NECK OUT FOR NOBODY"| Thoughts of Stone
Giuffre v. Prince Andrew—yet another egregious example of how wokeism is destroying the US legal system. Every day, on Twitter and a thousand other media and social-media forums, Americans of a “conservative” or “right-wing” persuasion bemoan and lament the civilizational destruction caused by the crazed, bureaucrat-and-brownshirt armies of wokeness. I bemoan and lament with … Continue reading "THE LAW EMPINKENED"| Thoughts of Stone
Once more unto the breach, dear friends. I’ve written about women and their cultural/political ascendancy so much in recent years, especially the last three, that I worry about sounding like the proverbial broken record if I write any more. But it seems to me that as this idea is accepted more widely—including by commentators who … Continue reading "WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WOMEN"| Thoughts of Stone
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, by Coleman Hughes, was released on February 6, 2024. This is by far the most thoughtful and thorough book about race in America that I …| Ben Slivka
The ubiquity of “kulturkampf”| thoughtsofstone.github.io
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