Suppression of any kind of emotionally disturbing speech (“hate speech,” “mansplaining,” etc.) and even fields of scientific inquiry that are likely to evoke negative emotions;| thoughtsofstone.github.io
The feminist hysteria that enveloped Harvard President Larry Summers in 2005 marked a shift away from reason and logic in American public discourse| thoughtsofstone.github.io
THE IDEA THAT GOT AWAY| thoughtsofstone.github.io
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
The “trans-timeline-traveler” hypothesis for UFOs ____________________________ “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” —Stephen Hawking In 1959, at an Anglican mission in the village of Boianai, on the north coast of the mountainous southeastern prong of New Guinea, there occurred one of the best-known examples of what the UFO … Continue reading "TOURISTS FROM THE FUTURE"| Thoughts of Stone
Further notes on the “unaligned A.I.” problem A lot of dust is now being raised by media hype and corporate positioning about A.I.—similar to what we saw in the early days of the Internet. Behind all the dust clouds, though, there’s an active debate among techies and tech-adjacent types about the “A.I. apocalypse” that … Continue reading "FROM TECH FREEDOM TO WORLD GOVERNMENT"| Thoughts of Stone
Why most planetary civilizations collapse I didn’t get into video games until I was in my 40s. Oddly enough, it was a historian who triggered my interest. Niall Ferguson, the bestselling author, columnist, TV personality and Stanford professor, penned a 2006 New York Magazine piece, “How to Win a War,” that persuasively extolled the … Continue reading "THE LAST HISTORY AND THE END OF MAN"| 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
Don’t overlook social stratifications This is a just a brief, minor note about an aspect of human populations that seems to be overlooked much of the time in popular discourse, namely the existence within countries of distinct strata of individuals. In discussions about the United States, this stratification is less overlooked, given the country’s … Continue reading "THE STRATA OF NATIONS"| 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
Terminal demoralization, the Fermi Paradox, and the true “end of history” “What is it, then, that this craving and this helplessness proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from … Continue reading "THE DESPAIR TRAP"| 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
Stray thoughts on a Red State rebellion. Almost exactly twenty years ago, on the other side of the world from the USA, the elites and middle classes of the Philippines, with low-key but ample international support, overthrew their country’s elected president, Joseph Estrada, in what was later called a “constitutional coup.” Estrada was in … Continue reading "SOME REALITIES OF “PEOPLE POWER”"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening may be catastrophic for the USA but as a cultural phenomenon it is inherently transitory| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Attempts to study UFOs and their occupants probably will be futile, at best| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Advanced AI will be more dangerous than it seems, but (good news!) probably won’t be in position to snuff out humanity for another decade at least.| thoughtsofstone.github.io
You are about to become obsolete.| thoughtsofstone.github.io
The rise of wokeness, ESG, the trans mania, etc. is all due to women’s new power in institutions| thoughtsofstone.github.io
A quick summary for those coming to this for the first time.| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Adapted from a chapter in my recent book, The Great Feminization…| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Encourage new ideas and more productive dialogue by giving idea-originators the credit they’re due| thoughtsofstone.github.io
The ubiquity of “kulturkampf”| thoughtsofstone.github.io
No man is an island.| thoughtsofstone.github.io
An incomplete list, but maybe useful.| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Thoughts on another miscarriage of justice in the broken USA| thoughtsofstone.github.io
What if Western societies are now inherently unstable?| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Who’s afraid of black nationalism?| thoughtsofstone.github.io
Americans’ conspiracy theories are blue pills| thoughtsofstone.github.io
An expatriate’s perspective on pan-ethnic mass immigration| thoughtsofstone.github.io