The comments from the founder of Substack seem to ignore its limitations. While its subscription model is a good one, it is a text-only medium and thus (IMO) likely to meet the fate of MySpace against the likes of locals.com, which combines that subscription model with multimedia.
I would also point out that a Great Divorce of video hosting sites is already well underway, and that the left-biased Big Media including the likes of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook can expect to lose a large part of their both their membership and content to newer sites such as Rumble, BitChute, tv.gab.com, and locals. A blog such as this which does not wish to limit itself to recruiting only left-leaning people should promote itself on those sites in addition to Twitter. (Or instead, if Twitter starts banning more people for dissent.)
I don't get Sullivan's point. Any fool that takes a loaded gun into the situation that Rittenhouse did is pretty likely to shoot someone in a situation that would be difficult to distinguish from self defense. He should be convicted for manslaughter on the basis of the facts he does not dispute.
Carrying a gun into the situation that Rittenhouse did is crazily dangerous even if it is not illegal. Ideally, the jury will convict based on jury nullification, refuting to be guided by an unjust law. A jury should convict a drunk driver of killing the pedestrian even if driving drunk were not against the law.
My thoughts. First, although the intimate world has expanded, the remote world is larger than ever. A third world has emerged: the one shared by "specialists", and the many sports worlds are the best examples.
Second, very few leftists have been offended by the activists you have in mind. Some libertarians have been offended but try to minimize the activists' offenses (you can ask Tyler Cowen why).
Third, although most likely my personal experience would have been quite different from deBoers', I agree with him about scaling excellence.
Fourth, indeed, the Golden Age has not been evenly distributed. We should not expect any sort of substantive equality, and it will be hard to get process equality. Some form of "arbitrary" discrimination will ever mark humanity.
Fifth, as I said in a comment to the MR post, Tyler is denouncing DeMuth for doing what he usually does. Tyler's hypocritical and superficial comments on most issues (including on the books he's reading --see today's post in MR) may provide entertainment but nothing else.
I agree with you about the value of vigilantes. However, big media are now pushing a narrative in which Antifa and other terrorists/rioters are recast as vigilantes, while victims such as Rittenhouse are recast as terrorists. (And even now that false narrative seems to be selling well to the Left including to city- and state-level politicians in places like Portland.) When cancel culture is successfully used to allow enemy pundits to have their own "facts" accepted, the very possibilities of honest public debate and of getting justice from juries is poisoned, perhaps fatally. This is why I believe a national divorce is really needed.
The most important power the police have that you and I don't is the power to prosecute crimes. If individual victims in cities like Kenosha could prosecute arsonists without police help (and had tools such as facial recognition systems with which to find them), crime sprees couldn't continue to happen. As it stands, even if Rittenhouse wins, the best the people can hope for is that hundreds more capable young men will have the courage to do what he did.
I'm all in favor of a strong monopoly police force if it can be trusted to do its job, fearlessly and fairly. But I don't think it can, so we will always need an armed population. And yes, that means the occasional nut will manage to commit murder, but that's true even in no-guns-allowed countries -- people in some mental states simply can't be deterred.
The comments from the founder of Substack seem to ignore its limitations. While its subscription model is a good one, it is a text-only medium and thus (IMO) likely to meet the fate of MySpace against the likes of locals.com, which combines that subscription model with multimedia.
I would also point out that a Great Divorce of video hosting sites is already well underway, and that the left-biased Big Media including the likes of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook can expect to lose a large part of their both their membership and content to newer sites such as Rumble, BitChute, tv.gab.com, and locals. A blog such as this which does not wish to limit itself to recruiting only left-leaning people should promote itself on those sites in addition to Twitter. (Or instead, if Twitter starts banning more people for dissent.)
"Younger people feel sicker and unhappier than older people by wide margins."
I find it striking that feelings of burnout for Gen-Z and Millennials pre-Covid were nearly as high as they were for Gen X in February of this year.
https://www.indeed.com/lead/preventing-employee-burnout-report
I don't get Sullivan's point. Any fool that takes a loaded gun into the situation that Rittenhouse did is pretty likely to shoot someone in a situation that would be difficult to distinguish from self defense. He should be convicted for manslaughter on the basis of the facts he does not dispute.
As it happens, they didn't even charge him with manslaughter. That would have been more reasonable than murder.
Carrying a gun into the situation that Rittenhouse did is crazily dangerous even if it is not illegal. Ideally, the jury will convict based on jury nullification, refuting to be guided by an unjust law. A jury should convict a drunk driver of killing the pedestrian even if driving drunk were not against the law.
My thoughts. First, although the intimate world has expanded, the remote world is larger than ever. A third world has emerged: the one shared by "specialists", and the many sports worlds are the best examples.
Second, very few leftists have been offended by the activists you have in mind. Some libertarians have been offended but try to minimize the activists' offenses (you can ask Tyler Cowen why).
Third, although most likely my personal experience would have been quite different from deBoers', I agree with him about scaling excellence.
Fourth, indeed, the Golden Age has not been evenly distributed. We should not expect any sort of substantive equality, and it will be hard to get process equality. Some form of "arbitrary" discrimination will ever mark humanity.
Fifth, as I said in a comment to the MR post, Tyler is denouncing DeMuth for doing what he usually does. Tyler's hypocritical and superficial comments on most issues (including on the books he's reading --see today's post in MR) may provide entertainment but nothing else.
I agree with you about the value of vigilantes. However, big media are now pushing a narrative in which Antifa and other terrorists/rioters are recast as vigilantes, while victims such as Rittenhouse are recast as terrorists. (And even now that false narrative seems to be selling well to the Left including to city- and state-level politicians in places like Portland.) When cancel culture is successfully used to allow enemy pundits to have their own "facts" accepted, the very possibilities of honest public debate and of getting justice from juries is poisoned, perhaps fatally. This is why I believe a national divorce is really needed.
The most important power the police have that you and I don't is the power to prosecute crimes. If individual victims in cities like Kenosha could prosecute arsonists without police help (and had tools such as facial recognition systems with which to find them), crime sprees couldn't continue to happen. As it stands, even if Rittenhouse wins, the best the people can hope for is that hundreds more capable young men will have the courage to do what he did.
I'm all in favor of a strong monopoly police force if it can be trusted to do its job, fearlessly and fairly. But I don't think it can, so we will always need an armed population. And yes, that means the occasional nut will manage to commit murder, but that's true even in no-guns-allowed countries -- people in some mental states simply can't be deterred.