Principles of Human Society – Updated!
After many years of contemplation, I have reluctantly come to the following conclusions. Here they are in a nutshell.
Fundamental Principle #1: Law of Infinite Hypergamy. The higher the percentage of women in power, the more porous a nation’s borders will be, in order to expand high status women’s potential mating pool of males to an infinite asymptote. This is commonly called “saving refugees”.
Corollary to Law of Infinite Hypergamy: vanishing borders are the clearest sign that one lives in a wholly dominant matriarchy.
Fundamental Principle #2: The Law of Inverse Value. In a democratic society, the more popular something is, the less it is worth.
The Electoral Corollary to the Law of Inverse Value: popular elections will always end up promoting the mediocre, the incompetent, or the undistinguished—and usually all three.
The Dunning-Kruger Corollary to the Law of Inverse Value: the less a person knows, the more certain he is that he knows it.
The Noise Corollary to Law of Inverse Value: the less a group of people know, the bigger and louder and more disruptive to society their public protest will be.
Fundamental Principle #3: Law of Derived Elections. If you control a nation’s media, you control its elections, therefore where a nation’s information media are privately owned, its election results will be determined by the owners of its media.
Media Corollary to the Law of Derived Elections: Preserving an entrenched regime that is protected by a lack of term limits, requires monopolistic control over most media and the suppression of all media which does not conform. This is commonly called “saving our democracy”.
Fundamental Principle #4: Law of Heretical Speech: Under a state religion (and most states have a state religion whether obvious of not), all speech that does not glorify the Deity n praise its Priesthood is by definition “heretical” speech, which the state strives to restrict or eliminate.
Electoral Corollary to the Law of Heretical Speech: Since elections are a form of speech, all popular elections are by definition heresy under an entrenched state religion and elections must be either banned beforehand, or falsified if they occur, or the results reversed by courts if the results are inconvenient to the Priesthood.
Fundamental Principle #5: Law of Democratic Trivialities. Regarding anything one writes, most people, who by definition are of average IQ, will ignore the important points and focus on criticizing any trivialities they can detect.
Media Corollary to the Law of Trivialities: All media will invariably report from a public statement only what is trivial while ignoring or misrepresenting the statement’s essential points. This is commonly called journalism.
The Anecdote Corollary to the Law of Trivialites. Every general statement is countered with the “But I know someone who” argument, which challenges every sociological observation with a trivial anecdote: “But I know someone who does not conform to your general statement, therefore your statement is invalid.”
I believe these principles are incontrovertible. No evidence has yet appeared on my radar screen which could challenge them.
Robert E Howard Days in Cross Plains
T-Shirt. This one is hard to find. Howard’s personal books rescued from several libraries.
The front of Howard’s home. It was only 3 rooms when he lived there. He lived and wrote on this back porch.
Inside the house.
Festival goers and the annual dinner.
The Trouble with STEM – 8
The Truth in Hell Regarding WW2 and Other Historical Exposes.
How to Write Science Fiction – 9
More tropes to avoid, a discussion of ethnicity, n another example of an opening paragraph.
The Trouble With STEM – 7
My latest Substack post. This one is controversial.
How to Write Sci-Fi – 8
My latest on How to Write Sci-Fi – 8.
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Continuing my series of posts on how to write fiction with special emphasis on science fiction since that is what I write.
TROPES. Good writers don’t use tropes. These are off-the-shelf situations or characters that have been so overused that they have become unbelievable or tiresome to most readers. If you have seen it more than once before, it probably qualifies as a trope. TV commercials are awash in tropes, as are most Hollywood movies because it is easier to sell stereotypes than originality….
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My Latest Substack post: The Trouble with STEM – 6
To recap: I recently ran across an online post by a person trained in STEM, calling for colleges to no longer teach any subject except Science, Technology, Engineering, n Math. Others asked if he were serious n he said he was. Many people tried to get him to modify his position but he insisted that only STEM should ever be taught in colleges. IMO, this has led to serious mistakes n misunderstandings by this person, n by other persons, especially engineers in my experience, when they stray from their fields of expertise n decide they know something about human society when they may not.
- STEM types seem to think that A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, is genuine history when in fact it is mostly fake, n like King Leopold’s Ghost, it is not an academic work by an actual historian. Both works present a false picture to the public of what historians actually do n actually believe. STEM people, unfamiliar as they are with the discipline of history, remain unaware of this misimpression n accept the theses of these works uncritically….
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I have lots more coming. I’ll post more on this and similar topics soon.
Substack posts
I am continuing my series of posts on Substack on How to Write Sci-fi. I am not entirely sure if I am handling Substack correctly. I guess I’ll find out soon.
On the way: more articles on how to write. And more articles in my series on The Trouble with STEM. Not to neglect my posts on myth, religion, n the Cult of Wokism.
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