When you take art and divorce it from the artist (AI art), all that's left is bland sensation. It is, like @naval days, meaningless. It's similar with life. Without God all we have is sensation. It results in nihilism or hedonism.

The three horsemen of America First - Tucker, Candace, and Fuentes - are so intellectually lazy it's comical.

People fall into conspiracy theories because they are entertaining. And the most entertaining thing about them is that they blur the lines of reality.

The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when you learn about something new, or become aware of it for the first time, and then suddenly start seeing it everywhere because of selective attention to that thing.

The greatest virtue in the metamodern age is purpose, for it will be the only means of regaining agency.

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

False. Death has never been a virtue. But the kind of eternal life humanism promises will look more like eternal rot in practice. If there is any elixir of youth, it can only be through Christ.

Best case scenario for Nick Fuentes is to become like Andrew Tait. No longer relevant or respected, but still moderately wealthy and with a lasting impact.

Gen Z isn't radicalized because of Covid, immigration, or AI. Gen Z is radicalized because information was first democratized, and then monetized by the internet. We live in the attention economy.

Your sense of helplessness manifests itself in fantasizing about violence against other people. It really, really shows.

@NancyRPearcey @RealisticLois As a Christian, Nancy, you should agree that both men and women have "tendencies toward" destructive things. As someone who is against mind/body dualism and the fact/value divide (yes, I read two of your books), you shouldn't balk at part of that tendency at least being

"Lovers spend a good deal of time staring into the face of the beloved other... it bears upon its surface the image of God, and however distorted or corrupt that image may have become, it is still inexhaustible, never finally and completely to be known" (Griffiths, Curiosity)

The Groypers are an online coalition. They gained strength through networking underground in alt social media spaces until they gained mainstream traction. If you are anti-Groyper, reply here and I'll follow you. This is how we defeat them, by building our own coalition.

I've lost followers talking about how the left is rotting the west. I've lost followers talking about how the right is rotting the west. That's what happens when you have convictions. You rise and fall on them.

Social media neuters ideologues.

From my appearance on 60 Minutes: Me: Research works. If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise. Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes: Is that whole idea being lost in the harsh rhetoric by the administration? Me: The attack on universities is a

Both the woke left and the woke right grow by amplifying their weakness. They are victims of an invalid authoritarian regime, and need to take power at the highest ranks to level the playing field in their favor, through force.

Marshall McLuhan is the originator of this idea. We see it everywhere in an age dominated by entertainment, short form media and cult personalities.

"If his ideas suck, then Nick Fuentes will be beat in the free market." False. The best ideas do NOT win in a "free market" dominated by entertainment, short form media, and cult personalities.

America is ready for bands to return. Enough with the overly sanitized light room music videos. We need people making music again, and playing it with people who enjoy it.

People like Tucker have elevated what they perceive to be their divine mission above all other virtues. The same thing happens with pastors. It corrupts by giving them a false sense of self-importance. When pastors do it, it's a scandal. When journalists do it, few people care.