{"id":1423,"date":"2016-10-20T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2016-10-20T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:56:03","slug":"found-a-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Found a new blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s new to me, at least. Via Gerard Vanderleun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is his post on why he moved from the political left to the political right<\/a>. I’ve read several of these from different people, and they’re all interesting. The key paragraph for me was this:<\/p>\n

This was the final straw, to see that all of the things that a kind must do in order to continue to persist are exactly what liberalism condemns. That if you have two groups, one of which refuses to do what it must in order to persist through time, and another group which does, the latter will inherit the Earth. In fact, the Earth will always be inherited by those groups who take the effort to persist. These considerations are detailed in \u201cThe Ultimate Guide to Cultural Marxist Genocide.\u201d I wrestled with these implications for a long time, for over a year actually. But in the end I could not get over the conclusion that, whatever moral or political theory you prefer, it can\u2019t, like the Shakers, lead to the extinction of those who practice it. Values have survival value. On the other hand, liberal values are \u201cDeathwish Values,\u201d they lead to the extinction of those who live by them, and can not endure through time. If you adopt liberalism, you go extinct (see \u201cThe Shakers, Deathwish Values, and Autonomy\u201c). This is what is currently happening to all the ancient people\u2019s of Europe due to their adoption of liberalism. The world will always be inherited by those who live by values that ensure the survival of their kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also has a good post about the push to declare sexual differences to be “social constructs<\/a>.” He’s responding to someone else who lists a number of abnormal conditions as reasons to discard the normal. Again, there is a paragraph I find key:<\/p>\n

The problem is that biology does not work on this essentialist basis; it works on the basis of function\/malfunction, normal\/abnormal. The real lesson to draw from examples such as those presented by EvoX is that sex is a functional biological norm, and individuals can deviate from this norm in many different ways. \u201cBiologically normal\u201d means working as designed by natural selection, or being in the condition it is supposed to be in, where \u201cdesign\u201d and \u201csupposed to\u201d means that the item is in the condition its ancestors were in on those occasions where they actually were selected for by natural selection. I will use \u201cdesign\u201d and \u201csupposed to\u201d since they are more intuitive to grasp and easier than writing out \u201cas happened historically when the mechanism was selected for\u201d each time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m looking forward to spending more time reading what he’s got on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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