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Politically Incorrect Reader, Vol. 1: July 2016
- GenresPhilosophy
270 pages, ebook
Published July 1, 2016
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June 22, 2021
9.5/10. This is a great compilation of essays for someone who has already gotten a taste of the red pill and wants to think other thoughts which cannot be thought in today’s cultural milieu. The essays touching on the unique origins of the West which enabled the unique rise and dominance of the West and the unique masochism of the West today are especially illuminating. We are a pretty strange people, geographically speaking. It’s pretty rare for societies to be monogamous (and to have all of the consequences of monogamy), but even that didn’t survive the sexual revolution and feminism . . .
May 23, 2024
(I'm using this as a euphemism for Devlin's long essay 'Home Economics'.)
“Family scholar Allan Carlson likes to note that during the postwar economic boom the traditional expression "childless marriage" began to be displaced by a new coinage: "child-free marriage." When a society values home entertainment systems more than children, something has gone terribly wrong.”
Now this is classic Devlin: snappy, brutal, incredibly direct about the things that people (especially women) can be the most indirect about. Probably since Austen or Hardy there hasn't been someone -a man no less!- with the kind of unabashed emotional sensitivity to the female perspective in the Anglospheric world. Yes, there is a fair amount of schadenfreude here. But as one of his lady interviewers once argued, if he repackaged any number of his essays as self-help guides for women trying to make men propose to them, he would sell a dime a dozen. Having flicked through a few of these volumes, she's not wrong. I accept the claim that modern society demands that man becomes an interchangeable, friendless office roach beholden to the auras of crazy women, and yet at the same time one must respect the nature of the good ones. If Schopenhauer had kids and a loving wife, he would have had the excuse to say what he said of women in general.
Behold the greatest essay about The Woman Question that is simultaneously sensitive and caring about the future of women. 5/5.
“Family scholar Allan Carlson likes to note that during the postwar economic boom the traditional expression "childless marriage" began to be displaced by a new coinage: "child-free marriage." When a society values home entertainment systems more than children, something has gone terribly wrong.”
Now this is classic Devlin: snappy, brutal, incredibly direct about the things that people (especially women) can be the most indirect about. Probably since Austen or Hardy there hasn't been someone -a man no less!- with the kind of unabashed emotional sensitivity to the female perspective in the Anglospheric world. Yes, there is a fair amount of schadenfreude here. But as one of his lady interviewers once argued, if he repackaged any number of his essays as self-help guides for women trying to make men propose to them, he would sell a dime a dozen. Having flicked through a few of these volumes, she's not wrong. I accept the claim that modern society demands that man becomes an interchangeable, friendless office roach beholden to the auras of crazy women, and yet at the same time one must respect the nature of the good ones. If Schopenhauer had kids and a loving wife, he would have had the excuse to say what he said of women in general.
Behold the greatest essay about The Woman Question that is simultaneously sensitive and caring about the future of women. 5/5.
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