Character is ultimately revealed at moments of great stress. Chomsky's actions are performative, not deeply held; in moments of crisis he calls on the Mommy Government he likes to criticize to murder his political opponents.
Re: the NYT, I hope we eventually reach a point in society's development where it is not quoted or discussed at all, even to criticize it...
Ying and Yang. Opposites that can't exist without the other. Naomi Klein, Chomsky, Patrick Radden Keefe all went full on support of the Convid narrative after writing books denouncing and analyzing what were literally blueprints of what was happening! That really got me.
This is interesting. I think fhe question isn’t where are the men , it’s why aren’t men stepping up ? And blaming lack of literacy education in DJ…well I’m not gonna go there .
The problem with these weak-willed pieces is that, much like the typical pro-media-representation articles from the 2010s, all they do is beg for inclusion. Who's reading and caring about this piece? Certainly not the would-be male writers the author wants to galvanize. The readership is probably almost entirely made up of those who rather like things the way they are and who are tired of seeing the same template piece about how we all just need to be a little nicer to some vaguely defined young literary man lurking in the shadows somewhere. The author namedrops Atwood, but I bet people got raging mad at him anyway.
If you want to be more male-oriented literature, you have to write it and also create the culture for it. For starters, we could review more of those books, even if they come out from smaller presses. Nobody needs to read the 20th review of the same 3 books every year.
>"If you want to be more male-oriented literature, you have to write it and also create the culture for it. For starters, we could review more of those books, even if they come out from smaller presses. Nobody needs to read the 20th review of the same 3 books every year."
This is exactly the thing that we need to do. Build up outsider lit with an active commentariat.
The entire piece is probably just a slight evolution in SJW signaling. “See? We *do* care about men. There’s that one article in the Times!”. Nothing substantive there, no real effort to push the 80% of the publishing industry that is women to care about actual men, and surely no real intention for the men that the article is about to actually read it.
Politics will keep politicking? Hard disagree. I don't think animation on political terms will be some new cultural direction. I think both have really run dry. I agree about the space for cultural development but if it really does end up being politically coded, for either party, I think it'd just be a bit too inhuman. I think the narrative of Overton windows and "controlling the narrative(s)" really is dead at a peak. No amount of that stopped Donald Trump. There are issues with Israel and Gaza on that and at its worst the reactions are just inhuman between 2016 bawling and the very artificial attempts to talk to the ("ew") boys.
The reactionary elements against that aren't substantial and probably wouldn't hold up either if it tried to be substantial.
I'm leaning more into something beyond narratives to substance and meaning as humanly next.
Between these two poles, in my view, we will see something of a New Wave: an orthogonal exploration that takes the newly opened spaces of aesthetic possibility, but moves in a direction that isn’t plainly red, blue, or even purple-coded (“enlightened centrism as a bit”). For relevant examples, I think of mags like Mars Review of Books or Sam Kahn & Ross Barkan’s upcoming project; outlets that seem to deliberately aim toward the syncretic. - Oops, in my pull quote restack commentary I should have finished the last para and that should have been in response to this. But either way, same outcome.
On a personal note, as I chew up a Mexican Xanax, I never in my life wanted to live in such interesting times, and the future I was promised had much better drugs in it.
"bizarre Escherian fractal" tessellation. Escher's work has been held up in comparison to fractals in at least one academic paper that I know of (why do I know this?) but tessellation, he never drew, woodcut, whatever medium'ed, a fractal or fractalization. Great read so far but god I'm sorry I'm autistic.
I don't see an Overton window shift. I see many people that expound the masculinity crisis narrative in various flavors criticizing the wording of that article, but the subtext is that premise from the article is basically dominant, even in heterodox type places, just with various levels of polish.
Very cool. There was an NYT piece (I think?) this very week called "Is the Awkward ‘Diversity Era’ of Hollywood Behind Us?" which serves as a sister piece to this article's spotlight, but in the realm of tv and film. Definitely feeling a vibe shift.
BTW, Passage Books wants books that tell the story of how we got where we are. As an author who has been writing and publishing, with eyes wide open, since the mid 70s, I could maybe help with that. I'm trying to get my latest in front of some publishing eyes. It's the story of a lost soul, male, a returned bit of cannon fire, who discovers he wants to be a writer. I looked at Passage Books web site and there appears to be no way in. Do they only do reprints of classics? Or are they looking for actual living male authors?
Probably besides the point but why is he making his male students read Handmaid's Tale as a morally improving text? What exactly does he expect the result to be? If they're already poisoned by Rogan and Tate, wouldn't they want to have those post-nuclear harems? Also, why are Rogan (crunchy soft right family guy) and Tate (self-proclaimed misogynist with multiple assault cases) always conflated?
one day, after you've liberated your mind from the stupendous blathergarb of confabulated Marxist shit you were forcefed you're gonna go back and read all this shit and laugh at yourself.
there's a person struggling to come out, deep inside yourself, I can see him. he's not quite there yet. set that guy free.
I'm sayin this with a lot of sympathy, I think there's a sharp mind hidden underneath all that fucking jargon you keep slathering all over the place to say really really simple shit.
Interesting! I too have hoped for an 'opening.' What we need is a truly free marketplace of ideas. We don't have that in publishing now. It's Soviet in its operation. Obviously, Big Publishing is making money, but only from one side of the aisle, the hyper-feminist side. How to re-establish a more balanced market, I don't know we do that. Maybe the new alternate presses like you cite may be the answer. Then again, there is the problem of men, mostly young men, who do not read, only play video games. Can they be brought round?
I guess we should look at the schools. That's probably where we should start. Why are schools manufacturing entitled ignoramuses? We need some accountability there. I'm not calling for the feds to get involved. They're the ones that have put us in this mess.
I've submitted queries to about two hundred literary agents, asking them to take a look at my latest novel, and possibly represent me. Most of them, 98%, are women. And most of them, about 75% don't even deem to respond. Of the ones that have, it's only with their standard decline letter, "I have read your submission with great interest..." Yeah, sure you have, as you were quickly hitting the delete key.
As Andrew said, "Politics is downstream from Culture. The Left has long ago seized the Capitals of Culture. Yeah, we had a political win, but they still own the culture. Until we can rip that from their hands, we'll still be grousing around the campfire on the outskirts of the City.
I have not read Chomsky - nor do I really want to - but the guy certainly has a lot of influence. What stands out to me is when he called for the unvaxxed to be removed from society and starved to death during the height of fraudvirus: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1185898/noam-chomsky-unvaccinated-should-remove-themselves-from-the-community-access-to-food-their-problem/
Character is ultimately revealed at moments of great stress. Chomsky's actions are performative, not deeply held; in moments of crisis he calls on the Mommy Government he likes to criticize to murder his political opponents.
Re: the NYT, I hope we eventually reach a point in society's development where it is not quoted or discussed at all, even to criticize it...
Ying and Yang. Opposites that can't exist without the other. Naomi Klein, Chomsky, Patrick Radden Keefe all went full on support of the Convid narrative after writing books denouncing and analyzing what were literally blueprints of what was happening! That really got me.
This is interesting. I think fhe question isn’t where are the men , it’s why aren’t men stepping up ? And blaming lack of literacy education in DJ…well I’m not gonna go there .
Anyhow , great breakdown
We’re moving towards the day when having the imprimatur of the New York Times provides a writer with negative prestige.
Thank goodness for this substack. I was seriously considering chopping off my manhood out of shame 😋
The problem with these weak-willed pieces is that, much like the typical pro-media-representation articles from the 2010s, all they do is beg for inclusion. Who's reading and caring about this piece? Certainly not the would-be male writers the author wants to galvanize. The readership is probably almost entirely made up of those who rather like things the way they are and who are tired of seeing the same template piece about how we all just need to be a little nicer to some vaguely defined young literary man lurking in the shadows somewhere. The author namedrops Atwood, but I bet people got raging mad at him anyway.
If you want to be more male-oriented literature, you have to write it and also create the culture for it. For starters, we could review more of those books, even if they come out from smaller presses. Nobody needs to read the 20th review of the same 3 books every year.
>"If you want to be more male-oriented literature, you have to write it and also create the culture for it. For starters, we could review more of those books, even if they come out from smaller presses. Nobody needs to read the 20th review of the same 3 books every year."
This is exactly the thing that we need to do. Build up outsider lit with an active commentariat.
The entire piece is probably just a slight evolution in SJW signaling. “See? We *do* care about men. There’s that one article in the Times!”. Nothing substantive there, no real effort to push the 80% of the publishing industry that is women to care about actual men, and surely no real intention for the men that the article is about to actually read it.
Politics will keep politicking? Hard disagree. I don't think animation on political terms will be some new cultural direction. I think both have really run dry. I agree about the space for cultural development but if it really does end up being politically coded, for either party, I think it'd just be a bit too inhuman. I think the narrative of Overton windows and "controlling the narrative(s)" really is dead at a peak. No amount of that stopped Donald Trump. There are issues with Israel and Gaza on that and at its worst the reactions are just inhuman between 2016 bawling and the very artificial attempts to talk to the ("ew") boys.
The reactionary elements against that aren't substantial and probably wouldn't hold up either if it tried to be substantial.
I'm leaning more into something beyond narratives to substance and meaning as humanly next.
Between these two poles, in my view, we will see something of a New Wave: an orthogonal exploration that takes the newly opened spaces of aesthetic possibility, but moves in a direction that isn’t plainly red, blue, or even purple-coded (“enlightened centrism as a bit”). For relevant examples, I think of mags like Mars Review of Books or Sam Kahn & Ross Barkan’s upcoming project; outlets that seem to deliberately aim toward the syncretic. - Oops, in my pull quote restack commentary I should have finished the last para and that should have been in response to this. But either way, same outcome.
On a personal note, as I chew up a Mexican Xanax, I never in my life wanted to live in such interesting times, and the future I was promised had much better drugs in it.
"bizarre Escherian fractal" tessellation. Escher's work has been held up in comparison to fractals in at least one academic paper that I know of (why do I know this?) but tessellation, he never drew, woodcut, whatever medium'ed, a fractal or fractalization. Great read so far but god I'm sorry I'm autistic.
We welcome autistic factual corrections on this blog, actually
Thank god, because I have a hard time with it.
I don't see an Overton window shift. I see many people that expound the masculinity crisis narrative in various flavors criticizing the wording of that article, but the subtext is that premise from the article is basically dominant, even in heterodox type places, just with various levels of polish.
Very cool. There was an NYT piece (I think?) this very week called "Is the Awkward ‘Diversity Era’ of Hollywood Behind Us?" which serves as a sister piece to this article's spotlight, but in the realm of tv and film. Definitely feeling a vibe shift.
BTW, Passage Books wants books that tell the story of how we got where we are. As an author who has been writing and publishing, with eyes wide open, since the mid 70s, I could maybe help with that. I'm trying to get my latest in front of some publishing eyes. It's the story of a lost soul, male, a returned bit of cannon fire, who discovers he wants to be a writer. I looked at Passage Books web site and there appears to be no way in. Do they only do reprints of classics? Or are they looking for actual living male authors?
Thanks!
You can check out their website although I don’t know if they’re accepting submissions
Probably besides the point but why is he making his male students read Handmaid's Tale as a morally improving text? What exactly does he expect the result to be? If they're already poisoned by Rogan and Tate, wouldn't they want to have those post-nuclear harems? Also, why are Rogan (crunchy soft right family guy) and Tate (self-proclaimed misogynist with multiple assault cases) always conflated?
The idea that Jews owe it to the Palestinians to just shut up and let them chop them up with machetes is an essentially effeminate argument.
"They are weaker than you, it's not ok to fight back."
one day, after you've liberated your mind from the stupendous blathergarb of confabulated Marxist shit you were forcefed you're gonna go back and read all this shit and laugh at yourself.
there's a person struggling to come out, deep inside yourself, I can see him. he's not quite there yet. set that guy free.
I'm sayin this with a lot of sympathy, I think there's a sharp mind hidden underneath all that fucking jargon you keep slathering all over the place to say really really simple shit.
start talking like a human being.
Your writing gives me so much myelin ❤️
Interesting! I too have hoped for an 'opening.' What we need is a truly free marketplace of ideas. We don't have that in publishing now. It's Soviet in its operation. Obviously, Big Publishing is making money, but only from one side of the aisle, the hyper-feminist side. How to re-establish a more balanced market, I don't know we do that. Maybe the new alternate presses like you cite may be the answer. Then again, there is the problem of men, mostly young men, who do not read, only play video games. Can they be brought round?
I guess we should look at the schools. That's probably where we should start. Why are schools manufacturing entitled ignoramuses? We need some accountability there. I'm not calling for the feds to get involved. They're the ones that have put us in this mess.
I've submitted queries to about two hundred literary agents, asking them to take a look at my latest novel, and possibly represent me. Most of them, 98%, are women. And most of them, about 75% don't even deem to respond. Of the ones that have, it's only with their standard decline letter, "I have read your submission with great interest..." Yeah, sure you have, as you were quickly hitting the delete key.
As Andrew said, "Politics is downstream from Culture. The Left has long ago seized the Capitals of Culture. Yeah, we had a political win, but they still own the culture. Until we can rip that from their hands, we'll still be grousing around the campfire on the outskirts of the City.