The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I put up on the final Wednesday. Sometimes most of my readers vote for a single theme, sometimes there’s a quiet little contest among an assortment of themes. Then there was this month, where three topics broke from the pack early on, a lot of people who rarely or never vote in these contests flung themselves into the fray, and all three of the leading topics got more votes than most winning topics do. Since I have the best as well as the most eccentric commentariat on the internet, I decided promptly enough that the only sensible thing to do was to do posts on all three. This week’s post, accordingly, is on the topic that nosed ahead in the final days of the contest and won the contest. Some weeks ago, in the course of the ongoing discussion of Situationism on this blog, I noted that the...

  Dead Eyes Don't Lie Society Normalizes and Incentivizes Satanic Pop Culture Child Groomers 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙉 Disney’s darlings grooming young girls: From innocent and wholesome, to normalizing the slutty and pornographic by their teenage years. Corrupting Yooots In 399 BC, Socrates was tried and sentenced to death by hemlock for corrupting the youth of Athens. His crimes? He loitered in the streets and spoke to young men on the brink of adulthood, drawing them into vices that unsettled the polis. He invited them to escape the habit and drudgery of their world with tightly rolled purple cookie monster kush joints to ease the stress of prepping for their geometry exams, and showed them his collection of Only Macedonians— pin-up reliefs, one of which depicted a woman providing a different kind of relief for 1000 Athenian soldiers in a single night. When the Lyceum in Athens hosted its Spring Greek formal, Socrates would show up with chariots stacked with kegs of Egyptian barle...