Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Demographics

  • Procreational Slackers

    Procreational slack-off among white Boomers and their generational successor cohorts plays a role in the 'replacement' of whites. Note also that it provides a soupçon of justification for wide-open borders to allow in potential taxpayers to support the welfare state. This might be worth discussing.

  • White Flight and Racism

    Does racism explain white flight? Here is an interview with Jack Cashill. Excerpts: Your book challenges the conventional “white flight” narrative. In brief, what were whites fleeing, if not black Americans moving into their neighborhoods? I got the book’s title from a childhood friend, the last guy to leave our block. When I asked him…

  • The Childless as Anthropological Danglers

    Top o' the Stack.  The Austrian philosopher and Vienna Circle member Herbert Feigl wrote about nomological danglers.  Mental states as the epiphenomenalist conceives them have causes, but no effects. They are caused by physical states of the body and brain, but dangle nomologically in that there are no laws  that relate mental states  to physical…

  • Freedom in the 50 States

    Arizona does very well. California and New York are crap holes freedom-wise. No surprise with chuckleheads Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo at their respective helms. (HT: Bill Keezer)

  • Illinois Exodus

    Illinois, like California, is bleeding population. Whatever King Midas touched turned to gold. Whatever a philosopher touches turns into a puzzle. Whatever a leftist touches turns to crap. People are voting in a manner most effective: with feet and wallets. Why live in a crap hole? As you all know by now, people need a…

  • Why Do Asian Americans Continue to Support Liberal Candidates and Policies?

    One might think that, given the superior intelligence of Jews and Asians as groups, members of these groups would not support destructive leftists when it is fairly obvious that doing so is not in their long-term best self-interest. We read below that a third of Asian Americans live in California. So they have first-hand experience…

  • The Childless as Anthropological Danglers

    The Austrian philosopher and Vienna Circle member Herbert Feigl wrote about nomological danglers.  Mental states as the epiphenomenalist conceives them have causes, but no effects. They are caused by physical states of the body and brain, but dangle nomologically in that there are no laws  that relate mental states  to physical states. The childless are…

  • No Skin/Kin in the Game

    Dying Europe's Leaders Have No Children

  • Anti-Natalism and Demographics

    I can imagine someone objecting to me as follows: Why the careful and respectful attention to the anti-natalist writings of David Benatar and others when the West, Europe especially, is under dire existential threat from hordes of non-Western immigrants who have no intention of assimilating but aim at cultural conquest?  Anti-natalism is an expression of…

  • Death Spiral States

    Do you live in a death spiral state?  Buying real estate or municipal bonds in such a state may prove to be a foolish move.  Here is a list with each state's 'taker ratio':  Ohio 1.0 Hawaii 1.02 Illinois 1.03 Kentucky 1.05 South Carolina 1.06 New York 1.07 Maine 1.07 Alabama 1.10 California 1.39 Mississippi…

  • Blue States Losing Population

    Many are voting with their feet against liberal policies.  Even the liberal NYT takes note.