On Agency and Accountability

Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: July 31, 2019
Tags: accountability, agency, consent, crime, IQ, military, recidivism
Categories: AltLeft, Black Pill, Tech, Uncategorized

Is it morally permissible for a 14-year-old to be enlisted in the military under any circumstance? The impulse this question elicits is one of disgust, founded on a historically and geographically local set of assumptions about moral agency and its relationship to age. The “true” existence of agency itself is contestable if taken to mean […]

PMS City

Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: July 25, 2019
Tags: alcohol, culture-bound syndromes, disease, hormones, pathogens, PMS
Categories: Black Pill, Uncategorized

As with labels such as “schizophrenia,” and many besides, premenstrual syndrome is a symptomatological diagnosis – a category formed not on the basis of any known cause but on a loosely associated set of symptoms, which are many and vary in severity. And none of them should exist. Evolution has had a near-eternity to chip […]