Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: January 22, 2020
The words “attractiveness” and “attraction” are routinely applied to an array of pleasurable stimuli with different properties, of which there are at least three obvious types: the erotic, the romantic, and the aesthetic. The erotic is the oldest of these, since erotic attraction facilitates gene replication in sexually reproducing species, reproduction being perhaps the only […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: January 5, 2020
In 2018, the redoubtable Carl Benjamin, for reasons that are not clear to anyone and not least to him, paid for membership to a British political party that was struggling to stay relevant at the time and is now dead. He was joined by several others – namely: Mark Meechan, Paul Joseph Watson, and Milo […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: October 13, 2019
Leftwing social critics of the modern tradition describe social norms as arbitrary, especially as they relate to gender. They (henceforth, “leftists”) have an equally noticeable tendency to be wrong, and I bet the matters described herein are no exception. First, the word “arbitrary” denotes that which happens without reason. With leftists, it means, “For reasons that I […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: September 18, 2019
Like many or perhaps most people with a verbally slanted intelligence profile, I used to invest a lot of energy into heady academic philosophy, especially ethics. The distant vision of a cognitively post-human species and a suffering-free world governed by utilitarian moral codes probably stimulated my endogenous opioid system. In retrospect, it seems to have […]
Author: Robert Stark
Date: May 27, 2019
In response to Alabama’s recent, controversial, abortion legislation, model and former Blurred Lines music video star, Emily Ratajkowski, posed nude on Instagram, bemoaning how the bill would “perpetuate the industrial prison complex by preventing women of low economic opportunity the right to choose to not reproduce,” and further how: “the states trying to ban abortion […]