The bushlit economy, speaking power to truth, invade the world invite the world, our prices discriminate so we don't have to; tragic vs magic dirt are a few that come to mind.
On this tenth anniversary of the publication of the much-denounced The Bell Curve, it's amusing to reflect on one of the enduring ironies of American political life. Liberals tend to believe two things about IQ: First, that IQ is a meaningless, utterly discredited concept. Second, that liberals are better than conservatives because they have much higher IQs.
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] He constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't, b] He has a high IQ, but they don't.
In "Lucky Jim," Kingsley Amis says, "There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
Sociologically, we see positive correlations between most positive things: income, IQ, trust, cooperation, law-abidingness, kindness, future time orientation, health, beauty, and so forth and so on. There is no end to the ways in which, say, La Canada is nicer than Compton.
I wonder how many people recognize La Canada? It's kind of the anti-Beverly Hills in staying low key. Let's just say that as soon as Shohei Ohtani signed a $700 million contract with the L.A. Dodgers, he bought a house in La Canada.
In an older post, responding to one of those pieces about how immigration is good because the author’s ancestors were immigrants, you wrote something like “That would be a good argument if our decisions now could affect the past. But actually, time moves in a forward direction.”
The following is a selection from my tags of what I considered notable in 'Noticing':
What goes unsaid tends to be unthought, and eventually unthinkable
When you stop and think about it, it's kind of nuts that Americans sacralise foreign elites like Omar...from the worst-run countries on earth and pay them to lecture us on how the only thing that will save us is letting in more of them.
Unfortunately, perhaps the biggest threat facing the world in this century is that contemporary white culture's worship of blacks as holy will keep us from criticising Africans for their more primitive traits , such as their fertility obsession , and instead indulge them by letting them dispatch their surplus population to our lands.
Another cause to which Foucault devoted himself was liberating children to have sex with grown men.
When you've got the right theory it's easy to observe more -you can hold more details in your mind because they fit together.
The demography of India is especially complex due to its caste system, which resembles Jim Crow on steroids and acid.
We can never eliminate stereotypes. Instead we should constantly search for more and better stereotypes, ones that more narrowly and accurately describe reality.
Political correctness is a war on noticing [THIS IS YOUR LEAD???]
It's harder to not notice patterns when watching sports than almost anywhere else in life.
No advance is wanted or unwanted until it's made. Unwanted sexual advances are the price we all pay for the survival of the species.
Seeing racists under the bed is the latest manifestation of the adolescent hysteria that triggered the Salem witch trials in 1692.
In general racism provides a boring and obtuse all-purpose faith-based rationalization for everything otherwise interesting about American life.
The Establishment views blacks as our Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.
But you could as easily throw darts at 'Noticing' and hit bullseye bonmots, Steve.
Was there a concise phrase for the mass shooter theory? It's my mental go-to every time I hear "mass shooting"... and I always know the answer to what everyone is wondering :)
The bushlit economy, speaking power to truth, invade the world invite the world, our prices discriminate so we don't have to; tragic vs magic dirt are a few that come to mind.
Unreal estate
AI sez
Reality doesn’t care about your theories.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“If you can’t talk about it, you can’t fix it.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“Facts are racist — when they’re inconvenient.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“Good judgment comes from noticing. Bad judgment comes from ignoring.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“The first rule of journalism: If you notice too much, you’re fired.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“Noticing the obvious is now a revolutionary act.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“When you notice patterns, you’re called names.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
“The penalty for noticing is worse than the penalty for lying.”
— Steve Sailer, Noticing
I would hit the like for this comment, but you cheated.
😜😆
Wow. You did your homework!
These phrases remind me of what a good companion Amy Wax was at your D.C. speaking event. She provided the color analysis to your play by play.
"What would be good short clips (one-liners or paragraphs) to use to promote the audio version on Twitter and the like?"
Noticing (obviously), with perhaps a few words defining the term as you see it.
Assuming he's in the book, make mention of one of your nemeses, Malcolm Gladwell.
As in....
"Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm."
Or...
"Malcolm isn't so Glad right about now."
Things similar to that.
“Malcolm isn’t so Glad well is he now”
Perfect
Not yours, but...
It's amazing what you can learn from simply opening your eyes.
Noticing: trust your lying eyes
Noticing: understanding the world from an empirical perspective
"what goes unsaid will eventually go unthought." "Diversity, equality, liberty: choose two." "Diverse vibrancy or vibrant diversity"
Anything about black women being tired and or having their hair touched
You should dump the whole book's text file into Grok and ask it. That would either make for a great or hilarious future post.
On this tenth anniversary of the publication of the much-denounced The Bell Curve, it's amusing to reflect on one of the enduring ironies of American political life. Liberals tend to believe two things about IQ: First, that IQ is a meaningless, utterly discredited concept. Second, that liberals are better than conservatives because they have much higher IQs.
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] He constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't, b] He has a high IQ, but they don't.
In "Lucky Jim," Kingsley Amis says, "There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
Sociologically, we see positive correlations between most positive things: income, IQ, trust, cooperation, law-abidingness, kindness, future time orientation, health, beauty, and so forth and so on. There is no end to the ways in which, say, La Canada is nicer than Compton.
I wonder how many people recognize La Canada? It's kind of the anti-Beverly Hills in staying low key. Let's just say that as soon as Shohei Ohtani signed a $700 million contract with the L.A. Dodgers, he bought a house in La Canada.
La Cañada ?
In an older post, responding to one of those pieces about how immigration is good because the author’s ancestors were immigrants, you wrote something like “That would be a good argument if our decisions now could affect the past. But actually, time moves in a forward direction.”
The following is a selection from my tags of what I considered notable in 'Noticing':
What goes unsaid tends to be unthought, and eventually unthinkable
When you stop and think about it, it's kind of nuts that Americans sacralise foreign elites like Omar...from the worst-run countries on earth and pay them to lecture us on how the only thing that will save us is letting in more of them.
Unfortunately, perhaps the biggest threat facing the world in this century is that contemporary white culture's worship of blacks as holy will keep us from criticising Africans for their more primitive traits , such as their fertility obsession , and instead indulge them by letting them dispatch their surplus population to our lands.
Another cause to which Foucault devoted himself was liberating children to have sex with grown men.
When you've got the right theory it's easy to observe more -you can hold more details in your mind because they fit together.
The demography of India is especially complex due to its caste system, which resembles Jim Crow on steroids and acid.
We can never eliminate stereotypes. Instead we should constantly search for more and better stereotypes, ones that more narrowly and accurately describe reality.
Political correctness is a war on noticing [THIS IS YOUR LEAD???]
It's harder to not notice patterns when watching sports than almost anywhere else in life.
No advance is wanted or unwanted until it's made. Unwanted sexual advances are the price we all pay for the survival of the species.
Seeing racists under the bed is the latest manifestation of the adolescent hysteria that triggered the Salem witch trials in 1692.
In general racism provides a boring and obtuse all-purpose faith-based rationalization for everything otherwise interesting about American life.
The Establishment views blacks as our Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.
But you could as easily throw darts at 'Noticing' and hit bullseye bonmots, Steve.
Best list.
All truths are connected; all lies are dead ends.
Was there a concise phrase for the mass shooter theory? It's my mental go-to every time I hear "mass shooting"... and I always know the answer to what everyone is wondering :)
Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings: More dead than wounded, the shooter is likely white. More wounded than dead, likely black.
Ann Coulter Corollary: If an identified perp's race isn't mentioned or shown, he's not white.