I am a female blerd and I have huge advantages in love and marriage because of it.

Blerds in the sense of self-hating blacks into nerdy/geeky stuff are actually bleeks (black geeks, shallow consumerist “fandom” knowledge, sometimes not even that bright). True blerds, if they’re girls, benefit from dating affirmative action basically. They get a modest advantage among nerds for dating and end up at par with white women for marriage (this is a smaller net advantage, reflecting that in general, men will date a bigger range of women than they wish to marry and have babies with).

Female bleeks, on the other hand, operate at a disadvantage with both dating and marriage, because they’re stuck with white geeks, who have the same shallow consumerism and lower relative intelligence and who are not going to be interested in an even lower status version of themselves.

This doesn’t hold with female blerds, because understanding or being able to do something technically/intellectually challenging in the nerd arts is sexy to nerds. Combined with their ability to look cute at older ages (black indeed don’t crack), female blerds end up coming out slightly ahead of nerd beckies.

Female blormies (black normies) are more racially closed, as are all normies, so there’s no dating or marriage advantages for them if they somehow end up in a group of whites socially all the time, like a megachurch or something.

Practical Definitions: Defining the Acceptable Fringe

Something that is important to keep in mind is the concept of the Acceptable Fringe.  This would be behaviors, beliefs and practices that are considered weird or fringey, but do not result in the person or family practicing them being considered “not one of us”.  It’s very important to distinguish acceptable fringe things from unacceptable fringe things mainly because if you don’t understand where the lines are, you can’t really work to combat truly dangerous fringe practices that are being protected by their acceptable-fringeness.

Vision Forum was acceptable fringe until the scandals exploded with Doug Philips’ sexual misconduct and abuse of authority.  Many conservatives didn’t buy into the whole shebang, but owned a few videos or books.  Bill Gothard/ATI was also acceptable fringe, along similar lines.

Quiverfull is (barely) acceptable fringe.  Christian Identity (white nationalist Christianity) is not acceptable fringe.  Interracial and international interracial adoption is acceptable fringe.  A lot of people aren’t really into it in conservativeland, but they don’t want to upset their friends and family who are.  It remains relatively uncommon and fringe in practical terms, though.

Homeschooling is acceptable fringe.  Homeschooling is an interesting case because it’s being successfully co-opted and drained of its fringeyness and, well, that’s another post for another day.

Acceptable fringe: homebirthing.  Unacceptable fringe: unassisted homebirthing.

Acceptable fringe: living off the grid.  Unacceptable fringe: not getting your kids Social Security numbers and birth certificates.

This post is also a work in progress.

Behind on everything because of home furnishing woes

I was optimistic and thought simply relocating somewhere more sane and normal would confer instant good health and energy, that T.W.O. and I would earn back 5-10 years physically.

LMAO LMAO LMAO at myself.

The new house is very large and designed for frequent and large-scale entertaining. It’s workable for us to live in and eventually even do the entertaining, but setting it up to simply live in is going to take a year or so and just a lot of time looking for the right furniture to make clutter hard to do and cleanup easy to maintain day to day and week to week.

That’s what my time goes to, plus homeschooling. Language work is going ok, my credential quest, phase one will be done summer or fall next year. Language work is training the kids and myself in ancient and modern languages to the level of reading, speaking (where applicable) and writing. We’re mostly doing the input model, watching programs in x language and reading in x language with very little grammar/book work. Which has led to some polyglot moments earlier than I was expecting them. Next year we’ll finally be in a position to bring in the grammar/book work to make that graduation to real fluency and being able to get along in various ancient and modern languages.

The expected level of socializing has been shown to us by the people around us, it’s higher than where we came from and it’s a challenge. We did move to have that, but it’s also new and will take some adjusting to.

I have some substack stuff in draft, no idea when I’ll get around to publishing more there, probably the next couple of months. I had planned to write a book draft this year, but the rigors of the move didn’t make that feasible and along the way trying to complete the outline I realized it was multiple books. Two or three can be outlined by yearend, and a decent chance of knocking on some editrix doors in summer ’23 to get the drafts edited.

I radically underestimated the furnishing issue. But we have ample space to plan and be strategic in our furniture placement and purchasing.

At least the weather is better and the people are more decent. I also learned that I now live where a decent number of politicians have many views in common with me, so the process of reaching out to them will start, probably in January. It’s not likely I can get started next month on that unfortunately.

I’m very tired.

Life in Normalville

In Normalville, kids are considered kids.  They are expected to behave in appropriate settings, but they’re also not forced to restrain their natural impulses by having no free (in money and openness), unstructured space to run around in.  Since people expect children to be part of public space, they behave less poorly and parents aren’t struggling to placate them or plead with erratic behavior.  Kids also have a better sense of relative authority and respect more adult authority than just their parents.

In Normalville,  hobos are around and about in major downtowns, but they exercise restraint and limit panhandling to a short window of time during morning and evening commuter hours.  There are no tent cities, there is not a lot of screaming and attacks on locals and tourists.  In fact many of the hobos are completely calm going to the various services that nonprofits and the metros provide.

In Normalville, people chat idly and it’s ok.  They don’t stare and gawp at the idea that someone just wants to talk while waiting in line. Normalville has the same lack of staffing at restaurants, but the servers are still professional and work hard and provide strong service despite the limitations.

It’s really really really normal.  Can’t wait to live there full-time.

Visualizing all families with children

And here we see visually where you can find most of America’s children.

Visualizing the married parent scale

This is still making the rounds, this was my small addition of how many actual-kids the numbers represent

Finally got a substack

http://chutchenson.substack.com

Not much there just yet, but will be posting recurring themes from the archives here and some more about, well, natality and historical patterns.

 

One in ten households has government-paid internet service.

A program was started “because COVID” to pay for people to have high-speed internet. Initially the cost was almost entirely covered for a basic internet package, but with the new year the program underwent revisions and now pays around half the needed amount. However, the reduced subsidy hasn’t slowed the signup rates, in fact they increase each week.

I don’t think the usual right-wing response that this keeps people dependent is useful. It doesn’t, but a nontrivial chunk of people like the idea of not-paying, however small the amount of subsidized not-paying. So there’s always an incentive to create these “jobs for the girls” programs even if it’s just a 5 or 10 dollar credit after a few years.

I also, honestly, don’t think the idea that tentacles of government will reach into one’s life more intensely because of grabbing these goodies is all that realistic. It’s true-enough, in that sure, government workers can hurt you at any time, but they were already able and perfectly willing to do so with far fewer tendrils of invasive opportunity.

One of the greater tricks the devilish right wing punditocracy has pulled is convincing ordinary citizens that they should consider their government at every level an alien intrusion into “real life”, rather than people from their communities who seek to protect and maintain the interests of those communities based on principles of social and civic harmony.  Progressives are thus able to claim you have to be on their team if you want that, because righties have no rebuttal except “get the gummint outa your life!” (while being subsidized a dozen different, very expensive ways by said government).

A lot of people over the years have told me I’m not very right wing or conservative when I frame government services in these terms, but that number has definitely shrunk and continues to shrink (including people changing their minds) since Our (First) Year of COVID (tyranny).   Which is nice, because maybe then we can have it sooner rather than later.

Build quality is worth higher taxes

We haven’t relocated to somewhere less icy-blue quite yet, but we have gotten to the point of having to choose between paying state income taxes and, er, not. Having had a really rough time of it during covidiocy, living in a house with pleasing aesthetics, that is reasonably well-made and well-formed with rightly ordered proportions has been a major psychological and even spiritual help. So for us, we can’t live in a badly built home at this season of our lives.

Anyway the upshot is that we looked at what’s for sale in states with low or no state income tax near family vs. states near family with state income taxes. The build quality differences are massive. It’s disappointing, but there is no free lunch. Our options are solidly built, often aesthetically pleasing houses and income tax or houses that have some mix of poor quality construction/cthulhu aesthetics/bad proportions.

It’s not that there are no low quality houses in states with income tax, it’s just that of what we have to pick from, it’s that it is far far far easier to find high quality building construction in those states. Honestly, the build quality problem holds for where we live now, with no state income tax. It was not easy to find the house we have now and it has a lot of subpar aspects for a family despite being very well made and lovely to look on. The previous places we lived had some dire construction issues.

I have no idea why this is the case. Florida is something of an exception, in that you can find well built homes near not-too-well-built homes but it is sadly not a feasible option.

Conservatives aren’t losers, they just live like the frontier never closed. Part 1/?

A common claim about conservatives is that they are losers, they don’t want to “win”, etc, etc. All of this is misunderstanding the core situation. I am as guilty as anyone on this front, not being a child of the frontier myself.

Conservatives, or really the descendants by blood of frontier settlers who never civilized, are trapped in a frontier mindset that leaves them endlessly vulnerable to incursions on their ability to live, work and form families. They cannot protect each other because pathological individualism is inherent to the frontier personality. They can only come together under the influence of a strong personality for specific tasks for extremely limited periods of time. They are under-civilized, yet dependent on hyper-civilization to have the tools and resources that allowed their ancestors to farm hundreds of acres almost entirely solo.

As far as culture war stuff and economic warfare by liberals, it’s all of a piece. Cake shops are frivolous and unnecessary, since you can bake your own cake, so you ought to no matter what. Same for flower shops, why pay someone to pick flowers and put them in a vase? They’re everywhere, after all. So there is sympathy for someone having a hard time from mean city folks, but really, they’re also city folks, so, well, you know.

Same for people getting fired from retail work and high-wage work (or any non-political job) by hyper-progressive liberals. They’re not working their own land, they’re working for a wage, it’s really their own fault for not having a homestead to live off. They should have just done that. None of this is remotely conscious or deliberately cruel and small minded. It worked really well for millions upon millions of Americans for many, many decades to think this way and live accordingly. The rapid urbanization of the 20th century was a curveball they didn’t really adjust to well.