Cultural Dysphoria

Latest — Jan 31, 2025

Steve Kerrigan Jan 2025 Town Hall

Hi, and thank you for the opportunity to share. I want to start off by expressing how disappointed I am that Rep. Seth Moulton found himself duped into using his words to attack the microscopic minority of children who find themselves both transgender and interested in playing sports in school.

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I think we all know that the end is approaching

It’s a feeling deep in the gut, beyond faith or theory, like when you’re alone in the woods and the birds suddenly stop singing. When I was a teenage christian soldier, we were told we were in the “last generation,” by a preacher’s son, while he cried & shivered on stage from god’s mighty touch.

Bury me in the forest

When I die, bury me in the forest. Bury me in a shallow grave, naked and full of humors. Bury me next to a great tree, so that it may drink of me, and I may be one with it. Bury me in mushroom spores, the colorful ones, the dangerous

Contrapoints: J.K. Rowling - A cupid's arrow of weaponized empathy

There are few people working in Online Culture with as much wisdom, empathy, and insight as Natalie Wynn, A.K.A. Contrapoints. Her videos are known for being well-researched deep dives into the internal psychology of internet communities, and for their surprisingly long runtimes. It is my opinion that the

A Millennial/Boomer Dialectic: Part 3 - Jobs & The Economy

What follows is an imagined conversation between two imaginary people. Alex is a Leftist Millennial and Blake is a Conservative Baby Boomer. Alex: Why should everyone work? Blake: Because work is a moral good, work creates value for the economy, and work isn't just sitting around leeching off

A Millennial/Boomer Dialectic: Part 2 - Police & Prisons

What follows is an imagined conversation between two imaginary people. Alex is a Leftist Millennial and Blake is a Conservative Baby Boomer. Blake: Fine, sure. But the current protests are a bunch of Marxists looking to "Abolish the Police" and "Abolish Prisons." Both of which are

A Millennial/Boomer Dialectic: Part 1 - Protests & Civil Rights

What follows is an imagined conversation between two imaginary people. Alex is a Leftist Millennial and Blake is a Conservative Baby Boomer. The starting question: Is America Racist? Blake: No, America is not racist. America was founded on equality and liberty for all. What remained of Southern racism was fixed

The Culture War

"I just wish there wasn't so much hate and divisiveness on the internet these days" This is a take I've been seeing a lot of lately. It's not wrong, but I think that this idea could use some analysis. There are several

Redefining Progress

Many in my generation, myself included, grew up watching Star Trek. That show’s utopian vision for the future informed the moral foundations of my youth, but my Pollyanna-ish ideas were soon tempered by harsh realities. It turns out that even the most basic of technologies that promised to reshape

Choose your own reality

The internet has a way of changing and subverting everything it touches. Every industry has been, or is in the process of being blown apart by newcomers touting touting on-demand service, targeted marketing, analytics intelligence, and employment models that somehow dodge offering any benefits or recourse. The information horizon &

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Cultural Dysphoria

Dispatches from the front lines of the great gender war

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