Tag: autism

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Edward Dutton
Genius Under House Arrest: The Cancelation of James Watson
Washington: Academica Press, 2025

Ed Dutton’s latest offering is a continuation of two of his favorite themes: the nature of genius, and the personality profile of those who suffer from the woke mind virus. In October, 2007, the two clashed dramatically when James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helical structure of the DNA molecule, sparked a moral panic and was subjected to widespread character assassination for making some empirically accurate remarks on racial differences. (more…)

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A little while back, I took part in the Dissident Right survey. One part of it had to do with personality. This includes various quirks. A brief section asked if I had ADD, OCD, or autism. How was I to answer? Although I never got any such diagnosis, earlier I might well have qualified for all three of these things, especially if judged according to today’s standards. (more…)

Nathaniel Branden in the 1960s.

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“What’s all the fuss about Dr. Mengele when Nathaniel Branden is alive and well and living in LA?” – A former member of Ayn Rand’s inner circle

In the 1960s, Ayn Rand was putting people on trial in her Manhattan apartment. Their crime? Social metaphysics. Members of “the Collective” — the in-joke term for Rand’s inner circle — would gather in her living room to hear the case against the accused. Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s business partner and erstwhile lover, acted as prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and sometimes executioner, all with the blessing of Miss Rand. (more…)

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Sepoys on the dark side of the Moon

India may not seem to lie within the remit of this column, but bear with me. Britain’s ex-colony — which seems to be a description that fits a lot of nations now outpacing the old country — has just landed a spacecraft on the Moon, although it has not been confirmed whether, in line with Indian trains, there were dozens of people hanging off its hull. (more…)

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Say “Hi” to Gen Alpha, America’s First Majority Non-White Generation

In his 1920 book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, Lothrop Stoddard warned that unless an immediate moratorium was placed on non-white immigration into white-majority countries, white dominance over geopolitical affairs would be lost amid a “tide” of non-white fecundity. Wikipedia’s page on the book categorizes it under “White genocide conspiracy theory.” (more…)

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Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022

The identification and proper allocation of talent is essential to the success of any organization. Hiring the wrong people is costly, especially for groups with limited capital. It would thus behoove White Nationalists to become amateur talent-spotters and students of human behavior. The book in question is a solid starting point. (more…)

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If you have spent any amount of time around dissident politics, you have probably heard several references to “autism,” with various people and things frequently described as autistic. This can either be positive or negative.

Positive references to autism often have to do with pattern recognition, mastery of a subject, or wholesome anime. For example, the anonymous users of 4Chan frequently do intelligence work that surpasses what the woke alphabet agencies can do, and this is lauded as autism. (more…)

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Who are the greatest underachievers in music history? A few names come to mind. Of course, you have The Sex Pistols, who became a national cultural phenomenon in Britain and then broke up after one album. The Stone Roses are also strong contenders for the cup. Their earth-shattering 1989 debut album regularly shows up on Greatest Albums Ever lists (in 2000, NME placed it #1). When their sophomore effort finally emerged five years later in an entirely changed musical landscape, The Roses had transformed into banal Led Zeppelin clones before imploding with a most undignified whimper. (more…)

Frederic Remington, The Puncher, 1895.

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As I understand it, most people would strongly prefer that others approve of them even if it means being untrue to themselves — and that’s something I’ll never understand about most people.

It seems that most people would rather be liked by others than be okay with themselves, and that’s something I strongly dislike about most people and think is not okay at all. (more…)

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A Vice article published on Tuesday has reignited the debate over whether racism (or “pathological bias,” to use the clinical term proposed by psychiatrists) should be considered a mental illness and included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In turn, I would like to raise the question of whether pathological xenophilia should be considered a mental illness. (more…)

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On a recent trip to California, I got to spend some time in Ojai, a small, rustic town, high in the mountains, north of LA. Ojai is known as an enclave of a certain type of California “cool.” Its inhabitants are the kind of people who dislike the stress of LA but don’t want to be too far away from it, (more…)

The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire

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Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play, Equus, is arguably the most pagan work of art created in the 20th century. Ostensibly an extended dialogue between a mentally ill boy and his psychiatrist, Shaffer’s play goes far beyond the realms of psychoanalysis and begins to stir the surface of an incipient numinous awakening. (more…)