The Misandry Bubble

The GK Futurist: The Misandry Bubble

Ref: The Futurist Blog, January 2010

“The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, and where male nature is vilified but female nature is celebrated.  This is unfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020.”

How Turkey was lost

Michael Rubin:  Turkey, from Ally to Enemy

Ref: Commentary Magazine, July/August 2010

“The fact is that Turkey has changed. Gone, and gone permanently, is secular Turkey, a unique Muslim country that straddled East and West and that even maintained a cooperative relationship with Israel. [...] Turkey is now more aligned to Iran than to the democracies of Europe. Whereas Iran’s Islamic revolution shocked the world with its suddenness in 1979, Turkey’s Islamic revolution has been so slow and deliberate as to pass almost unnoticed.”

The Transparent Society

David Brin: The Transparent Society

Ref: Wired, Dec 1996

“Or is privacy’s illusion so precious that it is worth any price, including surrendering our own right to pierce the schemes of the powerful?”

America’s debt to China

James Fallows: The $1.4 Trillion Question

Ref: January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly

“This is the real meaning of the vast trade surplus—$1.4 trillion and counting, going up by about $1 billion per day—that the Chinese government has mostly parked in U.S. Treasury notes.”

Nuclear first strike realism

Ian Traynor: Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told

Ref:  The Guardian, January 22, 2008

“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”

Digital vote count

CLIVE THOMPSON: Can You Count on Voting Machines?

Ref:  New York Times, January 6, 2008

“last August changed the name of the division to Premier Election Solutions (an analyst told American Banker that the voting machines were responsible for “5 percent of revenue and 100 percent of bad public relations”).”