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.”

Opinions as news don’t sell

Kenneth Anderson: The New York Times and the information theory of the leisure class

Ref: Kenneth Anderson’s Law of War and Just War Theory Blog, January 07, 2009

“Yet the Times threw in the “fact” towel before the battle was even joined, saw the future and decided it was in opinion writing asserted as fact in order both to charge a higher price than a mere opinion magazine could charge and seek to satisfy, at least superficially, the fact-based raison d’etre of the daily newspaper. It looked at its ‘elite’ readership and concluded that, at bottom, those readers were not very interested in facts, much less in paying for them. Instead they wanted high falutin’, high-gravitas chat based around politics. And so the Times has proceeded to offer it.”

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.”

Marriage and divorce: the logic of life

Tim Harford: The Logic of Life

Ref: slate.com Jan 15th, 2008

“Gary Becker’s contribution was not to suggest that women make good parents, but to realize that because of economies of scale even a very small difference in innate capabilities could lead to titanic differences.”

Unimportant parts of the world

Edward Luttwak: The middle of nowhere

Ref:  Prospect Magazine, May 2007

“The middle east was once the world’s most advanced region, but these days its biggest industries are extravagant consumption and the venting of resentment. According to the UN’s 2004 Arab human development report, the region boasts the second lowest adult literacy rate in the world (after sub-Saharan Africa) at just 63 per cent. Its dependence on oil means that manufactured goods account for just 17 per cent of exports, compared to a global average of 78 per cent. Moreover, despite its oil wealth, the entire middle east generated under 4 per cent of global GDP in 2006—less than Germany.”