When I heard that Audio that I added to my share...I also did some random googling, and came up with this Gem of a blog : http://malechauvinist.blogspot.com
Thats a link to the first post...but much of it is worth going over...
NOTE: As a positive ad hominem, the author is a (lesbian) woman.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Random Post # 3,135,220
Just wanted to say...new file added at http://public.box.net/mensarefugee26388
Been busy....who has time to blog?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Been busy....who has time to blog?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Sex and Culture by J D Unwin
Seeing how popular the Devlin articles are. I noticed that a few commenters mentioned an old book called "Sex and Culture" that was published in the 1930s.
By a stroke of luck I found it linked in a blog comment, and have added it to my share.
Please note 3 things.
1) I have not read it yet, so I cannot discuss it, apart from saying, if the commenters are right about its contents - its an important book
2) Box.net has file restrictions for free accounts - ergo it is broken up into 7 files + a readme.
3)Box has a 10GB per month limitation on downloads for free account holders (me). So Download only once. Further, if you are going to share it with any friends etc - give it to them directly. DO NOT just give them the link - as you will end up depriving others of it. Also, consider mirroring it somewhere if you can , and post the link in the comments.
Now...
2 Reviews straight from Amazon.com( Reviews are in chronological order ergo opposite of the order in Amazon)
Review 1
Sexual repression is the foundation of civilization., March 30, 2008
By MCP - See all my reviews
That is the basic thesis of this unjustly forgotten book. According to Professor Unwin, who was influenced by Freud, it is the "limitation of sexual opportunity" which creates the "mental energy" necessary to build a civilization.
He backs this up with exhaustive examples of the historical cycle he proposes. The cycle goes as follows: in a primitive society, people take their pleasure at whim, without commitment or limits. Then the practice of monogamous marriage, including premarital chastity, is instituted. (How he believes this first arises would take far too long to summarize here; read the book!) The sexual repression required for this chastity and fidelity increases the "mental energy" and the inner strength of those who practice it, enabling them to embark on long-term projects such as monumental architecture, agriculture, and conquest. In this early stage, men have enormous power over their wives and children, even when the children have grown up.
The "sexual opportunity" of women is always, of necessity, more limited than that of men in a civilized society, and this has a powerful effect, according to Unwin; they convey this repression and its benefits to their children. Indeed, he blames the decline of feudalism on its habit of putting its "best" women into convents to live as nuns - it is true that for a woman with intellectual aspirations, a convent was her only real option - instead of having them bear children to whom they could convey their "mental energy".
Unwin also criticizes polygamous societies; the easy "sexual opportunity" it affords men limits the "mental energy". He says, "That is why, I submit, the Moors in Spain achieved such a high culture. Their fathers were born into a polygamous tradition; but their mothers were the daughters of Christians and Jews, and had spent their early years in an absolutely monogamous environment. The sons of these women laid the foundations of rationalistic culture; but soon the supply of Christian and Jewish women was insufficient, so the incipient rationalism failed to mature greatly."
It always begins with the ruling class, the aristocracy, being the most chaste and monogamous. As they grow decadent after a few generations, the "middle class" (not necessarily in our modern understanding of it) is just getting the hang of it, having aped it from their betters, and they acquire more power in the society.
In time, however, the strict monogamy loosens. Unwin speculates that the extreme power the builders of civilizations have over their wives and children is unbearable to most, and the decrease of this power is inevitable. Unwin's attention is more on the monogamy than on the legal position of women, but the two seem to march hand in hand. "A female emancipating movement is a cultural phenomenon of unfailing regularity; it appears to be the necessary outcome of absolute monogamy. The subsequent loss of social energy after the emancipation of women, which is sometimes emphasized, has been due not to the emancipation but to the extension of sexual opportunity which has always accompanied it. In human records there is no instance of female emancipation which has not been accompanied by an extension of sexual opportunity."
Indeed, as sexual opportunity becomes easier - which always takes place in concert with female emancipation - the society's mental energy weakens, it cannot continue to invent things or maintain what it has, and in a few generations it is easily conquered by a robust monogamous patriarchy, which is fairly bursting with the mental energy of repressed sexuality.
Professor Unwin, by the way, was not in any way a male chauvinist. He concluded his book with a hopeful wish that we may find some way to have sexual repression and the equality of the sexes at the same time, and clearly believed that women are not inherently unfit for power and independence.
That is one of the two criticisms I would make of this excellent work. But one can hardly blame Professor Unwin, who was writing in 1934, long before scientific study had verified that all of the traditional stereotypes about women were based in biological fact. Indeed, thanks to feminist domination of mass media, few people today are aware of this.
The other criticism is that Unwin focuses all of his attention on the "mental energy" caused by sexual repression. I suspect he is right about it, but there is another vital factor in the building of a civilization, and that is paternity. Men build things - houses, palaces, empires, codes of ethics - so that they can pass them on to their own children, and thus achieve one kind of immortality. Men who know they cannot train and endow their children are disinclined to produce. This, even more than the lack of opportunity for personal enrichment, is why communism and socialism are such abysmal failures, and why inheritance tax is such a dangerous threat to civilization itself. It would be good to read an intertwining of this theory and Unwin's.
This book has long been out of print and copies are rare and expensive, but until this situation is remedied, it can be obtained through inter-library loan. I highly recommend it for its exhaustive documentation.
=================================================================================
Review 2
Female chastity is correlated with civilization, June 19, 2008
By Franklin Schmidt (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
I have to disagree somewhat with the previous reviewer. Unwin is a very methodical anthropologist, and so he carefully distinguished between the facts that he uncovers and the explanation he offers of those facts. The primary thesis of this book is that the development of a society correlates with its regulation of female prenuptial chastity. But Unwin was a Freudian liberal, so he felt compelled to come up with as unsexist an explanation as possible, and this is where his idea comes from that prenuptial chastity causes sexual repression which in turn causes energy to be redirected into developing culture. Of course this is complete nonsense, but I forgive Unwin both because living in the 1930s, he couldn't have a deep understanding what conditions are really like when a society reaches an advanced state of feminist decay, and because I am extremely grateful to Unwin for honestly recording facts that were at odds with his own beliefs. But even Unwin should have realized from historical evidence that his explanation was wrong. Ancient Athens was probably the most productive civilization in history, and never did a society have less sexual repression for men than Athens did, where the government was kind enough to subsidize prostitution so that men were never in need for sex, and where women had absolutely no rights, and so could not interfere with the productive energy of men.
Of course I rate this book 5 stars. It is the most important book written since The Origin of Species. But since the facts it contains are not politically correct, it is doomed to obscurity. The lack of availability of this book, because it is out of print, is just part of the cultural decay of our society caused the lack of regulation of female sexuality that Unwin so well chronicled.
Enjoy!
Mensarefugee
By a stroke of luck I found it linked in a blog comment, and have added it to my share.
Please note 3 things.
1) I have not read it yet, so I cannot discuss it, apart from saying, if the commenters are right about its contents - its an important book
2) Box.net has file restrictions for free accounts - ergo it is broken up into 7 files + a readme.
3)Box has a 10GB per month limitation on downloads for free account holders (me). So Download only once. Further, if you are going to share it with any friends etc - give it to them directly. DO NOT just give them the link - as you will end up depriving others of it. Also, consider mirroring it somewhere if you can , and post the link in the comments.
Now...
2 Reviews straight from Amazon.com( Reviews are in chronological order ergo opposite of the order in Amazon)
Review 1
Sexual repression is the foundation of civilization., March 30, 2008
By MCP - See all my reviews
That is the basic thesis of this unjustly forgotten book. According to Professor Unwin, who was influenced by Freud, it is the "limitation of sexual opportunity" which creates the "mental energy" necessary to build a civilization.
He backs this up with exhaustive examples of the historical cycle he proposes. The cycle goes as follows: in a primitive society, people take their pleasure at whim, without commitment or limits. Then the practice of monogamous marriage, including premarital chastity, is instituted. (How he believes this first arises would take far too long to summarize here; read the book!) The sexual repression required for this chastity and fidelity increases the "mental energy" and the inner strength of those who practice it, enabling them to embark on long-term projects such as monumental architecture, agriculture, and conquest. In this early stage, men have enormous power over their wives and children, even when the children have grown up.
The "sexual opportunity" of women is always, of necessity, more limited than that of men in a civilized society, and this has a powerful effect, according to Unwin; they convey this repression and its benefits to their children. Indeed, he blames the decline of feudalism on its habit of putting its "best" women into convents to live as nuns - it is true that for a woman with intellectual aspirations, a convent was her only real option - instead of having them bear children to whom they could convey their "mental energy".
Unwin also criticizes polygamous societies; the easy "sexual opportunity" it affords men limits the "mental energy". He says, "That is why, I submit, the Moors in Spain achieved such a high culture. Their fathers were born into a polygamous tradition; but their mothers were the daughters of Christians and Jews, and had spent their early years in an absolutely monogamous environment. The sons of these women laid the foundations of rationalistic culture; but soon the supply of Christian and Jewish women was insufficient, so the incipient rationalism failed to mature greatly."
It always begins with the ruling class, the aristocracy, being the most chaste and monogamous. As they grow decadent after a few generations, the "middle class" (not necessarily in our modern understanding of it) is just getting the hang of it, having aped it from their betters, and they acquire more power in the society.
In time, however, the strict monogamy loosens. Unwin speculates that the extreme power the builders of civilizations have over their wives and children is unbearable to most, and the decrease of this power is inevitable. Unwin's attention is more on the monogamy than on the legal position of women, but the two seem to march hand in hand. "A female emancipating movement is a cultural phenomenon of unfailing regularity; it appears to be the necessary outcome of absolute monogamy. The subsequent loss of social energy after the emancipation of women, which is sometimes emphasized, has been due not to the emancipation but to the extension of sexual opportunity which has always accompanied it. In human records there is no instance of female emancipation which has not been accompanied by an extension of sexual opportunity."
Indeed, as sexual opportunity becomes easier - which always takes place in concert with female emancipation - the society's mental energy weakens, it cannot continue to invent things or maintain what it has, and in a few generations it is easily conquered by a robust monogamous patriarchy, which is fairly bursting with the mental energy of repressed sexuality.
Professor Unwin, by the way, was not in any way a male chauvinist. He concluded his book with a hopeful wish that we may find some way to have sexual repression and the equality of the sexes at the same time, and clearly believed that women are not inherently unfit for power and independence.
That is one of the two criticisms I would make of this excellent work. But one can hardly blame Professor Unwin, who was writing in 1934, long before scientific study had verified that all of the traditional stereotypes about women were based in biological fact. Indeed, thanks to feminist domination of mass media, few people today are aware of this.
The other criticism is that Unwin focuses all of his attention on the "mental energy" caused by sexual repression. I suspect he is right about it, but there is another vital factor in the building of a civilization, and that is paternity. Men build things - houses, palaces, empires, codes of ethics - so that they can pass them on to their own children, and thus achieve one kind of immortality. Men who know they cannot train and endow their children are disinclined to produce. This, even more than the lack of opportunity for personal enrichment, is why communism and socialism are such abysmal failures, and why inheritance tax is such a dangerous threat to civilization itself. It would be good to read an intertwining of this theory and Unwin's.
This book has long been out of print and copies are rare and expensive, but until this situation is remedied, it can be obtained through inter-library loan. I highly recommend it for its exhaustive documentation.
=================================================================================
Review 2
Female chastity is correlated with civilization, June 19, 2008
By Franklin Schmidt (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
I have to disagree somewhat with the previous reviewer. Unwin is a very methodical anthropologist, and so he carefully distinguished between the facts that he uncovers and the explanation he offers of those facts. The primary thesis of this book is that the development of a society correlates with its regulation of female prenuptial chastity. But Unwin was a Freudian liberal, so he felt compelled to come up with as unsexist an explanation as possible, and this is where his idea comes from that prenuptial chastity causes sexual repression which in turn causes energy to be redirected into developing culture. Of course this is complete nonsense, but I forgive Unwin both because living in the 1930s, he couldn't have a deep understanding what conditions are really like when a society reaches an advanced state of feminist decay, and because I am extremely grateful to Unwin for honestly recording facts that were at odds with his own beliefs. But even Unwin should have realized from historical evidence that his explanation was wrong. Ancient Athens was probably the most productive civilization in history, and never did a society have less sexual repression for men than Athens did, where the government was kind enough to subsidize prostitution so that men were never in need for sex, and where women had absolutely no rights, and so could not interfere with the productive energy of men.
Of course I rate this book 5 stars. It is the most important book written since The Origin of Species. But since the facts it contains are not politically correct, it is doomed to obscurity. The lack of availability of this book, because it is out of print, is just part of the cultural decay of our society caused the lack of regulation of female sexuality that Unwin so well chronicled.
Enjoy!
Mensarefugee
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Part Trois
FYI:
If anyone used HTTrack, a common problem is it will download the webpages, but on certain websites it wont download the images.
Websites are complicated thingies behind the scenes, so HTTrack has complicated options to fix that (and its got lousy help texts imo).
But a simple method Ive found is go to "Set Options" --> Spider, and disable the Robots.txt file.
Works for me, maybe it will work for you.
If anyone used HTTrack, a common problem is it will download the webpages, but on certain websites it wont download the images.
Websites are complicated thingies behind the scenes, so HTTrack has complicated options to fix that (and its got lousy help texts imo).
But a simple method Ive found is go to "Set Options" --> Spider, and disable the Robots.txt file.
Works for me, maybe it will work for you.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Saving Blogs from "Be Good" Google Part Deux
Theres also BLOGGER BACKUP
This will save comments etc. But in xml feed, so its hardly easy to look through.
This will save comments etc. But in xml feed, so its hardly easy to look through.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saving Blogs from "Be Good" Google?
Recently, South Africa Sucks was taken down. Audacious Epigone asked how to archive 'em.
I *think* I found the answer. Just go to Google and type in "Website Downloader" or go to download.com and do the same.
The most popular one, and the one I tested and used is http://www.httrack.com/ Its absurdly simple to use assuming you arent interested in any advanced options (which you'll need for blogs?).
1) Download the proggie.
2) Install said proggie.
3) Read the Manual or just type
httrack "http://www.all.net/" -O "/tmp/www.all.net" "+*.all.net/*" -v
http://www.all.net being the website.
-O meaning Output to, and /tmp/www.all.net being the place on your Hard Disk where you want it saved.
+*.all.net/* tells the program to not download from anywhere but .all.net/
I tried this on some websites I read often and it saved them without much trouble. But with blogs the problem is :-
1) The comments section is https://
and...
2) The comments section is in Blogger.com, NOT under differing.blogspot.com
However this shouldnt be a problem because all blogs have their unique identifier. Anyone out there willing to read through the manual and see if we can save blogs in their totality (AKA including comments pages) with this program?
P.S You can get the blog by typing http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000 in the URL Bar.
And Comments by typing http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=
1000 there. (But its not a proper solution because the comments are timelined, so not necessarily in order of postings).
Monday, July 21, 2008
Devlin again...sorta.
Seems 2blowhards got un-pc Devlin fever recently.
Im glad people are reading those articles.
Nothing to add here really. However Devlin has another article out, not much new to say, and Id say its his mildest yet - but hey after 3 long hard hitting articles - how can there be much left to say?
UPDATE:
Third (or 6th) parter to the new article.
UPDATE 2: Its on Roissey, apparently a well read blog as well. And an interesting link in the comments sections. And another.
P.S For all the people who tried to add me as a Friend on Box.net, dont be annoyed that I didnt accept (Im rather flattered really), or accepted and cancelled. Box.net doesnt work properly (didnt let me update the Read Me file) and Im just not that Internet active anyway.
UPDATE Part n Tyler Cowen, has taken the unusual step of calling Devlin evil. Laughable really, probably punctured some bubble of his somewhere, so the big guns of ad hominem came out (or, to be charitable, maybe it was the only way to link to such a disgustingly unfashionable article in a "high-class" blog?).
As an aside, its funny how many feel the need to speculate about Devlin's Love life. Probably an outgrowth of the male trait, or desire, to put down other males, so said male can have more females to himself. Oops! There I go speculating again! Naughty naughty Mensarefugee!
Im glad people are reading those articles.
Nothing to add here really. However Devlin has another article out, not much new to say, and Id say its his mildest yet - but hey after 3 long hard hitting articles - how can there be much left to say?
UPDATE:
Third (or 6th) parter to the new article.
UPDATE 2: Its on Roissey, apparently a well read blog as well. And an interesting link in the comments sections. And another.
P.S For all the people who tried to add me as a Friend on Box.net, dont be annoyed that I didnt accept (Im rather flattered really), or accepted and cancelled. Box.net doesnt work properly (didnt let me update the Read Me file) and Im just not that Internet active anyway.
UPDATE Part n Tyler Cowen, has taken the unusual step of calling Devlin evil. Laughable really, probably punctured some bubble of his somewhere, so the big guns of ad hominem came out (or, to be charitable, maybe it was the only way to link to such a disgustingly unfashionable article in a "high-class" blog?).
As an aside, its funny how many feel the need to speculate about Devlin's Love life. Probably an outgrowth of the male trait, or desire, to put down other males, so said male can have more females to himself. Oops! There I go speculating again! Naughty naughty Mensarefugee!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Typical Low-IQ Appeal retarded rhetoric
If one voice CAN change a room, and if one voice CAN change a room it can change a group, if ONE voice can change a group then it CAN change a community, and that one voice CAN then change a state and change the country”.
Funny,
It works just as well as
If one voice CAN fuck up up a room, and if one voice CAN fuck up a room it can fuck up a group, if ONE voice can fuck up a group then it CAN fuck up a community, and that one voice CAN then fuck up a state and fuck up the country”.
Communism at its scintillating best.
Funny,
It works just as well as
If one voice CAN fuck up up a room, and if one voice CAN fuck up a room it can fuck up a group, if ONE voice can fuck up a group then it CAN fuck up a community, and that one voice CAN then fuck up a state and fuck up the country”.
Communism at its scintillating best.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
'Why South Africa Sucks' Blog taken down.
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One of the main blogs chronicling the decline of South Africa, from unparalleled levels of violent crime against non-blacks (though the blog, being run by white guys, concentrated only on crimes committed against whites, not Indians or coloureds), to the daily power failures by the Electricity company Eskom after BEE (Black-Economic-Empowerment) took hold and much much more that gave a grounds eye view of HBD, forbidden news and horrific crimes and corruption - has been removed from blogger for 'racist content'.
This was a years old blog with over 3,000 posts - collaboration between at least 5 people, and hundreds of hours of work - just gone. Hey guys, the truth can be racist at times! Get over it Google!
So much for the Internet being the samizdat of the west. The tentacles of liberals leave no stone unturned.
R.I.P.
Edit:(A few hours later) Hehe. Its back up under the name http://southafricanhell.blogspot.com/
And again...
Its back up under the name http://zahell.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 7, 2008
Fathers, mothers, and kids.
Bryan Caplan:
In 1996, the GSS asked:
If the husband in a family wants children, but the wife decides that she does not want any children, is it all right for the wife to refuse to have children?
and
If the wife in a family wants children, but the husband decides that he does not want any children, is it all right for the husband to refuse to have children?
Survey says: 82% affirmed the wife's right to refuse, but only 61% affirmed the same right for husbands. Other than a simple men's rights story, anyone got an explanation?
P.S. Men and women are almost equally likely to hold this double standard. 83% of men (versus 81% of women) affirm women's right to refuse; 60% of men (versus 61% of women) affirm men's right to refuse.
While the question is fascinating in its own right, what popped into my mind was - what if the question was modified to:-
If the husband in a family wants more children, but the wife decides that she does not want any more children, is it all right for the wife to refuse to have children?
and
If the wife in a family wants more children, but the husband decides that he does not want any more children, is it all right for the husband to refuse to have children?
I wonder how the statistics would change...
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