AntiDem

No.

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Remember that leftism always creates the exact opposite of what it claims to be setting out to do. In 1962, California was quite literally the worker's paradise that Marxism always claimed it was going to provide. The booming, wisely-managed economy was a tide that lifted all boats. There were plentiful, well-paying jobs for both blue and white collar workers under perfect weather with lots of leisure time. There was no lack of space; houses could be big and yet still reasonably priced. Being far from New York or Boston, life was more relaxed and less stuffy. People were optimistic; even the architecture still left from that time reflects it - Googie-style buildings with swooping lines which looked like The Jetsons might live there.

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Even when I moved here in the mid-90s, things were still pretty good. Silicon Valley was booming, but its success hadn't yet made the cost of living intolerable. The state was left of center, but a libertarian streak still ran through its politics. Centrist Republicans still sometimes got elected Governor. Taxes were high but not yet backbreaking. Shocking, overt, assaultive degeneracy was largely confined to a couple of neighborhoods in San Francisco. Violent crime was technically high, but easy to avoid if you stayed out of a few bad neighborhoods. Classes at the university I attended were still largely apolitical, and taught the subject at hand instead of the professors' pet political views. That was the year that Proposition 187 - denying welfare to non-citizens - passed (and was in effect for perhaps six months before an unelected, unaccountable judge unilaterally threw it out because reasons.)

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But now? California is desperately overcrowded, horribly polluted, and quickly running out of resources. The infrastructure built in the 60s is crumbling, and a state that has blown all its available cash on welfare for scofflaw illegal aliens largely can't afford to fix it. Meanwhile, a state government that in a couple of decades of making promises has proven unable to extend the BART metro train line the twenty miles from Fremont to San Jose, makes grand promises about a 400-mile high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Opportunity still exists if you graduated from MIT, Duke, or CalTech with a 4.0 GPA in computer science, but otherwise, the pickings are slim indeed. The government subsidizes dysfunction, and the state gets more than it can handle. Taxes are crushing, and the cost of living is astronomical. California's libertarian streak is largely gone - driven underground by politically correct vigilante squads or moved to greener pastures in Nevada or Texas - and the nanny state grows more intrusive by the day. If you're white, count on feeling like a stranger in your own country. As the economy slowly drifts towards the rocks, frightening, aggressive beggars become more omnipresent.

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California is proof that there is no paradise so idyllic that leftism can't completely fuck it up.

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When you say "women", what do you mean? Do you mean actual, genuine, pre-feminist, pre-postmodern women? I'm just barely old enough to remember encountering a few of those in person; they were old when I was a kid, but I remember them clearly. You can also see them in old movies or read about them in old books. Anime, in its own way, gives us an imagined revival of them. It seems to me that they are mythical creatures; godlike, elevated, beautiful beyond contemplation. It's often hard to believe that the accounts of them found in old books could really be accurate. Could anything so sublime have really walked the earth? Or are we being told another fairy tale, like those about dragons and unicorns and giants? These are disillusioning times, but deep down, I want to believe that the old stories are true.

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Or perhaps do you mean the XX-chromosomed pseudo-men that we find around us now? Do you mean the "Sex in the City" female; crushed into something unrecognizable as what they once were, like the first orcs, who Sauron's dark magic created out of elves? Do you mean these - childless, alcoholic, utterly dependent on antidepressants to keep going because deep down the knowledge of what they've become has filled them with inescapable existential misery? A misery that postmodern society forbids them to blame on its true source, and so they take it out on anybody - and especially anybody male - within their reach? Is that what you mean?

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If the latter, then it should be clear enough why I want nothing to do with them.

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I get the sentiment, but it's way too Totalist. Look, I like scientific technology, which is all the product of that sort of British empiricism. And it's not just niggertech I'm talking about. I like things like refrigerators, which make it so that I don't have to eat (and get sick from) half-rotten food all the time. I like paved roads instead of being ankle-deep in mud every time I walk out my front door. I like anesthesia - take the time to read Fanny Burney's account of the mastectomy she went through in 1811 without any, and you'll see what I mean. All of these things are the products of British empiricism, and I'm thankful to have them.

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The problem is not that British empiricism exists, or that the scientific method exists. The problem is that these represent *one* way to look at the world, not *the* way to look at the world. They are excellent tools for answering certain types of questions, and lousy tools for answering other types of questions. We became so enamored of the nice things that these tools brought us that we started to overapply them to areas in which they are the wrong tool and do not belong. We became the man with a hammer to whom the whole world is a nail. We forgot that the best-made hammer in the world still makes for a lousy screwdriver.

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But equally wrong is calling hammers "gay and retarded" because they don't make for good screwdrivers. The right tool for the right job makes for a sturdy house.

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