Author: Crowhill Report

P&C drink and review Good Juju, an ale spiced with ginger.

The boys recently listened to a few interviews with Bret Weinstein: one regarding the Sam Harris / Jordan Peterson debate, the other regarding Bret’s conversation with Richard Dawkins. P&C review some of the key points, and add their own evaluation.

According to Weinstein, significant progress was made in the Harris / Peterson debate, and there’s room for still more progress. He identifies where each of them had a vindication, and where each must swallow a bitter pill.

Although Weinstein praises Dawkins for The Selfish Gene, he claims Dawkins made a mistake that has held back evolutionary science for decades. The boys discuss.

Crowhill offers a suggestion on Weinstein’s criticism of Dawkins.

… it would be rounding up all these ghouls who are celebrating the shooting of the police officers in Compton and throwing the book at them.

I’ve said for a very long time that there’s sensible recycling — like batteries, computer parts, paint, used oil, etc. — and then there’s what everybody actually does, which is to recycle paper, plastic, glass, and such, which is mostly a waste of time.

But recycling is largely immune to rational criticism or consideration. It’s an object of faith. It’s a way to show that you care. It’s virtue signalling.

Never mind that most plastic can’t be recycled, despite the little labels they put on there.

And now, despite brother Raccoon’s testimony above, even NPR says it’s a waste of time. It was all a conspiracy by the plastics companies to make people feel better about creating so much plastic waste.

“Oh, I’m not creating waste. It’s being recycled.”

No. It’s being shipped to China where they throw it in the ocean.

Why Have We All Been Recycling Plastic for Years?

For most of my life I have sensed an undercurrent of resentment by certain people — specifically, that they weren’t alive to protest with MLK, or oppose the Vietnam War, or do any of those cool 60s things. Consequently, ISTM, some people are always looking for the next civil rights issue to get upset about. They want to protest too, doggone it!

This leads to an attitude of never being satisfied. There’s always another evil thing to be uprooted. There’s a constant search for villains and victims.

To some extent … to a small extent … this is a good thing. We always want to be improving. But it seems to have gone way beyond that. It’s a paranoid sickness, analogous to the heresy hunters you find in some strict religious circles. Nothing is ever pure enough.

Who’s the next victim?

I’m afraid it might be pedophiles (or perhaps ephebophiles). Those poor, misunderstood people who have been abused and discriminated against for so long.

There were some good satiric posts from The Babylon Bee about this. E.g., Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They’re All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell

But now we’ve also got the Cuties controversy over at Netflix.

What do you think? Will there be / is there an attempt to normalize pedophilia?

The boys drink and review Lagunitas’ Sumpin’ Easy, then discuss CRT.

Critical Theory is a Marxist idea that says all interactions are based on power and class distinction. Critical Race Theory follows the same idea, but makes everything based on race.

There’s some truth in critical theory. Every system, every form of knowledge and every form of power will inevitably be used to oppress people, because people are rotten. But that doesn’t mean every system is always and only used to oppress people, or that we can do without them.

The kernel of truth in critical race theory is that power and oppression were clearly based on race — at least in part — for much of American history.

Critical race theory would have us believe that all problems in the modern world can be traced back to racism. But … isn’t race a social construct? And on the other hand, identity politics says that race says everything about you.

P&C dig into the details of CRT and comment.

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