Technocracy, Editing, Women's Sports

3 Things I read

1. The Agony of the Silicon Presidency by Geoff Shullenberger

Interesting comparison between technocracy and populism. Both claim that government is broken, and needs outsiders. Technocrats claim we need a scientist to run government like a laboratory, with data and expertise. Populists claim we need a business man or podcaster to run government, with charisma and intuition. Both are anti-bureucratic in different ways. But both express a loss of faith in “traditional” government. Both are attacks on the deep state, and the “unaccountable aristocracy.”

2. No, I Didn’t Kill Myself, by WBE Notes App

WBE is back, and he would like you to know that he is alive.

What’s incredible to me about WBE is how much he does not publish. I have a unique insight into this, because he will show me a draft, and then the published work is much smaller. I do not do this. I simply write and hit publish. Then people complain that my stuff is long and boring. Fair enough, but sometimes political theory needs to be long and boring.

But the idea of making political theory fun and entertaining is enticing. Then I could be more popular and reach more people. Although, on the other hand, valuing that too much could result in lowering my quality.

I write mostly about politics. When I venture off the beaten path into personal problems, the squeaky wheels complain, and my numbers go down. People just want me to stay on topic. I understand. WBE has his own problem, where he feels compelled to write about sex. Which is a problem of its own.

3. The IOC’s New Policy Isn’t Really a Trans Story, by Parker Molloy

Not going to lie: I don’t think women’s sports should exist. It should just be “sports.” I don’t care what your gender is, what your genetics are — as long as you follow the rules, you should have to compete against everyone and anyone.

Now if people want to introduce weight classes, height classes, or any other objective measure, fine. But the idea of women’s sports, in general, is entirely uninteresting to me. So I have very little sympathy for women who treat their gold medals as significant or impressive — they are worse than men, objectively, in that sport, so why should I care?

Obviously I am not barring women from competing — sure, play sports, if you enjoy it. I just don’t have any interest in protecting women from men in this way. It’s a form of first-wave feminism that doesn’t benefit society or make the economy better or improve peace or prevent violence or innovate or do anything positive, except protecting the egos of a very small percentage of the population.

If you say, “but women’s sports helps young women gain confidence,” you are just lying. I know tons of women (binders full of them), and none of them have ever said to me, “you know, the existence of women’s basketball was very important for the development of my confidence as a woman.” Hogwash. Retardation. Woke nonsense.

Having said all of that, I support transwomen, and women with weird genetics, mogging and smashing women in every sport. I think that is cool and based and we need more weird freaks showing off their superiority to women. Cry more, cishets!

This is one of those things I say which I genuinely believe, but people probably think I am joking. I just don’t understand why any man would ever get worked up about women’s sports, except to jack off to it, and I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with keeping transwomen out of women’s sports. None of this matters to me. In general, I don’t want to exclude anyone from anything. I think cishet men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports and steal all their gold medals. I do not believe that the feelings of 1% of women matter at all.

This is the kind of feminism that I find to be profoundly uninteresting. I can excited about abortion, or contraception, or women’s health, because these all affect millions of women. But the women’s Olympics? What’s next? We start saying that certain disabilities aren’t “disabled enough” to qualify for the Special Olympics? Who gives a fuck? Why are we expending so much oxygen talking about this?

I realize that I’m expending oxygen typing about it right now (man’s gotta breathe), but still. Why are people so silly? Can’t we care about more important things, like, I don’t know… men’s sports? I can’t be the only person who feels this way…

Female athleticism is great, but only for its inner transformative power, not as a quasi-sexual spectacle. (all spectacle is sexual)