Quarantined in Horny Jail: on Metaphors of Disease

But we can see an interesting trend: as the number of epidemics tails off, so – generally – do the number of major moral panics. We have the red scare, sure, and prohibition and the devil’s music, and filthy literature – but, generally speaking as the number of epidemics tapers off, the moral panics become fewer and slightly more grounded.

Exiting the Manosphere: the Male Hierarchy is Not a Thing (Odd Columns #9 , AND Healthy Masculinity #5)

There is a concept out there that all of society is predicated upon a socio-sexual hierarchy, and that we all have a place in it. This is a cancerous outgrowth of work done on captive gray wolves. This was first done by Rudolph Schenkel, a researcher at the University of Basel, and was picked up later by L. David Mech, who has tragically had to spend the rest of his career trying to debunk it, in his 1970 book The Wolf.

Five Glimpses of the Abstract Parasite: On the Libidinal Dynamics of Really Existing Capitalism (Fisher's Ghosts, part 3)

I feel like each individual step in this intellectual journey is uncontroversial, but as soon as you lay it all out for people and take it to the logical conclusion, the spittle begins to fly. The question, when you get down to it, is why are people invested in a system that does very little but generate joy for an ever-shrinking slice of the population and misery for the vast majority?