Look past the title of this one for my latest #bookstr review Stefan Molyneux’s “Peaceful Parenting” was recommended to me by a friend who is a fan of his who thought I’d enjoy it. The ethics of the parental relationship with children through a moral and philosophical lens is a big focus of this work, it’s much less “parenting manual” and moreso cause and effect discussions about parental choices and how they play out with children. I appreciate that Molyneux took on the subject, it’s clearly an important one and as he frequently reiterates; our society claims to put children above all, but in observable reality clearly does not. And that leads to my biggest gripe with this book - the frequent reiterations. Molyneux will use 3 examples to illustrate and emphasise every single point he’s making. It’s tedious and a proper editor would have slashed this book in half. Why he felt the need to be so verbose I’m not sure, it’s clearly designed for philosophical libertarian types who gain nothing from such mental coddling. Because of that I found myself enjoying this in fits and starts. Too slow and monotonous, and then occasionally punctuated by brilliant philosophical insight. Despite my criticisms I would actually recommend this book to everyone (there is a condensed version I found out after finishing). People claim to care so much about the future and pin so much on the next generation and then completely discount them from moral and ethical consideration because of the power imbalance in parent-child relationships - this book, whilst Molyneux drones on, allows for reflection on those ideas. “Low time preference parenting” might have been a better title as really it’s about forcing adults to consider their actions and the results they will have on children as they grow into adults. You can skip the last section where he backs his points with data, it’s interesting in a nerdy way but completely unnecessary as his points stand without this. Overall a good book on a worthwhile subject that needed a better editor.

Man shoots up Bondi beach. #AUStriches mainstream media - let’s check out how much his home is worth and do an article about that. The obsession with hoom prices is pathological. View quoted note →

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was one of the victims of the Bondi shooting. Whilst Australian nationalists focus on the Muslim perpetrators who should never have been allowed in the country (with which I agree). They and everyone else ignore these Zionist Jews who see their Central Bank Charter State as their true home, whilst they parasite on Western societies as they destroy them from within. None of them should be in our countries. Not the jihadi Muslims, nor these Zionist shitcunts - get rid of ALL of them.

Putin makes an appeal to Westerners. That he can do this via the internet, and get traction because Western Governments have been so full of shit for so long, is an indictment on Western culture - specifically the Boomers to whom the entire narrative is shaped. The West needs to send Boomers back to the mines to pay off the debts they racked up. They need to be disenfranchised and defunded entirely or nothing will change. We have to eat the pain.

South Australian Premier challenges social media companies to oppose his Under 16 social media ban noting that he appointed the former Chief Justice of the High Court to write the legislation. “Good luck” he says. Told you the State was going to win the war. View quoted note →