Damian M. Schloming ideas and information

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This website is to allow me to present intelligibly my thoughts and insights on various social, political, historical and even scientific issues I've been studying in the past two years. 

Some of which I have background knowledge of due to having been involved with and interested in various political movements many years ago. 

My political viewpoint leans towards libertarian, except that I am not completely happy with the way some of them think. Libertarians want limited government and civil liberties. As a matter of principle, that is excellent. But then libertarians seem to suffer from this ingrained bias of Western Culture that you can somehow intellectually decide that government "should be" a certain way and then the perfect society can then be achieved by some legislative body sitting down and crafting some written rule decreeing that that is how society is to be from now on.

 

Actually, I think government and the larger society it is embedded in is more like some kind of living beast that you can train or that can morph in one direction or another, but it can't be so easily manipulated or changed as we think. Written rules don't have the exact effect they literally intend, but instead enforcement of the rules and all sorts of other considerations regarding government bureaucracies results in all sorts of ripple effects or unintended consequences. As a result, the most free society does not necessarily result from the one with the nicest and most free sounding written constitution or constitutional rights guaranteeing liberty. A very good example of this issue is the liberal Warren Court expanding all sorts of fifth amendment procedural and technical criminal protections for defendants. Liberals saying they want to do this might be arguing this is to help the poor. The opposite is the truth. This is to help defense attorneys, and why is that a bad thing? Because criminal procedures and technicalities of the liberal Warren Court only resulted in defendants having protection IF they could hire an expensive enough attorney to do a good enough job PRESSING them. Public defenders are part of the corrupt court system, they deliberately do a bad job so as to make sure well heeled defendants find it worth their while to pay extra. Huge sentences ALSO give well heeled defendants more incentive to pay extra. Thus, defense attorneys representing rich criminal defendants have a vested interest in maintaining the strict sentencing policies responsible for Mass Incarceration. Furthermore, there was a law school bubble which burst, and now law schools are doing poorly because lawyers are not finding it worth their while to spend so much money on a law degree. Fact of the matter is, those liberal Warren Court protections indirectly increased legal fees for defense attorneys, thereby contributing to the upward pressure on college tuition and law school tuition, simply because the amount of money attorneys could make from a law degree made it more worthwhile. 

It also is true that the regulatory state increased in many other ways, increasing demand for attorneys in other spheres besides the criminal justice system. But I am going to talk about the criminal justice system here for now to use it as an example.

This is just one example showing how a policy that, examined in the most superficial way you think it's designed to help criminal defendants overall in the long run has the exact opposite effect. Because these protections are ones that only can be accessed by those with the money to pay for top dollar attorneys. And, it isn't always necessarily related to the facts of the case. The attorney usually has an incestuous relationship with everyone else in the court system, so much so that basically if you pay the right attorney enough money, you will get off because he is friends with all the judges and prosecutors, and parole officers, etc.

And for me to say that could lead to others thinking it is rather awful to have a court system so incestuously corrupt. Except, these are all nice people who know each other and court systems have ALWAYS been like this, more or less. And they always will be this way. Government is incapable of being perfect. Understanding its inherent imperfections such as this are necessary when it comes to avoiding passing laws which interact with such a culture in a way to produce very bad outcomes.

 

After all, we have always had government and, for some reason, it would appear if we always have had it, that is because we need it. The inner workings of government are so awful, you discover after you observe it, it can easily lead many to think we should just abolish it. But, given that that is impossible, the best alternative is to understand it as inherently flawed, and realistically think of how to make things "the least bad."

This is what I have thought for a long time, yet only recently have I stumbled across some law professors who subscribe to a movement called "legal realism." It turns out they think exactly the way I do, and see the same flaws in our society (or in the thinking of popular culture which leads to wrong-headed policies in our legal system) that I see.

Oddly enough, they seem to describe themselves as leftists yet they are not the kind of ordinary mainstream leftist most people would understand to be "of the left." Which is strange because I never would have thought of myself as a liberal -- but not a conservative either. But maybe this is because of certain strands of liberalism I have been exposed to which are quite awful. 

In any case, why categorize oneself? As I study and learn more about society, I like to share various insights and not limit myself to any one "box" or "category" that I pigeonhole myself into.

Saturday March 7, 2015

March 08, 2015  /  Damian Schloming

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My personal issue with all these MGTOW InCels is they share almost none of my core beliefs about anything. Im loathed to self identify as member of a movement (MGTOW) that's being flooded with all these bitter unfucked Elliot Rodgers types...who actually seem to think making any sort of effort to better yourself in life is 'selling out' or pussy worshiping, who think women are wired 'wrong', and that withholding from them a dick they don't want anyway is the first step in reprogramming their minds...

MGTOW guys who think they are part of some sort of collective class action and on some sort of mass marriage strike that'll bring about some sort of MRA revolution in western culture.

Personally I find it hard to square my own beliefs with the beliefs of these kinda guys, or to embrace the idea that I'm part of the same movement they are. They are the reason why I'm increasingly inclined cast off the MGTOW label and let them have it.[/QUOTE]

Hold on one minute. 

The whole problem with "making any effort to better yourself in life," is, we live in a particular kind of system in this country where, when they want to use you for whatever utilitarian purpose they have, it's all about using incentives to make you jump through hoops. Personal incentives. Like nobody will be your friend because you are being used. And that's like, ok I don't want any friends, if this is what people are like. 

Except, recall, nobody is going to do that to you unless they need you in some way. They will treat you like shit, all as part of a big bluff designed to convince you you are nothing and have no choice but to go along with them. But it's just bluff. They need people to call them on it.

But, I think above all, you need to do a better job articulating what you mean when you refer to the "toxic nature of women." First of all, I don't think this toxicity is limited to women but, rather, permeates our whole society. It is one where people live according to such massive lies, lead people on emotionally and employ any number of other manipulative and dishonest tactics, only to discard them in the most sickening sociopathic ways, so much so that when you realize it and understand it, the amount of disgust you feel over the behavior you understand is just mind boggling. 

Except, more people need to put their foot down and just refuse to go along with it. Nobody should be buying into or cooperating with a system that is fundamentally immoral like that if they don't want to. The system got that way in the first place because of people who think they have no choice but to go along with it. But I don't believe in that.

Furthermore, another problem with this whole system that engages in immoral behavior -- and then wants their victims to come crawling back to them and pretend they didn't do what they did is, fundamentally what's going on is a bunch of bullshit and a bunch of bluff. I'm reminded of these feminists who get raped, horribly abused by crooked cops and by other feminists, and who then voluntarily agree to cover up the truth, distort the truth, and push the same feminist agenda responsible for their horrible victimization -- by people who say things like "you can never fix what they did to you in the past -- but if you don't go along with their agenda and help strengthen this evil system, they will destroy the rest of your life too, so do what they want you to do, so you can salvage the remaining years you have left."

Shouldn't more people go and just put their foot down and say "you are evil, and I'm not playing ball with this?" It's obvious, women won't do it. That's why our current system loves women and wants to hobble men as much as possible. Because there are men out there who WILL do that. And that's a threat to the system.

The more the better.

More importantly, it's about being true to yourself. 

Respect is earned. 

Disrespect is earned. 

If you have no respect for others because they earned your disrespect, then you should behave accordingly.

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