EricSloanesGhost

The way we treat uncontacted tribes is a crime against humanity. We should be contacting *every* uncontacted tribe and give them modern medicine. Any argument against is just a noble savage fantasy from rich academics.

Consider, if you will, an ongoing family castle compound project, composed on individual stone Thoreau cottages surrounding covered outdoor public spaces, enclosed in an attractive stone compound wall. It grows organically with the family, with new cottages added as new children are born. Instead of building or buying one house one time, engaging in a much more long term and lower grade DIY project.

Having been happily married twice (first one ended by death) I know a lot about what makes marriage work. I could make "marriage coach" content based on real-life experiences that would be beneficial to men. But men don't learn best from being told what to do, they learn best from extraordinary men who inspire them to figure things out on their own. That's why I post about things that interest me and things I'm proud of – good and curious people start showing up in your life when you do this and they share their own wisdom in return. Generosity of spirit is self-regenerative. You give something, you get something.

The Rise of Chinese girls in America. In 2018, Charlie Munger explained why Americans have so many adopted Chinese Girls. “Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes” Charlie explains why this happened: “Because there was so much poverty in China and it was so overpopulated, if an American couple who had no child of their own, they could go to China and adopt a poor Chinese girl.” He makes a very important point: “So in every important city of America, people soon learned that they got better babies by taking the unwanted Chinese girls from the Chinese farms. Those babies on average worked out better than if they had their own children. So everyone wanted a Chinese girl." Charlie explained how they are winning in America: "Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes. They're spectacularly successful. You go to Minnesota and see these Chinese girls, they're playing the difficult instruments in the orchestra."

Mounted the French press holder to the pack just now.

I think this kind of parenting ‘aesthetic’ is much more appealing and aspirational than the tradwife sourdough sack dress homeschool 21st century does 19th century vibe pushed by Twitter pronatalists.