Paradox Point

  Future History

          Future Hominin Evolution   An immune system that can laugh off AIDS, Ebola, the flu and the common cold. Radiation resistance. Anti-cancer. A liver that can break down dioxin and nanomachines. Eat anything you want, as much as you want, without fear of heart disease, stroke, obesity or diabetes. Limb regeneration. Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, at the highest skill level, from a very early age. Accurate statistical intuition. Accurate physics intuition. Superhuman political savvy. Superhuman sales resistance. Superhuman sense of humor. Superhuman emotional resilience.   The good news is, people of the far future will have all of these traits. The bad news is, they’ll need them in order to survive long enough to reproduce.  

                 Wilhoit’s Law and Privilegism   Frank Wilhoit proposed this Law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. Wilhoit’s Law is concise, precise, and exact. It predicts that conservatism is a misnomer, as it does not conserve, except to protect the in-group and bind the out-group. It also predicts that conservatives will be baffled by accusations of hypocrisy, as their destructiveness is consistent with their core proposition. It even predicts that they will use the misnomer ‘conservative’ to des...

Donnie and Bubba   Dear Donnie, I don’t want no trubba, I only wanna hear from you; So tell me, tell me, who was Bubba? And what did you and Bubba do?