{"id":132790,"date":"2020-07-09T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132790"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:05:43","slug":"anatoly-california-isnt-the-sjwtopia-of-right-wing-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132790","title":{"rendered":"Anatoly: California Isn&#8217;t the SJWtopia of Right-Wing Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most people in California don&#8217;t care much about politics and it is not hard to live here as a right-winger if you can desist from talking politics with people who hate your politics. I find Californians remarkably tolerant and open. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody I&#8217;ve met who hated California was deeply unhappy. I suspect they loathed the rampant happiness in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Almost nobody in California has given me a hard time about my politics unless I provoked them first.<\/p>\n<p>When you are unhappy, you see the world very differently than when you are calm. When you are angry, you see the world very differently than when you are joyful. When you are tense and insecure, you see the world very differently than when you are at ease. In different states, we are different people. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f GRAPHIC &#8211; Nutty Nancy\u2019s district doing a beautiful job of summing up the best of San Francisco in one vid. Homeless man jerking off with a meth pipe in his mouth as young girls walk by. Now that\u2019s what I call progress! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFDeplorable?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SFDeplorable<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bluewave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bluewave<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/beEk4sX585\">pic.twitter.com\/beEk4sX585<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/streetpeopleLA\/status\/1227711812801527810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ao-fSNQaSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/california-isnt-the-sjwtopia-of-right-wing-fantasies\/\">Anatoly Karlin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>California is liberal, sure, but it is much more heterodox\/\u201dPC-totalitarian\u201d than New England, where the Puritans of yore have merely put on problem glasses.<\/p>\n<p>California is more of a colorful playground for all sorts of eccentrics. Personally, I would characterize it as a nation-state sized coffee salon, even by American standards \u2013 just look at all the groups\/personalities from all kinds of disparate spheres and ideological backgrounds that have congregated there over the decades:<\/p>\n<p>Most of the core rationalist\/LessWrong people<br \/>\nMost of the transhumanists<br \/>\nHalf the neoreactionaries and the nationalist-populist wing of the conservative moment<br \/>\nBurning Man<br \/>\nThe OG PUAs (Ross Jeffries etc.)<br \/>\nLast but not least, like, half the Unz Review (Ron and Steve live there, I lived there)<br \/>\nWhile Silicon Valley is famous for its technological innovations, the region is, if anything, even more impressive as a generator of social ideas and cultural counter-trends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McDonald had a productive career as a tenured prof within the [CSU] system. Yes, somewhat shunned by his colleagues towards its tail end, from what I heard. But how long would he have lasted anywhere else, considering how \u201chardcore\u201d his work was?<\/p>\n<p>This is not my idiosyncratic view. <a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akarlin88\/status\/1143645697197125632\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akarlin88\/status\/1143645697197125632\">My Tweet<\/a> on this largely met with agreement, e.g. <a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingBaeksu\/status\/1143898840128339968\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingBaeksu\/status\/1143898840128339968\">King Baeksu<\/a> (expat to Korea): &#8220;<em>At Berkeley and afterwards, most of my mates and acquaintances were lefties, but we often gently mocked politically correct shibboleths and argot because it was more &#8220;hip&#8221; to be urbane and knowing than slavishly doctrinaire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COMMENTS:<\/p>\n<p>* California is special \u2013 and awesome. People do seem happy there, and more independent. Its also stunningly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>* That reminds me of a podcast I listened to a few years back with Mike Enoch (Right Stuff\/Daily Shoah) and Greg Johnson. Enoch introduced the topic of how unfairly maligned rednecks were by the media, and how he\u2019s had to reconsider what he always thought, and how they\u2019re really good people, and they have all these useful skills (hunting, handyman etc). And there\u2019s Johnson doing his best to enthusiastically agree (because of course what else was he going to do?), but he didn\u2019t really having anything he could add, since rednecks are about the last people on earth a homosexual intellectual like him would want anything to do with. Enoch kept on the topic for long enough that I wondered at the time if Johnson felt like he was being set up (he\u2019s certainly suspicious enough to think something like that).<\/p>\n<p>I think Johnson does outstanding work. I don\u2019t want to speculate on the exact reasons for the numerous interpersonal spats he\u2019s had (and which he does his own bit to drag out longer than necessary), but I would agree that he\u2019s lacking in leadership ability. That\u2019s a common enough failing that I can\u2019t hold it against him. I really have to question his judgment on some of the people he has chosen to surround himself with though. That \u201cJeelvy\u201d kid? I\u2019d have serious misgivings about close collaboration with an extreme petty nationalist larper like that. Despite all this, I still give Johnson a high grade. Head and shoulders above the legions of loons who have surfaced over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>* One thing that would probably surprise non-Californians is that over the last decade or two, the statewide politics and politicians here have become extremely bland and boring. Fortunately, they\u2019re reasonably competent, or at least I think more so than most other states.<\/p>\n<p>* What\u2019s great about Cali is you have desert, mountain, pine forest, rolling hills with oak trees, and dramatic coastline, all in one place. And the light and the air have an incredible quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most people in California don&#8217;t care much about politics and it is not hard to live here as a right-winger if you can desist from talking politics with people who hate your politics. 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