Pot pourri; now even black holes are racist; moral code for Virtus?

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Sent by a French comrade.

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–Cosmic black holes are racist

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Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SUNY Stony Brook recently concluded that two black holes maintained their total surface area after merging. While this research was a welcome confirmation of the theory of general relativity, it failed to address a crucial matter: What were its racial implications?

That’s a lacuna that an astronomy course at Cornell University aims to prevent. “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos” poses the question, “Is there a connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness?”

Anyone familiar with academia’s racial monomania knows the answer: Of course, there is. Though “conventional wisdom,” according to the course description, holds that the “‘black’ in black holes has nothing to do with race,” astronomy professor Nicholas Battaglia and comparative-literature professor Parisa Vaziri know better.

Battaglia and Vaziri draw on theorists such as Emory University English professor Michelle Wright, whose book, “The Physics of Blackness,” invokes “Newton’s laws of motion and gravity” and “theoretical particle physics” to “subvert racist assumptions about blackness.” The course also studies music by Sun Ra and Outkast to “conjure blackness through cosmological themes.”

Many scientists, reading about Cornell’s course, might wonder: Is this a hoax?

There’s precedent, after all. In 1996, New York University physicist Alan Sokal published a paper, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” in one of high theory’s holiest of shrines: the journal Social Text. Sokal drew on efforts among comparative-literature and American-studies professors to deploy scientific concepts toward a postmodern end: showing science to be a mere power play designed to silence “dissident or marginalized communities.”

Sokal cited such postmodern giants as Andrew Ross and Luce Irigaray on topics like “oppositional discourses in post-quantum science” and “gender encoding in fluid mechanics,” proposing a new theory of quantum gravity that could serve as the basis for a “postmodern and liberatory science.”

Sokal’s paper was, however, a prank. Clouded in Theorese, it obscured its own scientific illiteracy and so was accepted for publication—a mistake which should have triggered an academic reckoning. Instead, postmodern theory continued to fester, particularly in humanities and social-science departments.

In 2017, it happened again. Three academics submitted theory-drenched fake articles to various cultural-studies and social-science journals. Four were published, and three accepted, before the hoax was exposed.

“The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences, argued for understanding the penis not as “an anatomical organ, but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity” (with climate change identified as one of its most damaging threats).

Another analyzed “the rape culture of dog parks.”

The humanities and much of the social sciences have been beyond parody for a long time. What’s different about “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos” is its co-listing in an actual science department. The course fulfills Cornell’s science-distribution requirement, touching as it does on such concepts as the electromagnetic spectrum.

Astronomy departments have been on the forefront of campus identity politics — and so has Cornell. Cornell’s astronomy department won’t even allow prospective graduate students to submit the physics GRE test [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gre.asp] since female, black and Hispanic students score lower on average.

Meanwhile, Cornell’s engineering department accepts female undergraduates at over two and a half times the rate of male students, even though the average male math SAT score is significantly higher than the average female score.

Today’s academic charlatans mistake rhetoric for knowledge and words for things. This sleight of hand is particularly prevalent in matters relating to race. Hunter College professor Philip Ewell argues that the concept of tonal and harmonic hierarchies in music theory is a stand-in for pernicious racial hierarchies. Black business school students at USC protested in 2020 that hearing a professor use the Mandarin phrase for “that” — “nèi ge” — constituted racial harassment, since the Mandarin expression can sound like the N-word. The professor was sent on leave.

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My answer:

In Virtus, everything flows from enlightenment, and this  means that the egoic mind (I am a separate being who must fight the world), a mindset which makes earth into the hell it really is, is gone.

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Then you do not need to be told like a semitic barbarian that rape is wrong, or theft, or murder, or even “just” seducing a woman to get sex while faking that you love her.

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I have heard the expression: Men give love to get sex; women give sex to get love.

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This observation has some validity, though there are many, many exceptions. such as many women enjoy sex, too. 😉

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In the hit 1996 movie “Jerry Maguire,” the black football player (Cuba Gooding, jr.), while needing good advice from his agent (Tom Cruise), can also give good advice about relationships, coming from having a very good marriage himself.

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Here, in this short video clip below, the black player calls him out for having sex with a single mother while NOT being in love with her, though he does kind-of love her little son.

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This is a plain and simple USING of a woman’s feelings and needs, such as wanting a stepfather for her son. I see this all the time here in Ontonagon: single mothers trying to raise a son without a dad in the home, or, for that matter, trying to raise a rebellious daughter. They tell me about their travails with their teenager. It is so different from my own family, where my father was a very strong, masculine, respected authority figure. I could see other men genuinely respecting my father. It is not hard to obey such a man, and then never sass one’s mother.

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But these single mothers of today are vulnerable to any guy who seems to have the makings of a good stepdad. I speak from experience, having dated several single mothers in the 1990s.

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Women in their thirties can have a high sex drive, but they also, out of genuine parental love of their child, want the kid to have an adult masculine presence, a role model, and a backup for discipline in the home.

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(It may be impossible to directly discipline a stepchild – and yes, I do believe a moderate spanking may be helpful for certain kids at certain times — but one can support the mother in her punishment decisions regarding her own offspring.)

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A few times back then, 30 years ago, I did cross the line, faking more interest in the woman than was real to get sex, and I felt shame afterward. I vowed to never sleep with any woman I was not truly interested in, that is, regarding a long-term and serious relationship, and I have kept that promise.

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One gal who fell completely in love with me (I loved her, too, but was not “IN love” with her) lost ten pounds from grief in a month after I ended it, and she looked so gaunt, drawn, and sad when I ran into her again, that I felt absolutely rotten, especially because she was a truly nice person.

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Do not go and break a woman’s heart, men, just to “get your rocks off.”  When you die and see the life-review video,

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….it will NOT be about you, but about how you affected others, and that scene of a woman crying because you were a heartless cad will be in there.

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So do not get a single mom’s hopes up if you do not mean it!  Be honorable! Sex is part of LOVE, and we as humans are expected to be above the stage of being mere rutting animals. In many species, the male impregnates the female and then disappears. The she-bear must raise the cubs alone. But this is not the human way. Human children need their dad.

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Virtually all high-school mass shooters are fatherless boys.

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Grandpas can also be the role model. Because of young men dying in war, or a work-related accident, many boys throughout history have been raised by one.

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But this rule of not doing selfish things flows from being enlightened.

One should not need to be told to not use another person for anything!

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In a higher sense, you grasp that you are that person and that person is you. See and feel their humanity, and then the right actions will follow.

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And remember: that other person’s father is a very powerful being called GOD. Would you break a girl’s heart if you knew her father was a mafia don? No. Well, God is far more powerful than any mafia don. “Fear Him who can cast you, body and soul, into hell” said Jesus. “Do not deceive yourself; God is not one to be mocked. What a man sows, that shall he reap.”