- Greg Ellifrtiz has a new Weekend Knowledge Dump this weekend. Some notable links and comments:
- Greg links to a couple articles about "tactical" lever actions. Greg comments:
I like lever guns. I currently own three and wouldn’t feel undergunned if I had to press one into service as a defensive rifle. With that said, I don’t get the whole “tactical lever action” craze. Unless one is living in a state or country where semi auto rifles are forbidden, lever guns for self protection don’t make a whole lot of sense.
A simple thought exercise. If you knew you were going into a gunfight, would you pick a .30-30 lever gun or an SKS? Same accuracy and power. The SKS is more reliable, shoots faster, and is easier to reload. The SKS is the clear choice.
Yet almost no knowledgeable gunman would willingly go into a gunfight with an SKS when there are far better options available. If an SKS is a better fighting weapon than the lever gun and no one would opt for the SKS over an AR-15, why are you making your lever gun “tactical?”
To be fair, the articles don't suggest that the lever-action replace modern defense rifles, but offers it as an alternative for people living in jurisdictions where an AR or other modern defensive rifle would be illegal. Those in this situation who are worried about ammunition limitations, should probably consider weapons in pistol calibers as these will offer 2 to 3 additional rounds for the same length as .30-30.
- A brief tutorial on push daggers. A key point, though, for those who already have experience or training with boxing:
Whereas FMA [Filipino Martial Arts] and other blade oriented arts spend much of their time on intricate slashing and varied stabbing patterns, the push dagger is much simpler – lock the handle tightly in your clenched fist and punch. Punch the same targets as in the same manner you would if you had a bare knuckle closed fist. Think the long straights of the jab or cross and the tight infighting strikes of an uppercut or shovel hook. You do not need to change anything, and you do not have to spend an extraordinary amount of time to build the push dagger techniques into your already existing fighting methodology. Essentially all you have to work on is making sure your hand is holding the PD tight and firm. But you should have that tight a fist formation even as a pure empty hand striker, so it is not intrinsically different, which is quite unlike trying to add in the classic FMA/Indonesian/Japanese/or other typical knife fighting system.
- An article entitled "The Urge to Police Your Fellow Man" describing the dangers--physical and legal--that come from butting your head into someone's else business. The author discusses how too many people believe it is their obligation to police and manage perfect strangers. I know that the second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor as you love yourself, but I think that it should have been "don't be an a-hole".
- Still looking at Active Response Training, Greg had earlier in the week posted a guest article by Steve Moses on training a church security team.
- Moving to some other long reads:
- "The Great Feminization" by Helen Andrews. Key quote: "Everything you think of as 'wokeness' is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization." She also notes that once woman reach a certain critical percentage in an organization, they start to force out the males. Isaiah wrote about societies headed to ruin that they are ruled by women and children--it isn't a blessing but a curse.
- "Western Culture Isn’t Feminized, It’s Transgender"--The Federalist. This is a response or expansion of Andrews' article wherein Joy Pullman who believes she is interjecting additional nuance, but ultimately just argues that it is the fault of men if women now dominate; and, if men just tried hard enough, they could balance things out. I think Andrews' misses the point of such a world because it is not just men facing off on a level playing field, but against men who are happy to have to compete against fewer men and women acting in a tribal fashion, all the while backed up "anti-discrimination" laws. In her article, "Tribalism Needs to End," Caroline Furlong writes:
When people speak about the Nazis’ propaganda, this is what they mean but never quite grasp or fully verbalize: Nazism was a tribal identity that tried it’s best to make Germany, as well as the rest of the world, bow to it. It wasn’t the Nazis’ use of mass media brainwashing the Germans to be evil – the Nazis were a minority party in Germany. What they managed to accomplish they did through intimidation, fear, and by holding fast to the levers of power they had legally obtained. Read about Franz Stigler’s service during World War II, or if you are curious about the Pacific Theater, pick up Akira Kurosawa’s autobiography. Both will demonstrate how not only Germany but also Japan were indeed under the heel of tribal mindsets that had legally taken the levers of power.
We have a similar situation here where women (and minorities) follow a tribal identity and mercilessly advance the interests of their tribe once they have hold of the levers of power, whether it is in a company or some other organization, or in government.
- "Why woke women make terrible leaders"--Unreported Truths. Inspired by the Andrews article, Alex Berenson digs into why female political leaders are so terrible, using Angela Merkel and Katherine Maher as examples. An excerpt:
Maher does not so much argue with her opponents as insist that she has the moral (and intellectual) high ground, that anyone who would disagree with her is a cretin. Merkel, who had the advantage of formal state power, used its levers more quietly.
But they wind up in the same place. They’re using the same strategy. What Maher pretends is what Merkel pretended: that hard decisions can be elided simply by refusing to consider the possibility that there are two sides at all.
This is a recipe for bureaucratic creep and statism.
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