I think your idea for a “Great Awokening” book would be the most fruitful. I expect we’ll see books in the coming years from mainstream conservatives attempting to explain the phenomena but misunderstanding it entirely. You’d be putting the record straight now before any of them.
“The Great Awokening: 2014-24” would be fun as the history of a decade, like Muggeridge’s “The Thirties”. I can see separate chapters on Black Lives Matter, World War T, MeToo, etc.
Steve should not try writing on any topic when the research will require reading something than the NY Times. Also, Steve will never write a chapter nine with policy proposals.
> I think your idea for a “Great Awokening” book would be the most fruitful. <
Agree this would be the most *saleable*. Though Steve will have to wade into female psychology and its interaction with smart phones (the hen circle 24x7x365) to explain its flowering. And how it flows from the minoritarian--"oppression!"--template to explain its meaning. Essentially woke is minoritarianism on estrogen.
But the most *important* book would be on immigration, nation, loyalty pulling in "Affordable Family Formation"/fertility.
In the US we've turned a corner in the last decade where immigration has simply nuked Ben Franklin's old "cheap land, dear labor" America and destroying the "white picket fence" America dream for millions of America's young people--with downstream carnage in relations between the sexes, marriage, fertility ... everything.
One problem writing the immigration book though is wading into the Jewish problem-- Jewish anti-gentile, anti-national hostility and just sheer insanity driving this issue. There are other causes--cheap labor grubbing and "more toilet paper sales!" econo-man. Europe had both some post-War "labor shortage" and post-colonial issues. But it is impossible to explain this disaster across the West, without explaining how American media/academia "diversity!" and "immigration!" ideology--cooked up and pushed to dominance by American Jews--colonized brains throughout the Western world. (Including retconning Hilter/Stalin/Tojo's openly *imperialist* War into "nationalism bad").
You can try and duck the American/Jewish roots of this cancer--makes the book more saleable--but then you're left with some pretty flaccid explanations. Is this really driven by "more bodies" and "cheap labor" when--in Europe in particular--these immigrants provide marginal useful work and just slurp up benefits?
But if you want to write a book that matters, then immigration--immigration, nation, loyalty--is the book that matters.
Let me toss in some potential problems with the Great Awokening book-idea:
- NON-UNIQUE: Huge numbers of people have been, and will be, writing books such as that.
- TIME-SENSITIVITY: It may also risk becoming quite obsolete-seeming, or points made vigorously may later be perceived as tritely common knowledge. The 2008 Sailer book, about the Obama biography, was very much subject to the harder form of time-sensitivity, in that it was an attempt to block the election of Obama a mere weeks after Peter Brimelow published the book under the VDare imprint (Sailer being banned from mainstream publishing at the time).
- TOO-DOWNSCALE A MARKET?: Most of the books about ca. mid-2010s to mid-2020s Wokeness will tend to be more downscale than what Sailer would naturally produce.
- DESCRIPTIVE vs PRESCRIPTIVE: This is a big problem, at least as I see it. A Great Awokening book would, we presume, be entirely backward-looking and "descriptive." Sailer should aim for the fences a bit more, and, even if against his inclination, work hard to produce a "prescriptive" book, or a book with a prescriptive element, forward-looking in part, advice-giving. If a book about the Sailer Strategy that he popularized in the 2000s, what changes in/by the 2030s and 2040s? How long can the Sailer Strategy last? Or does he think the 2000s-era Sailer Strategy is obsolete even here by the mid-2020s? But Steve has earned the right to put on the "prescriptive" cap and parade around in it.
- TOO LIMITING IN SCOPE?: Really ANY book that Sailer produces -- maybe even including the contemplated, but ill-advised, Golf Course Architecture treatise -- any Sailer book with new material WILL have a lot of through-lines involving the history of Leftist Cultural Drift, and that which we call Wokeness (pegged to maybe the early-mid 2010s through the early-2020s). An entire book about it may be the wrong approach, in that it's strangely too limiting. The book idea about "How the Democrats' Anti-White Strategy Went Wrong" obviously is "about" Wokeness without limiting itself to the topic.
It all depends on how hard you want to work! A stats book would involve refreshing skills you haven't used much in the last ten or fifteen years and augmenting them with some techniques you've never particularly focused on, which sounds like a challenge.
On the other hand, making a substantial contribution to political philosophy would just about require you to rewire your brain, an activity in which guys your age don't, as a group, tend to specialize. It would be so impressive if you could pull it off that I'm tempted to urge you to try it, but it wouldn't leave you time for daily posting, and I'd miss you.
The hard part of writing a book of political analysis would be holding yourself to a high standard. It would be so easy to fill pages with the kind of drivel that fills hours at a time on cable TV and sell a more copies than a good book would sell that only a hyperactive conscience could keep any writer from succumbing to that temptation.
Write a social science textbook. As sociology and related fields in this century are dominated by Marxists and progressives, you would have the market to yourself.
I've said this several times, you should consider writing an anthology on Golf, where such concepts as the historical roots are explored, the changing architectural styles over the decades is examined, and of course the various key players who have made a direct impact on the sport at large. This could also be combined with various societal aspects of the game itself (e.g. how certain ethnic groups, like blacks and Jews, have related to Golf over time). The aspects of country club vs public links can be touched on--which courses are better suited for ordinary players vs professional players.
Top it all off with various black and white and color photos, and this would be the ideal book concerning a sport played by kings, presidents, business tycoons, celebrities, down to the present day.
Coffee Table size, naturally for the full indepth effect for purusal.
GOLF: What is it?
there's the title, Steve. Expand upon the various golf essays you've written over the years and the book has practically written itself. It should be rather simple to obtain permission to include photos of golfers, both ordinary and professionals, for the book.
Moneyball focused on the wrong GM. OAK GM Billy Beane never won any WS championships, much less pennants with OAK. If Lewis wanted to trumpet Bill James's pioneering work for Sabermetrics, then NY AL GM Brian Cashman would've made a far better subject, as it would've focused on a concrete example of someone using Sabermetrics and succeeding with WS championships.
Yeah, YojimboZatoichi is giving Cashman WAY too much credit here; that Yankee dynasty at the end of the last century was built by Gene Michael with Bob Watson and Cashman getting the nominal credit. At this point Cashman must have unspeakable photos of Hal Steinbrenner as he seems to have tenure.
If anything, the GM who has best applied the MoneyBall principles has been Theo Epstein who has won World Series with the Red Sox and Cubs
Theo Epstein's grandfather and his grandfather's identical twin jointly wrote the best single line in movie history: "Round up the usual suspects." A rather All-American aristocratic line of guys doing things I would have liked to have done.
Right up there with "I'm shocked -- SHOCKED -- to find that gambling is going on in here!" but that was them as well.
Theo being the grandson of THOSE Epstein brothers may make him a nepobaby up there with BJ Novak whose father wrote the autobiographies of Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and Magic Johnson and edited The Big Book of Jewish Humor
uh, that was in 2001, and it was the ALDS. SEA won 116 games that year, so even if OAK wins the ALDS, SEA wouldn't have been a walk in the park for OAK, the way that they were for NY--because, after all, it's the Yankees.
Anyone with vague progressive ideals rather than reactionary ones realize the expansion of the woke concept to anything vaguely counter-reactionary should realize Steve Sailer is a leader of reactionary thinking. Just different Grand Causes, but I thought we liked free speech and democracy in the west and talking to people we disagree with and so on.
You’ll just have to read subtext without fake html code sarcasm notes, unfortunately. Tech feudalists and rightists have real enemies! (And half assed enemies like myself)
Go full Charles Murray and write on the heritability of IQ.
But you would sell more books and increase/repair your reputation as a reasonable guy if you went with the coffee table golf book suggested above. Make it non-political and many people would buy it as a Christmas present.
A book on your concept of Civic Nationalism would be useful. If you were to present some solutions to the problems described in The Bell Curve and by Perot in the ‘92 election, it could go some way towards softening the blow of HBD.
The problem is I’m less sure about solutions now than in the past.
I don’t really play golf, but I still enjoy your writing on the subject. That must mean something.
I like the idea of something along the electoral analysis lines. Trump did much better than a typical Republican among almost all minority groups, and he won among the poorer half of the population. The Democrats seemed to assume they were entitled to every minority's vote, and that demographic change would mean they'd win every election forever and then that outcome didn't happen.
That said, a book about that might be even more interesting after 2028, when Trump (presumably) won't be a candidate.
It's likeliest that you want to nudge The Culture in a positive direction. The more people that are exposed to your plain-spoken, college-junior-level data and reasoning, the better. Especially because readers have ample opportunities to compare your ideas to consensus legacy media's Rube Goldberg, your-lyin'-eyes explanations.
The progressive Establishment alienating huge fractions of the electorate by becoming hate-filled toward whites, men, and straights -- the U.S. would be a better place if more normies thought about this phenomenon.
On the other hand, your movie reviews consistently achieve your stated goals of providing context, and sharing relevant background information missing from others' reviews. As those are already written, this would be a low effort way to expand your readership.
Perhaps political philosophy will be more interesting in the few years it will take to write and publish it but it seems like an overworked subject in the immediate future. The very audience that would benefit from a clear-eyed post mortem of the DNC is probably the one least interested in it. The growth of citizenism vs immigration sounds more promising. That seems like a subject that is becoming more important daily and may continue to be so. But your own interests, as always will steer your own efforts, so do what you enjoy! Good looking poochie. Rescue? You're a good man🤎
Is there a “Why are we all so scared?” book that would explore our changing perception of risk of becoming victims of crime?
(I’m assuming you don’t care too much about selling lots of books)
White Girl Bleed a Lot did well.
I think your idea for a “Great Awokening” book would be the most fruitful. I expect we’ll see books in the coming years from mainstream conservatives attempting to explain the phenomena but misunderstanding it entirely. You’d be putting the record straight now before any of them.
“The Great Awokening: 2014-24” would be fun as the history of a decade, like Muggeridge’s “The Thirties”. I can see separate chapters on Black Lives Matter, World War T, MeToo, etc.
Steve should not try writing on any topic when the research will require reading something than the NY Times. Also, Steve will never write a chapter nine with policy proposals.
> I think your idea for a “Great Awokening” book would be the most fruitful. <
Agree this would be the most *saleable*. Though Steve will have to wade into female psychology and its interaction with smart phones (the hen circle 24x7x365) to explain its flowering. And how it flows from the minoritarian--"oppression!"--template to explain its meaning. Essentially woke is minoritarianism on estrogen.
But the most *important* book would be on immigration, nation, loyalty pulling in "Affordable Family Formation"/fertility.
In the US we've turned a corner in the last decade where immigration has simply nuked Ben Franklin's old "cheap land, dear labor" America and destroying the "white picket fence" America dream for millions of America's young people--with downstream carnage in relations between the sexes, marriage, fertility ... everything.
One problem writing the immigration book though is wading into the Jewish problem-- Jewish anti-gentile, anti-national hostility and just sheer insanity driving this issue. There are other causes--cheap labor grubbing and "more toilet paper sales!" econo-man. Europe had both some post-War "labor shortage" and post-colonial issues. But it is impossible to explain this disaster across the West, without explaining how American media/academia "diversity!" and "immigration!" ideology--cooked up and pushed to dominance by American Jews--colonized brains throughout the Western world. (Including retconning Hilter/Stalin/Tojo's openly *imperialist* War into "nationalism bad").
You can try and duck the American/Jewish roots of this cancer--makes the book more saleable--but then you're left with some pretty flaccid explanations. Is this really driven by "more bodies" and "cheap labor" when--in Europe in particular--these immigrants provide marginal useful work and just slurp up benefits?
But if you want to write a book that matters, then immigration--immigration, nation, loyalty--is the book that matters.
Let me toss in some potential problems with the Great Awokening book-idea:
- NON-UNIQUE: Huge numbers of people have been, and will be, writing books such as that.
- TIME-SENSITIVITY: It may also risk becoming quite obsolete-seeming, or points made vigorously may later be perceived as tritely common knowledge. The 2008 Sailer book, about the Obama biography, was very much subject to the harder form of time-sensitivity, in that it was an attempt to block the election of Obama a mere weeks after Peter Brimelow published the book under the VDare imprint (Sailer being banned from mainstream publishing at the time).
- TOO-DOWNSCALE A MARKET?: Most of the books about ca. mid-2010s to mid-2020s Wokeness will tend to be more downscale than what Sailer would naturally produce.
- DESCRIPTIVE vs PRESCRIPTIVE: This is a big problem, at least as I see it. A Great Awokening book would, we presume, be entirely backward-looking and "descriptive." Sailer should aim for the fences a bit more, and, even if against his inclination, work hard to produce a "prescriptive" book, or a book with a prescriptive element, forward-looking in part, advice-giving. If a book about the Sailer Strategy that he popularized in the 2000s, what changes in/by the 2030s and 2040s? How long can the Sailer Strategy last? Or does he think the 2000s-era Sailer Strategy is obsolete even here by the mid-2020s? But Steve has earned the right to put on the "prescriptive" cap and parade around in it.
- TOO LIMITING IN SCOPE?: Really ANY book that Sailer produces -- maybe even including the contemplated, but ill-advised, Golf Course Architecture treatise -- any Sailer book with new material WILL have a lot of through-lines involving the history of Leftist Cultural Drift, and that which we call Wokeness (pegged to maybe the early-mid 2010s through the early-2020s). An entire book about it may be the wrong approach, in that it's strangely too limiting. The book idea about "How the Democrats' Anti-White Strategy Went Wrong" obviously is "about" Wokeness without limiting itself to the topic.
Slightly shorter books, as a Noticing series.
Noticing: Crime and Displacement
Noticing: The Great Awokening
Noticing: Hollywood and Culture
Noticing: Battles of the Sexes
Perhaps each of those topics could be a separate section in a single book expanding more of the short pieces in Noticing.
Write the book you most wish already existed or don't waste your time.
It all depends on how hard you want to work! A stats book would involve refreshing skills you haven't used much in the last ten or fifteen years and augmenting them with some techniques you've never particularly focused on, which sounds like a challenge.
On the other hand, making a substantial contribution to political philosophy would just about require you to rewire your brain, an activity in which guys your age don't, as a group, tend to specialize. It would be so impressive if you could pull it off that I'm tempted to urge you to try it, but it wouldn't leave you time for daily posting, and I'd miss you.
The hard part of writing a book of political analysis would be holding yourself to a high standard. It would be so easy to fill pages with the kind of drivel that fills hours at a time on cable TV and sell a more copies than a good book would sell that only a hyperactive conscience could keep any writer from succumbing to that temptation.
Write a social science textbook. As sociology and related fields in this century are dominated by Marxists and progressives, you would have the market to yourself.
I've said this several times, you should consider writing an anthology on Golf, where such concepts as the historical roots are explored, the changing architectural styles over the decades is examined, and of course the various key players who have made a direct impact on the sport at large. This could also be combined with various societal aspects of the game itself (e.g. how certain ethnic groups, like blacks and Jews, have related to Golf over time). The aspects of country club vs public links can be touched on--which courses are better suited for ordinary players vs professional players.
Top it all off with various black and white and color photos, and this would be the ideal book concerning a sport played by kings, presidents, business tycoons, celebrities, down to the present day.
Coffee Table size, naturally for the full indepth effect for purusal.
GOLF: What is it?
there's the title, Steve. Expand upon the various golf essays you've written over the years and the book has practically written itself. It should be rather simple to obtain permission to include photos of golfers, both ordinary and professionals, for the book.
I suggest Golf: What is it good for?
There should be a chapter on golf hustlers
Baseball could be a section of the book. Like, how Moneyball only partly succeeded.
Moneyball focused on the wrong GM. OAK GM Billy Beane never won any WS championships, much less pennants with OAK. If Lewis wanted to trumpet Bill James's pioneering work for Sabermetrics, then NY AL GM Brian Cashman would've made a far better subject, as it would've focused on a concrete example of someone using Sabermetrics and succeeding with WS championships.
Playoffs and Series wins are mostly random. And they get more random every time they expand the playoffs.
Billy did more with less than Cashman ever could.
Yeah, YojimboZatoichi is giving Cashman WAY too much credit here; that Yankee dynasty at the end of the last century was built by Gene Michael with Bob Watson and Cashman getting the nominal credit. At this point Cashman must have unspeakable photos of Hal Steinbrenner as he seems to have tenure.
If anything, the GM who has best applied the MoneyBall principles has been Theo Epstein who has won World Series with the Red Sox and Cubs
Theo Epstein's grandfather and his grandfather's identical twin jointly wrote the best single line in movie history: "Round up the usual suspects." A rather All-American aristocratic line of guys doing things I would have liked to have done.
Right up there with "I'm shocked -- SHOCKED -- to find that gambling is going on in here!" but that was them as well.
Theo being the grandson of THOSE Epstein brothers may make him a nepobaby up there with BJ Novak whose father wrote the autobiographies of Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and Magic Johnson and edited The Big Book of Jewish Humor
If Jeremy Giambi just slides, the A's win it all in 2000.
uh, that was in 2001, and it was the ALDS. SEA won 116 games that year, so even if OAK wins the ALDS, SEA wouldn't have been a walk in the park for OAK, the way that they were for NY--because, after all, it's the Yankees.
To state the obvious and to aid and abet the enemy, "The Great Awokening" is obviously the best seller of the bunch.
> and to aid and abet the enemy
Can you elaborate, edit, or (perhaps) add a [sarc] tag?
Anyone with vague progressive ideals rather than reactionary ones realize the expansion of the woke concept to anything vaguely counter-reactionary should realize Steve Sailer is a leader of reactionary thinking. Just different Grand Causes, but I thought we liked free speech and democracy in the west and talking to people we disagree with and so on.
You’ll just have to read subtext without fake html code sarcasm notes, unfortunately. Tech feudalists and rightists have real enemies! (And half assed enemies like myself)
Okay.
U asked bro
lol
Go full Charles Murray and write on the heritability of IQ.
But you would sell more books and increase/repair your reputation as a reasonable guy if you went with the coffee table golf book suggested above. Make it non-political and many people would buy it as a Christmas present.
A book on your concept of Civic Nationalism would be useful. If you were to present some solutions to the problems described in The Bell Curve and by Perot in the ‘92 election, it could go some way towards softening the blow of HBD.
The problem is I’m less sure about solutions now than in the past.
I don’t really play golf, but I still enjoy your writing on the subject. That must mean something.
I like the idea of something along the electoral analysis lines. Trump did much better than a typical Republican among almost all minority groups, and he won among the poorer half of the population. The Democrats seemed to assume they were entitled to every minority's vote, and that demographic change would mean they'd win every election forever and then that outcome didn't happen.
That said, a book about that might be even more interesting after 2028, when Trump (presumably) won't be a candidate.
See also: "The Sailer Strategy"
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/what-book-next/comment/159915577
It depends on your main objective.
It's likeliest that you want to nudge The Culture in a positive direction. The more people that are exposed to your plain-spoken, college-junior-level data and reasoning, the better. Especially because readers have ample opportunities to compare your ideas to consensus legacy media's Rube Goldberg, your-lyin'-eyes explanations.
The progressive Establishment alienating huge fractions of the electorate by becoming hate-filled toward whites, men, and straights -- the U.S. would be a better place if more normies thought about this phenomenon.
On the other hand, your movie reviews consistently achieve your stated goals of providing context, and sharing relevant background information missing from others' reviews. As those are already written, this would be a low effort way to expand your readership.
I vote for Citizenism & Immigration Policy. This would be the most important contribution you could make.
Perhaps political philosophy will be more interesting in the few years it will take to write and publish it but it seems like an overworked subject in the immediate future. The very audience that would benefit from a clear-eyed post mortem of the DNC is probably the one least interested in it. The growth of citizenism vs immigration sounds more promising. That seems like a subject that is becoming more important daily and may continue to be so. But your own interests, as always will steer your own efforts, so do what you enjoy! Good looking poochie. Rescue? You're a good man🤎
I'd like to see you do a long-form book on movies.
Write a book on how our grandchildren will become a hated minority in the land of their fathers. Is there a more important topic?