Vox Day is one of the few defenders of Western Civilization who, while others whined and complained, did something to preserve our heritage. Rather, he’s done many things, including writing and editing a slew of books (SJWs Always Lie, Corporate Cancer, A Throne of Bones, Probability Zero, etc.). Your reviewer has read Day with great appreciation since 2001, and his earliest days as a columnist at World Net Daily. He assembled the comprehensive taxonomy of the socio-sexual hierarchy (alpha, sigma, gamma, et al). He is the author of MITTENS, the Mathematical Impossibility of The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, an empirical demolition of Darwin’s theory of evolution and a core concept in Probability Zero and The Frozen Gene. A Top 40 recording artist, he slings some mean beats and lyrics. The Frozen Gene is available from Amazon.
Like Probability Zero, The Frozen Gene is partly written in the language of mathematics. However, as I told someone, somewhere, the written explanations accompanying the many formulas make for easy reading, even for those not possessed of a “math” brain. An open mind will go far in understanding what might otherwise be intimidating. As for help understanding or reacquainting with various mathematical symbols, please start here. The Frozen Gene is in part an explication of a series of scientific papers published on Zenodo by Day and his valiant assistant, the esteemed Claude Athos. An illustrative preview paper, Generational Extension and the Selective Turnover Coefficient Across Historical Epochs (Day and Athos, 2025), is found here. And by explication, I mean the kind of linguistic elucidation that not only reinforces and clarifies, but also adds a degree of relatability. And even fun. Accordingly, such calculus as “d = T × [∫μ(x) × l(x) × v(x)dx/∫l(x) × v(x)dx]” appears alongside analogies to crowded bar rooms, full parking lots, an Italian tale genetically reminiscent of Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, and the science fiction classic Blade Runner. Day even separates the relative importance of the latter fiction by book and movie. A kind genius.
I could be wrong. Indeed, I hope I’m wrong. I really don’t like any of the various potential implications. But after all the copious RTST’ing with multiple AI systems, I just don’t think that’s very likely.
