Because european civ doesn’t begin with farming and the sedentary cultures, it b

Because european civ doesn’t begin with farming and the sedentary cultures, it begins with cattle herding, metalworking, wheel, horse, war, and MANEUVER (ooda loops), producing conquest, expansion, heroism, militarism, sky worshipping … and … get ready “military reporting” or what we call ‘testimony’. Farming is what you conquer the helots to do – so to speak. It is a fundamentally realist not experientialist understanding of the world. So the west begins with realism, naturalism, empiricism(observables), contractualism, and testimony to all. Which is just military reporting, and testimony before the jury, applied to all of life.

And as usual, Rudyard is correct in his observation. The east has had little impact.

Buy the reason the east does what it does is because CONFUCIUS FAILED to solve the problem of politics, and so having failed, he directed the society to the production of a hierarchy of families, and the perception of harmony to preserve it … becuase they failed to produce contract, law, rule of law. The evolution of the east is STATE command first not peer LAW first. The evolution of the west is law first not state first. The evolution of the middle east is religion first, state second and failed state and law. India roughly maintained religion and custom instead of law, and failed at the state. The only way to get to european civ is the same way we did it (by accident). Sovereignty > Reciprocity > Contract (democracy) > Testimony (empirical truth) > aristocracy (meritocracy) > Markets in everything. THereby preserving the trifunctional competition between feminine faith, masculine state, and neutral trade.

I disagree with paradoxes (there aren’t any – really), the world isn’t an illusion – under testimony it’s just measurements using senses as a measure. Under technocracy and military it’s about market-coordinated voluntary actions in groups not invidiual imaginary life to escape the boredom of agrarian life. Family is just the first unit of cultural production. It’s militaries, states, and trade that build societies and civilizations. People who live in mind-world are just the peasants whose lives are dicated by those with ability, capacity, agency, and allies. If you can life in the mind instead of in the world the question is why would you? What incentives cause you to prefer the mind and self generated feelings vs experience of reality and reality generated feelings? (Powerlessness)

ie: nietzche was not quite right. It’s not slave vs master, it’s not even peasant vs aristocracy. It’s feminine vs masculine.

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