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Max Weber’s General Economic History. Chapter 28 – Citizenship Outside the occident there have not been cities in the sense of a unitary community. Occidental cities originally arose through the establishment of a fraternity; it was in its beginnings first above all a defense group, an organization of those economically competent to bear arms, to equip and train themselves. These folks owned their own arms: this is key. In places like Egypt, Asia, India and China, irrigation was a big issue, and so kings’ bureaucracies developed....

Don Gately —“I see you jumped straight to roundabout…”— I see you jumped straight to abrahamic lying. Answer the question: “define a god without reference to properties”? ANALYSIS DG: The Objection: —“Properties are reserved for matter and not gods [properties are limited to matter.]”— CD: The Falsification “define a god without reference to properties” Supported by: Language: Reference(name), Properties (necessary), Attributes(tangential), Where all properties and attributes must be conveyed by analogy to experience (measurement)....

The Third Great European Transformation: North Sea “‘Rather than focus on why Europe diverged from the rest in 1800 we should be asking why the North Sea diverged from the rest in 1000.‘–H.B.D.C. “By 1200 Western Europe has a GDP per capita higher than most parts of the world, but (with two exceptions) by 1500 this number stops increasing. In both data sets, the two exceptions are the Netherlands and Great Britain....

The Mesolithic – The First Dark Age (Human) Paleolithic > Mesolithic (“middle stone age”) (Europe 13,000 BC to 3,000 BC) or Epipaleolithic (outside of europe) (18,000 BC to 6,000BC). Generation Seven: Adapting to the Exhaustion of Megafauna, and a difficult time for humans. Status: Climate Crisis: Out of Africa > Dependence on the Sea > Nomadic Hunting Megafauna Herds > Ice Age Retreat > Semi Sedentary Small Game and Fishing, dependent on rivers > Domestication of animals and plants > rise of settlements (cities) > bronze revolution and rule > rise of trade, states, and empires....

—” That is exactly the problem I see in every political, ethical or moral claims. They never blame the system they create. It always guy XYZ fault. My program for human works perfectly but when I put the value “human” in it. It crashed. Dawm you… humans!!!”— Are you sure that makes sense? (No it doesn’t’) Does that mean that we should satisfy the demand for criminality? That’s what you’re saying....

—“Their success and subjective sense of fulfillment is not measured by relative status – it’s measured by the degree of identity that they can achieve with their social group.”— By Tim Beckley Regarding this exchange: NPC-ism:”DOESN’T LOOK LIKE MUCH OF ANYTHING TO ME” Brilliant Framing by Western Renaissance “The only ethnic Europeans who “oppress” anyone are anti-ethnic european, ethnic Europeans.”— @ReactionaryIan “Yep. Involuntary Status Redistribution by False Virtue Signaling.”– Curt...

—“I never tag you on things Kurt but I wasn’t sure if you actually had ever seen this before”— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KNxgWY5yg& “War Castles Conspiracy Theory” Thx. will review and comment – if only because I want a distraction at the moment. Done. OK. POINTS: — Overall CRITICISM of the abuse of the financial system is true. Everyone who reads The Mystery of Banking knows that. — Many of us predicted it, many of us knew what was going on, the problem is that we had no way of stopping it, because the experiment had resulted in a deterministic trap that states can’t get out of....

Social Interaction Difficulties One of the core characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger’s, is an impairment in social functioning. According to the CDC, this can include the following: Abnormal approach to social situations: She wants to socialize with others but does not understand how to interact. She may try to play or talk with others in a way that isn’t typical. Difficulty relating to others: He may not completely understand others’ emotions or social responses accurately in a group situation....

Religion? Pretty consistent: “A Heathen, a Pagan, an Aryan, an Aristotelian, A European, a Man Transcendent.” But Christian? I am a Christian in the empirical sense of the incremental romanization and then Germanization of that Jewish sect we call Christianity, did contain the answer to the prisoner’s dilemma and a means of escaping the high cost of enslaving everyone below the property-owning, self-maintaining classes, and taking responsibility for their actions, productivity, and prevention of harm....

Schmachtenberger, Doolittle, Weinstein, Henrich A reminder that the best explanation for most intelligent people of how the world works especially regarding complex systems and incentive structures, including politics, from the 50 thousand feet view is Daniel Schmachtenberger. He is center left as far as I can tell but he truly understands the right unlike 99% of the center left. He is a Californian urban minority nomad vegan so you may at first balk at some of his thinking....