I mean, moving up the Maslowian pyramid of needs just means that today’s priests don’t hand-wave over illness and despair, but hand-wave over your ‘potential’ and ‘career’, and sell you democratic socialist security and rational and technological saviors.
Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-11 12:35:00 UTC
Why can’t we just say we’re anti-representational, anti-majoritarians? I’m pro anything that’s voluntary and moral. If it’s involuntary and immoral then I’m not.
Majority rule is demonstrably immoral and involuntary.
Contracts don’t require ‘rule’. They require incentives and exchanges.
It’s not like we can’t produce commons contractually.
In fact, I think the evidence supports the argument that we would create more commons contractually. It’s just that the Cathedral and the bureaucracy couldn’t parasite upon us. But that would be a good thing now wouldn’t it?
What is the difference between unproductive priests and shamans, and unproductive overpaid bureaucrats, professors and academic administration workers?
Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-11 12:16:00 UTC
UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM
[C]alifornia. A very desirable geography. The best other than France. In both cases the geography is a natural resource exploitable by the state.
As I said to Ron Manners: natural resources make you a slave because States must defend them. Diasporic peoples avoid these high costs at the expense of permanent insecurity. The golden mean (happy median) is Liberty – prevention of the state while also holding land.
Only landed people create monuments and art. And Europe is a vast, open air museum.
UNDERSTANDING CALIFORNIAN STATISM
[C]alifornia. A very desirable geography. The best other than France. In both cases the geography is a natural resource exploitable by the state.
As I said to Ron Manners: natural resources make you a slave because States must defend them. Diasporic peoples avoid these high costs at the expense of permanent insecurity. The golden mean (happy median) is Liberty – prevention of the state while also holding land.
Only landed people create monuments and art. And Europe is a vast, open air museum.
[Y]ou know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a bunch of cattle-raiders produced by accident of telling the truth out of martial need, and then greedily protecting their well earned sovereignty by a division of responsibility and fear of authority instead of falling into the ‘civilization trap’ of ‘efficient organization’ that is anything but efficient.
Germans mostly get it right, but invented a new way to lie. Anglos really did get it wrong, but did it without lying. I won’t mention the french and the jews for obvious reasons. The Chinese do what works for them, although breaking up china would be the best thing that ever happened to the world – Mao was wrong. And breaking up India is the only way to fix corruption.
The only thing scale does is allow you to conduct war.
Reversing the Warfare State by converting to small countries with nuclear weapons solves a lot of problems.
[Y]ou know I feel guilty criticizing culture after culture – other than the germans – even though I am more critical of my own people’s universalist stupidity than I am of anyone else’s behavior. The only thing that continues to strike me and drive my bias is the economic technical and artistic results that a bunch of cattle-raiders produced by accident of telling the truth out of martial need, and then greedily protecting their well earned sovereignty by a division of responsibility and fear of authority instead of falling into the ‘civilization trap’ of ‘efficient organization’ that is anything but efficient.
Germans mostly get it right, but invented a new way to lie. Anglos really did get it wrong, but did it without lying. I won’t mention the french and the jews for obvious reasons. The Chinese do what works for them, although breaking up china would be the best thing that ever happened to the world – Mao was wrong. And breaking up India is the only way to fix corruption.
The only thing scale does is allow you to conduct war.
Reversing the Warfare State by converting to small countries with nuclear weapons solves a lot of problems.
(Profound)
[I]f language evolved for us to negotiate with, then it’s no wonder that it is so unsuitable for use as an internal language to understand truth with – to think with.
Language wasn’t invented to lie with. But it was invented to negotiate with.
(Profound)
[I]f language evolved for us to negotiate with, then it’s no wonder that it is so unsuitable for use as an internal language to understand truth with – to think with.
Language wasn’t invented to lie with. But it was invented to negotiate with.
[P]ropertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning.
Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t.
Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive strategies we demonstrate, and the different group evolutionary strategies we demonstrate, you can pretty much explain all human political activity.
And this is different from the physical sciences in the sense that we don’t know the first principles of the universe, but we do know the first principles of man: acquire, defend, cooperate, divide labor, develop information systems for extending cooperation – and justify our reproductive strategies constantly for the purpose of negotiating our cooperation.
Man is simple it turns out.
[P]ropertarian reasoning is a formal logic. Once you understand it, it isn’t like dodgy philosophy or dishonest mysticism: you don’t really need to be very cunning.
Either some proposition is constructable out of human operations on property or it isn’t.
Once you know the four categories of property that humans demonstrate and the different reproductive strategies we demonstrate, and the different group evolutionary strategies we demonstrate, you can pretty much explain all human political activity.
And this is different from the physical sciences in the sense that we don’t know the first principles of the universe, but we do know the first principles of man: acquire, defend, cooperate, divide labor, develop information systems for extending cooperation – and justify our reproductive strategies constantly for the purpose of negotiating our cooperation.
Man is simple it turns out.