THE STATE: DESTROYER OF WORLDS
We’ve been focusing on race because it’s visible, when the causal problem is reproductive structure.
How black families look today is how most of us will look in the future under heterogeneous polities with redistribution.
It turns out that the state, is in fact, the destroyer of worlds.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:11:00 UTC
MARX WAS WRONG VIA DISTRACTION
It’s not a class war after all. It’s a genetic war. Better genes against worse genes. The better genes work with smaller better populations, and the worse genes, like all of nature, work with larger, worse populations.
I mean. That’s just how it is. If we ‘reconcile’ it’s genetic suicide.
Violence is the only answer.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:01:00 UTC
“Ukraine is part of Europe geographically, but for the demonstrators and their supporters the concept of “Europe” has the resonance of a vision, vivid and frustratingly out of reach. To them, Europe implies genuine democracy, trustworthy police and sincere respect for human rights.” —
(lost the source)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 16:47:00 UTC
NEGOTIATING TACTICS AND MORALITY
In politics, in serious negotiations, when you ask your opposition party to return to its constituency with demands that they are unwilling to suffer, your function is to provide your opposition with the material means of extracting the demand from their constituency.
Those material means, or the threat, must be believable, and sufficient, and the timing must be such that there is no alternative in the time frame. This tactic has been effective throughout history. It is best if your opposition party is unsure whether or not the threat is serious, because this frustrates their ability to project the future, but they must believe the threat is, at least, possible. You must empower your opponents to operate on your behalf.
Depending upon your perspective in the matter, it is doing your opposition a favor. Although, they rarely appreciate it at the time. In retrospect getting such an ask generally improves the ability of all participants from that point forward to work together because it rebalances the playing field so that the participants in the negotiation are weighted as highly as the constituency – if only because the circumstances are no longer predictable. It is far better for your opposition to worry about that which they do not expect, than that which they expect, and which makes them overconfident.
If, regardless of party, we do the right thing for everyone, then the moral constraint remains in place. If we do not do the right thing for everyone, then the moral constraint is off in negotiations. So it is always important to hold the moral high ground, rather than retreat into proceduralism specifically designed to abrogate moral constraints. Because it is moral constraint that binds all negotiations regardless of procedure and law. In the end, all moral codes consist of property rights, albeit different allocations of them.
THE PURPOSE OF RULES AND PROCEDURES IS GENERALLY TO LIE OR STEAL. There is but one rule, and that is property. Property is the moral high ground. Always.
I’m autistic. I write political and ethical theory. This kind of thing is just tedium.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 14:31:00 UTC
“In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism; you have to be VERY learned to be THAT wrong.” — Steven Weinberg
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 13:58:00 UTC
SPORTS vs NEWS vs FASHION
You know, the kind of places that cater to someone like me, play news on monitors. Other places sports. But here in Kiev, the main thing is sort of fashion shows or the local Music Video stream. Women here are like the national product. It’s amazing.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 11:26:00 UTC
LIBERTY = ANARCHO CAPITALISM + THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT
Libertarian institutions, reduction of all rights to property rights, propertarian grammar and terminology, and human nature scientifically demonstrated rather than theoretically conjectured, and the necessity of formal and informal institutions.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 11:15:00 UTC
EUROMAIDAN THIS WEEKEND 1,000,000 PEOPLE?
When it was crazy here last weekend, about 300K people were up there on Maidan. but if they can get 1M people here, that will be…. something to see.
So I know what I’m doing Sunday! Whooot!
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 11:05:00 UTC
Remember that wonder? Your parents. Your teachers and professors? Great minds in great books? The sense that there exists an endless series of undiscovered valleys where you can shop for interesting ideas, gaining a little more knowledge, power, and control over your world as you learn?
But at some point you may become a master, then a teacher, at another point a professor, and possibly a prophet.
And the process, like aging backwards, is terrifying. There are no undiscovered valleys, neatly plowed and sown. All that’s left is an infinite darkness into which you can, with your accumulated wisdom, peer only a short distance, and even then, dimly; treading cautiously, aware of your ignorance, despite all the shoulders of the past that you stand upon.
it’s not all that pleasant really. It’s just very humbling.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 10:49:00 UTC
If we cannot cooperate, then we can either surrender, or conquer. It is cheapest to surrender. But it is a theft from all those who did not surrender before you. And when they saved in the past, for you to consume in the present, they did so at much higher cost to themselves. So the only solution is to conquer. Out of self defense.
Violence is the only solution.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 10:38:00 UTC