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NOTE:
Noah Smith / Matt Yglesias / Ezra Klein
–“These are technocratic narrators, not theorists. If addressed at all, explain they operate entirely within the failure condition (managerial parasitism).”–
Notes on credit to those who fail.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-27 00:50:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927165561617703414
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The civilizational law of supply and demand
–“This book makes clear that collapse is not caused by too little freedom—but by too much freedom without reciprocal duty. Civilization is the insurance pool of sovereignty—but only if every member insures the rest. Enfranchisement without responsibility is not inclusion—it is parasitism.”– The Natural Law, Volume 1 – The Crisis of the Age, Closing Chapter.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-27 00:46:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927164454547968162
Not looking for validation myself but the thought might be of benefit:
–“But the opinions…they probably belong in books, which I hope to write more of.”–
Same conclusion on my end (and it’s more fulfilling).
My concern is that while my team and I use the AIs to improve the quality and accessibilty of my (rather dense) writing I suspect we’ll see the same flood of junk into books – at least self published – that will make yet another veil of noise for us to push through.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-27 00:08:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927154914024706290
Steve is correct:
–“A study about 30 years ago suggested Episcopalians score similar to Jews on the SAT.”–
The other reason is catholic guilt from dogma not the bible, and subsequent idealism and sensitivity to ethics, combined with protestant work ethic. An overly reductive statement with more than a grain of truth to it.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 23:46:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927149257527619588
Understood.
It was different when there were fewer voices. I’d thought that the early internet’s barrier to entry would form a bit of a positive filter, but over time the opposite occurred.
So the cacophony is impossible to break through.
And the truth is the algorithms like gossip and conflict only exacerbate the problem of reaching an audience of peers who desire your insights.
Thank you for what you’ve done to date.
CD
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 23:43:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927148658631328117
Someone has asked me to stay on message here: My friendships with women are usually some sort of mentorship, alliance, or working together on something. It’s in this context that the friendship evolves into trust and from trust into the exchange of insights and ideas, concerns and questions.
At least for me, the primary motive, is to obtain insights from empaths that my rather systematizing neurons fail to sense, or grasp.
Women are awesome. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 23:39:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927147693442208029
You Err. Trump’s strategy is obvious, simple, and consistent. That you fall for it by failing to recognize it is both a statement of your psychological maturity and his strategies efficacy.
P has strategic value and trump always preserves a relationship necessary for negotiating. Ukraine in nato has strategic value regardless of Russia. Z has no strategic value.
Russia is dying on this hill. So if it cannot be brought along strategically then Europe can and must pay to drain Russia the rest of the way.
Meanwhile Trump will seek maximum detachment, preserving future opportunity with Russia upon its collapse; shut down Iran quickly or use Israel and the kingdoms to do so; and try to temper China long enough for the CCP to replace Xi this fall, while repatriating strategic industry faster than china’s population and economic collapse lead to the usual repetition of the Dynasty and Bad Emperor problems. Xi is trying to purge the military of opposition and launch his war before he’s evicted ceremoniously from his role.
Not that we can ensure the next Bad emperor is any better in china or russia.
And Trump is trying to purge the corruption in the Federal bureaucracy, the woke movement from society and academy, and prevent the collapse of the dollar because of national debt at the same time.
He is not the first president to do such a grand restructuring. He is at least the fourth. And if you do not grasp this necessity, its urgency, his (team’s)) strategy, and why these restructurings are necessary, as well as why our constitution permits it, and why we have not had a chang in government since its inception.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 22:57:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927137061510811691
Just riffing off it and seizing the opportunity. No offense taken or meant. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 22:30:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927130346799214782
Unfortunately or maybe not, there are no psychologists, philosophers, economists or geo strategists who diagnose Yarvin’s nonsense. While an extraordinary practitioner of criticism – or perhaps more correctly the feminine, abrahamic, and marxist method of critique – his creativity is limited to undermining and his proposed answers but a survey of admission of his failures.
We humans are susceptible to storytelling, but limited in our reasoning to the clarity of testifiable testimony – that logical grammar that prevents suggestion and seduction into storytelling and its subtle if entertaining techniques. And its by storytelling that the great religious philosophical and ideological lies and seductions and frauds have been prosecuted against the peoples of the world.
Rather than the suppression of those crimes, he uses the same method to criticize them. But like them his solution is authority. How surprising is that?
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 22:28:57 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927129859106414883
Minor clarification. I was referring to ghe “Introduction” to the chapter. 🙂 Every chapter starts with an introduction, a list of takeaways, and follows a five step outline of causes and consequences culminating in an explanation of how they work as a system. Followed by a summary, list of concepts covered, and transition to the next chapter. I use lots of headings, subheadings, bullet point lists and tables for easy scanning.
Now, the underlying argument is quite simple. But the knowledge it requires to understand its simplicity – and to understand it persuasively because it’s written as causal proofs – well, that’s the hard part. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 20:29:17 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927099745392082983