By Eli Harman (Curt: “Ghetto Ethics, and Rat Heroism”) In the traditional hero’s journey of Aryan myth and legand, somebody relatable and unassuming faces great challenges and trials, sometimes setbacks and losses, before finally rising to the occasion and triumphing gloriously, and probably getting the girl. Then everyone lives happily ever after (until it’s time to do it again.) But the many possible variations on this simple theme are notably absent from most contemporary media. A good example of the this would be the 2005 version of “War of the Worlds.” There is no glorious triumph. It’s just run, hide, escape, run hide, escape; plus morally ambiguous connundra resolved by choosing self-preservation at all costs. Finally, the protagonists eventually survive just by outlasting the invaders, who are brought down by the filth, disease, and corruption, that Earthlings live amidst, rather than any heroics or agency on their part. It’s not the hero’s journey, so much as the rat’s, because it was not written or directed by Aryans…
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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“Children are broken because families are broken because women are broken becaus
—“Children are broken because families are broken because women are broken because men are no longer Hoplites – no longer husbands of their freeholds.”—Greg Swann
The militia owns the commons, and tends it as a garden, or the commons is nothing but weeds – and like all countries lacking a militia – full of trash and fecal matter.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-26 12:47:00 UTC
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“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”— SOCIETY
—“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—
SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions.
POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation.
CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-25 10:07:00 UTC
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Stereotypes Are True.
They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in the market. When a people develops a reputation, it’s because they have earned that reputation. If people hate your group what will you do to make your group not hated?May 24, 2018 8:03am -
Stereotypes Are True.
They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in the market. When a people develops a reputation, it’s because they have earned that reputation. If people hate your group what will you do to make your group not hated?May 24, 2018 8:03am -
The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All
It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva). Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles). Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony. The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.May 24, 2018 2:01pm -
The Axial Age (civilization Formation) Anchored Us All
It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos. This is inescapable. There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva). Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles). Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony. The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.May 24, 2018 2:01pm -
THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL It’s just a fact that the
THE AXIAL AGE (CIVILIZATION FORMATION) ANCHORED US ALL
It’s just a fact that the ‘wisdom literature’ of each civilization (a) relies upon the grammar, (b) relies upon the argumentative methodology of the law, (c) relies upon the mythos.
This is inescapable.
There is a reason jews appropriated Babylonian history, and integrated greek idealism to create Pilpul (justificationism in theology that relies upon the same techniques as justification in astrology and numerology) … and predictably enough, the same argument you are making (critique – the via-negativa of pilpul’s via-positiva).
Just as there is a reason Confucius couldn’t solve the problem of politics an the chinese speak in contrasts (riddles).
Just as there is a reason westerners speak in law, evidence, and testimony.
The ‘Axial Age’ anchored us all.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 14:01:00 UTC
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STEREOTYPES ARE TRUE. They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in
STEREOTYPES ARE TRUE.
They are purely empirical and survive constant testing in the market. When a people develops a reputation, it’s because they have earned that reputation. If people hate your group what will you do to make your group not hated?
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-24 08:03:00 UTC
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At Some Point the Middle Class Seeks Profit at The Expense of The Nation
—“So in examples where civilization does effectively vet and cull the underclass, how before long the golden age, and how long before the descendants destroy what their ancestors built? Can they do it on their own or do they always import/strengthen an underclass?”—A Friend ^Exactly the problem. That’s right. At some point The middle class seeks profit at the expense of the nation (polity, or genetic distribution). National Socialism was an attempt to change this – unfortunately it was stated in german prose rather than english and as such moral rather than scientific – and that curse has harmed national socialism ever since. So the problem is constraint of the middle class just as much as constraint of the upper class and the underclass – which is only possible with full accounting under the natural law of reciprocity. We never wrote a ‘bible’ of natural law. And it’s time we did. 😉