( this freaking country. someone stole my headphones. a nation of petty thieves. sigh. no commons. anything that isn’t nailed down or policed 24x7x365 gets stolen in the blink of any eye. I swear I go through a set of apple headphones every quarter. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 06:48:00 UTC
HOW DO YOU PRICE NORMATIVE DECLINE? [H]elpful conversation about Ukrainian people with my friend Марта Госовська yesterday. She was able to help me understand how Russian rule turned the Ukrainian people immoral, and how far they must come before they can change. Because now, like Russia, people are taught how to take advantage not how to produce. Why they cannot organize in large numbers. Why their courts do not work. Why their politicians, bureaucrats, professors, teachers and police are corrupt. This is an example of the problem of pricing norms. What is the cost of Russian (Soviet) rule of eastern Europe? What is the cost of the marxist program? What is the cost of the 1964 immigration program? These costs are real. And not including them is practicing deceit by not fully accounting for costs. What it the cost of normative decline to the white underclass?
HOW DO YOU PRICE NORMATIVE DECLINE? [H]elpful conversation about Ukrainian people with my friend Марта Госовська yesterday. She was able to help me understand how Russian rule turned the Ukrainian people immoral, and how far they must come before they can change. Because now, like Russia, people are taught how to take advantage not how to produce. Why they cannot organize in large numbers. Why their courts do not work. Why their politicians, bureaucrats, professors, teachers and police are corrupt. This is an example of the problem of pricing norms. What is the cost of Russian (Soviet) rule of eastern Europe? What is the cost of the marxist program? What is the cost of the 1964 immigration program? These costs are real. And not including them is practicing deceit by not fully accounting for costs. What it the cost of normative decline to the white underclass?
It would look like the demographic origins of the population – just like now.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 19:22:38 UTC
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/–the Puritan migration to America was basically a eugenicist’s wet dream—
Much like eg Unitarians today, the Puritans were a religious group that drew disproportionately from the most educated and education-obsessed parts of the English populace. Literacy among immigrants to Massachusetts was twice as high as the English average, and in an age when the vast majority of Europeans were farmers most immigrants to Massachusetts were skilled craftsmen or scholars. And the Puritan “homeland” of East Anglia was a an unusually intellectual place, with strong influences from Dutch and Continental trade; historian Havelock Ellis finds that it “accounts for a much larger proportion of literary, scientific, and intellectual achievement than any other part of England.”
Furthermore, only the best Puritans were allowed to go to Massachusetts; Fischer writes that “it may have been the only English colony that required some of its immigrants to submit letters of recommendation” and that “those who did not fit in were banished to other colonies and sent back to England”. Puritan “headhunters” went back to England to recruit “godly men” and “honest men” who “must not be of the poorer sort”.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 15:31:00 UTC
What differentiates Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Oakland? (nothing at all)
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 11:30:30 UTC
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Trying to understand Dem #NYPrimary results? Clinton swept New Netherland; Sanders wins Yankeedom. #AmericanNations https://t.co/qMc11kzy3U
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(Tidbit: AFAIK, Most Scythian art was produced by greeks for Scythian consumption. It’s beautiful work IRL. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 09:57:47 UTC
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An exceptionally well made gold Scythian comb – 2,500 years old and still much nicer than the modern alternatives. https://t.co/YXP5h9BMKF
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It appears to have destroyed (a) rule of law (b) the family (c) the academy (by pandering) (d) population (e) the arts (f) Truth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 09:43:50 UTC
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How does having more women in positions of power change society? https://t.co/Vlx9ItfRgB #gender https://t.co/rl3KEClgDg
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[L]eft the video on, and ended up listening to Brits debate policy all night, and it is very clear that there is a difference between the moral structure of British argument and the LEGAL structure of american argument. In my dreams I kept arguing with people about the use of nonsense words. There is also a very great difference between the British fascination with procedure and moral righteousness defending it, and american fascination with law, and punishment for transgressions. Again, this illustrates the great difference between British abstract moral, American articulate legal, and German duty/empirical Cultures. A procedural person always seeks a process even though people do not follow those processes they follow rational incentives. An american seeks to understand incentives so that we produce the right rewards and punishments. Germans TRAIN YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY to know your duty and practice it, and to be intolerant of those who don’t. I won’t get into what jewish philosophy says, but it is translatable to “Whatever you can get someone else to agree to – damn the consequences or externalities.”
[L]eft the video on, and ended up listening to Brits debate policy all night, and it is very clear that there is a difference between the moral structure of British argument and the LEGAL structure of american argument. In my dreams I kept arguing with people about the use of nonsense words. There is also a very great difference between the British fascination with procedure and moral righteousness defending it, and american fascination with law, and punishment for transgressions. Again, this illustrates the great difference between British abstract moral, American articulate legal, and German duty/empirical Cultures. A procedural person always seeks a process even though people do not follow those processes they follow rational incentives. An american seeks to understand incentives so that we produce the right rewards and punishments. Germans TRAIN YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY to know your duty and practice it, and to be intolerant of those who don’t. I won’t get into what jewish philosophy says, but it is translatable to “Whatever you can get someone else to agree to – damn the consequences or externalities.”