THE ULTIMATE INSURER OF LAST RESORT
In the the face of economic catastrophe, Ukrainains retreat to the villages, with family , where they live largely off the land, and in near self sufficiency.
The state is not the last resort. The land is.
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-08 15:44:00 UTC
The Jewish equivalent of art is verbal and imaginary, not material. Diasporic peoples rarely produce arts. Art marks territory. Territorial people make art. With Infrastructure, monument, architecture, sculpture, painting, decoration, and craftsmanly goods constituting a hierarchical expression of their wealth. Their portable literature of the mind is both inexpensive, and impossible to tax, or steal from them. So while we agree that jews do not in practice make arts of landed peoples, they do make their own art. And the differences in those arts inform us.
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-07 09:26:00 UTC
I SHOULD TALK TO NIAL FERGUSON ABOUT THIS…
He’s right about the killer apps, although rule of law and property are inseparable.
But the KILLER OPERATING SYSTEM of western exceptionalism is THE HEROISM OF TRUTH TELLING.
I need to do that video.
THE OTHER IS MANORIALISM
The suppression of the breeding of the underclasses.
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-04 10:26:00 UTC
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Never-Happened-Anyway/dp/0300192371MUST READ BOOK ON RUSSIA’S HIDDEN HISTORY
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-01 15:11:00 UTC
http://www.amazon.com/Social-History-Truth-Seventeenth-Century-Foundations/dp/0226750191GREAT FIND: GENTILITY AND HONESTY
(thank you Paul B )
—” The most novel and profound thought I got out of the book was that a community, in order to doubt itself (science), must first trust itself (gentility). This was a broad principle that has opened my eyes – that the most creative minds actually come from within a position of extreme security.”—
—“Shapin argues that the validity and trust we place in today’s scientific endeavors evolved to a large extent out of the gentlemen’s codes of civility in 17th-century England. Science was a gentleman’s pastime, and when an idea was disputed gentlemen appropriated the civil codes of their time to solve the dispute. Shapin opens this book with a very complete and sometimes difficult-to-read introduction to the questions of what civility, truth, trust, and moral order are. The rest can be read separately as a history of gentlemanly conduct and gentlemanly science as a means of finding truth.”—
LIKE I SAID: WE DISCOVERED TRUTH. IT”S A NOBLEMAN’S VIRTUE
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-23 16:18:00 UTC
My answer to Why is the dominant racial/ethnic narrative between ‘White’ America and ‘Black’ America when the state … http://qr.ae/EsnGv
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 13:58:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/569133991342809088
My answer to What are some things the US can learn from other cultures? http://qr.ae/EKd0O
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 12:22:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/569109925911269376
THE EMERGING INTELLECTUAL CONSENSUS (Fragility)
– Nassim Taleb (anti-fragility)
– Ricardo Duchesne (uniqueness of western man)
– Kevin Macdonald (group evolutionary strategies)
– Curt Doolittle (Truth, Trust, Law, and Institutions)
– Stephen Hicks (Postmodernism) (Reluctantly Associated I’m sure)
– Nial Ferguson (Economics) (Possibly Reluctantly Associated)
– Martin van Creveld (The Culture of Warfare)
– Emmanuel Todd (The Evolution of Western Morality and Identity)
– Jayman (genetics)
– HBD Chick (the family)
That’s your list of heavy hitters
That’s the conference I want to produce.
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 09:55:00 UTC
http://www.quora.com/North-America/Why-is-the-dominant-racial-ethnic-narrative-between-White-America-and-Black-America-when-the-state-of-Native-America-ought-to-be-addressed-first/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:58:00 UTC
THE STATE IS THE PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION, NOT THE OTHER WAY ‘ROUND.
—“Another problem of inverse causation. We are trained to think that civilization is the fruit of the state, when historically, it is the state that came from civilization. Further, to a specific civilization, a specific type of state.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:50:00 UTC