Germans vs Anglo Americans.
I have no superior to consult, no permission to seek, no hierarchy to follow, no role to play, no duty to perform, and no respect to pay but to the truth itself. Germans are soldiers and anglo americans warriors. We have only peers. We fight our own battles.
This is extremely frustrating for them. We have no idea what they are frustrated about. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 11:17:00 UTC
So wait. If a warrior militia tells the truth. And if a warrior militia is all that is available to hunter gatherers under harsh environmental conditions, where others are valued rather than disposable, is civilization simply a means of increasing our ability to lie with increasing impunity? Sure looks like it…..
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-26 03:01:00 UTC
HELP REQUEST : MOST DISHONEST NATIONS DATA
There is some data floating around from the hotel industry that tracks thefts by country of origin. Nigerians and Chinese are the worse, Danish the best. Ironically, Canadians are pretty bad, as are brits. (Brit culture ‘knicking’ is a bad habit.)
If anyone knows where I can get this data, can you let me know? THanks
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 12:32:00 UTC
[E]mpirical Science (aristotelianism) has evolved into a universal language. The voluntary organization of production under property and rule of law have evolved into a universal language. Scientific research and production take place within a society. The society vastly impacts the quality of that research and production. The people conducting research carry with them the assumptions of their societies. Some societies excel at conducting scientific research. Some societies are all but incapable of conducting scientific research. Some societies excel at instituting property rights and rule of law. Some societies are all but incapable of instituting property rights and rule of law. Some societies excel at constructing trust Some societies are all but incapable of constructing trust. Some societies excel at institutionalizing telling the truth. Some societies are all but incapable of institutionalizing telling the truth. What makes a society tell the truth, construct trust, institute property rights, and conduct scientific research? Telling the truth. Why tell the truth? For voluntary warriors it’s a matter of life and death. If nearly every man is a warrior, and only warriors possess wealth, and for warriors truth is a matter of life and death. From that position came the west’s rise. —Small numbers + technology + truth + contract—
[E]mpirical Science (aristotelianism) has evolved into a universal language. The voluntary organization of production under property and rule of law have evolved into a universal language. Scientific research and production take place within a society. The society vastly impacts the quality of that research and production. The people conducting research carry with them the assumptions of their societies. Some societies excel at conducting scientific research. Some societies are all but incapable of conducting scientific research. Some societies excel at instituting property rights and rule of law. Some societies are all but incapable of instituting property rights and rule of law. Some societies excel at constructing trust Some societies are all but incapable of constructing trust. Some societies excel at institutionalizing telling the truth. Some societies are all but incapable of institutionalizing telling the truth. What makes a society tell the truth, construct trust, institute property rights, and conduct scientific research? Telling the truth. Why tell the truth? For voluntary warriors it’s a matter of life and death. If nearly every man is a warrior, and only warriors possess wealth, and for warriors truth is a matter of life and death. From that position came the west’s rise. —Small numbers + technology + truth + contract—
Is that why there are no other high trust people? The remoteness and homogeneity of the north sea?
Because that kind if gullibility is a catastrophic vulnerability?
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 08:16:00 UTC
(worth repeating)
****The interesting thing about westerners is that while we can make this observation about other cultures, we cannot introspectively make this observation about our own: that truth is a promise about a product that you testify and warranty – a product that you place into the market for use until someone invents a better one. Nor is it obvious the value of this approach over the approach that truth is unknowable – something platonic or divine.****
Profound.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 03:19:00 UTC
NIETZSCHE WAS ‘A WHOLE LOTTA RIGHT’
I don’t take the evolution of intellectual history all that seriously because I see it as reactionary – a reaction to changes in economic status. An attempt to reorder our values in response to the evolution of our conditions. As such I see the world history as a record of the evolution of institutional technologies in which philosophy and religion are yet another technology in the set of available institutions.
Whereas myths, traditions and norms are taught to us environmentally, religion and philosophy are taught to us pedagogically, and then become part of our myths, traditions and norms, over time – assuming that they succeed in propagating. Although, whether they succeed in propagating (a short term advantage) and how they impact our cultures (long term consequences) are often very different things.
Nietzsche is, like most philosophers, and particularly pre-analytic philosophers, is a tough read for a scientist lacking empathy with norms and perceptions of the time. But the more I understand in my scientific terms, the more right he was in his narrative terms.
He understood.
We need our aristocracy. Our excellence. Our individualism. Our peerage. Our brotherhood of property. That is the cause of our success.
Universalism is nothing but a war against us.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 01:58:00 UTC
What pray tell, is the material difference, between individual anarchic males, and the male heads of noble families, each of whom are peers, not above the other, and cannot question that fact without pain of death?
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 06:53:00 UTC
И смерти нет почётней той
Что ты принять готов
За кости пращуров твоих
За храм своих богов.
(Thus spake the brave horatio
To the captain at the gate:)
“How can a man die better,
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods?”
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 02:23:00 UTC