I love men in Ukraine. All you have to do is show the smallest amount of recognition and respect that you will treat them as equals and all bravado disappears. I understand them. American bravado never stops, the class and race warfare never stop. I am so glad that I had the chance to live this way. And to ‘un-learn’ some americanisms.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-16 11:24:00 UTC
CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: MOMMY TRAINING AND MORE
American women need classes in baby care and child rearing. (Really. hospitals often require it.). And pretty often in cooking. But here in Kiev, where it seems like every woman in her twenties that I know, if not teens, has a small child, they have this novel way of training: they help each other, and they help other women in their families. Sort of ‘hands on training’. Same for cooking. I mean, all the girls can cook, and they don’t think of it as a chore. It’s like breathing.
Kids get LOTS of attention. So they aren’t trying to get attention all the time. It seems that slavic children (and adults) appear to be less aggressive and impulsive. Which isn’t true of Georgians and other black haired tribes to the south and east. I need to get some data on it. Because I’m skeptical that it’s something else. But it seems pretty much the case.
Mysticism, or, I don’t know what to call it, but all the orthodox countries have it, and russians more so: this strange fatalism or belief ‘things work out this way’ as if they never heard of catallactic and self organizing processes. Or in the Russian case: the fear of not knowing something requires ignorance be replaced by confidence in pseudoscience. (I wonder how crazy this culture was before the communists just wiped out church mysticism.).
I dunno. But you know, if you have to live a lifestyle, the whole extended family thing is pretty awesome. And I think it is MUCH BETTER FOR MEN than the ANF which statistically, in a migratory industrial population, leaves you old, lonely, poor, and increasingly suicidal.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 15:00:00 UTC
Over my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the spread of ‘general awareness’, which means everyone seems to know about almost everything so that unscientific or irrational rumours are much harder to spread.
A lot of this has accelerated since the expansion of the internet, and now even more so because of the universal spread of smartphones. But it was already happening under television, radio, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and books.
But while the method and content of intellectual discourse (IMHO) hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years or more, the method and content of underclass conversation has changed so much that it’s unimaginable.
I sat at a kitchen table listening to some ‘poor-folk’ (loggers) as a child and I remember how much it horrified me that adults could talk about such nonsense. I couldn’t have been more than twelve at the time. Probably younger. Conspiracy theory is and must be (Dunning Krueger) part and parcel of underclass experience. And it’s probably the most consistent metaphysical assumption of underclass conversation.
But that level of ignorance has been forced out of all but the sub-80-IQ crowd.
I routinely read academic work written over a century ago, and some back into the post-civil-war period. And honestly, aside from changes in technology, the metaphysical assumptions shared in that thought is pretty consistent across the century. (We have to largely discount the sixties and seventies though as an age of mysticism.) I could talk to most pre-war thinkers on level terms and not feel a void separated us. But if you talked to common people in 1900, 1965 and 2014 the difference would be astounding. Not just in what they talked abut, but what they knew about.
Knowledge is enough. Saturation in information will do the job that training cannot.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 08:52:00 UTC
[O]ver my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the spread of ‘general awareness’, which means everyone seems to know about almost everything so that unscientific or irrational rumours are much harder to spread. A lot of this has accelerated since the expansion of the internet, and now even more so because of the universal spread of smartphones. But it was already happening under television, radio, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and books. But while the method and content of intellectual discourse (IMHO) hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years or more, the method and content of underclass conversation has changed so much that it’s unimaginable. I sat at a kitchen table listening to some ‘poor-folk’ (loggers) as a child and I remember how much it horrified me that adults could talk about such nonsense. I couldn’t have been more than twelve at the time. Probably younger. Conspiracy theory is and must be (Dunning Krueger) part and parcel of underclass experience. And it’s probably the most consistent metaphysical assumption of underclass conversation. But that level of ignorance has been forced out of all but the sub-80-IQ crowd. I routinely read academic work written over a century ago, and some back into the post-civil-war period. And honestly, aside from changes in technology, the metaphysical assumptions shared in that thought is pretty consistent across the century. (We have to largely discount the sixties and seventies though as an age of mysticism.) I could talk to most pre-war thinkers on level terms and not feel a void separated us. But if you talked to common people in 1900, 1965 and 2014 the difference would be astounding. Not just in what they talked abut, but what they knew about. Knowledge is enough. Saturation in information will do the job that training cannot.
[O]ver my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the spread of ‘general awareness’, which means everyone seems to know about almost everything so that unscientific or irrational rumours are much harder to spread. A lot of this has accelerated since the expansion of the internet, and now even more so because of the universal spread of smartphones. But it was already happening under television, radio, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and books. But while the method and content of intellectual discourse (IMHO) hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years or more, the method and content of underclass conversation has changed so much that it’s unimaginable. I sat at a kitchen table listening to some ‘poor-folk’ (loggers) as a child and I remember how much it horrified me that adults could talk about such nonsense. I couldn’t have been more than twelve at the time. Probably younger. Conspiracy theory is and must be (Dunning Krueger) part and parcel of underclass experience. And it’s probably the most consistent metaphysical assumption of underclass conversation. But that level of ignorance has been forced out of all but the sub-80-IQ crowd. I routinely read academic work written over a century ago, and some back into the post-civil-war period. And honestly, aside from changes in technology, the metaphysical assumptions shared in that thought is pretty consistent across the century. (We have to largely discount the sixties and seventies though as an age of mysticism.) I could talk to most pre-war thinkers on level terms and not feel a void separated us. But if you talked to common people in 1900, 1965 and 2014 the difference would be astounding. Not just in what they talked abut, but what they knew about. Knowledge is enough. Saturation in information will do the job that training cannot.
THE PLASTICITY OF FAMILY
While the structure of human reproduction (family) is highly plastic, and vacillates as needed throughout history, two things strike me as painfully obvious:
1) monogamy prevents all sorts of free riding in a society.
2) monogamous societies eventually conquer polygamous societies.
3) in the short term, polygamous societies produce excess males who can specialize in warfare, but who are universally problematic for society.
If you grow low maintenance crops you have time available for war. If you herd animals you always have time for war. If you farm rice you dont have time for war. So each group produces different warriors: constant raiders, militial warriors, and state soldiers.
The large state can more easily concentrate capital in its military. The militial warriors apply more dynamic tactics and weapons. And raiders simply apply constant pressure at low cost until the economy wears down, or an opportunity presents itself.
(You are much better off as a spoiled western woman….)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-14 07:46:00 UTC
Dear tribe. We must understand what made us different. What made us innovate. What made us adapt. What allowed us to drag humanity out of ignorance and poverty despite our own ignorance and poverty – before our crisis of confidence.
The evidence is in front of us. We are not faster. We are not stronger. We are not smarter. So why did we rule?
Truth. Trust. Property. Violence. Technology. Heroism.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 11:50:00 UTC
SHOULD HAVE BEEN “GUNS, GERMS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS”
Well, if you start a civilization with the problem of coordinating irrigation if an alluvial plain, thats very different from starting a civilization with the problem of allocating land to farmers who do not rely upon irrigation.
Each culture, each civilization, carries with it, its means of warfare, means of coordination of use of the land, and family structure.
None of which are particularly relevant in a modernity, in which our means of production and reproduction depend upon abstract institutions of property and contract which allow the voluntary organization of production in vast, unknowable overlapping patterns of specialization and trade.
Capitalism isnt a belief, its a technology.
Guns, germs, steel… MONEY, ACCOUNTING, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 05:33:00 UTC
Silly. Rant.
Can we just make it easy on humanity and ask the jews to run science and medicine? Ask white people to run government, law, military and engineering. Those are white people specialties. Good division of labor. Banking will be a dead business soon. Thats the point of contention and it will be eliminated.
I love my people. But there are just things that you want the ashkenazim for: anything personal that requires understanding. And there are things you want white people for: anything political that requires judgement.
I am always relieved when i meet a jewish doctor, or a white lawyer. I don’t think too much of the opposite arrangement.
Its gotta be genetic.
Did you ever notice that white folk really like moral and witty, but disdain cunning?
My anglo roots.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:06:00 UTC
Reading more on marriage. Most of it weak. Anthropologists should understand property as the easy solution to conflict.
But its pretty clear to me that in the current era, the best life men can have is to live with five other guys, get a housekeeper you treat with motherly respect, and accumulate your wealth while treating females as opportunistic entertainment.
This suits the feminists who see males as extraneous and marriage a prison. But it is a prison for males. It all but guarantees old age poverty, and midlife depression.
The family man as a universal aspiration was a recent invention.
Our quality of life drops dramatically. Early marriage is for fearful betas.
Women are terribly expensive under feminism. So the only rational choice is equality of selfishness.
Revel in it. Marry late. Mary wealthy. And with full offshore protections. And maintain your walkaway power.
If you desire children, understand that at the moment if conception the state considers you a slave.
The only solution is to keep the home fully leveraged, and your savings offshore.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 07:41:00 UTC