Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • RUSSIAN TRANSITIONAL FAILURE TO ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM (Anglo Saxon, Friesi

    RUSSIAN TRANSITIONAL FAILURE TO ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM

    (Anglo Saxon, Friesian Aristocratic Egalitarianism)

    I KNOW democracy(political freedom) is just the path to communism and totalitarianism by slower means, and I know political freedom by definition is immoral. I know social democracy is just the secularization of jewish-christianity by empty verbalisms, at the further expense of propertarian aristocracy.

    These are not value judgements they are logical necessities given the distribution of human interests and abilities, and the evolutionary strategies of different groups.

    I am perfectly happy with a monarchical Russia that denies people access to political power. Just as I am perfectly happy that all other countries deny people political power under any form of private government. What I am not comfortable with is EXPANSION of CORRUPTION, and the expansion of the bureaucracy, and the SPREAD of corruption and bureaucracy.

    Now the Russians might be right is that the southern and eastern peoples (the ‘middle world’) are incapable of universalism and high trust. (I believe this may be the case given behavior under immigration.) And that the only possible solution for Russia is to engage in hierarchical government to use their minority population to conquer and oppress the ‘middle people’ (Turkiks, Uralics, Altaics, Mongols, Arabs, and any indo-european muslims) who pose a risk to them. And I even ENCOURAGE that position.

    But that does not apply to europeans(slavs, germans, nordics and celts), who have survived for four thousand years by denying the ‘middle people’ access to Europe, despite our smaller numbers.

    Russia may yet keep the east at bay if Germany does not return to its traditional role in doing so. I want the USA out of Europe so that Germany has no CHOICE but to abandon the pacifist fallacy and return to its traditional role as keeping the east at bay.

    We can see that any civilization touched by the Turkic and Islamic people suffers in ignorance, low trust and poverty. And cannot seem to escape it. It never occurs to us that advanced civilizations with low rates of reproduction do not SURVIVE against reproductive and aggressive civilizations – because he who breeds eventually wins. So the Islamic way of life, despite it’s low trust, violence, ignorance and mysticism, may in fact be the most effective way of conquest, even if it deprives humans of their reach for the stars. History tells us that the Chinese war machine is only bounded by the desert on one side and the ocean on the other. Western colonization was aristotelian, commercial, anglo saxon as well as military.

    So a Russia that used violence to first create property rights at the expense of creating a rent seeking class of statists was simply a necessary step in the evolution of a polity towards liberty. Thats what government is FOR: suppressing high transaction costs of free riding in exchange for the low transaction costs of rent seeking. But that interim statism is only helpful if then one suppresses rent seeking in ADDITION to free riding (what libertarians have got wrong by the way).

    And without the further transition away from statist brutality, the people are merely prey to be expropriated from.

    That is the difference between Friesian-anglo-saxon, propertarian, aristocratic egalitarianism’s total suppression of free riding, and every other political order constructed by man.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 10:30:00 UTC

  • END OF RUSSIAN CHANCE AT BECOMING A MODERN CIVILIZED COUNTRY –” the chances of

    END OF RUSSIAN CHANCE AT BECOMING A MODERN CIVILIZED COUNTRY

    –” the chances of Russia’s becoming a modern, civilised country, open to the world and respectful of its citizens, are diminishing with every outburst of war hysteria on Russian television.”– The Economist

    I don’t know what “open to the world” means. And I probably disagree with whatever the author intends. But the fact is that it’s a profoundly corrupt government and its people live in relative poverty because of it.

    I want ‘my tribe’ free. And Russians are part of my tribe. An insular Russia grossly protective of its citizens is a good thing for my tribe. An insular Russia that suppresses corruption is a good thing for my tribe. An insular non-democratyc, non-corrupt, economically prosperous Russia is good for the world.

    But an expansionist, corrupt, economically cancerous Russia defeats every purpose.

    Yes. I’m angry. I would love to live in Moscow to watch that country evolve. Now, with one absolutely absurd move, the opportunity is lost for all.

    It was trivially easy to trade the renting of Crimea for discounted petroleum prices for Ukraine, with the extension of dual citizenship to all Crimeans who desired it, and dual citizenship for all Russian Ukrainians who desire it.

    And the guy would have been a freaking hero.

    Idiot.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-15 08:48:00 UTC

  • and discipline are not compatible with our post-modern culture. This is fact. On

    http://therightstuff.biz/2014/03/09/death-of-honor/”Honor and discipline are not compatible with our post-modern culture. This is fact. One values selflessness, the other values selfishness. Post-modernism is the antithesis of honor.”


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:24:00 UTC

  • THE REVOLT AGAINST THE MASSES –“The neo-Malthusianism that emerged from the 196

    THE REVOLT AGAINST THE MASSES

    –“The neo-Malthusianism that emerged from the 1960s did not aim to control the breeding habits of the lower classes, as its eugenicist precursors had done, but to mock and restrain the buying habits of the middle class.”–

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Revolt-Against-Masses-Liberalism/dp/1594036985/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 20:54:00 UTC

  • Russian murder of 10M Ukrainians

    Russian murder of 10M Ukrainians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 22:25:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/439889222888357889

  • RE-READ CHAPTERS 8+ IN RICARDO DUCHESNE’S “UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION” L

    RE-READ CHAPTERS 8+ IN RICARDO DUCHESNE’S “UNIQUENESS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION” LAST NIGHT.

    I got most of it directly from Mallory and Gimbutas. But he has just tied a bow around all of it so well, that I gotta say he’s done the best work so far.

    (Renfrew on the other hand is f’king postmodern criminal.)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 12:00:00 UTC

  • THE ALTERNATIVE TO PSEUDOSCIENCE The natural state of man is to adapt his family

    THE ALTERNATIVE TO PSEUDOSCIENCE

    The natural state of man is to adapt his family (reproductive organization), and his rules of cooperation (property rights, norms, rituals and myths) to the continuous changes in the structure of production made possible by his technical advancements.

    There exists no natural state of man, only natural PROPERTIES of man. Two of those properties are the necessity of voluntary cooperation and the problem of free riding that emerges from it.

    Any cooperative organism must solve the problem as it evolves: creating incentives both in favor of production and against free riding and parasitism.

    Expansion of production in a division of knowledge and labor increases the opportunity for free riding and parasitism because of increasing anonymity of the participants the structure of production.

    Expansion of production requires increases in the complexity of the tools of cooperation: those that assist in transforming the imperceptible to analogy to experience, such that increasing complexity is open to calculation; and such that information distribution expands as well.

    Each major advancement in human cooperation has been achieved by increasing the information processing capacity of the population such that not only actions are open to voluntary coordination, but also such that free riding is increasingly suppressed.

    When we invented government we traded pervasive high transaction costs from violence fraud and deception, for systemic free riding and corruption. Thanks to Hoppe we know how to construct some necessary institutions that will make it more difficult to conduct free riding and corruption.

    But the answer ‘no government’ is actually admission of failure. It is still necessary for groups to coordinate their interests in a commons that produces beneficial common goods. Just as it is beneficial for shopping mall owners and market owners to produce investments that are beneficial to both vendors and customers as well as owners. Just as it is beneficial for all of us to construct norms that prohibit all forms of free riding, discounting, cheating and stealing.

    Competing government do not solve the problem of high local transaction costs. So the argument in favor of heterogeneous competing polities works if and only if there is some monarch that profits from all equally and polices all equally. (Which is where ROthbard and Mises got their ideas from: the ghetto.) For people to grand one another property rights voluntarily without a superior state or empire, they will require universally low transaction costs – at least locally. People demonstrate this everywhere and anywhere in history.

    So we are left with a large number of private monarchies as the compromise between the minimum homogeneity required, and the maximum size wherein a polity maintains a commonality of interest.

    At present, large city states with homogenous polities (the nordics) that are able to create reasonable amounts of liberty.. Even heavy redistribution is often tolerable to homogenous polities. Landed heterogeneous polities are notoriously intolerant of redistribution because it’s actually bad for the productive classes.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 13:29:00 UTC

  • THE NATURAL STATE OF MAN (callout) (gem) –“The natural state of man is to adapt

    THE NATURAL STATE OF MAN

    (callout) (gem)

    –“The natural state of man is to adapt his family (reproductive organization), and his rules of cooperation (property rights, norms, rituals and myths) to the continuous changes in the structure of production made possible by his technical advancements.”–


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 09:04:00 UTC

  • AS LAWS Having a great, fun, chat with Paul Bakhmut on Slavic superstition and h

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_traditions_and_superstitionsSUPERSTITIONS AS LAWS

    Having a great, fun, chat with Paul Bakhmut on Slavic superstition and he’s connecting the dots for me on the use of superstitions in lieu of laws. It’s genius. I love it. All these superstitions have some useful purpose.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_traditions_and_superstitions


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-23 09:30:00 UTC

  • “Russia is a state seeking legitimacy by establishing a culture. Ukraine is a cu

    –“Russia is a state seeking legitimacy by establishing a culture. Ukraine is a culture seeking legitimacy through statehood.”–Roman Skaskiw

    Genius. Quotable.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-21 08:19:00 UTC