“The English are descended from the Germanic conquerors who brought to England the ‘integrated nuclear family,’ in which nuclear families formed separate households, but stayed close to their relatives for mutual cooperation and defense. These people were illiterate, so we have no written records from those times, and we cannot know precisely how they organized their family life. But what we do know for sure is that over time the original Germanic family type developed into the ‘Absolute Nuclear Family,’ or ‘ANF,’ which we have today. It appears that the family type we have now has existed for about a thousand years.” — America 3.0. p51
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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The Melting Pot That Isn't
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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The Melting Pot That Isn't
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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The Melting Pot That Isn’t
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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The Melting Pot That Isn’t
Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics. Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge. We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge. Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized. And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.
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The Mythology Of The Enlightenment
The enlightenment mythos was almost as damaging was christianity. The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the christianization of Europe. The empirical side of the enlightenment was desperately needed to escape jewish mysticism that held us in ignorance for a millennia. Equality under the law, was important for the spread of commerce. But, just as moving people from christianity’s mysticism via Darwin was, let’s say … incomplete, it is very hard to move people from equality of property rights, equality under the law, and the equality of family interests, to what the socialists accomplished, which was equality of opportunity, material equality, inequality under the law, eradication of the common law by legislative law, and the destruction of the nuclear and absolute nuclear family in pursuit of ‘individualism’. We have a very hard time overturning this mythos. This mythos is even rampant in libertarianism. Libertarians are just as enamored of the fallacy of equality as are socialists. Libertarians want to retain meritocracy, sure. But most of us assume the same naive belief that if others ‘only understood’ they would adopt our system of values. But that’s just demonstrably false, both logically, praxeologically, and empirically. The majority of the world detests property rights and individualism.
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The Mythology Of The Enlightenment
The enlightenment mythos was almost as damaging was christianity. The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the christianization of Europe. The empirical side of the enlightenment was desperately needed to escape jewish mysticism that held us in ignorance for a millennia. Equality under the law, was important for the spread of commerce. But, just as moving people from christianity’s mysticism via Darwin was, let’s say … incomplete, it is very hard to move people from equality of property rights, equality under the law, and the equality of family interests, to what the socialists accomplished, which was equality of opportunity, material equality, inequality under the law, eradication of the common law by legislative law, and the destruction of the nuclear and absolute nuclear family in pursuit of ‘individualism’. We have a very hard time overturning this mythos. This mythos is even rampant in libertarianism. Libertarians are just as enamored of the fallacy of equality as are socialists. Libertarians want to retain meritocracy, sure. But most of us assume the same naive belief that if others ‘only understood’ they would adopt our system of values. But that’s just demonstrably false, both logically, praxeologically, and empirically. The majority of the world detests property rights and individualism.
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FRANCISCO GOES “NERD”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/us/backlash-by-the-bay-tech-riches-alter-a-city.html?smid=fb-shareSAN FRANCISCO GOES “NERD”.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 11:37:00 UTC
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ARISTOCRACY VS GENTRY I have’t figured out how I’m doing to deal with this yet,
ARISTOCRACY VS GENTRY
I have’t figured out how I’m doing to deal with this yet, but there is indeed a difference between Aristocratic egalitarian manorialism, and the Aristocratic class. One describes the metaphysical prejudices of a social order, the other it’s extreme instantiation in a small number of individuals.
In fact, as someone else pointed out today, the Aristocrats were, for much of the medieval period, bloody warriors that the church could not suppress.
But that said, I disagree with the negative opinions of aristocracy held by most historians. The aristocratic obsession was a ‘good thing’ is based upon the fact that the church (STATE) could NOT suppress them. Nor can the state suppress an armed militia.
While the current intellectual emphasis is on the family, and outbreeding, as the source of the western aristocratic egalitarian ethic, the militia is an equally important institution – because it was the first: the cause of liberty and property.
GENTRY
The gentry were the middle managers who actually ran society the way that sergeants run the army.
And when we say that one is a gentleman, we refer to the behavior of the gentry, if not the martial aristocracy.
These gentlemen and their families built England, as a commercial power.
And it is their progeny that we all represent.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 10:17:00 UTC
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YEAR TO FORGET : 1913 The West’s Hemlock Tea
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/03/a-century-ago-1913.htmlA YEAR TO FORGET : 1913
The West’s Hemlock Tea
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 09:04:00 UTC