Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • RT @Max_Stoic: By the time he was 20 Alexander The Great had seized control of M

    RT @Max_Stoic: By the time he was 20

    Alexander The Great had seized control of Macedonia and conquered Greece

    You’re too scared to speak…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-22 01:08:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638346766176190466

  • Friend of mine, raised in Mississippi, when I explained we had a marriage and fa

    Friend of mine, raised in Mississippi, when I explained we had a marriage and family course in my private high school, stated they even had a mandatory hunting responsibility course in hers. 😉

    You gotta love the south. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-21 19:57:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638268685214273544

  • It’s just not anonymous in hunter gatherer tribes, so it’s easier to control. Th

    It’s just not anonymous in hunter gatherer tribes, so it’s easier to control. The problem with urbanization is the loss of tribal protection, and the opportunity for monetary or other reward from ‘sexual predators’.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 22:59:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637951983561719809

    Reply addressees: @TheAutistocrat @whatifalthist

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637853278401617929

  • THE FRAGILE VIEW OF HISTORY Every time I watch this spread of writing I take awa

    THE FRAGILE VIEW OF HISTORY
    Every time I watch this spread of writing I take away the feeling of the fragility of civilization, in how short a time we’ve created it, how many times we’ve failed at it, and how recently (the past century) we’ve dragged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUpJ4yVCNrI…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 22:44:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637948336148758529

  • “Men carry on the bloodline, and women distribute the bloodline.” It’s not a bad

    “Men carry on the bloodline, and women distribute the bloodline.” It’s not a bad ethic really. 😉

    (the culture that is japan)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 17:01:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637861811805380630

  • Q: –“How homophobic are hunter-gatherer peoples?–Whatifalthist @whatifalthist

    Q: –“How homophobic are hunter-gatherer peoples?–Whatifalthist @whatifalthist

    The disgust response is universal. Suppression of the behavior as a norm is largely in response to agrarian civilization. Homosexuality as a ‘thing’ is a modern invention in response to the… https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1637795504179257344


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 16:02:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637847172057055232

  • 1) India is fascinating because while the west IE’s chose ‘society as army, with

    1) India is fascinating because while the west IE’s chose ‘society as army, with class duties etc’ the East IE’s (hindus) took the concept to an extreme, without rotating ‘promotion’ of the classes. In retrospect, it’s obvious because the inequality was so great on one hand, and the ability to govern so vast a population and continent was impossible given the European method. I mean, the steppe people murdered before colonizing only the women.

    2) I can’t suggest reading materials on Indian history, but if you ask @WhatifAltHist I’m sure he can narrow it down to a top three list for you, and his recommendations would be better than mine.

    3) If you ask me a specific question RE Holland’s work I can probably answer it.
    As a general rule, I’d argue he’s part of the tradition that’s now skeptical of all Abrahamic content from the transitional period at the end of the ancient world brought about by the plagues, wars, and Abrahamic destruction of the civilizations of the ancient world. His questioning of Muhammed I agree with just like I agree with the questioning of Jesus. MENA is a fictionalism based civ, particularly in Mythicism, and not philosophical, historical, or empirical. Making it up is to be taken for granted.
    If you mean his rather obvious observation that the west is a Christian society that’s true. If you ask me it’s a trifunctional one, with the three traditions roughly reflecting personality and class values.
    Like Holland I”d classify myself as an Anglican and a Burkeian, but there is no yet ‘clear’ distinction between Anglo thought in general as radically more empirical than al other civilizations and nations and traditions combined. We are aware of the anglo vs continental (german) tradition, but we do not (as I do) arrange all civilizational differences in intellectual bias as deviation from the laws of nature and by what means, and to preserve what ‘lie’ or ‘comfort’.
    Truth is that metaphysical value judgments are WANT to survive innovations in the frame we use to describe the world. And other than anglos not too many if any in the world have done it. The question is only whether other civs CAN do it. And I think it’s because it’s a class disposition in the anglo elites, that was an odd side effect of the status competition in England during the high to late middle ages, and especially into modernity.
    You could say I’m struggling to capture as science the uniquely scientific approach to the government of man created by the anglo aristocratic invention of the modern rule of law state, and their ‘correct’ assumption that they were the most virtuous rulers in history, even if only doing the best they could. And the USA’s founders were attempting more so to formally codify that as a majority cultural rather than aristocratic subcultural ideal.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @VeritateIn @MrWarrenBuffet @whatifalthist @elonmusk


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 14:21:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637821651684302851

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637811318626320387

  • 1) India is fascinating because while the west IE’s chose ‘society as army, with

    1) India is fascinating because while the west IE’s chose ‘society as army, with class duties etc’ the East IE’s (hindus) took the concept to an extreme, without rotating ‘promotion’ of the classes. In retrospect, it’s obvious because the inequality was so great on one hand, and the ability to govern so vast a population and continent was impossible given the European method. I mean, the steppe people murdered before colonizing only the women.

    2) I can’t suggest reading materials on Indian history, but if you ask @WhatifAltHist I’m sure he can narrow it down to a top three list for you, and his recommendations would be better than mine.

    3) If you ask me a specific question RE Holland’s work I can probably answer it.
    As a general rule, I’d argue he’s part of the tradition that’s now skeptical of all Abrahamic content from the transitional period at the end of the ancient world brought about by the plagues, wars, and Abrahamic destruction of the civilizations of the ancient world. His questioning of Muhammed I agree with just like I agree with the questioning of Jesus. MENA is a fictionalism based civ, particularly in Mythicism, and not philosophical, historical, or empirical. Making it up is to be taken for granted.
    If you mean his rather obvious observation that the west is a Christian society that’s true. If you ask me it’s a trifunctional one, with the three traditions roughly reflecting personality and class values.
    Like Holland I”d classify myself as an Anglican and a Burkeian, but there is no yet ‘clear’ distinction between Anglo thought in general as radically more empirical than al other civilizations and nations and traditions combined. We are aware of the anglo vs continental (german) tradition, but we do not (as I do) arrange all civilizational differences in intellectual bias as deviation from the laws of nature and by what means, and to preserve what ‘lie’ or ‘comfort’.
    Truth is that metaphysical value judgments are WANT to survive innovations in the frame we use to describe the world. And other than anglos not too many if any in the world have done it. The question is only whether other civs CAN do it. And I think it’s because it’s a class disposition in the anglo elites, that was an odd side effect of the status competition in England during the high to late middle ages, and especially into modernity.
    You could say I’m struggling to capture as science the uniquely scientific approach to the government of man created by the anglo aristocratic invention of the modern rule of law state, and their ‘correct’ assumption that they were the most virtuous rulers in history, even if only doing the best they could. And the USA’s founders were attempting more so to formally codify that as a majority cultural rather than aristocratic subcultural ideal.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 14:21:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637821651919290370

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637811318626320387

  • It’s just because you don’t have the knowledge base. So it’s rational you’d take

    It’s just because you don’t have the knowledge base. So it’s rational you’d take that position.

    1) Agrarian revolution -> Steppe Revolution -> Bronze Age collapse -> Indo-european Revolution -> Semitic counter-revolution.

    2) Italian-anglo restoration of europeanism > anglo invention of the modern rule of law state, industry, trade, federations (replacing agrarian empires territory) > french counter-revolution > German counter-revolution > Jewish counter-revolution(mendolsohn, then the Marxist sequence) > Islamist counter-revolution > Western Trade/Federalism Exhaustion > Imperial Reassertion (Iran, China, Russia and those countries that failed the transformation)

    3) All human differences originate in sex differences, from empathizing(prey)-systematizing(predator), to the four personality clusters, to the moral bias clusters, and especially the IQ vs Neoteny distribution, and you see a rather obvious means of explaining all human behavior. We are all some admixture of sex differences, and the population shows a pretty normal distribution of abut 1/3, 1/3, and 1/3 sex bias in perception, cognition, valuation, want, advocacy, and negotiation. What’s difficult for most of us, is that while we acknowledge the spectrum of means of ‘calculating’ from math to recipes, to rigorous arguments, we are less willing to ‘science’ our methods of lying. And how the sex differences in anti-natural law behavior, anti-social behavior, are facilitated by sex differences in methods of lying.

    4) All civilizational differences originate in agrarian founding institutions and their path-dependent sequence of development. There are only three means of human coercion (Religion/Verbal: seduction/ostracization, State/Force: Order/Defense, and Trade/Boycott: law/commerce. With Religion(strong) > State(weak) > Law(fail) the worst (MENA) and Law(strong) > State (weak) > Religion(fail) the best (Europe), and State(strong) > Law (weak) > Religion (fail) the compromise (China). Combine the institutional sequence, with the geography, means of production, your homogeneity or heterogeneity, number of competitors, the technological difference between you and the competitors, the relationship between your aristocracy (military) and peasantry(producers), and you get all human civilizations as relatively obvious survivors of what’s possible in geographic, racial, and ethnic circumstances.

    Now I’ve done all that work and more. So where you see moral conflict I see a bunch of bots – barely conscious children really – running around with flashcards of lies taped to their heads – trying to get attention so that they obtain some sort of status so that they can find allies, to maybe, possibly, feel less alienated in modernity, and somehow change their condition.

    So I see a very childish world. Why? Because while what I do (what our institute staff do) is basically a mathematics – a formal logic. Now it’s ordinal and operational math (like computation and actions) and not cardinal math (like statistics and language) but it’s till math. And it’s rational for all you normals out there with your emotions alienation and flashcards on your foreheads to think we’re like you.

    We aren’t. It’s just math to us.
    We don’t often like what we find either.
    And we know how Darwin and Galileo were treated.
    And we don’t expect any differently.
    Because the entire postwar pseudoscientific war against western civilization’s ‘science’, is a war against the Darwinian explanation of all existence. Not just biology – but everything. Including everything we intuit, feel, think, say and do.
    So no I don’t expect people to accept or like that the postwar intersection of Jewish thought, women in the workforce and politics, the television-cable-internet-social media revolution, hyperconsumption, debt capacity, and downregulation of education is just an expression of the lag institutional suppression of female antisocial behavior as it propagates through the civilization.

    But it’s true. 🙁

    Reply addressees: @enigma3078 @thenewMJG @whatifalthist


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 13:54:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637814852197445640

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637808821727813635

  • It’s just because you don’t have the knowledge base. So it’s rational you’d take

    It’s just because you don’t have the knowledge base. So it’s rational you’d take that position.

    1) Agrarian revolution -> Steppe Revolution -> Bronze Age collapse -> Indo-european Revolution -> Semitic counter-revolution.

    2) Italian-anglo restoration of europeanism > anglo invention of the modern rule of law state, industry, trade, federations (replacing agrarian empires territory) > french counter-revolution > German counter-revolution > Jewish counter-revolution(mendolsohn, then the Marxist sequence) > Islamist counter-revolution > Western Trade/Federalism Exhaustion > Imperial Reassertion (Iran, China, Russia and those countries that failed the transformation)

    3) All human differences originate in sex differences, from empathizing(prey)-systematizing(predator), to the four personality clusters, to the moral bias clusters, and especially the IQ vs Neoteny distribution, and you see a rather obvious means of explaining all human behavior. We are all some admixture of sex differences, and the population shows a pretty normal distribution of abut 1/3, 1/3, and 1/3 sex bias in perception, cognition, valuation, want, advocacy, and negotiation. What’s difficult for most of us, is that while we acknowledge the spectrum of means of ‘calculating’ from math to recipes, to rigorous arguments, we are less willing to ‘science’ our methods of lying. And how the sex differences in anti-natural law behavior, anti-social behavior, are facilitated by sex differences in methods of lying.

    4) All civilizational differences originate in agrarian founding institutions and their path-dependent sequence of development. There are only three means of human coercion (Religion/Verbal: seduction/ostracization, State/Force: Order/Defense, and Trade/Boycott: law/commerce. With Religion(strong) > State(weak) > Law(fail) the worst (MENA) and Law(strong) > State (weak) > Religion(fail) the best (Europe), and State(strong) > Law (weak) > Religion (fail) the compromise (China). Combine the institutional sequence, with the geography, means of production, your homogeneity or heterogeneity, number of competitors, the technological difference between you and the competitors, the relationship between your aristocracy (military) and peasantry(producers), and you get all human civilizations as relatively obvious survivors of what’s possible in geographic, racial, and ethnic circumstances.

    Now I’ve done all that work and more. So where you see moral conflict I see a bunch of bots – barely conscious children really – running around with flashcards of lies taped to their heads – trying to get attention so that they obtain some sort of status so that they can find allies, to maybe, possibly, feel less alienated in modernity, and somehow change their condition.

    So I see a very childish world. Why? Because while what I do (what our institute staff do) is basically a mathematics – a formal logic. Now it’s ordinal and operational math (like computation and actions) and not cardinal math (like statistics and language) but it’s till math. And it’s rational for all you normals out there with your emotions alienation and flashcards on your foreheads to think we’re like you.

    We aren’t. It’s just math to us.
    We don’t often like what we find either.
    And we know how Darwin and Galileo were treated.
    And we don’t expect any differently.
    Because the entire postwar pseudoscientific war against western civilization’s ‘science’, is a war against the Darwinian explanation of all existence. Not just biology – but everything. Including everything we intuit, feel, think, say and do.
    So no I don’t expect people to accept or like that the postwar intersection of Jewish thought, women in the workforce and politics, the television-cable-internet-social media revolution, hyperconsumption, debt capacity, and downregulation of education is just an expression of the lag institutional suppression of female antisocial behavior as it propagates through the civilization.

    But it’s true. 🙁


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-20 13:54:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637814852486852610

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637808821727813635