Read books written by my ancestors in the 16-1700’s and they were very ‘hard’ people. After 1830 knowledge was incdreasing rapidly. But they were much ‘harder’ than we are. Mine would be awed by what I know, but not my demeanor. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 03:28:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634033519532834816
Reply addressees: @A_E_Winslow
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633896915917058048
TRUST: WHY DOES DUGIN SEEK A NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR RUSSIA?
(easy answer that applies to every civilization)
1) The principle difference between civilizations is the degree of trust: meaning the trustworthiness of each individual in personal, private, social, economic, and political life.. Russia is a low-trust civilization. China is a lower-trust civilization. India is an even lower-trust civilization. The middle east (MENA) is a much much lower-trust civilization. Sub Saharan Africa is a trustless civilization. The Japanese, South Koreans, and the Europeans (mostly northern Europeans) are the only high-trust civilizations.
2) Russia is a low trust civ. Duggin is looking for a justification for Russian imperial authoritarianism that is necessary for a low-trust population to maintain a geographic extreme of eleven time zones, when there is no means of political, social, economic, and cultural, competition against competitors. In other words, (just like Canadians virtue signal over Americans) Russians need a means of excusing their untrustworthiness and not developing trustworthiness.
3) Those civilizations that experimented with communism and socialism ‘blew the window’ of modernizing, where they hade but a century to seize their share of incentives to create a majority middle-class society, before market differences between civilizations eliminated any chance of an advantage. Now they have built up consumption, but they have no capital to use to transform, and no market means of transformation. So most will choose like Dugin to double down on ideology religion or authority to compensate. Some others will knuckle under (India) and develop quickly. Others more slowly.
-Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 02:15:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634015030441123840
TRUST: WHY DOES DUGIN SEEK A NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR RUSSIA?
(easy answer that applies to every civilization)
1) The principle difference between civilizations is the degree of trust: meaning the trustworthiness of each individual in personal, private, social, economic, and political life.. Russia is a low-trust civilization. China is a lower-trust civilization. India is an even lower-trust civilization. The middle east (MENA) is a much much lower-trust civilization. Sub Saharan Africa is a trustless civilization. The Japanese, South Koreans, and the Europeans (mostly northern Europeans) are the only high-trust civilizations.
2) Russia is a low trust civ. Duggin is looking for a justification for Russian imperial authoritarianism that is necessary for a low-trust population to maintain a geographic extreme of eleven time zones, when there is no means of political, social, economic, and cultural, competition against competitors. In other words, (just like Canadians virtue signal over Americans) Russians need a means of excusing their untrustworthiness and not developing trustworthiness.
3) Those civilizations that experimented with communism and socialism ‘blew the window’ of modernizing, where they hade but a century to seize their share of incentives to create a majority middle-class society, before market differences between civilizations eliminated any chance of an advantage. Now they have built up consumption, but they have no capital to use to transform, and no market means of transformation. So most will choose like Dugin to double down on ideology religion or authority to compensate. Some others will knuckle under (India) and develop quickly. Others more slowly.
-Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 02:15:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634015030545899529
RT @EricMorganCoach: @unbiasedbrad @JoshuaLisec European was most resilient.
Truth before face. Duty. Responsibility. Reciprocity. Scient…
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 23:33:20 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633974278138781701
~Correct:
I was referring to English. Your response referred to British.
Depends:
1) Germans 42M 13%
2) English 25M 8%
3) “American” (Mixed English and Celtic) 25M 6%
… … (Red on the attached US map shows “American”.)
4) Other British Isles 12%
… … Irish 31M 10%
… …… https://t.co/1Ez3rBYeB1
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 20:23:57 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633926616987344901
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633920290899087362
They do not demonstrate the ability to access that high culture, any more than those who cannot obtain access to law school demonstrate the ability to access it. Worse humans are no different from other domesticated animals, in that putting the best in with the rest does not improve the rest but undermines and infects the best.
Now, you could make an argument that the curriculum of the Grammar schools should be applied to ordinary government schools. But then, the majority of students would fail. We have already seen vast dumbing-down of the curriculum in all English speaking countries. Because god forbid we should produce evidence of the difference between the classes, and that those differences are from genetic load.
Reply addressees: @geoff19542 @shermanklumpp
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 14:49:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633842570471309312
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633839161722671106
They do not demonstrate the ability to access that high culture, any more than those who cannot obtain access to law school demonstrate the ability to access it. Worse humans are no different from other domesticated animals, in that putting the best in with the rest does not improve the rest but undermines and infects the best.
Now, you could make an argument that the curriculum of the Grammar schools should be applied to ordinary government schools. But then, the majority of students would fail. We have already seen vast dumbing-down of the curriculum in all English speaking countries. Because god forbid we should produce evidence of the difference between the classes, and that those differences are from genetic load.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 14:49:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633842570605494273
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633839161722671106
Most are today. That’s for certain. But then the Northeast is majority irish and italian with very few puritans left.
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 13:31:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633822946052415490
Reply addressees: @jlann2003 @whatifalthist
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633821845207040002
(Strange Consequences)
–“AMERICAN LIBERALISM, OUR CIVIC RELIGION, HAS TURNED ON US.”–
Fascinating article, references the decline in Jewish representation across formerly overrepresented positions, due to DIE and Woke liberalism. Why? For Whites, Jews are a minority. To the other minorities, Jews are White. So the ‘be careful what you wish for’ lesson applies. Why? No take-backs.
Original Article by Jacob Savage:
https://t.co/FBYJfSYj6k
Review of the Article by Steve Sailer
https://t.co/1H0slhxgBq
(My take: Once you depart from meritocracy, there is no good end. It’s failed everywhere else over time. It will here too. And it is already. You wanna know the reason for fastest development of any civilization? Standardized testing, demonstrated competency, and meritocratic promotion. )
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 04:27:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633685850285305856
(Strange Consequences)
–“AMERICAN LIBERALISM, OUR CIVIC RELIGION, HAS TURNED ON US.”–
Fascinating article, references the decline in Jewish representation across formerly overrepresented positions, due to DIE and Woke liberalism. Why? For Whites, Jews are a minority. To the other minorities, Jews are White. So the ‘be careful what you wish for’ lesson applies. Why? No take-backs.
Original Article by Jacob Savage:
https://t.co/FBYJfSYj6k
Review of the Article by Steve Sailer
https://t.co/1H0slhxgBq
(My take: Once you depart from meritocracy, there is no good end. It’s failed everywhere else over time. It will here too. And it is already. You wanna know the reason for fastest development of any civilization? Standardized testing, demonstrated competency, and meritocratic promotion. )
Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 04:27:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633685850172055554