Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • I would expect that because, before Israel existed, Ukraine was the most Jewish

    I would expect that because, before Israel existed, Ukraine was the most Jewish polity. However, the world wars changed things a bit, and the majority of Jews in Ukraine integrated – partly because they were so heavily punished by the host people. In general, the slavs are almost entirely from farmer stock, and Jews are as expected from literate stock, and given the ‘flight of the educated’ after the fall of the soviet union – and now continuously – they’re the most likely administrative group. FWIW there are a lot of Turks in Ukraine because they are more natural businessmen. So, IMO UA Christians are the most moral people in europe because they are the most agrarian. πŸ˜‰ But they haven’t developed a middle class that stays. So other peoples provide that feature because they can.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 17:28:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628084367963697188

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  • (africa) Every time I spend even a few hours working on catching up, I find Afri

    (africa)
    Every time I spend even a few hours working on catching up, I find African modernization is overwhelming (like everyone else does) and one of the great challenges of the planet (they’ll do fine over time). And while the problems are hard and the economics and politics are nearly impossible, the truth is that the people of Africa (other than the Marxists and the Islamists), at least the ones I talk to or exchange messages and email with, are always a joy to talk to. They don’t have silly ideas that make them arrogant about ideology or anything else. They are practical and want to work for a better life. If people have illusions of the past, they are far harder to help with realisms of the future.

    Just like we used to be. πŸ™


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 01:15:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627839445473890304

  • You have no idea. I can rattle this stuff off the top of my head rapidly and end

    You have no idea. I can rattle this stuff off the top of my head rapidly and endlessly, while periodically interjecting long arcs of historical causality across comparative civilizations, and taking frequent side trips into group differences in methods of argument and deception, while trying to play foosball, and occasionally sipping a scotch – without dropping a beat.

    (Well, as long as my allergies aren’t bothering me anyway.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 00:50:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627833185240338432

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  • The west was being settled. In the choice between an agrarian-biased south as th

    The west was being settled. In the choice between an agrarian-biased south as their alliance or an industrial-biased north as their alliance, the general concern at the time (which was recognized by all) was that the west would ally with the south cutting out the north from political control of the continent – precisely when they had worked to secure the territory to the west coast largely to deny ‘warlike’ eruopeans from gaining a foothold. After the war Americans tried to drive Europeans (successfully) out of the hemisphere for the same reason. World wars confirmed this strategy.

    The only thing vaguely interesting about this conversation is that this was common knowledge and what the hell happened to education?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-21 00:14:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627824006668623872

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  • Each intellectual has a specialty. Specialties don’t generalize very well. πŸ˜‰ Th

    Each intellectual has a specialty.
    Specialties don’t generalize very well. πŸ˜‰
    The only generalization is geostrategy.
    And it doesn’t predict very well. πŸ˜‰
    Everything is demographics.
    After that it’s economics.
    After that it’s war. πŸ˜‰


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 19:13:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627748297497579524

    Reply addressees: @ajrwalker @mtgreenee

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  • Why am I going to answer this given that I know it’s a waste of time? (a) northe

    Why am I going to answer this given that I know it’s a waste of time?

    (a) northern european institutions, especially within the Hajnal Line, Under Manorialism, and most so under the British invention of the modern state, maximized the responsibility of individuals through training, culture, religion, education, and law, and directed dominance expression to the production of commons. We sometimes call this the protestant ethic, but it is simply the northern european ethic, and protestantism was a natural reform of religion to suit the protestant ethic as we entered the age of literacy.
    (b) The “Liberal: Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Postmodern, Feminist, PC-Woke, anti-male, anti-western, anti-behavioral science” promise of freedom from scarcity, the nature of man, and evolutionary pressures of mutation and genetic load accumulating in the lower classes consist of a rebellion against the responsibility demanded by these western institutions. This has resulted in infantilization of the population: devolution. And infantilization increases the demand for authority (parenting).
    (c) We can (I have), fairly easily, enumerate natural rights and obligations that maximize individual self determination(freedom), by sovereignty (liberty) and reciprocity (morality), and in doing so reverse the infantilization of the population, and end the demand for authority.
    (d) however there are people who are incapable of ‘whiteness’: responsibility for mind, self, others, and commons – whether by genetic defect, developmental defect, or choice. Some of these people will ‘check out’ as artists etc. Some of these people will demand parenting. Some of them will demand that their irresponsibility grant them equality of standing with those who are responsible.
    So the last two groups are rather obvious. And they require ‘blue’ authority and parenting.

    Why? because agency decreases with population density, so responsibility decreases with population density, and so we give up agency and responsibility in return for the reduced opportunity costs of population density (hyperconsumption), and cost of residency, and near prohibition on reproduction because of the high cost of children in population density.

    So individuals will choose density, and families seek absence of density. Families breed in the absence of density. Individuals don’t breed in cities because it’s too expensive, so they have to attract immigrants instead, who also increase demand for authority.

    Good people will keep fleeing the decaying cities until there are alternative cities that attract good people. (Nashville, Austin). Then once enough good people create enough good things the parasitic bad people will come and destroy the good things again, and the process continues.

    We want to stop the bad people.

    It’s all behavioral economics. It’s very simple.
    And it’s just physics in the end and you can’t get around it.

    Cities are genetic sinks.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 19:09:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627747328286199829

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  • Battles might be won by men and generals but wars are won by resources, producti

    Battles might be won by men and generals but wars are won by resources, production and logistics. So it was always a challenge for the south to win. But by today’s standards of warfare, (even standards then), the north was responsible for victory by atrocities.
    Waste of lives.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 18:51:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627742674219372552

    Reply addressees: @drones_for_sale @Chris2_0_0_9 @LPNational @mtgreenee

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  • Not sure that makes much sense, but maybe I don’t understand the context you’re

    Not sure that makes much sense, but maybe I don’t understand the context you’re working from. I’m not sure the North would have entered WW1. Because the during-and-post civil war federal centralization wouldn’t have occurred. Economic interdependence between agrarian south and west and northern manufacturing would have been too useful to really ‘hold a grudge’. And without the destruction of the south, given the rapid advancements of the 1880s to 1910 it’s hard to see the south not applying industrialization to at least agriculture, and avoiding the immigration problems caused in the north.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 18:48:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627742044562067457

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  • You’d be wrong, because it’s how the country was founded, it’s how Europe is org

    You’d be wrong, because it’s how the country was founded, it’s how Europe is organized, and it’s how european civilization has always been organized, and that organization is the reason for the rapid evolution of western civilization over all of the rest – the competition for…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 17:51:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627727551232675842

    Reply addressees: @VladRomanyuk6 @mtgreenee

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  • It was a good idea. It would just have left the south the dominant civilization

    It was a good idea. It would just have left the south the dominant civilization on the continent with the south settling the western territories to the coast – and not the north. And the industrial north didn’t want that to happen.

    The USA is organized under British(west germanic) government and law, but and germanic civilizations traditions and laws, in imitation of the Holy Roman Empire, which when the USA was founded wast the core of Europe at 1000 years old.

    European rates of evolution are faster than the rest because of many small homogenous nation states producing the commons desired by their populations, while allying under the empire then the church.

    This is the optimum social political and civilizational order as history has made painfully obvious by the stagnation of every other civilizational order by 800ad.

    So, restoring the constitution, the anglo modern state and law, and the organization of germanic european civilization is a rather easy task.

    Federalism is always evolutionarily superior to imperialism and the federal govt is now imperial – and imperial is determined at the moment one government determines the cultural direction of any people who wish otherwise.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 17:30:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627722422064492544

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