RT @Culture_Crit: 100 years ago, a German historian noticed something:
All cultures have a set life cycle — you can predict when (and how)…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-18 04:08:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880467310206676996
Either people have the properties I say they do, and polities during the formation of nation states expressed their cultural traditions as I said they have, and as such premises are empirically stated – no meaningful conversation can be had with divergence on facts. All else is just narrative. (And I’m not going to even try to explain ‘reducibility’ across the spectrum of grammatical paradigms to you since you can’t grasp even this much ordinary logic.)
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Source date (UTC): 2025-01-17 18:42:55 UTC
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RT @elonmusk: Slavery was almost everywhere and still exists in some parts of the world
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-17 10:25:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880199800672645580
I am only addressing one difference in this post. There are many others, including the utility of being developmentally ahead (germany, fascism) and developmentally behind (russia, communism).
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-16 19:04:33 UTC
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Hitler was a socialist. There are multiple categories of socialist. A fascist is nationalistic and retains state-private sector partnership in economics. A communist is universalist and the state monopolizes economics and destroys the private sector. That said both communists and fascists are authoritarian socialists – in part because communism is behaviorally impossible and fascism is simply the end point of Total War against enemies of the nation such as communism.
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This theory has been moderated though not falsified. They were not dark skinned as in the image by ruddy skinned. In fact this photo from this reconstruction is widely considered one of the most successful pieces of scientific propaganda – it’s false. It is true that today’s…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-15 01:05:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879334006174658790
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RT @catorockwell: @KeithWoodsYT It took us a hundred years to come full circle to what Will Durant & other early 20th century historians kn…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-14 18:02:07 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1879227510782857725
Why would you presume that a high trust society would not engage in war? How odd…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-14 07:56:51 UTC
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The west has removed islam from europe in the past, and can easily do so again.,
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-13 18:31:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878872416530923757
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RT @StevePender: Wise insight: “extreme individualism is a luxury belief able to be held due to the stores of civilisational capital genera…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-13 18:28:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878871739389956173
How do you maintain low (long) time preference without aristocracy? You must have aristocracy because they will naturally emerge as and evolve an aristocracy with low (long) time preference if lawfulness is preserved vs lawlessness. Without their time preference all polities, and especially democratic polities, will eventually burn capital in favor of consumption, whether by individualism instead of familism, consumerism instead of commons-ism, corruption instead of nationalism. The financialization drove recursive shortening of time preference, and the destruction of civilizational capital. There are many lessons here, but the prohibition on credit expansion in the private sector is the principle means of preventing it, and instead, forcing invsetment in longer time preferences instead of shorter consumer and consumption preferences.
(Brad and I today.)
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-13 00:11:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878595620476485632