Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

We have dragged you out of ignorance, superstition, hard work, poverty, starvati

We have dragged you out of ignorance, superstition, hard work, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the viscissitudes of nature. This is called ‘parenting’. It is how we seek to make the world safe for self determination. Choose wisely.

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-12 15:13:32 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513898115899826176

Reply addressees: @Simonbutter1 @KimAlle39213540 @GPEditor @America1Scotty

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513897105374556173

April 12, 2022
An interesting statement. The evidence is the opposite. Not only for americans b

An interesting statement. The evidence is the opposite. Not only for americans but europeans in general. We domesticated warfare. We built the modern world that raised you out of ignorance, superstition,poverty, starvation, and disease. Imperfectly? Yes. But better than the rest.

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-12 02:02:53 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513699141733564418

Reply addressees: @Simonbutter1 @KimAlle39213540 @GPEditor @America1Scotty

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513672904927596548

April 12, 2022
RT @95thoughts: really cool paper. combines prehistoric skeletal analysis with g

RT @95thoughts: really cool paper. combines prehistoric skeletal analysis with genomics and find Neolithic transition to an agricultural di…

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-11 23:49:56 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513665685439881224

April 11, 2022
REVIEW: PATH DEPENDENCE IN CIVILIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. Only three methods of i

REVIEW: PATH DEPENDENCE IN CIVILIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Only three methods of influence->coercion exist.
2. All civilizations develop these institutions in a different order.
3. The first strongest, second less, and third weak or failed.
(Note: Law = Equity) https://t.co/e1o5Cwt2eJ

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-10 13:08:10 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1513141789380722689

April 10, 2022
Peter: Pakistan vs Postwar Italy: “The Moral Basis of a Backward Society” Banfie

Peter: Pakistan vs Postwar Italy: “The Moral Basis of a Backward Society” Banfield.

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-09 23:37:36 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512937807429386242

Reply addressees: @PeterZeihan

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512934548232884224

April 9, 2022
By WordsRated Simplified: library use has switched to provide cheap internet acc

By WordsRated
https://wordsrated.com/state-of-us-public-libraries/
Simplified: library use has switched to provide cheap internet access (vs internet cafes) and have replaced churces as venues for civil society groups. So while membership increased, use for purpose continues to decline.

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-08 00:33:46 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512227163101179926

Reply addressees: @GeorgeWallaces4

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512222596997210113

April 8, 2022
2. … or a very small subset as a means of EXCLUSION like science and law…. T

2. … or a very small subset as a means of EXCLUSION like science and law…. Think about that one a bit…. 😉

Aristocracy creates a ladder. Philosophy a balance beam, and Theology creates a slide. …

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-06 14:26:47 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1511712023943467017

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1511712022618124288

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1. The interesting question (re: strauss, and philosophers in general) is whether we should seek a means of mass unification like religion, a subset of mass unification like continental(romantic) philosophy, a smaller subset of unification like anglo(evidentiary) philosophy, …

Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1511712022618124288

April 6, 2022
Haplogroup Map of the World: via @YouTube

Haplogroup Map of the World: https://youtu.be/DlQdOUGVdG8 via @YouTube

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-04 14:50:23 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1510993188525416452

April 4, 2022
This is most interesting because it comes down to ‘What am I capable of defendin

This is most interesting because it comes down to ‘What am I capable of defending’. And after that ‘what am I permitted to defend’.

We find all civilizations self regulate by the same means: truth, trust, commons, institutions of coercion, avaialble extraction(parasitism). https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1510777225406291970

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-04 00:33:58 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1510777661706149893

https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1510777225406291970

April 4, 2022
Working on explaining the Russian mind, culture. Really quite easy. Now if we as

Working on explaining the Russian mind, culture. Really quite easy. Now if we ask an american or brit “what are you responsible for?” And then we ask a Russian, an Indian, a Chinese, an Arab and an african the same question, using examples: “What capital are you defending?”

Source date (UTC): 2022-04-04 00:32:14 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1510777225406291970

April 4, 2022