Jan 8, 2020, 6:24 AM Every group has a competitive (evolutionary) strategy at its formation. We develop narratives (excuses) and rules to persist that strategy, while maintaining some form of reciprocity. Once entrenched these are almost impossible to change. There are a limited number of properties to these strategies. I haven’t disambiguated them yet, but at the general level they’re the nature of the world, the nature of man, the ‘right’ organization of the hierarchies to conduct and persist that strategy, and ‘right action’ within it. The norms and language vary according to the stage of development and long term demands. These rules allow us to habituate, predict, and calculate our actions giving us the perception of the constancy of the universe by minimizing the complexity of our cognitive costs. We are superpredators after all, and it’s amazing that we can cooperate in such vast numbers.
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture
Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/iran-and-the-cost-of-face-and-honor-culture/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 23:20:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265060200895168514
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Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture
Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim world is Face-Before-Truth, and Respect without Earning it. On the other hand europeans won’t speak the whole truth and explain why the conflict exists, nor do we state that it’s aristotelian truth, literacy, rule of law, capitalism, and reducing the reproduction of our underclasses – not democracy – that made the west successful. And that democracy is a disaster for non-europeans who have not also developed those institutions. In europe our honor comes from truth before face, and respect when earned. This is heroic. It is to bear personal sacrifice on behalf of the polity. And it puts constant pressure on the ‘lower classes’ to improve their behavior. So this is why europe is high trust, builds large organizations, relatively free of corruption, and why it’s materially good for underclasses but they’re continuously under social pressure to ‘mature’ into paying the high costs of truth before face, earning respect by behavior, defense of the commons, and doing one’s duty regardless of cost.
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Iran and The Cost of Face and Honor Culture
Jan 11, 2020, 11:22 AM The Iranians are a Face-Before-Truth culture so they can’t do what Europeans do, which is say “We don’t know until we’ve investigated”. Instead they just denied – a Face-Before-Truth response. It’s the same reason we can’t believe anything that comes out of that part of the world – the muslim world is Face-Before-Truth, and Respect without Earning it. On the other hand europeans won’t speak the whole truth and explain why the conflict exists, nor do we state that it’s aristotelian truth, literacy, rule of law, capitalism, and reducing the reproduction of our underclasses – not democracy – that made the west successful. And that democracy is a disaster for non-europeans who have not also developed those institutions. In europe our honor comes from truth before face, and respect when earned. This is heroic. It is to bear personal sacrifice on behalf of the polity. And it puts constant pressure on the ‘lower classes’ to improve their behavior. So this is why europe is high trust, builds large organizations, relatively free of corruption, and why it’s materially good for underclasses but they’re continuously under social pressure to ‘mature’ into paying the high costs of truth before face, earning respect by behavior, defense of the commons, and doing one’s duty regardless of cost.
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The superior political behavior was due to the martial aristocracy. The superior
The superior political behavior was due to the martial aristocracy. The superior commercial behavior due to juridical nobility and ex-military entrepreneurship, and the superior commoners the result of the various christian churches and priesthoods.
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 23:12:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265058184282152967
Reply addressees: @judicialist
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265054379905888257
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Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army
Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties becasue of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due distrespect or even punishment if we do not do our duties. This is how we produced harmony – more harmony than any other civilization in history – while at the same time producing the most adaptive and rapidly evolutionary body of people in human history. We took control of evolution. The left is the antithesis of western civilization. Monopoly, equality, submission, dysgenia. The herd. Separate. Evolve, Speciate.
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Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army
Jan 13, 2020, 5:24 PM In the western tradition we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties becasue of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due distrespect or even punishment if we do not do our duties. This is how we produced harmony – more harmony than any other civilization in history – while at the same time producing the most adaptive and rapidly evolutionary body of people in human history. We took control of evolution. The left is the antithesis of western civilization. Monopoly, equality, submission, dysgenia. The herd. Separate. Evolve, Speciate.
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Pagans Had Monogamy and Rules to Enforce It Before Abrahamism Came Along
Pagans Had Monogamy and Rules to Enforce It Before Abrahamism Came Along https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/pagans-had-monogamy-and-rules-to-enforce-it-before-abrahamism-came-along/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 21:33:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265033323929362433
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Pagans Had Monogamy and Rules to Enforce It Before Abrahamism Came Along
Jan 18, 2020, 8:20 AM MONOGAMY by Erik Lukovsky Pagans had monogamy and rules to enforce it before Abrahamism came along Monotheism popularized those rules All people have polygamous and monogamous inclinations(genes), usually one more so than the other Monogamy existed(and still can exist) as a form of exchange, in which women offer sexual access and a guarantee that the males offspring is his(virginity) in exchange for the mans protection, economic resources, and attention(in some cases) It ” can ” be the most optimal strategy under the right conditions – there are also conditions under which other systems can work, but nevertheless, there has yet to be a successful civilization that practices polygamy(because men will revolt and kill other men if they don’t have access to women)
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Pagans Had Monogamy and Rules to Enforce It Before Abrahamism Came Along
Jan 18, 2020, 8:20 AM MONOGAMY by Erik Lukovsky Pagans had monogamy and rules to enforce it before Abrahamism came along Monotheism popularized those rules All people have polygamous and monogamous inclinations(genes), usually one more so than the other Monogamy existed(and still can exist) as a form of exchange, in which women offer sexual access and a guarantee that the males offspring is his(virginity) in exchange for the mans protection, economic resources, and attention(in some cases) It ” can ” be the most optimal strategy under the right conditions – there are also conditions under which other systems can work, but nevertheless, there has yet to be a successful civilization that practices polygamy(because men will revolt and kill other men if they don’t have access to women)