(FB 1546790168 Timestamp) SIMPLE ANSWERS DEPARTMENT —“The Spanish empire was centrally run. The British was based on free enterprise.”—Richard Hall The british empire was based upon rule of law, which results in free enterprise.
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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(FB 1546879270 Timestamp) EUROPE BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND: DIVERSITY IS THE REASON FOR AMERICAN VIOLENCE AND MIDDLE EASTERN VIOLENCE – AND ALL VIOLENCE
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(FB 1546879270 Timestamp) EUROPE BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND: DIVERSITY IS THE REASON FOR AMERICAN VIOLENCE AND MIDDLE EASTERN VIOLENCE – AND ALL VIOLENCE
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547142386 Timestamp) ARISTOTLE AS OUR LAWGIVER, vs THE PROPHETS AND THEIR LIES. The first reason to reform Aristotle by translation of his works into operational language is to lionize him and make him the founder of western thought – the via negativa, to the Nihilism of Socrates and the Idealism of Plato, and the lies of the Abrahamists whether Abraham, Saul, or Mohammed. This form of heroic Idolization anthropomorphizes the character (and his military peer alexander) such that we can engage in hero-competition with competing civilizations and their advocates, and our own sophists within, (b) and anchor western civilization as a continuous tradition from our origins in European customary law of sovereignty and tort, to the present anglo common law of tort. The second reason is to falsify all the pseudo-philosophy and theology that exists between aristotle and the present. Now re-writing Aristotle in operational prose would be the equivalent of the work undertaken to produce the king james bible, and the basis of a western education – particularly the Ethics. When combined with the foundational myth of the Trial of Achilles (taught to children by dividing up the work and memorizing it by chanting – given that vast parts are repeated over and over again – and presented by classes as a holiday play). We would have the Hellenic tradition restored. Doing the same for each series of festivals for the old germanic and celtic in fall and winter, and preserving Easter for the christian and mayday would be relatively simple. We can re-ritualize our civilization as historical play. Because, as Nietzsche taught us, it is the participation of the chorus, whether in games, play, ritual, church, or prayer that provides the mindfulness of associating the sacred and collective with the mythos that binds them. If we have an education system (church limited by the natural law) that teaches mindfulness, history, the tools of calculation (reading, writing, numbers, economics, physics), reduce education to part time as soon as children are able to engage in part time work, and put as great an emphasis on apprenticeship as we do higher education, and limit ‘higher education’ to that which requires advanced calculation (stem+l) we can restore the civic society and eliminate the alienation and signal warfare endemic to consumer modernity. If this church, which provides education, also serves the function of consumer banking, savings, and investment, with near-zero interest on durable goods, then we will have restored the ancient order and destroyed the entire network of parasites and rent seekers in academy, finance, and state. We do not need to establish this church. We merely need to provide the economic incentives to do so, and the regulatory law that binds them to the construction of that common good. The most notable exception would be the use of successful retired people in the administration and teaching of these things rather than those who have been insulated from market forces, market competition, and demonstrated market achievement.
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(FB 1547133273 Timestamp) USING LOGIC IS WESTERN BECAUSE WESTERNERS ACCOUNT FOR COSTS. —“Now, I’ve spent a lot of time on it, but you have to ask yourself, why, if mathematical, logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, arguments with tests of scope, completeness, and coherence exist, why it would be that you would argue by any other means.”—- CD —“bUt UsInG lOgIc Is ToO wEsTeRn”– Rosenborg Predmetsky
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(FB 1547125060 Timestamp) —“Western society is dominant through the propagation of western currency, which has taking the place of western warfare, in order to maintain western dominance do you think the value of economic currency needs to be maintained or the value of western warfare needs to become the currency?”— A Friend Smart Question. I think the short answer is that western currency, and in particular, the american takeover of the british empire at bretton woods, which was dependent upon providing open access to the american market, and american guarantee of policing of world trade.
Western dominance is not ‘needed’.
Conflict of civilizations will emerge.
Power evolved by increasingly subtle incentives: Violence > Religion > Administration > Economics > with next state being information (which scares me).
The west competed successfully by a combination of technologies. The competitive advantage in other than trust (culture) has mostly been eliminated. the competitive advantage of demographic distribution is in the process of being eliminated.
I do not see how the west can maintain military superiority. Military superiority requires technology. Technology requires wealth. Wealth requires population, trade routes, and all the rest…
At present, Trump is attempting to force europeans to remilitarize by withdrawing military force from the region, and then the rest of the world, more slowly, because america no longer has the relative economic and technological advantage. Worse, chinese organization, government, and culture is superior for the conduct of military, economic, and political expansion.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547133273 Timestamp) USING LOGIC IS WESTERN BECAUSE WESTERNERS ACCOUNT FOR COSTS. —“Now, I’ve spent a lot of time on it, but you have to ask yourself, why, if mathematical, logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, arguments with tests of scope, completeness, and coherence exist, why it would be that you would argue by any other means.”—- CD —“bUt UsInG lOgIc Is ToO wEsTeRn”– Rosenborg Predmetsky
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547061739 Timestamp) JUST CALL ME JACKET Curt = ÐÑÑÑ (russian, ukrainian) кÑÑÑка (koort-‘ka) = jackets (russian) ÐÑÑÑоÑк ( Koor-TOH’CHk ) = Jackets. (Belarus) ÐакеÑÑ (zha-KEH’-tee) = Jackets Ð¶Ð°ÐºÐµÑ (zha-keht) = Jacket ÑÑÐµÐ½Ñ (french) = jacket/coat (I think it means, like a smock?)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547143486 Timestamp) THE ATHENIAN TRADITION DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR COSTS… (worth repeating) The athenian tradition did not account for costs. There are two principle reasons for it: (1) the peerage was small and wealthy with common interests – and costs were as rude then as today (2) discussion of costs immediately changes from ideals to reals thereby self selecting into class interests (3) mathematical idealism influenced greco-roman thought so heavily, giving such sophism an unearned legitimacy. (4) historically religion spoke in these ideal terms, philosophy an improvement upon them, and empiricism an improvement upon philosophy, and science an improvement upon empiricism, just as ‘Testimonialism’ is an improvement upon science. (empiricism vs science distinguished by the 20th’s implementation of operational language, and testimonialism by the completion of the scientific method). It is time for philosophy to either abandon idealism, sophism, and the ignorance of costs, or to be further demoted into the theology of ideals.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547143486 Timestamp) THE ATHENIAN TRADITION DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR COSTS… (worth repeating) The athenian tradition did not account for costs. There are two principle reasons for it: (1) the peerage was small and wealthy with common interests – and costs were as rude then as today (2) discussion of costs immediately changes from ideals to reals thereby self selecting into class interests (3) mathematical idealism influenced greco-roman thought so heavily, giving such sophism an unearned legitimacy. (4) historically religion spoke in these ideal terms, philosophy an improvement upon them, and empiricism an improvement upon philosophy, and science an improvement upon empiricism, just as ‘Testimonialism’ is an improvement upon science. (empiricism vs science distinguished by the 20th’s implementation of operational language, and testimonialism by the completion of the scientific method). It is time for philosophy to either abandon idealism, sophism, and the ignorance of costs, or to be further demoted into the theology of ideals.