[I]t was different reading SCI-FI in the 60’s and 70’s than it is today. Memories of the world war, the vietnam era, the cold war and space race provided context for them. The promise of a star trek future more so. Watergate, Vietnam Exit, and The oil crisis was a death blow. And so these things made us look for options. Which is why we threw ourselves at technology. when princess leah said “you are our only hope” that reflected our perception of the age of computers. So we had star wars, alien, Reagan Revolution, and the age of computers to run to. When I found neuromancer (1981 or 82) and then Snow Crash that was the future most of us went out to build. Why? unlike the cold war which was out of our control, building the world of Neuromancer was WITHIN our control… so we live it today. What I notice most is that the time for contemplation (demand for self entertainment when bored) is gone, and we pay the price for it. Good trade maybe. But the ‘pace’ of the world is insane by those standards, and even then, the adults thought the pace of the world compared to the war era was insane. My grandmother had a red-x painted on the door, and neighbors dropped off deliveries at the end of the property, and people hitched up horses to go to town for what they needed. A generation before that was without electricity or running water.
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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SCI-FI of the cold war era.
[I]t was different reading SCI-FI in the 60’s and 70’s than it is today. Memories of the world war, the vietnam era, the cold war and space race provided context for them. The promise of a star trek future more so. Watergate, Vietnam Exit, and The oil crisis was a death blow. And so these things made us look for options. Which is why we threw ourselves at technology. when princess leah said “you are our only hope” that reflected our perception of the age of computers. So we had star wars, alien, Reagan Revolution, and the age of computers to run to. When I found neuromancer (1981 or 82) and then Snow Crash that was the future most of us went out to build. Why? unlike the cold war which was out of our control, building the world of Neuromancer was WITHIN our control… so we live it today. What I notice most is that the time for contemplation (demand for self entertainment when bored) is gone, and we pay the price for it. Good trade maybe. But the ‘pace’ of the world is insane by those standards, and even then, the adults thought the pace of the world compared to the war era was insane. My grandmother had a red-x painted on the door, and neighbors dropped off deliveries at the end of the property, and people hitched up horses to go to town for what they needed. A generation before that was without electricity or running water.
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I mean, it’s not complicated: without our constant attempt to preserve heroism b
I mean, it’s not complicated: without our constant attempt to preserve heroism by either christian morality, civilization by colonization, or postwar heroism, our only incentive then is to adopt *their* strategy of self interest above all, and return to a war of all against all.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 17:20:13 UTC
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They have taken away our claim to the moral high ground despite having dragged t
They have taken away our claim to the moral high ground despite having dragged them all kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, sharvation, hard labor, disease, child mortality, early early death – for profit. So we shall simply return to pragmatism: rule.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 17:17:17 UTC
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Well I mean, you view them as tasteless they view you as disgusting right? I mea
Well I mean, you view them as tasteless they view you as disgusting right? I mean, that’s the net of it? Dysgenic, parasitic, plague against genetic,territorial institutional,normative, cultural, civilizational, common and private capital. What do we do with infestations?
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 16:16:53 UTC
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again, if the people had not been weak and corrupt (and still corrupt) they woul
again, if the people had not been weak and corrupt (and still corrupt) they would have not had colonialism. The recent elections illustrate a shift backward and that india will not correct her problems and will remain a third world country, joining africa and the middle east.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 13:25:47 UTC
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@curtdoolittle Would actually,but until recently india had more than 200 million people living below absolute poverty(1 dollar a day) dur to colonial and subsequent socialist policies,give it time.
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Out of 1b people you should statistically produce more outliers, with more incen
Out of 1b people you should statistically produce more outliers, with more incentive to succeed. The question is WHY CANT YOU DO THIS AT HOME? Why do you always fail? The answer is that westerners produced the only quality middle class in the world. Why can’t you?
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 13:17:52 UTC
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@curtdoolittle Indians(mostly tamils,ie,dravidians) in Singapore have a per capita greater than whites in western Europe and definitely much higher than eastern europe,jains are out competing Orthodox jews(average iq 110),your half baked race theories are weak and dangerous(1/2)
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French turned feminine at the revolution and increasingly so since napoleon – th
French turned feminine at the revolution and increasingly so since napoleon – their revolutionary process suppressed all masculinity and emphasized court femininity. Once the napoleonic power collapsed, they internalized defensively. They are still the most effeminate europeans.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 12:58:48 UTC
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@curtdoolittle Also france fell to Nazis,do you give a cultural or a racial reason,since they are both white(phenotypes are clues to genotypes but not te same),but assuming they are one race was national socialism better than liberal capitalism?
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THE SCALES OF THE SACRED. by Bill Joslin —“Our people are the most sacred thin
THE SCALES OF THE SACRED.
by Bill Joslin
—“Our people are the most sacred thing we have left”—Adrienne Barbeau-Bot
CONSTRUCTION
The Immediate, The Temporal. : familial, family and kin. Kin is sacred.
The intermediate: The Intertemporal. Tribal. Those families which share norms, traditions and culture. Culture, traditions and norms are sacred.
Intergenerational: national.
The accumulated social and common capital generated by kin and tribe. The commons en toto . The property we create together over generations via shared norms, traditions and culture intended for our future kin. The commons are sacred.
Ancestor worship, hero (tribal archetypes) worship preserves the sacred across scale and time horizons.
DESTRUCTION
The dissolution of “tribe” resulting from universalism of enlightenment values (values reified out from within their natural limits), segregated commons from tribal and kin ownership, resulting in rampant consumption of commons. This paving the way for globalism where economics are sacred at the cost of kin, tribe, commons.
Monotheism destroyed the operationally sacred in the name of universalism and the ideally sacred. This solidified the opportunity for parasitism of the commons, kin and tribe.
RECONSTRUCTION
Our people truly, operationally, and biologically are the most sacred upon which all other value depends.
(CD: I can edit this for a little more analytic clarity but basically bill has done a great job of it, and I’m gonna run with the ‘my people are sacred’ as a religion message.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 12:57:00 UTC
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You blame others for the fact that you cannot defend yourselves, when this is th
You blame others for the fact that you cannot defend yourselves, when this is the central problem of indian history: failure to defend herself – over and over and over again.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 12:25:49 UTC
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@curtdoolittle Will Durant calling british rule of india “a rape of a continent”,rome had deficits with india,or the opium wars of china cause “the enlightenment” Westerners addicted the Chinese to opium cause couldn’t compete and wanted tea.(2/n)
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