That’s one I haven’t used before. Nice.
“Leftists call it a “genocide” when Europeans unwittingly introduced smallpox to Natives – but not a “genocide” when Natives gave syphilis to Europeans – or when Asians gave the black death to Europeans.” https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1214261383036067841
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-07 15:02:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1214562885801672715
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1214261383036067841
—“Being ‘Woke’ is really just sleepwalking through a matrix of imaginary wish fulfillment”— Stefan Molyneux.
Perfect. You know, I can say that in operational prose, but it lacks the poetry and charm. “Imaginary wish fulfillment”. Ouch. https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1214390263633924096
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-07 14:59:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1214562241288097793
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1214390263633924096
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Source date (UTC): 2020-01-07 13:59:00 UTC
SIGH
—“you should read….(law)…”
Terry O’Brien:
1) Yes of course i’ve read those works (see my reading list and our library). Although I tend to prefer Milsom’s treatment of the law.
2) You’re confusing errors with definitions. that’s ok.
P logic and law depend on disambiguation by enumeration, operationalization, and serialization, to prevent errors of inference and categorization and this results in everting from clarification to redefinition to neologism.
We use this technique to create a value neutral universally commensurable language and logic of testimony
3) Tort means ‘trespass’ and is a violation of demonstrated interest – or what we codify as property. While all peoples vary in the degree of suppression of trespass given their division of labor, level of development, family structure, terms of inheritance, investment in commons, and level of corruption (trust), all people resolve disputes by demonstrated interests at least within the limits of defection.
4) What is the basis of decidability in Common Law (the abusive term used today that means ‘whatever we can get away with’), Common law (as etymologically evolved) in judge discovered findings of law, Traditional germanic law and its practice, ancient european traditional law, the commonalities of greek and roman law, and what we can linguistically and archeologically determine from proto-germanic west indo european law? (Sovereignty and Reciprocity, testimony and jury.)
5) Where did (western) evidentiary reason, evidentiary empiricism, and evidentiary science evolve, at what points, by what authors, in what professions?
So, if we look at vernacular, temporal, periods, ages, or across all of european history since the indo-european expansion, and compare those internal consistencies with other civilizations we winnow down the number of constant relations. This degree of resolution in traditions of decidability, just as the degree of resolution in subatomic, atomic, chemical, biochemical, cellular, expose local and continuous general rules.
Ergo the common law tradition predates greece and rome. And it is rome and napoleonic france that did it damage, just like it was christian rome, revolutionary france, and postmodern France(with help from the jewish counter-englightenment of marx, boas, freud, cantor, adorno) that undermined that law – causing the continent and the anglosphere to diverge with the anglosphere retaining the via negativa tradition, and the french-continental reverting to via-positiva and causing the failure (impossibility) of the european project.
The origin of our civilization like all civilizations especially after the Axial Age (restoration after the bronze age collapse), is captured in our group strategy and our law that must survive within it. That law and the ‘metaphysics’ (paradigms of decidability) are the origin of the commonality across time.
Why did the greeks go through the great change of socrates, plato, Aristotle, and alexander? Why did the greeks romans and the British use a different strategy from the Mesopotamians and the Chinese and the Hindus? Why did greeks work with geometry reason and divination, and why did Mesopotamians work with algebra theology and astrology?
Whatever group strategy we had, whatever social order that was required of it, and whatever traditions, customs, law and mythos that we had around 900bc at the latests, was continuously reinforced by competition with others. And there are 500 dead gods in the record for those that failed.
Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Thang, Evidence, Testimony, chieftain > Law, Jury, Senate king > Law, jury, house, senate, emperor
Because markets are the only means of cooperation and dispute resolution under sovereignty.
And because only contract is possible for people who required a voluntary entrepreneurial military, using metallurgy, wheel, horse, maneuver, to defeat superior numbers.
There is a reason for military epistemology, metallurgical epistemology, and our legal epistemology.
Our origins.
“What can I testify to under realism, naturalism, and operationalism that is internally consistent, externally correspondent, operationally possible, and narratively coherent?”
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-07 11:07:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkG4-QVXVPwGET INFORMED
PROFESSIONAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AccjEv2eVe0
REASONABLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkG4-QVXVPw
LIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KESLN_3LU_4
LIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJ4gYWw-4g
ON BASES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qt0hdCQtg
ON EMBASSIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUsqnD9-42gUpdated Jan 7, 2020, 12:08 AM
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-07 00:08:00 UTC
Just reiterating that Australia’s fires were set.
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-06 22:29:00 UTC
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200k ybp modern humans evolve
200k ybp homo hidelbergensis extinction
143k ybp homo erectus extinct
*..75k ybp toba volcano event (extinction)
*..7Xk ybp the earth nearly exterminated us.(^volcanos)
..60k ybp large numbers of homo sapiens leave africa
..40k ybp invented of language (could be 100k)
..40k ybp neanderthal extinction
..27k ybp pottery invente
..25k ybp glaciation ends, speciation begins.
*..20k ybp persian gulf floods
*.20k ybp dark age (stone age dark age???)
..17k ybp homo floresiensis extinct (indonesia)
*16k ybp the Azov, Caspian, Black Sea Flood
*..15k ybp denisovian extinction (indonesia?)
*..15k ybp missoula floods (nw americas)
*..14.5k ybp lake bonneville flood (nw americas)
*..13k byp Lake Agassiz Drainage (flood, younger dryas)
..12k ybp the new stone age begins – neolithic 1 (could be 14k)
..10k ybp the neolithic 2 begins (gobekli tepe)
*…8k ybp steraga slide, north sea tzunami
*.07.6k ybp the black sea floods
*..07k ybp north sea floods (doggerland lost)
..07k ypb the copper age begins
..06k ybp the bronze age begins
….5,000 ybp indo european expansion
….5,300 ybp the first civilization in mesopotamia
….3,500 ybp wootz steel in india
*…3,200 ybp dark age (sea people bronze age collapse 400yrs)
….2,900 ybp age of transformation: religion begins
….2,800 ybp Start of Greece and Rome (900-800 bc)
….2,400 ybp hellenic age: aristotle and alexander
*…2,100 ypb outburst flood in china’s yellow river 2yrs long
*…1,900 ybp dark age (semitic iron age collapse)
…..1520 ybp fall of roman empire
…. 1500 ybp start of the merovingian empire
…..1400 ybp fall of greek civilization
…..1220 ybp start holy roman empire (carolingian) – 1866
…..1200 ybp Viking period 800-1050
….. 900 ybp Norman Invasion Early Middle Ages End 1066
……900 ybp Start Hansa 1100-1450
….. 700 ybp High Middle Ages End
……700 ybp renaissance ( 1k yrs dark age ends )
….. 590 ybp Age of Discovery Begins 1410
……500 ybp china’s Qingyang impact event (10k dead)
….. 400 ybp Late Middle Ages End 1600
……200 ybp babbage’s first computer
……190 ybp faraday’s dynamo (generator)
……170 ybp darwin
*…..100 ybp new dark age (bolshevik revolution)
……..80 ybp fall of european empire (beginning of ww2)
I think we start the two semitic dark ages at christianity or islam, and marx or the bolshevik revolution.
—
Political scientist Samuel Huntington has argued that the defining characteristic of the 21st century will be a clash of civilizations. According to Huntington, conflicts between civilizations will supplant the conflicts between nation-states and ideologies that characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. These views have been strongly challenged by others like Edward Said, Muhammed Asadi and Amartya Sen. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris have argued that the “true clash of civilizations” between the Muslim world and the West is caused by the Muslim rejection of the West’s more liberal sexual values, rather than a difference in political ideology, although they note that this lack of tolerance is likely to lead to an eventual rejection of democracy. In Identity and Violence Sen questions if people should be divided along the lines of a supposed “civilization”, defined by religion and culture only. He argues that this ignores the many others identities that make up people and leads to a focus on differences.
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-06 19:41:00 UTC
https://youtu.be/7EnrXkWpKtkHOW IT IS DONE
Sharing this for the M o r o n s (for some reason, largely christians) that said I was delusional.
You know, some of us read what think tanks write, not what nitwits say on youtube, twitter, and discussion forums.
Understand. The government cannot protect the electrical grid. It’s not possible. Or the roads. Or rail. Or telecom lines. Or gas pipelines. Concentrated areas like ports and airports yes. Distributed technology, no.
If power is lost it will take a year to get it back.
That’s how war is conducted today.
Not by street protests.Updated Jan 6, 2020, 8:57 AM
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-06 08:57:00 UTC
OVERPLAYING THEIR HAND
by Alexander Brown
(OMG Alexander Brown is back!! )
Two things are clear to me over Qassem. Major General Qassem Soleimani served his master Khomenie, was loyal, did some very disgusting things while at it, and overplayed his hand with regards to the Trump administration. For all that violations against foreign powers ( mainly the United States and regional allies Israel + Saudi Arabia ), Qassem deserved to die and was duly marked for death. The when, why, and how that execution, was simply a matter of time. So that, his miscalculation over US territory in Iraq while spearheading Iranian foreign policy in same country, spelt his doom as would be expected by watchers of these events. He was foolish to not realise that he could have been FOUND, FIXED and FINISHED so accurately, there need to be no soldier on the ground to do it directly. Question is, in reciprocity, could Iran do same to ANY US/Israeli/Saudi general? Why not?
Capability issues? Operational challenges? Dreading the cyclical retaliation?
Two. The Iranian regime as it is today, is not necessarily serving the interest of Iran; the Iranian people; the region; and is not acting as a respectful member of the existing international structure, systems, and or order. It may be argued that the existing world architecture is in itself distasteful, and require reform +/- an overthrow amd replacement. But if this provides the standard to which all including the US are being held to, WHY must Iran continue to be the rogue under such an establisment and not be expected to be retaliated against or held responsible for its actions that violate existing norms, rules, laws?
Attacking the US Mission in Iraq was stupid, regardless of whether it was done indirectly by proxies or not. It was to be retaliated against in proportion or more for the DETERRENCE value and to eliminate the significant chest piece ( Qassem ) who was also such a powerful regional security figure. Such a personage should not be anti American interest. And IF or as he were, he deserved what came to him in the scheme of things. Post his death, the response from Tehran is even revealing.
Supreme leader Ayatollah A. Khamenie is at his abusive best, ‘singling’ out Trump for invectives while threatening US interests and assets in the Strait of Hormuz. And, he would not hesitate to violate the already defective and paralyzed JCPOA that favoured Iran to the exclusion of its regional rivals, and global security interests. In another miscalculation, he announced a withdrawal from the agreement. What does that say about the Iranian leadership?
It may not be suicidal, but it isnt that very smart.
Khamenie could be fixed any day by US drones. And so could his replacement for Qassem, the brigadier general Ghaani. Any wise actor then would recognise this reality and approach this whole situation or challenge, rather differently. But to pacify the Iranian street, Khamenie went even more lunatic. While at it, he claimed “death to America” is for the US leadership, and NOT Americans. And insists that Qassem would be avenged. Is this actor, a fellow we should cry for?
Gaddafi was delusional as well. When he had lucid moments, he made the fatal error of trusting rats like Tony Blair, Sarkozy and Obama and paid dearly for it with his goddamed life after some hard sodomy without lubrication. Saddam was foolish too. He played to the Iraqi street to his ignominious hanging. Can Khamenie NOT learn from those and from Qassem?
If he would not, why cry for him and keep scrutiny of the unhinged US killing machine?
Thing is that, Israel rules via Trump in that region. Israel want this regime in Iran gone for a leadership favorable to interests in Jerusalem / Tel Aviv. This ayatollah and Qassem should have known this and act better, than to keep pushing the shia crescent agenda to Israeli doorsteps while violating US sovereignty and in such an ineffective way, that they risk leadership DECAPITATION and military humiliation!
Any way. The 42% or so Persians may be waiting to to help form a new Government in Tehran, post the Azerbaijani Khamenie. Khamenie’s legacy is aboit being obliterated because he miscalculated multiply, just as Qassem just did to his untimely death!
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-05 17:40:00 UTC
THE CULT OF COMPETENCE
by Luke Weinhagen
—“… the freedom we have enjoyed in America is not the fruit of fortuitous accident, of great natural resources, or of mere isolation from the tangled skein of European politics. It is the direct result of purposeful thinking and hard work. It is the child of the cult of competency—intellectual competency, physical competency, moral competency…”—
Source ( http://ergo-sum.net/literature/CultOfCompetency.pdf)
The address the above excerpt is pulled from has become something of an inspiration for me in defining and pursuit of a cult of competence.
The problems we are working to provide solutions for now have been plaguing man for at least as long as we’ve been writing it story down.
The cult of competence has always been there in some form wherever dangerous free individuals pursue fruitful and virtuous interaction with other dangerous free individuals.
Source date (UTC): 2020-01-05 14:40:00 UTC