Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • We Forge the Individual Using the Furnace of The Group.

    Apr 10, 2020, 8:29 AM

    —“Maybe we need to get rid of priestesses and instill Roman patriarchy throughout society. Oh wait, pagans always moan that was a bad thing.”—Rik Storey

    I don’t know what that means but if you mean every man a student and teacher, son and father, laborer and craftsman, soldier and warrior, sheriff and judge, legislator and sovereign, then (a) that’s pagan, and (b) that’s a good thing. 😉 The difference is the means by which we organize into those roles: Familial, Religious, Educational, Legal, or Military. We forge the individual using the furnace of the group.

  • We Forge the Individual Using the Furnace of The Group.

    Apr 10, 2020, 8:29 AM

    —“Maybe we need to get rid of priestesses and instill Roman patriarchy throughout society. Oh wait, pagans always moan that was a bad thing.”—Rik Storey

    I don’t know what that means but if you mean every man a student and teacher, son and father, laborer and craftsman, soldier and warrior, sheriff and judge, legislator and sovereign, then (a) that’s pagan, and (b) that’s a good thing. 😉 The difference is the means by which we organize into those roles: Familial, Religious, Educational, Legal, or Military. We forge the individual using the furnace of the group.

  • The Undermining of The Masculine by Magical Thinking

    Apr 13, 2020, 9:11 AM (important summary) The military was shut out of politics. Then men’s organizations shut off and out of civil society. Then the family undermined to shut men out of the family. Then manliness shut out of education. Then men and manliness shut out of discourse. And only once that was accomplished could the enemy fully remove european sense making: realism, naturalism, operationalism and our heroism and duty, Excellence and Beauty, Truth and reciprocity, Law and Jury, and markets and eugenics – How, persistent, relentless undermining – the warfare strategy of the human female. It was all by design. The design to restore the pre-civilizational strategy of the female and the herd. A design driven by instinct not rason. However, there are no female civilizations for reason – they cannot survive. Yet they try over and over again to fail. Why? “Predisposition to magical thinking.” The predisposition to magical thinking is as relentless as the predisposition to undermine. Neither Eve nor Pandora received the punishment they deserved. … Until now.

  • The Undermining of The Masculine by Magical Thinking

    Apr 13, 2020, 9:11 AM (important summary) The military was shut out of politics. Then men’s organizations shut off and out of civil society. Then the family undermined to shut men out of the family. Then manliness shut out of education. Then men and manliness shut out of discourse. And only once that was accomplished could the enemy fully remove european sense making: realism, naturalism, operationalism and our heroism and duty, Excellence and Beauty, Truth and reciprocity, Law and Jury, and markets and eugenics – How, persistent, relentless undermining – the warfare strategy of the human female. It was all by design. The design to restore the pre-civilizational strategy of the female and the herd. A design driven by instinct not rason. However, there are no female civilizations for reason – they cannot survive. Yet they try over and over again to fail. Why? “Predisposition to magical thinking.” The predisposition to magical thinking is as relentless as the predisposition to undermine. Neither Eve nor Pandora received the punishment they deserved. … Until now.

  • ‘Chaos Is a Ladder; but One No One Can Climb It for You

    Apr 13, 2020, 11:57 AM

    “Men: you’re failing to make the proper calculation. When trust is low a return to brotherhood is the only method of repair. It’s not that you’re not capable; You’re misinformed, unprepared, overwhelmed, misdirected, and undermined (and all that by design both systematic and biological)”— anon

    Men ought be positioned to calculate against possible retaliatory violence only, that is, “Will this get me or me and my family(loved ones) killed?” Why? Because that is EXACTLY what they are wired up for; this and this alone allows them to calculate for MAXIMAL risk; risk against the world is where we make ALL the value-added gains. The system has trained you to be risk averse. It has filled its ranks with feminine teachers, trainers, and influence and constructed environments that undermines agency in return for gifting parasites increased autonomy that further undermine group agency. It’s a feedback loop that leaves no one fed in the long run. This is NOT conspiratorial in nature. It’s deterministic. The conspiracy of elephants [read @[100041644869842:2048:Curt Doolittle] or @[15616116:2048:Robin Hanson] or @[412370063083:274:Robert Sapolsky] or @[108097232599996:274:Daniel Dennett]] Look, when you reward animal man, a reversion to animal form is what is gifted in return, and the more animal you are the shorter your time frames and the shorter your time frames the quicker the devolution. Why? Because short time preference favors rewards of primal circuitry. A reversion to the animal isn’t higher culture; yet you’ve been convinced that this is so. Your selfish hedonism is doing you in; as I’ve warned for years it would. You’re passing up the most serious of opportunity costs (the opportunity to pass intergenerational wealth down your genetic lines) because the systems that have trained you have blinded you to the future. As the future is a VERY long-time frame. However, it won’t be for you and your family if you don’t wisen up right quick. You ought not want to see this end for so many so swiftly. Your environment is largely delusion; one that blocks your vision and perception. It’s a trick, an illusion, a sleight-of-hand, a perceptual mirage that has you convinced the price for action is high. The price of action is LOW. It’s never ever in the history of ever been lower. It’s low for a single human; imagine how low it is if we actually act in unison. Right now, we’re being over-run by a bug, a virus, a being not sentient in nature and we’re losing. We’re losing it all: we’re losing our sanity, our liquidity, our safety, our agency, and worst of all our future stability. You do understand that the landscape favors those who can act and you’re being told to sit at home, yes? You do know that through non-action nothing is gained, right? A calculation so simple a child understands… but why do you demonstrate otherwise? Oh, that’s right you’re so worried your overloads at the media are riling you up that you’ve been lulled to sleep. They say “panic” and you don’t even prepare! What ought we expect from those that look for every reason not to do a goddamned thing? We don’t trust those who are necessary to trust in order to act as one to beat back threats that may do us all in. High-trust stems from military reporting; as those who were truthful on the battlefield are those who lived to breed, period. No delusions exist in the realm of violence. The delusion is that the realm of violence isn’t ever present and threatening equilibration every single moment. A brotherhood; men that can take each other at their word and understand who and who not to take command from. You do understand the only authority is gifted, yes? That those who command can ONLY do so because there are those that faithfully follow orders. How did this chain become hidden? Where did we lose trust in collective action? Get it back! Find it again! If it’s not in your area look further out; we’re all connected. Report in! Send a message telling those you trust you’re prepared for action (and don’t fucking lie if you’re not!). Those that look to mislead you have lead you exactly to where you’re at right now. All those authority figures you’ve trusted your entire life have lead you to this very moment. Global panic. Why trust a set of leaders that’d lead you into this mess. One that’s been foreseen by those you ought to have been listening to for decades! You are capable. You have the power to deny power. Remember “no, means no.”? Did you think that applied only in the realm of consent? Of course, you thought that, it’s the only realm many of you care to act in or think about. I know because I read the dating application data. You present humans are frivolous things; but as humans you can just choose to change. I can assure you that if you don’t choose to change you will be delivered a fate not of your choosing but of their design; you’ll fall to a system that cares nothing for you whilst you trusted it to protect you. I’m not sure about you, but being duped doesn’t sit well with me; it turns my fucking stomach. Wake up! That’s not an alarm those are screams and gunfire! The systems and institutions you trust (you actually don’t trust them; see the chart below) have led you here. And you still follow… You still allow them to steer you. And if you don’t, you allow those that have been steered by them for decades steer you, and that’s just as bad. And if not that, then it’s the inner animal you’re giving the green light to and it’ll get you killed as well because this isn’t nature you’re acting with-in it’s human nature and that’s proving much more deadly. If you work to re-establish the systems and institutions as they are/were, YOU are the enemy. As those systems have gotten everyone I know into a pickle; one they are scrambling to escape. But, the trap is so elaborate it’s going to take a collective effort not seen before to escape. And without that effort we’ll all fall prey. It’s happening NOW. Your global order delivered you this situation. So, upend it; it’s all upside-down (@[453071252107024:69:TSM: KNOH – The Upside(down)]) anyhow. Your previous actions have left you un-prepared; stop continuing to make the same mistakes. Those you have trusted have let you down, remove your trust by stripping them of authority. Never has an empire been so fragile. They delivered you this mess. Those that act as parasites upon human nature; those that manipulate the herd to extract from them as they flat-out steal from you (the productive and able). The top has allied with the bottom in systematic fashion; but the bottom cares not for the top in any real sense; they care about being taken care of because they CAN’T do it themselves. And AGAIN, this is all by design. I can make a promise; the men that re-order this landscape will teach those that struggle and suffer to strive; it’s what they do. They’ll care for you and train you, because it’s in their blood. To specialize and combine effort in a trusting fashion delivers riches beyond compare. Cooperation and coordination beat back low-trust selfish effort every single time. And if this ceases to be the case your landscapes aren’t pristine as such, they are hellscapes; and they are so because no matter your action you still reside in the pit of despair that is hell; a pit that only deepens. You can have order, created by a brotherhood of men, providing a landscape of sovereignty delivering maximal agency creating excellence, beauty, and heroism OR you can have chaos, created by a parasitic elite, providing a landscape of hedonistic choice delivering maximal entropy via atomization creating mediocrity, ugliness, and subservience. The choice is yours. You’ve been trained to accept the latter, but I’m imploring you to climb the ladder. h/t @[100017606988153:2048:Eric Danelaw] (for the chart)’  

  • ‘Chaos Is a Ladder; but One No One Can Climb It for You

    Apr 13, 2020, 11:57 AM

    “Men: you’re failing to make the proper calculation. When trust is low a return to brotherhood is the only method of repair. It’s not that you’re not capable; You’re misinformed, unprepared, overwhelmed, misdirected, and undermined (and all that by design both systematic and biological)”— anon

    Men ought be positioned to calculate against possible retaliatory violence only, that is, “Will this get me or me and my family(loved ones) killed?” Why? Because that is EXACTLY what they are wired up for; this and this alone allows them to calculate for MAXIMAL risk; risk against the world is where we make ALL the value-added gains. The system has trained you to be risk averse. It has filled its ranks with feminine teachers, trainers, and influence and constructed environments that undermines agency in return for gifting parasites increased autonomy that further undermine group agency. It’s a feedback loop that leaves no one fed in the long run. This is NOT conspiratorial in nature. It’s deterministic. The conspiracy of elephants [read @[100041644869842:2048:Curt Doolittle] or @[15616116:2048:Robin Hanson] or @[412370063083:274:Robert Sapolsky] or @[108097232599996:274:Daniel Dennett]] Look, when you reward animal man, a reversion to animal form is what is gifted in return, and the more animal you are the shorter your time frames and the shorter your time frames the quicker the devolution. Why? Because short time preference favors rewards of primal circuitry. A reversion to the animal isn’t higher culture; yet you’ve been convinced that this is so. Your selfish hedonism is doing you in; as I’ve warned for years it would. You’re passing up the most serious of opportunity costs (the opportunity to pass intergenerational wealth down your genetic lines) because the systems that have trained you have blinded you to the future. As the future is a VERY long-time frame. However, it won’t be for you and your family if you don’t wisen up right quick. You ought not want to see this end for so many so swiftly. Your environment is largely delusion; one that blocks your vision and perception. It’s a trick, an illusion, a sleight-of-hand, a perceptual mirage that has you convinced the price for action is high. The price of action is LOW. It’s never ever in the history of ever been lower. It’s low for a single human; imagine how low it is if we actually act in unison. Right now, we’re being over-run by a bug, a virus, a being not sentient in nature and we’re losing. We’re losing it all: we’re losing our sanity, our liquidity, our safety, our agency, and worst of all our future stability. You do understand that the landscape favors those who can act and you’re being told to sit at home, yes? You do know that through non-action nothing is gained, right? A calculation so simple a child understands… but why do you demonstrate otherwise? Oh, that’s right you’re so worried your overloads at the media are riling you up that you’ve been lulled to sleep. They say “panic” and you don’t even prepare! What ought we expect from those that look for every reason not to do a goddamned thing? We don’t trust those who are necessary to trust in order to act as one to beat back threats that may do us all in. High-trust stems from military reporting; as those who were truthful on the battlefield are those who lived to breed, period. No delusions exist in the realm of violence. The delusion is that the realm of violence isn’t ever present and threatening equilibration every single moment. A brotherhood; men that can take each other at their word and understand who and who not to take command from. You do understand the only authority is gifted, yes? That those who command can ONLY do so because there are those that faithfully follow orders. How did this chain become hidden? Where did we lose trust in collective action? Get it back! Find it again! If it’s not in your area look further out; we’re all connected. Report in! Send a message telling those you trust you’re prepared for action (and don’t fucking lie if you’re not!). Those that look to mislead you have lead you exactly to where you’re at right now. All those authority figures you’ve trusted your entire life have lead you to this very moment. Global panic. Why trust a set of leaders that’d lead you into this mess. One that’s been foreseen by those you ought to have been listening to for decades! You are capable. You have the power to deny power. Remember “no, means no.”? Did you think that applied only in the realm of consent? Of course, you thought that, it’s the only realm many of you care to act in or think about. I know because I read the dating application data. You present humans are frivolous things; but as humans you can just choose to change. I can assure you that if you don’t choose to change you will be delivered a fate not of your choosing but of their design; you’ll fall to a system that cares nothing for you whilst you trusted it to protect you. I’m not sure about you, but being duped doesn’t sit well with me; it turns my fucking stomach. Wake up! That’s not an alarm those are screams and gunfire! The systems and institutions you trust (you actually don’t trust them; see the chart below) have led you here. And you still follow… You still allow them to steer you. And if you don’t, you allow those that have been steered by them for decades steer you, and that’s just as bad. And if not that, then it’s the inner animal you’re giving the green light to and it’ll get you killed as well because this isn’t nature you’re acting with-in it’s human nature and that’s proving much more deadly. If you work to re-establish the systems and institutions as they are/were, YOU are the enemy. As those systems have gotten everyone I know into a pickle; one they are scrambling to escape. But, the trap is so elaborate it’s going to take a collective effort not seen before to escape. And without that effort we’ll all fall prey. It’s happening NOW. Your global order delivered you this situation. So, upend it; it’s all upside-down (@[453071252107024:69:TSM: KNOH – The Upside(down)]) anyhow. Your previous actions have left you un-prepared; stop continuing to make the same mistakes. Those you have trusted have let you down, remove your trust by stripping them of authority. Never has an empire been so fragile. They delivered you this mess. Those that act as parasites upon human nature; those that manipulate the herd to extract from them as they flat-out steal from you (the productive and able). The top has allied with the bottom in systematic fashion; but the bottom cares not for the top in any real sense; they care about being taken care of because they CAN’T do it themselves. And AGAIN, this is all by design. I can make a promise; the men that re-order this landscape will teach those that struggle and suffer to strive; it’s what they do. They’ll care for you and train you, because it’s in their blood. To specialize and combine effort in a trusting fashion delivers riches beyond compare. Cooperation and coordination beat back low-trust selfish effort every single time. And if this ceases to be the case your landscapes aren’t pristine as such, they are hellscapes; and they are so because no matter your action you still reside in the pit of despair that is hell; a pit that only deepens. You can have order, created by a brotherhood of men, providing a landscape of sovereignty delivering maximal agency creating excellence, beauty, and heroism OR you can have chaos, created by a parasitic elite, providing a landscape of hedonistic choice delivering maximal entropy via atomization creating mediocrity, ugliness, and subservience. The choice is yours. You’ve been trained to accept the latter, but I’m imploring you to climb the ladder. h/t @[100017606988153:2048:Eric Danelaw] (for the chart)’  

  • Hierarchy of Group Strategy

    Apr 14, 2020, 9:13 AM MORAL FOUNDATIONS (INSTINCTS) SOCIALIST – EQUALITARIAN – FEMALE (HERD) (Consumption – Short Term – Anti-Property) Offer: Care, Affection, Sex. Weapon: Undermining, Disloyalty. 1) Care/Harm: Redistributive Property (Welfare, Charity, Land reform) And; 2) Fairness/Cheating: Proportionality. Cooperative Property (Sharing, Antitrust laws, Sport rules) LIBERTARIAN – EGALITARIAN – ASCENDENT MALE (SOLITARY HUNTER) (Production – Medium Term – Property – Exchange) Offer: Exchange. Weapon: Boycott (deprivation) 3) Liberty/Oppression: Personal Property (freedom, liberty, self determination, opportunity seeking) And; 4) Truth/Face: reciprocity information Property (truth before face:M vs face before truth:F) ARISTOCRACY – HIERARCHY – DOMINANT MALE (PACK) (Capitalization – Long Term – Common Property) 5) Sanctity/Degradation: Disgust: Normative Property (Norms, Manners, Ethics) And; 6) Loyalty/Betrayal: Interpersonal Property (Kinship, Ethnicity, Nationhood) And; 7) Authority/Subversion: Institutional Property (Religion, Hierarchy, Law)

    MORAL FOUNDATIONS

    STEP ONE REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY

    STEP TWO –  CLASS STRATEGY

    STEP THREE – POLITICAL STRATEGY

    STEP 5 – FOUR STRATEGY

    STEP FIVE – TERRITORY AND STRATEGY

    —“I see these attributes as linked to their geography and tied living situations.”—Daniel Parker

    Correct. See the first row. I usually add this: Athens > London – Naval Sparta > Prussia – Land Rome > America – Empire -and- France > Byzantium – fracture point Levant > Ashkenazi – underminer Arabia > Islam – invader The battle between the feminine magical thinking and the masculine empirical thinking.

  • Q: DEFINE POWER DISTANCE

    Apr 15, 2020, 4:24 PM Power distance – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org (definitions)

    —“Would someone please robustly define power distance?”— Micky Callahan

    Power distance refers to the relationship between those in power and the subordinates in a society where lower ranking individuals depending on the high or low power distance culture react to that authority. Simple checklist (Doolittle): 1 – How many layers are between you and political decision makers. 2 – How many people are competing for their attention? 3 – How contradictory are the competitors demands to yours? 4 – How how likely are political decision makers to reflect anyone’s interest other than their own? Links via Paul Bard 1. Power Distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance

    1. Power distance Index
      http://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/power-distance-index

    2. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede’s_cultural_dimensions_theory?

  • Q: DEFINE POWER DISTANCE

    Apr 15, 2020, 4:24 PM Power distance – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org (definitions)

    —“Would someone please robustly define power distance?”— Micky Callahan

    Power distance refers to the relationship between those in power and the subordinates in a society where lower ranking individuals depending on the high or low power distance culture react to that authority. Simple checklist (Doolittle): 1 – How many layers are between you and political decision makers. 2 – How many people are competing for their attention? 3 – How contradictory are the competitors demands to yours? 4 – How how likely are political decision makers to reflect anyone’s interest other than their own? Links via Paul Bard 1. Power Distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance

    1. Power distance Index
      http://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/power-distance-index

    2. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede’s_cultural_dimensions_theory?

  • The Future of Marriage Will Return to Historical Norm – and That’s Not Monogamy

    Apr 15, 2020, 4:45 PM During most of agrarian age history, when man and woman married they could divide labor of creating common property (household) so that man could have a tribe and woman a nest, and both freedom from parental control over the allocation of resources. Getting married meant freedom and sovereignty. A lot. This was true until the postwar boom. In the present age, unless a woman wants to raise replacement levels of children, children are now an amusement, and men are an unnecessary and more easily sacrificed cost. Without the need for children’s support in old age there is no incentive to have them sufficient to preserve the incentive to invest in marriage and replacement level children. Social Security was suicidal. The pill added a noose. No fault divorce created the hanging tree. We already know, of course, that women wield the ultimate veto power in the mating game. It is women who give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to any advances or proposals from men. Briffault clarifies by asserting that intimate relationships between men and women result from a calculated cost/benefit analysis by women. Will she or won’t she acquire a net gain from any relationship with the man? This does not necessarily mean monetary gain, although it might. Other types of gain might be social status, sexual compatibility, anticipated future happiness, emotional security, and the male’s capacity for fatherhood. Men are costly for a woman in attention, emotion, time, effort and reproductive opportunity – and her children take priority over him. Their value at present is largely income and status and that is decreasingly immaterial. Women are costly for men in his specialization, lower adaptivity to new groups, his cellular damage, his shorter life span, his shorter working life, and his shorter savings horizon, and his reproductive opportunity. But a woman’s care is extremely valuable to a man. He trades all these things for the care of a woman. Unless both parties stay socialized and fit, sex dissipates quickly. It isn’t clear that agrarian marriage can continue as a majority habit and it’s more likely we will continue to return to human norms of serial monogamy, treating relationships like careers, except for the upper classes that as always gain so much value from shared assets status shared oppporutnity that the economics still make sense. === (Some content in this post is from John Brennan)