(FB 1548706830 Timestamp) By Eli Harman I was just reminded of an old argument of Bryan Caplan’s. One argument he makes for open borders involves a hypothetical. Say one of us went to Haiti, on an aid mission or something. When they were done and ready to come back, we tell them “no, you can’t come back. You have to stay in Haiti.” That would be a dick thing to do to one of our own, argues Bryan Kaplan, and therefore it’s a dick thing to do to Haitians too. The difference, of course. Is that in the one case, we are inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on one of our own, by denying their request to return. While in the other case, we are PREVENTING Haitians (who are not our ingroup) from inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on ALL of our own, by denying their request to enter. So they are not in any way, shape, or form, equivalent cases. This is an example of casuistry (sometimes known as “pilpul”) improperly reasoning from a specific case to a general rule, in this case a bad rule that accomplishes parasitic and destructive ends desired by Bryan Caplan for malicious reasons (Bryan Caplan is by his own admission, scared of majorities and reflexively desires to undermine and attack them. He is a majorityphobe. But Bryan Caplan’s insecurities and ethnic fragility inpose no obligations on us to cater to them.) Casuistry (“Pilpul”) is the cornerstone of their arts of deception and their parasitic group evolutionary strategies.
Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548697940 Timestamp) –“WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM IN THE MONARCHY?”– The evidence is that families guard their status jealously and that fratricide and patricide are the most common origins of regicide. Secondly, a monarchy has only to defend the very longest term interest and its income from the overall performance of the polity. Monarchies have exceptional records for almost all of human history with the fragility not one of nepotism (since a monarchy has management teams selected from across the realm, many of whom are the best shareholders), but monarchies fail because agrarian production was the only means of competition and therefore territorial expansion the only means of competition. And territorial expansion only achievable by the high risk and high cost of european warfare and consequent ransom. The monarchies simply DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO when the landed and military aristocracy was replaced by the commercial aristocracy, and after the french revolution, the church aristocracy replaced by the state bureaucracy. We know what to do: Increase participation to shift, then decrease participation once shifted. Increase participation by expanding the franchise for each additional class, or decrease the franchise for each additional class once the change has been implemented. During that era guns were far more effective at forcing political change than archers. So the state could no longer use professional warriors to deny the franchise. The only solution is to retain the franchise for those who have demonstrated interests in the preservation of rule of law and the discretion of the monarchy, the republic, or the democracy in the determination of the production of commons. THere no longer a force on earth that can occupy territory against men with small arms (battle rifles) and rpg’s (close proximity man-portable artillery). It cannot be done. Ergo the transition is complete and we have restored the symmetry of power between men. WE need only choose to impose our will on those who would deprive us of rule of law, and the reciprocity that rule of law both depends upon and enforces. It is very hard to read Hoppe, Michels, and Burnham (or machiavelli for that matter) and not understand this.
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1548812685 Timestamp) CAN WE BRING FAR RIGHT INFLUENCE TO THE WEST? “It all begins with the militia” Two news items today, that are important only in so far as they show that the Far Right, once mobilized can have extraordinary influence on political systems, with a small number of willing men intolerant of the status quo. ⢠Divisions sharpen inside Ukraineâs far-right camp as it fails to unite around a single presidential candidate, with National Corps refusing to support Svoboda’s candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/divisions-between-ukraines-far-right-groups-sharpen-ahead-of-elections.html? ⢠The center of Kyiv rang to the sound of rifle and machine-gun fire on the night of Jan. 27, 2019 during a reenactment of the Battle for the Arsenal Factory organized by far-right and nationalist organizations. See our photo gallery. https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/kyiv-echoes-to-sound-of-gunfire-as-battle-of-kruty-reenacted-photos?
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548779453 Timestamp) —“I feel like some of the far right want to turn us into being like all the other nations – yes we’ll resist them and survive, but we’ll lose much of what made us great. Propertarianism is the answer.”—Solomon Volodymyr
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548706830 Timestamp) By Eli Harman I was just reminded of an old argument of Bryan Caplan’s. One argument he makes for open borders involves a hypothetical. Say one of us went to Haiti, on an aid mission or something. When they were done and ready to come back, we tell them “no, you can’t come back. You have to stay in Haiti.” That would be a dick thing to do to one of our own, argues Bryan Kaplan, and therefore it’s a dick thing to do to Haitians too. The difference, of course. Is that in the one case, we are inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on one of our own, by denying their request to return. While in the other case, we are PREVENTING Haitians (who are not our ingroup) from inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on ALL of our own, by denying their request to enter. So they are not in any way, shape, or form, equivalent cases. This is an example of casuistry (sometimes known as “pilpul”) improperly reasoning from a specific case to a general rule, in this case a bad rule that accomplishes parasitic and destructive ends desired by Bryan Caplan for malicious reasons (Bryan Caplan is by his own admission, scared of majorities and reflexively desires to undermine and attack them. He is a majorityphobe. But Bryan Caplan’s insecurities and ethnic fragility inpose no obligations on us to cater to them.) Casuistry (“Pilpul”) is the cornerstone of their arts of deception and their parasitic group evolutionary strategies.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548697940 Timestamp) –“WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM IN THE MONARCHY?”– The evidence is that families guard their status jealously and that fratricide and patricide are the most common origins of regicide. Secondly, a monarchy has only to defend the very longest term interest and its income from the overall performance of the polity. Monarchies have exceptional records for almost all of human history with the fragility not one of nepotism (since a monarchy has management teams selected from across the realm, many of whom are the best shareholders), but monarchies fail because agrarian production was the only means of competition and therefore territorial expansion the only means of competition. And territorial expansion only achievable by the high risk and high cost of european warfare and consequent ransom. The monarchies simply DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO when the landed and military aristocracy was replaced by the commercial aristocracy, and after the french revolution, the church aristocracy replaced by the state bureaucracy. We know what to do: Increase participation to shift, then decrease participation once shifted. Increase participation by expanding the franchise for each additional class, or decrease the franchise for each additional class once the change has been implemented. During that era guns were far more effective at forcing political change than archers. So the state could no longer use professional warriors to deny the franchise. The only solution is to retain the franchise for those who have demonstrated interests in the preservation of rule of law and the discretion of the monarchy, the republic, or the democracy in the determination of the production of commons. THere no longer a force on earth that can occupy territory against men with small arms (battle rifles) and rpg’s (close proximity man-portable artillery). It cannot be done. Ergo the transition is complete and we have restored the symmetry of power between men. WE need only choose to impose our will on those who would deprive us of rule of law, and the reciprocity that rule of law both depends upon and enforces. It is very hard to read Hoppe, Michels, and Burnham (or machiavelli for that matter) and not understand this.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548695061 Timestamp) BUT WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM???? —“If you have the time can anyone explain to me how you deal/curtail with nepotism in your hierarchy ? A link to read perhaps? Worthy men aren’t always from the same family e.g. the son is not always the father by far. I’m curious.”–David England What ended nepotism in european peoples? In what industries did nepotism persist until today? Why did those instances of nepotism persist and why did the other instances not persist? What could be done to end the kind of nepotism that survives? What kind of nepotism can (should) continue to survive? (why is nepotism always a bad thing, or why is it indicative of a bad thing since it is hard to make the case that nepotism is a universal bad?) The answer will be obvious once you work thru it.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548819492 Timestamp) REGARDING: NEWS: “VA WOMEN SEEK TO PERMIT ABORTION DURING BIRTH” (NAXALT WARNING: whenever we use a universal category like men or women, men and women exist in a distribution of ability. bias. experience. and knowledge, but we can still quite easily make ‘general rules of general precision regarding the cumulative behavior of those distributions’ – No More NAXALT Deceits!) (SENSITIVE TOPIC WARNING: Sorry but this is science. No more lies.) MEN Men defend the herd (women and children) by instinct. Everything men do attempts to preserve sufficient loyalty among super-predators, for the male pack to maintain the resource of the female herd in competition against other packs who compete for resources – including our female herd. WOMEN Women conduct “sh-t tests” by instinct. Or better stated, women look for opportunities to undermine. This is how they create and maintain equality: undermining. Women eliminate competitors by undermining. They control the fitness of their males in competition with other males by undermining. They control access to their reproductive facility by undermining. They control each other through undermining. And where men simply end the threat to the pack, women seek to destroy competition completely. Women undermine. They feel ‘good’ and ‘relaxed’ whenever they undermine any and everyone. Western men are the victims of permissiveness in letting women undermine. There is no end to woman’s want of nesting. There is no end to woman’s want of attention. There is no end to woman’s want of undermining. Women in Europe took out their anger on the church. Women in Anglodom took out their anger on the monarchy. Women in America took out their anger on men. They undermined the church, they undermined, the monarchy, and they undermine their men, and the undermine all that has made their lives of relative luxury possible – and they will never, ever, stop. Despite the fact that it was heroism, loyalty, sovereignty, property, marriage, and paternalism that raised us out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, suffering, disease, child mortality, early death, the perils of the seasons and the vicissitudes of nature in a universe hostile to life. We are but riders on the elephants of our evolutionary heritage embodied in our genes, and expressed in our physiology, and demonstrated in our behavior. Our though and speech is nothing more than a means of negotiating on behalf of those genes. By extraordinary effort we can develop the agency to reason – and not be controlled by the elephant, rather than intuit and feel – and be controlled by the elephant. The elephant does not tell us what is good. It tells us only how to compete in small bands of hunter gatherers. (Yes I am riffing off the obvious)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548868035 Timestamp) —“The United State can be equated to half of a continent living under occupation by a city state (dc)”—Bill Joslin
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548858483 Timestamp) BECAUSE WE ARE SCREWED ON ALL THE BIG METRICS –“But if you predicted [revolution] in 2006, what were you basing that prediction on then? Is your real name Hari Seldon?”–Richard Hall demographics is destiny. Economics, demographics, global power distribution, generational cycles in response to ‘forgotten’ generational foundation myths. We are screwed on every single one of those metrics. (BTW: assuming the population remains ignorant of the changes – as ours are – there is no reason that long term trends are not loosely predictable. There is a lot of noise between major shifts, but major shifts are predictable.)