|STRATEGY| Herd > Pack > Solitary Hunter > Scavenger > Prey-Thief > Parasite > Disease.
Now, using those less ‘relativistic’ terms, map the STRATEGY to the political order, even if it means picking a combination of them.
Doing so demystifies (deflates, disambiguates) the group strategies that we call ‘political orders’.
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-02 09:33:00 UTC
THERE ARE ONLY THREE MEANS OF COERCION
All groups govern one another and compete with others, using a combination of those three means of coercion. And with those means of coercion they put them to good or ill use. For example, force can be used for predation or law, remuneration for bribery or trade, speech et all for moral or immoral purposes.
Source date (UTC): 2018-12-02 09:32:00 UTC
Those polities are superior because they are less dependent upon falsehoods to govern. So the direction of the Stoic Restoration has more than trivial importance to me, and to them.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 19:54:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231753406517253
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My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because they already practice the habits under indirect guise. Their interest and mine is political, economic, and evolutionary. The cognitive discipline (habits) Stoicism provides, produces superior polities.
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@curtdoolittle
My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because they already practice the habits under indirect guise. Their interest and mine is political, economic, and evolutionary. The cognitive discipline (habits) Stoicism provides, produces superior polities.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960
My followers are unlikely to need training in stoicism in large part because they already practice the habits under indirect guise. Their interest and mine is political, economic, and evolutionary. The cognitive discipline (habits) Stoicism provides, produces superior polities.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 19:54:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068231752487976960
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One of my followers has complained about what she perceived as a ‘turn to the left’ by the Daily Stoic. She asked if I would investigate, since I am advocating the restoration of stoicism as required education – a restoration of our ancient personal religion so to speak.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1068231751590391810
IN REPLY TO:
@curtdoolittle
One of my followers has complained about what she perceived as a ‘turn to the left’ by the Daily Stoic. She asked if I would investigate, since I am advocating the restoration of stoicism as required education – a restoration of our ancient personal religion so to speak.
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by Bill Joslin
“The commons” was initially used (or at least at the time of corporatism in Germany) to mean the people. We are a product of the commons and a part of the commons – the primary part – the core.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 18:18:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068207587324243968
—“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—Georg Ios
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 18:10:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1068205514742530048
THE CHOICES OF SOCIAL ORDER GOVERNANCE
…………..Force —– Religion —— Trade (anglo)
Control Violence and the Law (Law)
Force……..X………………………………………..
Force……..X……………….X…………………….
Force……..X…………………………………..X…
Force……..X……………….X………………..X…
Control Education, Inclusion, Exclusion (Norms)
Religion………………………X…………………….
Religion…..X………………..X…………………….
Religion………………………X……………….X….
Religion…..X………………..X……………….X….
Control Money and Credit ( Consumption )
Trade……..X………………………………………..
Trade……..X………………..X…………………….
Trade……..X…………………………………..X….
Trade……..X………………..X……………….X….
We evolved Force (aristocracy) > Administrative | Administrative (Religion) > Trade (commercial) because it was necessary.
We should note that the middle east did NOT follow the same route, and developed Religion > Force(kings) > Priest-Kings > Centralized government and production > Then Trade. Never rule of law.
This is why the fertile crescent was both a benefit and a curse. Just as resource curses are always a double edged sword.
Means of Decision on the Organization of Production and Choice of Commons:
………………Monarchy .. Oligarchy .. Rule of Law . Democracy
Auth……..: ……X
Rentiers…: ……………………..X
Markets…:………………………………………..X
Socialism.:…………………………………………………………….X
See?
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 17:43:00 UTC
HOW DID THEY DO IT AND WHY CAN’T WE?
Having divorced themselves from the burden of carrying territory, the classes necessary to defend it, police it, govern it, and the classes necessary to engage in production to pay for it, they were free to specialize in predation upon the host – primarily through various forms of usury, rent seeking, and conspiracy with the state against the people, and just as we redistributed lower class reproduction to the upper classes, they invested ALL of their reproduction in the parasitic classes.
That’s the net of it right there.
We can’t do that because we need to hold territory, fight for it, and pay for fighting for it, while continuously improving our condition. Ergo we produce commons and they parasitically consume and destroy commons.
I mean. That’s the economics of it right there.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 17:14:00 UTC
—“Chinese government is national socialism: fascism disguised as ‘communism’”—Georg Ios
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 13:10:00 UTC
ATTACKING THE 20th CENTURY: NATIONAL SOCIALISM WON.
In other words China implemented National Socialism. Reeducation camps and all.
—“Is it the word National as in Nationalist or is it Socialism as in Socialist ? I’m trying to understand if this is an attack on President Trump for saying he is a nationalist or an attack on the Socialist democrats ?”—@jonn_schulz
It’s an attack on our understanding of the 20th century. China has implemented the National Socialist (NSDAP/NAZI) social, economic, and political model: one man rule, nationalism, state capitalism, spending, remilitarization, censorship, digital conformity, reeducation camps.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 12:19:00 UTC