October 13th, 2018 10:16 AM A BROTHERHOOD OF UPGRADES by Tom McSweeny [R]estore the brotherhoods (tribal), restore the militia (local), restore the think tanks (national), restore the monarchies (international). Brotherhood of upgrades – look what has been achieved in the last few years here, the quality of community and info that has been discovered, presented and discussed. We’ve put in hours to digest, debate, contribute to varying (and increasingly, hopefully) degrees. We’ve come a long way. It’s great to see in myself and others how we’ve changed over the years, in our worldviews coming more in line with reality as is (Curt), debunking practices (Bill…first came across you with the takedown of meditation) in the quality of our arguments (James slaying it), and now to see the effects go further as it spreads (watch the world turn once the book is out and the advocates increase (thanks to the back and forth training on the likes of fb) worldwide. (And i’d encourage any who don’t pitch in to do so….the learning is in the back and forth for us all). Militia – you’ve nailed this as far as I’m concerned. Decentralised, reciprocal insurance of property. A living network exchanging info and protection to self similar. Think tanks / courtiers – though now seemingly corrupted and not spending their time working out the best way for the nation and it’s people… A pretty good investment for a nation if they could be returned to that. Get the synthesizers and measurers pushing policy based on data rather than feels. Lot of big questions to face that are simply going to escalate through time (e.g. highly reproductive invasive demographics in democracies) which require answers and action. Monarchies – practical, judge of last resort, easier to make deals with fewer decision makers involved. Hierarchy. The brotherhood nourishes the militia, nourishes the think tanks, nourishes the monarchy. For best results, all in that hierarchy are invested intergenerationally with skin in the game through time. Fail in that, with undue influence at any level by those without investment, we get mess and dysgenia. The importance of getting this right cannot be ignored. At all. Not even a little bit. Love you guys.
Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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Pareto Generations in The USA
October 13th, 2018 2:41 PM CONTEXT PARETO GENERATIONS IN THE USACurt Doolittle Last two are Gates and Bezos, but they are not the most powerful. The most influential are the people in the fed, and who head the major financial institutions, and who donate most to election campaigns. Michael Churchill The influence of billionaires who donate to elections cannot be overstated. I did an analysis of this once. It is unbelievable. Soros himself really does have incredible power. Also Adelson and Simons and a few other cats. There are a couple on the right as well. Think tanks and donations to politicians … that is where the power is. That is the reason to try to make a billion.
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One Step Closer….
October 13th, 2018 5:04 PM EVERY DAY THE MAINSTREAM GETS CLOSER TO OPEN DISCOURSE ON REVOLUTION nypost.com/2018/10/12/can-our-modern-house-divided-remain-one-nation/
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Unpacking “Democracy Requires Homogeneity”
October 13th, 2018 4:18 PM UNPACKING “DEMOCRACY REQUIRES HOMOGENEITY” by Richard Nikoley
—“Markets allow us to cooperate on means despite disparate ends. Democracy, only on same ends. Democracy requires homogeneity.”— CD
Let me unpack this a bit for those unfamiliar. Markets, or trade, is inherently win-win or the trade doesnât happen and there is no market. When you buy a pound of apples for $1, itâs because you want the apples more than you want the dollar and the tradesman wants the dollar more than he wants the pound of apples. This happens billions of times a day, globally. How many trades do you do in a single day, on average? 5-10, maybe? Multiply that by 7 Billion. Thatâs upwards of 70 billion trades daily and as a win-win, thatâs a lot of happiness. We should be thankful. Moreover, markets are typically ideologically, racially, gender, culturally, etc. agnostic or neutral. Itâs the great mediator. Traders tend not to care a bit who the other person is or what they believe, and yet they serve each other. How amazing. How fortunate we are. Now, contrast that with democracy. Democracy is winner take all. Either you keep your dollar AND get his pound of apples, or he keeps his apples and gets your dollar. Itâs windfall win-lose. It only tends to work reasonably well in homogenous populations or institutions. Think Japan and Scandinavian counties (as they used to be before the Muslim influx). Relatively small populations of largely the same race, culture, national history. Or, consider a large public company where directors are elected quasi-democratically by shareholders, but everyone is more or less on the same page of making capital gains and paying dividends. Democracy does not scale to something like a European Union or a United States. Totally dumb idea, especially extending the franchise to those with no stake (no property, no financial assets, no business concern with employees, etc.).
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The influence of billionaires
October 13th, 2018 4:16 PM
—“The influence of billionaires who donate to elections cannot be overstated. I did an analysis of this once. It is unbelievable. Soros himself really does have incredible power. Also Adelson and Simons and a few others. There are a couple on the right as well. Think tanks and donations to politicians … that is where the power is. That is the reason to try to make a billion – to influence politics.”—Michael Churchill
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Pareto Generations in The USA
October 13th, 2018 2:41 PM CONTEXT PARETO GENERATIONS IN THE USACurt Doolittle Last two are Gates and Bezos, but they are not the most powerful. The most influential are the people in the fed, and who head the major financial institutions, and who donate most to election campaigns. Michael Churchill The influence of billionaires who donate to elections cannot be overstated. I did an analysis of this once. It is unbelievable. Soros himself really does have incredible power. Also Adelson and Simons and a few other cats. There are a couple on the right as well. Think tanks and donations to politicians … that is where the power is. That is the reason to try to make a billion.
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No More Kicking The Can Down The Road
October 13th, 2018 5:27 PM [A]s far as I know universal suffrage has been the subject of criticism throughout all of history, and the evidence of the 20th century that it provides little but the slow road to authoritarian redistributionism. The only reason that it’s been possible in the 20th century is the luxury of the returns on the debt possible under fiat money capitalism, at the cost of continuous dygenia (reduction of and now the reversal of, intergenerational human capital). There is a vast difference between those of us who understand both micro, macro, political, and human capital economics, and grasp that political systems are simply those we can afford in the moment, and nothing more. And that the only way to preserve the liberty created by western civilization is to continue the eugenic program of the ancient and medieval manorialists: meritocratic tripartism (slave-serf-freman-citizen-nobleman meritocracy) or the british invention of adding houses for each of the classes as they contribute to responsibility for management of the economy: Monarch, Landed Nobility (Regions), Commons (small business owners), and Church (proxy for the working classes). The mistake they made was not adding a new house for the working classes, and another for women upon their enfranchisement. This would let us continue the historical market for commons between the classes, rather than under liberalism(classical liberalism in the english speaking world). The result instead was underclass rule, and the use of propaganda and media to (lie to) use ideological hyperbole to obtain power by non-market means. Majoritarian democracy is and can only be, a monopoly. We had the nearly perfect government. Rule of law resulting in markets for commons, as well as markets for goods, services and information. However, the middle class seizure of power from the landed aristocracy, and the inclusion of the underclass as a means of opposing the rise of marxism-communism, merely kicked the political can down the road. And we are all standing around looking at that can wondering where to kick it next. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine RE: https://notesonliberty.com/2018/10/13/liberalism-democracy-and-polarization/
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One Step Closer….
October 13th, 2018 5:04 PM EVERY DAY THE MAINSTREAM GETS CLOSER TO OPEN DISCOURSE ON REVOLUTION nypost.com/2018/10/12/can-our-modern-house-divided-remain-one-nation/
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Unpacking “Democracy Requires Homogeneity”
October 13th, 2018 4:18 PM UNPACKING “DEMOCRACY REQUIRES HOMOGENEITY” by Richard Nikoley
—“Markets allow us to cooperate on means despite disparate ends. Democracy, only on same ends. Democracy requires homogeneity.”— CD
Let me unpack this a bit for those unfamiliar. Markets, or trade, is inherently win-win or the trade doesnât happen and there is no market. When you buy a pound of apples for $1, itâs because you want the apples more than you want the dollar and the tradesman wants the dollar more than he wants the pound of apples. This happens billions of times a day, globally. How many trades do you do in a single day, on average? 5-10, maybe? Multiply that by 7 Billion. Thatâs upwards of 70 billion trades daily and as a win-win, thatâs a lot of happiness. We should be thankful. Moreover, markets are typically ideologically, racially, gender, culturally, etc. agnostic or neutral. Itâs the great mediator. Traders tend not to care a bit who the other person is or what they believe, and yet they serve each other. How amazing. How fortunate we are. Now, contrast that with democracy. Democracy is winner take all. Either you keep your dollar AND get his pound of apples, or he keeps his apples and gets your dollar. Itâs windfall win-lose. It only tends to work reasonably well in homogenous populations or institutions. Think Japan and Scandinavian counties (as they used to be before the Muslim influx). Relatively small populations of largely the same race, culture, national history. Or, consider a large public company where directors are elected quasi-democratically by shareholders, but everyone is more or less on the same page of making capital gains and paying dividends. Democracy does not scale to something like a European Union or a United States. Totally dumb idea, especially extending the franchise to those with no stake (no property, no financial assets, no business concern with employees, etc.).
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The influence of billionaires
October 13th, 2018 4:16 PM
—“The influence of billionaires who donate to elections cannot be overstated. I did an analysis of this once. It is unbelievable. Soros himself really does have incredible power. Also Adelson and Simons and a few others. There are a couple on the right as well. Think tanks and donations to politicians … that is where the power is. That is the reason to try to make a billion – to influence politics.”—Michael Churchill