Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • As I said elsewhere, the market for leadership will supply leaders. We must lead

    As I said elsewhere, the market for leadership will supply leaders. We must lead one another to sufficient numbers that leadership in that market can emerge.

  • Producing Submission to The Pack

    The fundamental problem is producing submission to the pack (piety) when the leadership of the pack is just as much of a bunch of bitchy whiny egoistic a–holes as you are. Hence idealistic third party proxies, OR monarchies. My preference is monarchies backed by judges and warriors. They’re not false. And they tend to subsidize the arts and letters.

  • Producing Submission to The Pack

    The fundamental problem is producing submission to the pack (piety) when the leadership of the pack is just as much of a bunch of bitchy whiny egoistic a–holes as you are. Hence idealistic third party proxies, OR monarchies. My preference is monarchies backed by judges and warriors. They’re not false. And they tend to subsidize the arts and letters.

  • Left Weak Herd vs Right Strong Pack

    Left Weak Herd vs Right Strong Pack by John Mark Left (the weak): The strong should invest in us (allow/enable us to consume beyond what we are able to earn in reciprocity). Right (the strong): That’s a bad investment. It will drag us all down. Left (the weak): You are evil. Right (the strong): No, we’re just wise. And we’re just better than you. (War ensues.) (The only way the Right loses the war is if they refuse to use force – rule of law etc. – to suppress the Left’s theft.)

  • Left Weak Herd vs Right Strong Pack

    Left Weak Herd vs Right Strong Pack by John Mark Left (the weak): The strong should invest in us (allow/enable us to consume beyond what we are able to earn in reciprocity). Right (the strong): That’s a bad investment. It will drag us all down. Left (the weak): You are evil. Right (the strong): No, we’re just wise. And we’re just better than you. (War ensues.) (The only way the Right loses the war is if they refuse to use force – rule of law etc. – to suppress the Left’s theft.)

  • The difference in our instincts

    —“People cherry-pick data according to the narrative their instinct causes them to embrace.) It just so happens that the right-wing instinct builds civilization and the left instinct destroys it.”— John Mark

  • The difference in our instincts

    —“People cherry-pick data according to the narrative their instinct causes them to embrace.) It just so happens that the right-wing instinct builds civilization and the left instinct destroys it.”— John Mark

  • no, the middle class rate of reproduction is being hindered by tax burden justif

    no, the middle class rate of reproduction is being hindered by tax burden justified by postmodern deception


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  • No Professional Parasites

    It’s not that complicated. We have known this fact for two thousand years: (a) no professional priests, (b) no professional politicians (c) no monopoly bureaucracy, and therefore no insulation from the market. Add (d) full accountability for the truthfulness of public speech by involuntary warranty of consistency, correspondence, existential possibility, rationality, reciprocity, and full accounting.

  • No Professional Parasites

    It’s not that complicated. We have known this fact for two thousand years: (a) no professional priests, (b) no professional politicians (c) no monopoly bureaucracy, and therefore no insulation from the market. Add (d) full accountability for the truthfulness of public speech by involuntary warranty of consistency, correspondence, existential possibility, rationality, reciprocity, and full accounting.