Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

UM. NO. I THINK LIKE A KING OR A GENERAL AND YOU LIKE A SOLDIER, OR CITIZEN, THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE.

Many criticisms for my lack of ‘spirituality’ one way or another:

—“your material values”—, or —“your bourgeoise values”—

Um. My interest in material values lies in the fact that one must have wealth to afford to invent the technology, with which to arm your people, so that you may defeat enemies both biological, animal, human, conceptual, and the universe itself.

I don’t like the church because I know it is (((a church))) not a sacred grove. I and I know it relies on conflationary (((abrahamic))) fictionalism (lies), rather than

The greeks innovated – particularly with aristotle, zeno, and epicurus, but the athenians (unlike the spartans) were weak. It was the spartans and the Romans that invented modernity, and the greeks ‘moved eastward’ more closely to the persians, semites, and anatolians. What the Spartans and the Athenians held separately the romans combined and eliminated the weaknesses: spartan ‘pragmatism’ and athenian navy and commerce, and aristotelian/stoic(zeno) law. But they abandoned sparta’s economics, abandoned greek idealism, and abandoned stoic ‘individualism’. We are the remains of greek ‘technology’ but roman civilization, which more generally reflects germanic civilization. and I have only come recently to understand how much influence the vikings had. We tend to remember what is written, not what changed state. The vikings ‘resurrected’ europe from defeat by byzantium by the church by giving rise to the Hansa and the north sea trade route and it’s overlands to byzantium and venice.

The romans had it right. More right than the chinese. More right than anyone else ever: (a) aristocracy performed rituals (submission) as a civic obligation, so that people could abandon their hierarchies, for which they obtained status so that others wished to do so as well. (b) the calendar was built to serve the seasons and festivals (celebration) so that the people could abandon their ‘hierarchies’. (c) the polytheistic temple system so that there were ‘gods and demigods and heroes’ for all men of all stations in that hierarchical division of labor. And so that all men could retain gods for their profession, their tribe and their nations, giving only fealty to the polity (empire) through its anthropomorphic representative in the emperor.

They just overextended. We didn’t over extend in the prewar era of colonialism as so much as commit fratricide in our great civil war by the alliance of britain and france and russia against germany. Britain and france with their overseas colonies, russia with her asian colonies, and germany seeking to take the eastern european and some african colonies. This was the mistake: not forcing russia south and assisting germany in expanding east as she had been (and was good for the people).

As far as I can tell, the difference between roman civilization and chinese civilization, is that china’s coastal farming was productive enough and concentrated enough, that they could unite and wall off their empire from the steppe, desert, and jungle peoples. When china over extended she stopped. When she tried to expand (prior to the european expansion) she withdrew to defend her walls from the Mongols. And she discovered enough about the world that she found nothing valuable in it enough to risk her home and her people and her civilization. The chinese are not heroic, risk-embracing and ambitious as much as defensively proud and ambitious.

So I think as a general, not as a soldier or citizen, and this is why you see my materialism: generals worry about technology, strategy, supply lines, and training and equipping men. The truth is that men in battle are marginally indifferent in war. It is the wealth that purchases the equipment, training, supply lines, and the wealth that makes continuous research and development of technology possible that makes the difference in war.

A soldier should defend his people with zeal perhaps – but pursue war to defend his life and kin, and for the spoils and booty that advance him as ordinary commerce cannot.

The peace of westphalia has ended. War is a for profit industry.

I understand the common man.

***But one panders to the common man. One speaks truth to power. And, one does not pander to himself if he wishes to be powerful. And saving and advancing ones people requires power.***

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine