Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • What Is The Foreign Policy Of The United States Of America In The Western Hemisphere?

    The postwar policy of the United States has been consistent and unwavering:

    1. We are the last survivor of the world wars, and the reconstruction was something we paid heavily for, and invested heavily in, and which became our purpose for existence.
    2. The world wars were exacerbated by world communism – the undeveloped civilizations counter-revolution against modernity.
    3. We must never have another world war because man may not survive it.
    4. To prevent world wars we will force nations to:
      (a) observe the peace of Westphalia that requires states to prevent non-state actors from engaging in conflicts between states,
      (b) maintain their borders and prohibit expansion of territory, preventing military conflict between states,
      (c) force states to grow only economically, not militarily, by extending human rights ( property rights), and investing in human capital, under the assumption that middle class consumer societies gain more from cooperation than from conflict and warfare.
    5. Presuming that:
      (a) Emphasis on institutions, rule of law, human rights, and consumer capitalism will produce middle class societies.
      (b) Middle class societies will create demand for democracy;
      (c) Democratic societies will produce commercial societies.
      (d) Commercial societies will avoid war.

    Unfortunately:

    1. Democracy is not good, but a short term luxury order resulting from economic windfalls that is unsustainable because it leads to politicization, endemic parasitism, and fragility. Instead the world has abandoned democracy, abandoned republicanism, and evolved to state corporatism: the management of the state as a business that serves consumers (citizens).
    2. When let loose under democracy, societies choose governments that reflect their level of social development (maturity), and this means socialistic in the christian world, and authoritarian in the Chinese world, despotic in the Muslim world, and of every flavor in the African World.
    3. That we have paid the high cost of transforming western civlization, Orthodox civilization, Sinic civilization, and Christian and pagan African civilization out of the medieval era – at very high costs to ourselves – and that we are failing at the transformation of the Muslim world, at a time when we no longer possess the disproportionate wealth that we did in prior eras against communism, socialism, and our own internal attempt at the soft communism of democratic socialist secular humanism.
    4. The unfortunate economic importance of oil – (similar to tin and copper in the Bronze Age) – which people rarely grasp is on par with the importance of sunlight in the Agrarian age, and its concentration in cheaply obtainable form between the Red and Kara Seas. And because of that concentration the possibility that the Totalitarian Orthodox, and Totalitarian Muslim would develop a bourse and instead of forcing oil into market prices, maximized rents against the rest of the world – a terror for developed civilization worse than another world war.

    And worst of all:

    1. Americans advocate the promissory side of their policy, but they do not make statements about the threat of punishment: “You may choose your own government in pursuit of joining the civilized consumer capitalist societies of the world. But if you choose poorly, and put into place a government that violates the these terms established by the ‘Postwar Law of the American Empire’, we will punish your government and as a consequence you, by acts of first economic, then financial, the communications, then military warfare until you no longer choose poorly.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-foreign-policy-of-the-United-States-of-America-in-the-Western-Hemisphere

  • What Is The Foreign Policy Of The United States Of America In The Western Hemisphere?

    The postwar policy of the United States has been consistent and unwavering:

    1. We are the last survivor of the world wars, and the reconstruction was something we paid heavily for, and invested heavily in, and which became our purpose for existence.
    2. The world wars were exacerbated by world communism – the undeveloped civilizations counter-revolution against modernity.
    3. We must never have another world war because man may not survive it.
    4. To prevent world wars we will force nations to:
      (a) observe the peace of Westphalia that requires states to prevent non-state actors from engaging in conflicts between states,
      (b) maintain their borders and prohibit expansion of territory, preventing military conflict between states,
      (c) force states to grow only economically, not militarily, by extending human rights ( property rights), and investing in human capital, under the assumption that middle class consumer societies gain more from cooperation than from conflict and warfare.
    5. Presuming that:
      (a) Emphasis on institutions, rule of law, human rights, and consumer capitalism will produce middle class societies.
      (b) Middle class societies will create demand for democracy;
      (c) Democratic societies will produce commercial societies.
      (d) Commercial societies will avoid war.

    Unfortunately:

    1. Democracy is not good, but a short term luxury order resulting from economic windfalls that is unsustainable because it leads to politicization, endemic parasitism, and fragility. Instead the world has abandoned democracy, abandoned republicanism, and evolved to state corporatism: the management of the state as a business that serves consumers (citizens).
    2. When let loose under democracy, societies choose governments that reflect their level of social development (maturity), and this means socialistic in the christian world, and authoritarian in the Chinese world, despotic in the Muslim world, and of every flavor in the African World.
    3. That we have paid the high cost of transforming western civlization, Orthodox civilization, Sinic civilization, and Christian and pagan African civilization out of the medieval era – at very high costs to ourselves – and that we are failing at the transformation of the Muslim world, at a time when we no longer possess the disproportionate wealth that we did in prior eras against communism, socialism, and our own internal attempt at the soft communism of democratic socialist secular humanism.
    4. The unfortunate economic importance of oil – (similar to tin and copper in the Bronze Age) – which people rarely grasp is on par with the importance of sunlight in the Agrarian age, and its concentration in cheaply obtainable form between the Red and Kara Seas. And because of that concentration the possibility that the Totalitarian Orthodox, and Totalitarian Muslim would develop a bourse and instead of forcing oil into market prices, maximized rents against the rest of the world – a terror for developed civilization worse than another world war.

    And worst of all:

    1. Americans advocate the promissory side of their policy, but they do not make statements about the threat of punishment: “You may choose your own government in pursuit of joining the civilized consumer capitalist societies of the world. But if you choose poorly, and put into place a government that violates the these terms established by the ‘Postwar Law of the American Empire’, we will punish your government and as a consequence you, by acts of first economic, then financial, the communications, then military warfare until you no longer choose poorly.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-foreign-policy-of-the-United-States-of-America-in-the-Western-Hemisphere

  • ( see. the right would go nowhere after the election, whereas we could have had

    ( see. the right would go nowhere after the election, whereas we could have had a revolution with her election. so the question is whether we are buying time, or losing momentum. the economy is looking very kindly at trump right now. )


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-11 21:39:00 UTC

  • How Would You Restructure The United States?

    The current conflict is occurring because the regions have matured from settled territories into genetically, culturally, economically, separate nations, each of which resists the genetic, cultural, and economic differences of the others. In other words, the federal government is a domestic empire as well as a global empire.

    People don’t like empires. For good reason.

    The solution is:

    1. Universal right of secession and confederation on a county by county basis. Universal right of association and disassociation on an individual basis.
    2. County-by-county choice of political affiliation with bordering counties, to form new regions. The result will look something along the lines of the Nine or Eleven Nations of North America, with the six (large) immigrant cities as island plantations amidst the rest of the territories.
    3. Devolution of the powers of the federal government by limiting them only to Insurer of last Resort: Military, Common Treasury, Disaster Relief, Judge of Material Property conflict.
    4. Reservation of the powers not specifically granted to the insurer of last resort to the regions – specifically property and contract.
    5. Reservation of the powers of individual,interpersonal, family, labor to the county – specifically education, norms, holidays, traditions and information – to the county.

    This will accomplish:

    1. The division of the continental united states into a european -style polity with different cultures and norms, but who are protected by a large and powerful military.
    2. It will end the era of USA imperialism world wide.
    3. And it will create the greatest economic boom and the greatest level of experimentation since the enlightenment.
    4. And we can stop hating each other.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-restructure-the-United-States

  • How Would You Restructure The United States?

    The current conflict is occurring because the regions have matured from settled territories into genetically, culturally, economically, separate nations, each of which resists the genetic, cultural, and economic differences of the others. In other words, the federal government is a domestic empire as well as a global empire.

    People don’t like empires. For good reason.

    The solution is:

    1. Universal right of secession and confederation on a county by county basis. Universal right of association and disassociation on an individual basis.
    2. County-by-county choice of political affiliation with bordering counties, to form new regions. The result will look something along the lines of the Nine or Eleven Nations of North America, with the six (large) immigrant cities as island plantations amidst the rest of the territories.
    3. Devolution of the powers of the federal government by limiting them only to Insurer of last Resort: Military, Common Treasury, Disaster Relief, Judge of Material Property conflict.
    4. Reservation of the powers not specifically granted to the insurer of last resort to the regions – specifically property and contract.
    5. Reservation of the powers of individual,interpersonal, family, labor to the county – specifically education, norms, holidays, traditions and information – to the county.

    This will accomplish:

    1. The division of the continental united states into a european -style polity with different cultures and norms, but who are protected by a large and powerful military.
    2. It will end the era of USA imperialism world wide.
    3. And it will create the greatest economic boom and the greatest level of experimentation since the enlightenment.
    4. And we can stop hating each other.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-restructure-the-United-States

  • I mean, really, I play the same stupid pet tricks as trump and everyone falls fo

    I mean, really, I play the same stupid pet tricks as trump and everyone falls for them – libertards, libertines, trumpers, alts, and nazis. Damn. Is it any wonder the masses are as gullible as goldfish when the activists are like rats in a maze?

    Agency is perhaps the most scarce good.

    It’s a problem of market failure. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-10 20:55:00 UTC

  • If you will not pay the high cost of rule why do you think you will enjoy the hi

    If you will not pay the high cost of rule why do you think you will enjoy the high returns of sovereignty, liberty, freedom? #trump


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-10 18:31:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/840268918111498240

  • If you will not pay the high cost of rule why do you think you will enjoy the hi

    If you will not pay the high cost of rule why do you think you will enjoy the high returns of sovereignty, liberty, freedom? #trump


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-10 13:31:00 UTC

  • THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION 1) Jordan Peterson: Meaning (Opportunity

    THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION

    1) Jordan Peterson: Meaning (Opportunity generation)

    2) Jonathan Haidt: Causation (Moral division of labor)

    3) Curt Doolittle: Decidability (Natural Law)

    4) Taleb: Measurement (‘Science’)

    FYI: Let’s take notice that I have the lousy job of saying ‘no’ – no one is ever going to like me for that. Haidt has the better job of saying ‘why’. Peterson has the best job of saying ‘how’. And Taleb has the hard job of trying to quantify the information necessary to change categorical state when we lack the data that will be produced by AI’s necessary to develop a testable unit of measure.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-10 10:17:00 UTC

  • How Will The United States Look In 2027?

    We will be entering a period of civil war with the conflict over how to devolve into regional nation states while preserving the military and social security apparatus.

    https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-United-States-look-in-2027