Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

OUR CASE. OUR JUDGEMENT. A DECLARATION OF WAR

(4200 words)(good stuff)

PREFACE

I prefer a life of contemplation. Of conversation. Of compromise and cooperation. I don’t like hate and anger. I don’t even like conflict – of any kind. Which is why I favor procedural institutions that provide methods of conflict resolution on the one hand, and the incentive to avoid entering into conditions where conflict might arise, by the certainty the resolution of conflict our institutions provide. The best means of avoiding conflict is surety that it will be settled, and very likely, against our interests.

But if conflict must be had, the best solution to ending it, is to defeat your enemy completely. Not to the point of surrender. Not to the point of submission. Not to the point of flight. But to the point where they are so decimated if not exterminated, that they can never enjoin you or yours, in conflict again.

So while I do not favor conflict, aggression, violence, war, and genocide, what I do favor is the willingness and ability to engage, with certainty, in superior conflict, aggression, violence, war, and genocide, so that even the most ambitious of opponents never violates even the most subtle of manners.

A world without a great deal of interpersonal violence with which we suppress conflict by the constant fear of it, merely evolves into a world where we train people to incrementally relax the civilizational advantage the west pas possessed in Iron, Bronze and Steel ages: speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, cause no offense you are not willing to fight for, take nothing not paid for, and force not costs upon kith and kin.

The greatest incentive for full reciprocity in our cooperation is the certainty of the costs we will bear violations of that reciprocity.

It is this violation of reciprocity that is our present subject.

WHEREAS

We presently face a political conflict over the future of our civilization, between the competing strategies of a global monopoly with heterogeneous polities for maximum production and redistribution to all regardless of merit – and a market of nations with homogenous polities for maximum reinvestment, in furtherance of merit.

I CHOOSE. That is right – I choose. We choose. I choose kin, clan, tribe, and nation, over individual, caste, and globe. I choose this out of mere emotional joy at the flowering of my people, and the full, unhindered, and celebrated expression of my kin’s success. I do this because I am accepted by and appreciated by my kin. And I understand the lack of kinship interest by those who are not. I choose my people because generations of my ancestors have used self discipline to construct families and traditions that improve family, kin, clan, tribe and nation, over the less disciplined strategy of individual, caste, and globe. And I choose my people not only for their vast accomplishments, but because whenever we have not been the dominant civilization and the dominant empire, all other empires have rallied against us as an opportunity for predation – particularly the Persian(Iranian), Mongol, and Muslim – the aggressive people of the steppe and desert.

In the continuous choice between separatism (disassociation), cooperation, or conflict(war), one chooses cooperation only so long as it improve the lot of himself, his family, kin, clan, tribe, nation and civilization. If at any point we find greater value in disassociation, or war, that is because those with whom we formerly cooperated are no longer of value to, or are actively harming, us our families, clans, tribes, nations, and civilizations. There are costs of association, costs of disassociation, and sometimes these costs are difficult to judge, but over time the effects observable for us and ours. There are moral means of cooperation by which we advance our intersets ONLY by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchanges limited to productive externalities (effects upon others). This condition is called ‘reciprocity’. There are conditions where we impose current costs on current assets for future gains of future upon one another, and that produces intertemporal reciprocity. There are conditions where some group benefits at the expense of the assets of another group, and this is called ‘parasitism’ or ‘redistribution’. There are conditions where some group imposes unrecoverable costs upon another group, and we call this predation. There are conditions under which some group imposes not only unrecoverable costs to capital, but to genetics, institutions, laws, norms, traditions, myths both in the present and the future. And we call this Genocide.

Now, in a market for cooperation between families, clans, tribes, and nations, if no nation imposes unwanted costs upon others, there is no reason that all nations cannot slowly transcend from the most base condition through the most advanced condition. Unfortunately to do this requires that they limit the reproduction of the unproductive, eliminate the reproduction of the harmful and impulsive. And continuously improve the distribution of talents until domestication by gene, institution, and habit achieve what no other method can: the absence of parasitism, predation, and genocide. But in defeating the Red Queen of biological and technical and informational evolution, we can never ‘end’ this process of continuous improvement of our nations. But still, all nations will persist and transcend. So many small nations produce many small prosperous nations, and many many transcendent humans, if we take this strategy. It is within these small nations of limited kinship diversity that we see the least difference in the classes and the greatest willingness for redistribution – kin selection is always present. Moreover, there is a lot of ‘room at the top’ and each individual has a greater chance of obtaining a change in his or her state of affairs in these polities.

The other alternative end of the spectrum is to develop large civilizations of layers of genetic casts, almost always by color, and ethnicity, or some combination thereof. with very high differences between the castes (south america, Africa), some with a little less (India, greater china) and some with very little ( southeast Asia, the Arab, and other Muslim worlds.) The scale of the underclasses in those civilizations is so large that the underclass cannot be put to sufficiently productive work to generate enough wealth to construct a voluntarily organization of production that we unfortunately call ‘capitalism’. Instead they maintain a constant demand for corruption, authoritarianism, and an involuntary organization of production and distribution. And none possesses much influence of the course of his or her life because of it.

So just as we can choose between the voluntary organization of production (capitalism) and the involuntary organization of production (socialism). And just as we can choose between dictatorship and direct-democracy. And just as we can choose between single judges, multiple judges, and finally juries. And just as we can choose between the rule of common law, the rule of continental law, the (russian) limited rule of law, and the absence of rule of law, only that of existing command (china). We can choose many small competing nations which individuallyl serve the interests of those who wish to join them, or we can do our best to survive the immobility of large empires organized by castes in which we are relatively powerless to enact change.

We can choose. And I choose – I choose markets. I choose the competition of kin, family, clan, and nations. No man, no group, may deprive me of this choice. No politician no imagined authority may deprive me, of those like me, of this choice. You may choose a different separate ‘experiment’ with you and your lineage, but you may not, make a choice for me and us.

No individual may make decisions that impose costs of convenience, preference, ideology, religion, or philosophy, that he, or they cannot perform restitution for (correct). This is a violation of natural law – the one law of reciprocity – and the limits reciprocity imposes upon one’s actions: one cannot take an action, no matter the intention, the negative consequences of which one cannot pay restitution for. And the costs that you and yours have imposed upon our people since the end of the colonial period are such that you cannot pay restitution for them except with your lives. And it is only payment with your lives, your families, and therefore the generations that you may have yet brought into being, that can compensate for the damage you have done to our families, kin, tribes, nations, and civilization.

OUR COMPLAINT

You have violated the Natural Law of Reciprocity on a vast scale. You have attempted genocide against us, our kin, our tribes, our nations, and our ancient civilization. Our well intentioned ancestors had hoped, that once the Ancient Regime of the martial and landed aristocracy that was dependent upon labor for persistence, was reformed to a rule by the new commercial aristocracy that was dependent upon consumers for persistence, would result in the other classes imitating the middle class aspirations to the habits, traditions and values of the former aristocracy.

But within one generation, you and yours proved otherwise. And we and our ancestors held out paternal hope that you would learn from the failures of monetarism, learn from the failures of marxism, learn from the failures of socialism, learn from the great society programs, learn from the failures of the cultural marxists, and now the impending failure of the postmodernists – the people who lie.

And we held out our patience because your learning was a cost we felt we could bear. But what we have learned from our patience, from the evidence of your words and deeds, is that you have no such ambitions other than those of your ancestors. You do not attempt to domesticate and improve mankind, to create greater prosperity with limited numbers through improvement of the animal man, but, like locusts, to create greater consumption and greater numbers, that are a threat not only to us and ours, but to this former paradise we call ‘earth’.

And so we have learned that man, like other animals, has not been oppressed – but domesticated by the world’s aristocracy to varying degrees. And that all of western history consists of the incremental domestication of man – and man’s transcendence from beast to human. And that our aristocracy domesticated european man sufficiently to create innovation in Bronze, Iron, and Steel ages to transcend mankind. And they performed that domestication by the incremental suppression of parasitism – violence, theft, fraud, conspiracy, propaganda, religious conversion, immigration, invasion, conquest, and genocide.

They suppressed parasitism by denying people survival by other than self productive means. And those that could not regulate their reproduction, regulate their production, regulate their consumption, regulate their impulsivity. Through the institutions of the military, the judiciary, the sheriffs, the militia, the men of family and clan, parasitism was incrementally denied to all wherever it could be tried.

Through the institutions of voluntary mate selection, the family, the prohibition on (natural) cousin marriage, the letting of land to small farmers, the harsh winters, the use of infantry in war, and the aggressive hanging of up to one percent of the population per year, the animal man was increasingly eliminated from the civilization.

Conversely, by entry into the franchise in exchange for fighting in defense, fighting for conquest, and fighting to protect life and property, men could rise by their merits. Men could work their way from wild animal, to slave, to serf, to freeman, to citizen, to burgher, to lesser nobility with effort and ability.

But within a century, out of temporary economic luxury we did not cause – we only inherited from those who domesticated, invented and conquered – we have opened the political franchise to those without merit. We did not give them a new house of their own with which to negotiate with other classes for the production of preferred commons, now that they could participate in the market proper, and contribute to those commons via taxation.

Instead we destroyed the multiple houses of government that produced a market for the negotiation of commons between the classes (and genders), and created a monopoly single-house, of monopoly majority rule, creating monopoly rule by a class.

The consequences of this folly were that instead of a truthful discourse between the classes in government, by citizens with demonstrated merit (in practice, a large jury), we took advantage of mass media to create a propaganda war in the public space where we all live in constant fear that the other side will win the argument with the undecideds in the center whom are the least informed, and the least interested in outcomes. And we create the enormous opportunity for the financial and business sectors to assist in funding this propaganda war by way of ‘campaign donations’.

We govern today by gossip not reason or fact. Because we have created institutions that require us to govern by gossip rather than reason or fact.

And under this absence of market between the classes, because of the political and social advantage this gossip-economy has created for parasitism, our primary export in the west (particularly the Anglo-sphere in Canada, Australia, and the UK) is virtue-signaling by an academic, public intellectual, and political class that gives away the proceeds of that which it has extracted at the expense of the intergenerational capital of the producers. Yet our increasingly unproductive, increasingly mal-educated, increasingly virtue-signaling, infantilized, overindulged postwar generations are unaware of the end result of a competition in virtue signals – like the braggarts who outdo each other – the emptiness eventually becomes obvious. There are limits to all economies – even economies of lies. And the economy of virtue signals has been bankrupted by the generation of speakers who have arrived in the market for productive action with a skill equivalent to mastery of fantasy literature.

So, because of the method of your enfranchisement – peers who are not in fact peers, but who have completely opposite interests, we lack the institutions of cooperation between peoples with different experience, time horizons, and resources.

Unfortunately, our efforts to domesticate you through encouragement and patience, and high costs, like a loving parent, have been wasted. Despite our arts, literature, philosophy history, science, law, institutions – particularly those institutions of truth telling, jury, senate, houses, and the law of the reciprocity of sovereign men we inherited from our ancient ancestors.

OUR PROSECUTION.

You remain an experiential rather than intertemporal beast preferring quantity over quality, experience over investment, consumption over production. the fearful impulsivity of the young mother, undisciplined child, undisciplined adult: the want of more now than you produce.

You created a false history of oppression in order to circumvent the obvious: you come from generations of bad choices. That your bad families have used majority democracy to war against good families.

And unfortunately, in exchange for attention, humans redistribute negative information more readily than positive, and they embellish information more readily than clarify it. You spread this falsehood through single women and the undomesticated underclasses, both of which you have conspired to increase their number for two generations.

You have railed against the supernatural church’s conflation of myth and truth. But you have replaced that supernatural church comprised of myths the simple can believe, the average can make use of, and the wise respect with a pseudoscientific one comprised lies that require exhaustive knowledge to refute – and constituting a mythical narrative of oppression, a utopian promise of life in the near future instead of after death, a set of ‘laws’ that will destroy the very source of western civilization, a conspiracy of common interest between finance, media, academy, and state – producing a religion more intolerant and antagonistic to western civilization than the church had ever been. You have accomplished obscurity of costly truth through sheer volume of pseudoscientific deception, what the church achieved by sheer volume of recitation from the pulpit, the preservation of literacy to a few, and the payment for education in a falsehood – all so it could obtain land to rent to the common people on incomes for the purpose of housing and boarding large numbers of the otherwise unemployable members of the lesser aristocracies that populated the churches and monasteries.

You have manufactured ignorance and pseudoscientific equivalent of superstition on a scale not seen since the closure of the aristocratic stoic schools and the forcible christianization of the roman empire – contributing to the dark ages of ignorance that followed those deceits.

And instead of arguing by parable as a limit to hubris (consumption) you argue by outright lying about the nature of man in order to advance it. You have not only violated the division of church and state but merged them into a pseudoscientific religion for the purposes of governance by gossip and simple numerical dominance – a violation of the very principle of divided government under which we could not use majorities to circumvent trade. A trade for which we wish constraint on your behavior in exchange for the product of our productivity.

You have destroyed the family as the central unit of production, and the first evidence of personal responsibility.You have forced women into the workplace, redistributed the earnings of productive people to unproductive, and therefore redistributed rates of reproduction to the less competent – reversing 3500 years of western domestication. Moreover, you have used the entire contribution of women’s entry into the workforce in order to increase taxes, making us no better off with a two income family that must hire out our child care and training, than we were with a one income

Our lives consist of actions in commercial and military concert for whom government is only necessary to resist you and yours. Your life consists of gossip, layers of language: negotiation, persuasion, coercion, and deception all of which are for no other purpose than to obtain resources from the more difficult productivity of others: personal discipline, emotional discipline, skill discipline, physical discipline, consumption-discipline, reward-discipline, savings discipline. Where discipline requires a cost now for a reward later.

You leave the risks to others, yet claim the rewards. You remain only partly domesticated animals requiring many more generations of selection prior to enfranchisement in the class and cult of discipline we call ‘Aristocracy’.

You have created a government that does not compromise between the reproductive strategies of men and women, nor upper middle and lower classes, but that imposes the reproductive strategy of the herd of female foragers that maximizes consumption regardless of genetic, cultural, and civilizational cost, upon a civilization of families for whom marriage was a voluntary contract, and the male negotiated with other males in government as a proxy for violence and a method of trade in and production of commons between classes with families of different abilities, resources, and wants.

OUR JUDGEMENT

But we are finished investing in your consumption. You have been the greatest bad investment of the past 150 years. Worse than the great wars themselves. They posed no threat to our civilization. We have endured many generation-long wars. And it is through these generation-long wars that we reform and evolve where other less competitive civilizations stagnate – or like the Muslims, decline. They are not acts of failure, but these wars are acts of rebirth, after which we have transcended the prior superstitions and beliefs, and adapted to the new more empirical understanding of the world. We have been at war with you and yours for millennia. The battle between Naval Commercial Idealistic Athens(England/America), Martial Legal Empirical Sparta (Rome/Germany), and Supernatural Religious (lying) Persia(Jerusalem/The Church/Byzantium/Mecca-Baghdad/Paris-Frankfurt-NewYork-Los Angeles).

So, you may choose separatism, and create a competing society that advances your vision therein; and determine whether it can survive competition with ours. We may choose separatism and recreate a competing society with our local vision, and examine whether it can survive competition with yours. But if you seek to impose a monopoly, this is NO DIFFERENT FROM GENOCIDE, just on a longer time scale.

So if you with your preference for the short time experience of individual life, and the advancement of castes, attack us with genocide on a generational scale, then we with the preference for the long term experience of family, tribe, and egalitarian, national life, absent those castes, will resort to genocide on an immediate scale.

Under our Natural Law, the demand for reciprocity, that reciprocity is always demanded whether good or bad, and wether individual or national, and whether long term or immediate. And you have violated that reciprocity as assuredly as had you dug the graves of our ancestors, torn down their homes, and temples, burned their books, and killed all who know the names and lives of their heroes.

You have just done it over a century rather than a season. You did it by the manufacture of gossip and propaganda, the distribution of pseudoscience and lies, the manufacture of ignorance through the deprivation of intergenerational transfer of knowledge, the intentional advancement of suits designed to undermine rule of natural law, the intentional destruction of the family and the subsequent impoverishment and relative economic decline of millions, and the suicide of men in old age; all of which was made worse through the use of fiat money and credit to impoverish us and our generations, by charging us unnecessary fees for borrowing from our own future productivity, for the sole purpose of expanding government to twenty percent of our workforce, bribing us with consumption to the point where all we purchase are virtue signals, a media that has abandoned all pretense of empiricism, and an academy that sells diplomas in falsehoods for prices that would shame the church’s sale of indulgences.

We live not just in a world of gossip, but a world of perpetual lies, enslavement by tax, credit, and impossibility of self security by savings or family, in a slow genocide, which we our domesticated europeans are replaced by undomesticated immigrants for no other reason but to perpetuate the academy-state-finance church you have made.

We have always the choice to separate, cooperate, or war. It is clear that you cannot cooperate. You have spent a century undermining our markets for polities, commons, production, reproduction, and association. Where we previously lived under markets for voluntary association and disassociation, reproduction but only within a family that could afford reproduction, production wherever we could find or create value, markets for the production of commons between houses of the classes if we demonstrated contribution to them, and the right of exit if we chose one locality or another due to the differences in opportunity for self, family, kin, clan, tribe, and nation.

OUR CONVICTION

There is nothing more truthful than violence. Nothing dishonest about it. Nothing immoral about it if put to moral ends. There exists no more moral use than the treat of violence if reciprocity is violated, the enforcement of reciprocity through restitution and punishment for its violation. And there exists no more moral end than domestication of mankind and the transcendence of mankind through the organized use of violence to enforce reciprocity and the demand for survival in the market for competition in association, production, reproduction, the civic production of commons, and the international production of polities of reciprocity. A thousand nations producing the norms, traditions, laws, institutions, and polities most suitable for the stage of development of their kin, clans, tribes and nations. Let a thousand nations bloom.

So in case this is too subtle an argument for those who cannot imagine it, let us not leave the implied unsaid:

***We will commit genocide against you in the short term if you do not separate and compete, or abandon and recant your genocidal ambitions. This is our promise. And we are ‘the people that act but to not speak. We are the people that possess agency, discipline, and a willingness to self sacrifice, even our lives, for our kin, tribe, nation, culture, and civilization. Because in our values, in our families, tribes, and nation, in our preference for the intergenerational over the personal, there is no better death than in the service of our kin, the labors of our ancestors, and the temples of our gods.***

Some time in the next short while we will go to war with one another. And this time we will lay upon you such a death and destruction, that the event will be given a name, and its name will be repeated with trembling fear for the next five thousand years. Because that is the only way we can ensure that our ancestors, ourselves, our children, and the infinity of generations yet to come, never encounter the genocidal monopoly you perpetuate against us, our kin, our tribes, our nations, and our civilization – the civilization that in the prehistoric bronze age, ancient iron age, and modern steel age, has dragged humanity out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, endemic violence, and disease.

I swear this before my kin, my clan, my tribe, my people, my nation, my civilization, my ancestors, our ancestors, and all our gods that have been and have yet to be.

Curt Doolittle