4th Generation Civil War doesn’t require people in the streets.A minority disrupt the fragility of the modern economy.Cascade does the rest.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:44:06 UTC
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There are always agitated men. What they require is a moral justification for violence; an alternative to demand; and a crisis to exploit.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:39:37 UTC
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Democracy creates an illusion of majoritarianism. Because a polity persists if and only if no minority of men chooses otherwise. #tcot #tlot
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:38:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/790880195527966720
BUTCH AND STEVE ON THE DECLINING COST OF CIVIL WAR
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”- John Adams
Adams makes sense now. As the outcome of an election diverges from the outcome of a war, as more and more of those with no capacity to generate violence are allowed suffrage, then eventually the cost of war falls far enough below the cost of the election, that those with the capacity to generate violence rise up and take violent control of the state.— William Butchman
And also, when revolutions occur they are due to the state ignoring the changes in sympathy of those with violent capacity. To rule, you must keep the violent majority on your side at all times.—Steve Pender
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—“Democratic elections, being an alternative to war – a demonstration of violent capacity (in theory, no longer in practice) – to avoid the need for fighting by showing one’s strength without loss of life, was then subverted by universal suffrage which diluted the implied violence behind voting, without diluting the actual violent capacity. It’s now probable that a minority may have far more violent capacity than 51% of the voters.”—Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:38:00 UTC
—“Democratic elections, being an alternative to war – a demonstration of violent capacity (in theory, no longer in practice) – to avoid the need for fighting by showing one’s strength without loss of life, was then subverted by universal suffrage which diluted the implied violence behind voting, without diluting the actual violent capacity. It’s now probable that a minority may have far more violent capacity than 51% of the voters.”—Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:23:00 UTC
RULE PROFITABLY OR BE RULED BY OTHERS
(good stuff)
The Dead are less costly than Competitors – rule by competition.
Competitors are less costly than criminals – rule by predation.
Criminals are less costly than slaves – rule by crime
Slaves are less profitable than Serfs – rule by force.
Serfs are less profitable than Employees – rule by law.
Employees are less profitable than Debtors – rule by credit
Debtors are less profitable than Followers – rule by religion, pseudoscience, and deceit.
Followers are less profitable than Sovereigns – rule by reciprocity
Sovereigns are less profitable than Rule – rule by all of the above.
Rule is always profitable.
Therefore, Rule profitably. Rule unprofitably. Or be ruled by others at your own expense.
All that changes is the number of people in each group.
As we gain wealth by incremental suppression of opportunity for parasitism, the median of the distribution advances in profitability.
But make no mistake: there are no conditions under which this hierarchy doesn’t exist.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 08:24:00 UTC
4th Generation Civil War doesn’t require people in the streets.A minority disrupt the fragility of the modern economy.Cascade does the rest.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 07:44:00 UTC
There are always agitated men. What they require is a moral justification for violence; an alternative to demand; and a crisis to exploit.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 07:39:00 UTC
Democracy creates an illusion of majoritarianism. Because a polity persists if and only if no minority of men chooses otherwise. #tcot #tlot
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 07:38:00 UTC
It’s not that they’re stupid. It’s that their enemies and we are only now just giving up hope they will join us. (kill them all.)
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-24 12:10:48 UTC
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