Answer by @curtdoolittle to Was Karl Popper right to blame Plato’s concept of the philosopher king for the rise of t… http://qr.ae/DTxNf
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 21:19:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/525033666754650112
Answer by @curtdoolittle to Was Karl Popper right to blame Plato’s concept of the philosopher king for the rise of t… http://qr.ae/DTxNf
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 21:19:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/525033666754650112
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepal-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-the-country-in-the-long-run/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1NATIONALISM RETURNS AS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL SYSTEM – BUT WHY? NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
It appears that the universalists program advocated by the enlightenment is unsuccessful and that nationalism (tribalism at scale), will return to its historical status as the dominant political ideology.
This is in part because the value of scale in obtaining credit necessary to finance war has been nearly eliminated by the (strange) influence of nuclear weapons. If a country can afford nuclear weapons it does not need to engage in large scale defense projects, because its boundaries are secure. Conversely (as Mr Putin has demonstrated) a country without nuclear weapons cannot claim sovereignty.
SO just as credit, conscription, and ‘total war’ defined the past five hundred years, it appears that nuclear weapons, and small scale nationalism which better serves the interests of citizens, will replace empires and military-credit-industrialism.
Hence, oddly enough, nuclear weapons end up having produced intuitive political orders.
Strange but true.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 18:41:00 UTC
http://qz.com/284352/hong-kong-has-too-many-poor-people-to-allow-direct-elections-leader-says/
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 15:15:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepals-new-constitution-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-Nepal-in-the-long-run
https://www.quora.com/Was-Karl-Popper-right-to-blame-Platos-concept-of-the-philosopher-king-for-the-rise-of-totalitarianism-in-the-twentieth-century
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Nepalese-Maoists-want-ethnicity-based-federalism-in-Nepals-new-constitution-Will-ethnicity-based-politics-do-any-good-to-Nepal-in-the-long-run
https://www.quora.com/Was-Karl-Popper-right-to-blame-Platos-concept-of-the-philosopher-king-for-the-rise-of-totalitarianism-in-the-twentieth-century
CAN YOU GUESS? FOUR DIFFERENT POLITIES, FOUR DIFFERENT STRATEGIES.
If a group of people evolved under a sufficient language, so that it was possible to speak operationally, so that one could testify to the truth of a statement, then what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, then how?
If a group of people evolved under a deficient language, so that it was impossible to speak sufficiently operationally so that one could testify to the truth of a statement, what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, how?
If a group of people evolved specifically to use language to conduct loading, framing, overloading, and deception in order to lie cheat and steal, what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? How?
If a group of people evolved specifically to use behavior, not language, to conduct theft by preying upon empathy and altruism, such that they were unable to even distinguish the truth necessary for testimony, and would never give it, even if they did, then what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, then how?
Truth, morality, and productivity, represents one end of the evolutionary spectrum. But, does that mean that it is the optimum COMPETITIVE strategy, even if it is the optimum ECONOMIC strategy? Or is it an evolutionary dead end, because it is so weak at competing?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 08:05:00 UTC
THE PERSISTENCE OF MARXISM
—“The persistence of Marxism in the West is a function of its persistence in academe. Without that, it would wither and die. Why does it persistent in academe? Because Marxism satisfies three deep cognitive wants for academics:
(1) It is a complex theoretical system. There is nothing that establishes one’s bona fides as a Very Clever Person more than mastering a complex theoretical system: the denser and more jargon-heavy the prose, the better. And Marx’s writings have plenty of dense, jargon-heavy prose.
(2) It is a system of grand intent. If one lives the life of the mind, then the grander one’s intellectual projects, the grander one’s cognitive sense of self: Marxism not only “explains” human history and society, it “reveals” the final end point of human and social transformation. What could be grander than such a project?
(3) It completely de-legitimises commerce. Under Marxism, the only legitimate economic role is to supply labour. All commerce is de-legitimised and all those engaged in it—including all those people who have far more wealth and organisational significance than academics—are de-legitimised, reduced to “exploiters” who are but immoral dust beneath the heels of academics in no way “polluted” by vulgar commerce.”—
Michael Philip
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-19 06:28:00 UTC
—“Before the bureaucrat, you have no obligation for grace. One does not blame the slave for trying to escape his master.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 12:20:00 UTC