[T]here are always malevolent people in the world. They simply lack the means of acting. Raising an army is actually quite hard. But we dont need to raise armies any longer. We celebrated the benefits of literacy. But we celebrated literacy among our culture of truth telling. We did not account for the misuse of literacy, the misuse of printing, the misuse of education, the misuse of radio, television, and film to construct elaborate lies. The most important was, to justify lying. The abuse of information systems whether it be the pricing system, or the education system, or the media, has been just as damaging as any war or plague – perhaps more so. We have survived the thirty years war. The world war. But we did not survive I suspect, a century and a half of lying (pseudoscience).
Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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ARMIES OF LIES INSTEAD OF ARMIES OF MEN : WAR AT DISCOUNT There are always malev
ARMIES OF LIES INSTEAD OF ARMIES OF MEN : WAR AT DISCOUNT
There are always malevolent people in the world. They simply lack the means of acting. Raising an army is actually quite hard. But we dont need to raise armies any longer.
We celebrated the benefits of literacy. But we celebrated literacy among our culture of truth telling. We did not account for the misuse of literacy, the misuse of printing, the misuse of education, the misuse of radio, television, and film to construct elaborate lies. The most important was, to justify lying.
The abuse of information systems whether it be the pricing system, or the education system, or the media, has been just as damaging as any war or plague – perhaps more so. We have survived the thirty years war. The world war. But we did not survive I suspect, a century and a half of lying (pseudoscience).
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 03:39:00 UTC
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PUNISHING THE LIAR ELITE —“The job of our elite is to identify lies and punish
PUNISHING THE LIAR ELITE
—“The job of our elite is to identify lies and punish liars. Unfortunately, they’ve joined in. Now we must punish our elites.”— Eli Harman
If that isn’t a mission statement, I don’t know what is.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 03:14:00 UTC
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/americans-killed-cops-outnumber-americans-killed-iraq-war/#skTdpAQ0Zu5lhIRB.01
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 12:42:00 UTC
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LABEL HITS THE NEWS MEDIA Slowly. It Starts Slowly. But it’s deterministic. The
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/”CONSERVATARIAN” LABEL HITS THE NEWS MEDIA
Slowly. It Starts Slowly. But it’s deterministic. The need for power. The will to power. 🙂
UNLESS YOU HAVE “A BOOK” or “PLANKS” YOUR TERM CAN BE CO-OPTED
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 23:10:00 UTC
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#ukraine #ukraine You can easily accuse Ukrainians of naivety and incompetence,
#ukraine #ukraine You can easily accuse Ukrainians of naivety and incompetence, but you can’t accuse the Russians of either – plus they lie.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 07:27:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/491484588095442944
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OK. WTH going on. What did I miss? Why do people in Ukraine now think Russia wil
OK. WTH going on. What did I miss? Why do people in Ukraine now think Russia will invade their country in September?
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 14:16:00 UTC
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WARRANTY : THE CHURCH, ACADEMY AND GOVERNMENT The church, the academy, and the g
WARRANTY : THE CHURCH, ACADEMY AND GOVERNMENT
The church, the academy, and the government, like commerce, all share in a similar bias: that of obtaining customers for their services, regardless of the merit or consequence of consuming those services. The church sold immortality, indulgences, and the forgiveness of sin. The academy sells equality, diversity, socialism and the promise of prosperity. The government sells laws, redistribution, the myth of unity, and the promise of risk abatement. Yet the church, nor the academy nor the government warranty those wares. No other industries have such privileges: selling false promises that profit the seller at the expense of the buyer. An the church, academy and government criticize the entrepreneur, who alone among them, must warranty his wares.
There is a good reason we cannot trust the church, the academy, and the government: we desire benefits for our family and tribe and they seek to profit from the largest possible numbers of customers.
How is it then that would could ensure that church, academy and government had the same incentives as private industry?
Universal standing and requirement of warranty.
The common law works – if the church, academy, and government let it. But then, they have every incentive not to let the common law serve us.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 12:16:00 UTC
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Race is only a problem because of democracy – because of monopoly rule, and the
Race is only a problem because of democracy – because of monopoly rule, and the power granted to the winners of monopoly rule, over others. Instead, polycentrism, and aristocratic egalitarianism, are merely a means of cooperating between families, on behalf of families. Under democracy heads of classes are forced into conflict for power. Under aristocracy we are placed only into market competition. An aristocrat has no possible reason for conflict with other aristocrats from any background in the world. Democracy is the reason for racial conflict. Otherwise we can just cooperate or engage in conflict as we have always done – regardless of race, and entirely because of economics.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 02:41:00 UTC
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THE DANGER OF POWER A POWER VACUUM (worth repeating) —“Power vacuums are much
THE DANGER OF POWER A POWER VACUUM
(worth repeating)
—“Power vacuums are much worse than abuses of power.”—
It’s contrary to our psychology, since we tend to get very wrapped up in abuses of power (European colonialism, current Chinese conquest of their region, American policing of the postwar consensus). Especially progressives, but only to a slightly lesser extent, libertarians.
Power vacuums drastically decrease all opportunity costs in exchange for unpredictable risk. Power structures increase both opportunity costs, and the predictability of risk.
And history shows that (a) war for control of trade routes is one of the best possible investments you can make after formal institutions of cooperation (trust, property, contract, law, weights and measures), and (b) nearly all peoples will gladly pay risks of expansion of territory and trade route. (c) These changes produce our great conflicts.
The postwar era, when viewed by historians, will appear as a short term anglo victory after the great european civil wars in which the naval anglo offshoot of germanic civilization, went to war with its army just as did Athens and Sparta, with the same consequences. However, Greece managed to radically transform the world far after its loss of military and economic power.
Anglo civilization will apparently do the same: fade.
Unless we choose to change it.
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-19 07:31:00 UTC