Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

Having fun this morning watching the pundits around the world reposition themselves on all sorts of things. The most interesting is that given European energy dependency upon Russia, the eastern turn of Russia to the Chinese model,

In 2008 and 2009 it was very interesting to watch all the economists change their point of view on the trajectory of the economy. Right now it’s pretty interesting to see them change their view on the trajectory of social democracy.

I might have been blinded by being emotionally so involved in the passions in Ukraine. But, as long as Ukrainians remain free of Russian occupation, the net result here might be the end of the “end of history” and the illusion of a unified world.

I want to put a bullet in the European Union, the American Federal Government, and “Universalism”.

And this actually helps. And an emboldened china helps even more.

I guess that I should be happy that Russia just helped put a bullet in the mythos of democracy. Not that it needed a bullet. It’s pretty much been an unmitigated disaster everywhere.

Although, the data in the west at least, suggests that it’s women and non-nuclear family immigration that made the marginally destructive difference.

WEAK AND THE STRONG

1) Democracy is weak – Monarchy is superior.

2) The Absolute nuclear family is weak – the Extended and Inbred Families are superior.

3) Secularism is weak – Religion is stronger.

4) Credit is weak – Force is stronger.

The west had one thing going for it: a homogenous (behaviorally intolerant, absolute nuclear family) protestant society under monarchy where there is no access to political power, forces all groups to compete only in the market.

When groups compete in the market they innovate. Innovation OVER TIME allows for the rapid development of technology that allows a free minority to remain free.

When groups compete in politics they’re not innovating, just transferring between each other. While it may be true that groups can invest together to attempt to obtain dividends on their investments, and that state sponsored investments generally can concentrate greater capital than private investments,

The least costly military is a fully participatory militia capable of denying any forces access to territory without perpetual losses, and nuclear weapons to prevent military and nuclear threats.

The least costly bureaucracy is private monarchy, voluntary representation or direct democracy, and privatized delivery of services.

There are some areas where division of labor is destructive, and that’s war, and the maintenance of the normative commons.

US STATE DEPARTMENT CONTACT (EMBASSY)

“…. if you have an opportunity to leave Ukraine you should do it. …”

I’m not ‘permitted’ to say what else I know from other channels (which are silver bullets that I don’t use). But the net is, that they have no idea whats going to happen after tomorrow.

“….. could be a war, or it could be much better than it is right now…”