[S]overeignty demands Reciprocity, where demand for Reciprocity includes all demonstrated interests, whether bodily, family, physical, normative, traditional, informational, or the civic and political institutions that defend them. To reinforce the intuition that productivity isn’t observable with a bit more edge: westerners produce commons that other people cannot produce, and we do by NOT DOING evil: lying, misleading, cheating, stealing, free riding, corruption, as much as what we DO: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Heroism. So economists (all of whom are leftists) only measure individual consumer goods, not the production of commons: truth, honesty, integrity, contract, quality, civility, responsibility – which is what makes western civilization unique. We don’t live in a world where there is a problem of consumption – we have just enabled the world to stampede on a path to hyper-consumption – even of the commons we alone can make, which made their hyper-consumption possible.
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The Needs and Wants of Capital
by Michael Churchill [G]overnment is controlled by capital, and capital needs consumption like a mammal needs blood flow. And these days, with birth rates so low, capital is desperate for bodies. This is part of why interest rates are negative in Europe and Japan. Capital and democracy cannot coexist when CPI is negative, because real wages skyrocket. As such, capital must have bodies and it must have a Fed. So … capital doesn’t really care THAT much about the fine points of how national governments work. It just wants smooth regulation. What it needs to be able to do is sell stuff to humans, have clean title to assets and repatriate the earnings. That’s a pretty low bar actually. Even most of Africa lets you do that.
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The Needs and Wants of Capital
by Michael Churchill [G]overnment is controlled by capital, and capital needs consumption like a mammal needs blood flow. And these days, with birth rates so low, capital is desperate for bodies. This is part of why interest rates are negative in Europe and Japan. Capital and democracy cannot coexist when CPI is negative, because real wages skyrocket. As such, capital must have bodies and it must have a Fed. So … capital doesn’t really care THAT much about the fine points of how national governments work. It just wants smooth regulation. What it needs to be able to do is sell stuff to humans, have clean title to assets and repatriate the earnings. That’s a pretty low bar actually. Even most of Africa lets you do that.
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They Express Their World View
by Andy Curzon [I] see Taleb as having had two useful insights – the Black Swan and antifragility (a cat vs a washing machine ‘n’all). Skin in the game was an offshoot (and rather obvious, although he backs it up with data sets), and fooled by randomness was hackneyed old material. It’s a funny journey that of the public intellectual (I’ve found similar with Peterson and Pinker recently) – they express ‘their worldview’, and people lap it up. And then they do it again. And again. And in different ways. And most people figure out they’re repeating themselves in different forms and move on.
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They Express Their World View
by Andy Curzon [I] see Taleb as having had two useful insights – the Black Swan and antifragility (a cat vs a washing machine ‘n’all). Skin in the game was an offshoot (and rather obvious, although he backs it up with data sets), and fooled by randomness was hackneyed old material. It’s a funny journey that of the public intellectual (I’ve found similar with Peterson and Pinker recently) – they express ‘their worldview’, and people lap it up. And then they do it again. And again. And in different ways. And most people figure out they’re repeating themselves in different forms and move on.
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Demand for the Pleasing Delusion
by Daniel Gurpide [I ]previously posted that
–“Plato’s philosophy was for ‘the intellectuals’; the ethics of Plato are tied to his whole system of knowledge, including politics. The doctrines of Epicurus appealed chiefly to the middle classes, the bourgeoisie; the ethics of Epicurus are separated from politics and joined only with physics (and Aristotle). The teachings of Jesus were for the very poor, the lost sheep. The ethics of Jesus are isolated from both physics and politics and fitted into a development scheme of salvation.”—
[C]urt and I were trying to figure out why Epicurean philosophy was wiped out so easily after the fall of the Roman Empire. There were never strong Epicurean communities. Epicureans prioritized their small groups and chose not to engage in politics (a consequence of the civil wars that used to plague the ancient world). I was recently reading “Liberalism: Ancient & Modern” by Leo Strauss. The central chapter and the longest chapter is his “Notes on Lucretius”. He identifies one of the main tenets of Epicurean teaching–that the world that we love is not eternal, because every world is mortal within the eternal universe of atoms in motion–as “the most terrible truth”. Philosophers can live with this truth with a tranquil mind. But most human beings cannot. And consequently most human beings can find peace of mind only through the “pleasing delusion” of a religious belief that the world of human concern is supported by a loving intelligent designer. I guess that the temptation for the Platonist “intellectuals” to lead the “lost sheep” and at the same time sandwich the middle classes has always been there.
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Demand for the Pleasing Delusion
by Daniel Gurpide [I ]previously posted that
–“Plato’s philosophy was for ‘the intellectuals’; the ethics of Plato are tied to his whole system of knowledge, including politics. The doctrines of Epicurus appealed chiefly to the middle classes, the bourgeoisie; the ethics of Epicurus are separated from politics and joined only with physics (and Aristotle). The teachings of Jesus were for the very poor, the lost sheep. The ethics of Jesus are isolated from both physics and politics and fitted into a development scheme of salvation.”—
[C]urt and I were trying to figure out why Epicurean philosophy was wiped out so easily after the fall of the Roman Empire. There were never strong Epicurean communities. Epicureans prioritized their small groups and chose not to engage in politics (a consequence of the civil wars that used to plague the ancient world). I was recently reading “Liberalism: Ancient & Modern” by Leo Strauss. The central chapter and the longest chapter is his “Notes on Lucretius”. He identifies one of the main tenets of Epicurean teaching–that the world that we love is not eternal, because every world is mortal within the eternal universe of atoms in motion–as “the most terrible truth”. Philosophers can live with this truth with a tranquil mind. But most human beings cannot. And consequently most human beings can find peace of mind only through the “pleasing delusion” of a religious belief that the world of human concern is supported by a loving intelligent designer. I guess that the temptation for the Platonist “intellectuals” to lead the “lost sheep” and at the same time sandwich the middle classes has always been there.
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Training the Moral Intuition
[I] suppose that like many people, you assume man is moral, rather than amoral – merely choosing between the moral and immoral as incentives provide. We can in fact read others intentions and incentives. We could not cooperate on means or ends otherwise. However history says that such reading of intentions and incentives creates moral behavior, and trains moral intuition – not that moral behavior is intuitive. It’s not. Only reading of intentions and incentives. As anyone who has raised young children finds rather obvious. (worth repeating)
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Training the Moral Intuition
[I] suppose that like many people, you assume man is moral, rather than amoral – merely choosing between the moral and immoral as incentives provide. We can in fact read others intentions and incentives. We could not cooperate on means or ends otherwise. However history says that such reading of intentions and incentives creates moral behavior, and trains moral intuition – not that moral behavior is intuitive. It’s not. Only reading of intentions and incentives. As anyone who has raised young children finds rather obvious. (worth repeating)
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We (european men) must stop making this mistake: we must stop thinking, wishing,
We (european men) must stop making this mistake: we must stop thinking, wishing, or hoping that other groups (including our own women) are like US.
by John Mark [T]his mistake has plunged us into long dark ages before. Let’s not do it again. Let’s learn this lesson once and for all. WE ARE UNIQUE. === REGARDING === WE ARE THE CONTINUATION OF THE EUROPEAN CIVILIZATIONAL ARC
- The Western Indo Europeans were fighting submission to nature in every aspect of the social order: nature(technology), family, polity, and religion. They invented the Agency of Man. The application of mastery of metallurgy, the horse, the wheel and war to all aspects of human experience.
Aristotle was fighting ignorance in all the disciplines – including religion, custom, and politics. He invented Empiricism: the transfer of testimony in a court of peers to all aspects of human experience.
Galileo was fighting supernaturalism and denial in the physical sciences: physics, chemistry, biology. He was the principle advocate of Science: The restoration of testimony using mathematics in court a court of peers to all aspects of life.
Darwin was fighting supernaturalism in the biological sciences. He was the principle advocate of realism and naturalism in biology: the restoration of naturalism in biological and social sciences.
Propertarians are fighting pseudoscience and sophism and denial in the human sciences: language, psychology, sociology, politics, and group strategy: The completion of social science: The application of testimony using the measurement of reciprocity.
What’s Next? We will only save ourselves, and mankind from another dark age if we do not make the mistakes of the greeks and the romans, and the monarchists – optimism that other men, are equal in ability and interest to european men.