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  • Unfortunately few are willing to ‘speak the truth the whole truth and nothing bu

    Unfortunately few are willing to ‘speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth’.That Woke is just the most recent generation of warfare against European institutions of cultural production by false-promise of an open society and equality, by violating Laws of Nature.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-11 18:06:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1458858772370272260

    Reply addressees: @ShellenbergerMD

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1458858189211029504


    IN REPLY TO:

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    @ShellenbergerMD The Archaeology Of Wokes
    (1.A religion needs only to sell mindfulness in exchange for belief in a false promise of freedom from the formal, physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws. 2.All religion is warfare by cultural means.)
    The history of the evolution of war by religion: https://t.co/G0JcOEg2fk

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1458858189211029504

  • IS GAB A GOOD PLATFORM AND A GOOD COMMUNITY? MAYBE. To be honest, I had almost g

    IS GAB A GOOD PLATFORM AND A GOOD COMMUNITY? MAYBE.

    To be honest, I had almost given up on the utility of Gab as a plaform worth my time until Doug Morrison @RadioFreeNorthwest hooked me in. I mean, I’m a long term supporter of Brett Stevens @alternative_right. I’ll always respect Greg Johnson (@counter_currents) and even Richard for their efforts. And sure I want Andrew @a to succeed. But I had maxed out FB friends and followers, and even on twitter, where i’m suppressed, I have 5K that slowly grows over time, but on Gab I have just over 1k. And that’s just … an algorithm problem.

    Because, well, I’d never heard of @Communism_Kills, @StephenClayMcGehee, @BillyRoper or @JohnYoungE. So as Brett says, there are IQ points here. And those IQ points aren’t playing click-games. But for some reason ‘the algorithm’ on gab isn’t encouraging us to find one another.

    So thanks to those of you who put in the effort of connecting communities together.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 19:20:54 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107243061528449832

  • RESTORING THE FAMILY A woman has intrinsic value to a man, so he must only deter

    RESTORING THE FAMILY

    A woman has intrinsic value to a man, so he must only determine her costs. A man has extrinsic value to a woman, so she must only determine her returns. We are going to have to restore the family as the object of policy(not the individual) if we are going to SURVIVE.

    If, as I recommend, we state the reproduction of the intergenerational family is the purpose of policy, we reverse the marriage vs unmarried penalty, we eliminate common property, alimony, child support, restore insurance by the population from interference in the marriage, by restoring liability for interfering with or breaking a marriage, and we reduce the financial stress, reduce taxation housing and interest at the bottom, end and sexual asymmetry in the present marketplace for low and medium wage employment, restore the academy as a ‘church’, and limit voting to those with self-supporting famiilies with children, then we will help families form once again. If we determine retirement payments by children and their incomes, and we restore inheritances then this begins to again encourage family formation.

    If, as I recommend, we repatriate strategic industries, end income tax for manual labor (including drivers, craftsmen, construction, and one-man businesses) and eliminate interest on durable goods and homes, and distribute liquidity directly to families, we ‘fix’ most problems.

    If as I recommend, we provide ‘British ability to draw down against future liquidity distributions (increases in money supply), we eliminate a lot of familial stresses. If we nationalize pensions, and insurance, and adopt Singapore retirement and medical we solve even more.

    If as I recommend, we restore centralized design and production of homes, for rail distribution and local assembly, we can negotiate resource prices, standardize and reduce prices, reduce the cost of homes, end mc-houses, increase quality, (see 1920’s home catalogs).

    If, as I recommend, we regionalize manufacture of apartments, particularly designs for three generations, down to what are effectively ‘dorms’ for single men, we can state fund, and mass-produce housing superior to the soviet model, while imposing severe behavioral restrictions.

    — “The solutions aren’t out of reach when there are guys like you working on the problem. The real barrier is the social ecosystem of power, bureaucracy, vested interests in the status quo, etc that prevent changes.” —

    Like I said. If 2M show up that’s all it takes to force a peaceful negotiation so that the state preserves its self interest at the expense of the financial sector, academy, and media. They will do it only if it means self-perpetuation. And that’s what we’re offering them.

    You have to think of it from the Bureaucracy’s perspective. They need ‘permission, direction, and operating rules’ in order to change from financial, political, and globalist system masters to serving the people once again – and mostly by protecting them from bad people again.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 17:57:53 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107242735104954059

  • BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAIN, THE FUTURE OF MONEY AND ECONOMY I’m not anti-BTC. I’m just

    BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAIN, THE FUTURE OF MONEY AND ECONOMY

    I’m not anti-BTC. I’m just doing my job. That means (a) BTC’s not money, but a fractional divisible share in the btc network (b) dependent upon the BTC network (b) it’s easy for the state to crash its value out of self defense – and it will. It’s an unbacked, uninsured, share in a network – that combines the features of shares of stock and token money.

    IE: Know the downside of investments. Don’t time it. Get out early.

    • “CURT: Do you believe the state will crush blockchain tech as a whole or just the cryptos like BTC that seek to compete with the dollar? I see huge potential in smart contracts and see it as counterproductive to the states interest to destroy it.” –

    1) IMO, more so in the coming near future, than in the past, the state will require and increase monetary levers of influence. So anything that is a threat to fiat currencies will be suppressed. Period. End of story. Does that mean blockchain tech? Absolutely not. 😉

    2)However, in that near-future monetary system we may see an even GREATER disconnect between consumer vs business monetary systems, and spending and saving monetary systems. We are past the point of the utility of a single fiat currency. This has been obvious since late 1980s.

    3) So the question isn’t whether blockchain survives – because the secure-ledger technology is a vast improvement in ownership (title) registry. It’s whether the state tolerates unbacked assets. IMO the state will end bank money creation, and capture all credit money creation.

    4) At present we have about a 1T revenue shortfall. And we have more than 1T involuntarily extracted from the people into the financial sector that should be captured by the state.

    5) With the advent of actuarial data at scale, tradable debt, and treasury insurance, banks have negative value and the financial sector has been able to create a state within a state, and a global state at the cost of the populations of liberal political states.

    It’s fixable.

    6) This is why I say that Blockchain techs are providing free off-book research and development for the state. And that the state is too busy fighting off globalists, populists, and the marxist-pomo revolution, to solve hard problems – only revolution, crash or war will do it.

    7) Over long enough time frames all human behavior is deterministic in the absence of a radical increase in the discovery, production, and application of ever-cheaper energy. There is a very near zero chance that I’m incorrect in my estimation by other than timing.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-06 14:49:55 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107230671393527036

  • RUSSIAN OPINION (a) the west is seen as decadent and in decline in much of the w

    RUSSIAN OPINION

    (a) the west is seen as decadent and in decline in much of the world. And a visit to america, or just viewing american streets on google maps will confirm that without much difficulty.

    (b) russians are frustrated because their economy was growing until 2014, but the consequences of handling the ukrainian revolution poorly have affected them disproportionately. Worse, all capital is being directed to moscow and st petersburg at the expense of the distant regions. (Again, this is a ‘gamble’ the russian government is taking, given that they expect a rapid collapse of the west – especially europe – witihn the near time horizon as demographic collapse hurts europe more so than the rest of the world.

    (c) the entire world is economically equilibrating ending 600 years of european advantage in genetic destribution, institutions, culture, science, and technology, so the entire world will gravitate toward greater state responsibility for the economic condition – which is what we mean by socialism – since socialism always fails, it simply means are more mixed economy favoring state protection of labor markets and prices.

    (d) We know what the future looks like and china has taught a very serious and uncomfortable lesson: the chinese are fascists not communists. They are imitating the national socialists not the communists, in every aspect of their society. IN doing so they are demonstrating that the fascists won the argument over the future economic model. Why? Because nationalism, ethonocentrism, heavy trade regulation, state as majority venture capitalism, and private sector as majority producer, is the optimum political model. The only difference is the degree of propaganda necessary to maintain the loyalty of the people to one another (nationalism, ethnocentrism), in proportion to the amount of stress that the people must endure while policy slowly take effect.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-05 15:23:57 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107225142902208525

  • FIXING FINANCIALISM NOT CAPITALISM How to fix the problem of financialism. We mu

    FIXING FINANCIALISM NOT CAPITALISM

    How to fix the problem of financialism.

    We must choose to fix the correct problem: You don’t conflate Capitalism(Rule of law – regulation) with Financialism(Absence of Rule of Law – regulation). Fixing financialism is easy. fixing capitalism is not possible. It’s impossible. Financialism is to capitalism as socialism is to capitalism: they are equally destructive.

    The problem is one of measuring balance sheets vs income statements of the state. (a) measure everything, (b) definancialize (c) organize an economy by competency not by wishful thinking.

    There exist a simple set of fundamental laws of competency, incentive, and measurement. Fundamentally these five rules are the levers of political economy:

    1) You choose either arbitrary rule by man and depend on credentialed or political competency, or rule of law, sovereignty, property, reciprocity, truth, duty, and markets, and depended on demonstrated competency.

    2) You choose whether to use the state as the principle venture capitalist and socialize maximum gains at the cost of low returns on capital and high corruption, or you use the market as the principle venture capitalist and maximize the privatization of gains limiting corruption, or you choose something in the middle.

    3) You choose whether the state maximizes taxation from private performance, or maximizes returns from state investment – dividing the responsibility for capital formation between the state (long term) and the private sector (short term).

    4) You choose to fully account for all capital by fully accounting for costs, or you choose to account only for income (velocity) without accounting for capital, or you choose only to account for condition without accounting for income or capital.

    The optimum political economy is an intermixed (not mixed) economy of distribution of labor between state and private sector, separation of the monetary flow system into citizen consumption, zero interest from the treasury, liquidity distributed directly to consumers, and business credit outside the state. And to ‘gut’ the financial sector by moving it into the state, so that returns on state liquidity are used for redistribution by the state, while at the same time as maximizing national competition in international markets.

    Now, everyone will hate the truth, but the national socialists solved the problem as is china today.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-05 14:01:39 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107224819244003861

  • FUTURE OF MARRIAGE AND MATING: Polygamy? Nope. I try to avoid naturalistic falla

    FUTURE OF MARRIAGE AND MATING: Polygamy? Nope.

    I try to avoid naturalistic fallacies. Mankind is hyper-adaptive and adapts to natural pressures like all other creatures. There are only three conditions under which women choose spinsterhood, single motherhood, and monogamy over polygamy, and we haven’t been able to have them choose the single motherhood option before and survive.

    Those three ‘odd’ conditions are created by an artificial scarcity of men, the presence of disease in men, or radical asymmetry of wealth. This applies to all pairing off animals.

    I don’t see a possibility of that wealth without the extraordinary risk of mass political retaliation. If abortion is still this difficult I don’t see polygamy being any less difficult.

    It is quite possible to form a limited liability company or a partnership and exchange a contract, and limited power of attorney and produce the largest polygamous set of relations possible that the community will tolerate without ostracization and boycott. That’s all a marriage is.

    Combine this with the predictability of nationalism in the coming decades, and economic duress in the coming decades, and the need to invent a post-agrarian, post-industrial economy and institutions and I’m not sure we can count on much other than people choosing the rational option. The immorality of the Edwardian age led to the counter-reaction in the victorian. The victorian ended with the empire. The American empire is ending.

    We should see ourselves mirror England on one hand or Russia on the other. There are many examples in history. My preference is to take control of the process and prepare for it, and manage it. But that will take a near-revolution in the USA on terms I’ve explained elsewhere.

    In other words, we can’t ‘predict’ much from where we’re standing. Worse, there is a tendency of conservatives to try to be cheap and cunning and outwit history, just as much as there is of radical leftists to try to be magical thinkers about human nature. So as I repeat often ‘beware the man in the mirror’.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-05 02:05:05 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107222001598106596

  • This is pretty profound and is one of those general rules we find everywhere in

    This is pretty profound and is one of those general rules we find everywhere in nature. We learn it in the A4, B3, C2 war game. A can defeat B or C but not B and C. B can defeat C but not A. Be can’t defeat C because it would become food to A. etc. Three produces an equilibrium.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-04 22:15:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456384672733216769

    Reply addressees: @WorMartiN

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456383930488209409


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    @WorMartiN Well, of course, just like there are three that describe all emotions. I think I might need to get the importance of ‘three’ across as the only thing the universe can remember so to speak. With 2 you get failure. with 3 you don’t. With more you can’t ‘decide’ (compute). simple.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1456383930488209409

  • THE SUCCESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN PRODUCING MINDFULNESS AND HAPPINESS No matter whe

    THE SUCCESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN PRODUCING MINDFULNESS AND HAPPINESS

    No matter where you sit on the religion question, you have to come to terms with the fact that christianity worked, and still works, and produces the happiest people and families, while marxism and identity-marxism(pomo-pc-woke) produces the opposite, and secular humanism rides in the middle.

    The open question is can we reform christianity as we had under the byzantines, under augustine, under aquinas, despite the failure of the vatican reforms?

    Yes, we can. Because whether god is existential, emergent, or metaphorical, and whether jesus is prophet, philosopher, or social scientist, the result is the same. All that differs is whether you’re unchristian enough to demand others ‘believe’ the way you do, instead of produce the same behavior regardless of beliefs.

    I am loyal to fundamentalist christians. I don’t ‘believe’ like they do. I don’t need faith. For me it’s just science, and the large variation in human cognition between intuiition, imagination and reason.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-04 18:01:34 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107220100367455173

  • THE VERBOSITY OF THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE — “I agree with your assessment. But,

    THE VERBOSITY OF THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE

    — “I agree with your assessment. But, could you make it more concise? I just finished shaving when I started reading your post. By the time I finished it, I had a five o’clock shadow!” — elsewhere

    Sorry boss. I make my notes in YT comments as I listen to the video, then copy them to my archive and riff off them for a while.

    Unfortunately, there is a reason we speak in normative and moral prose: it’s cheap. There is also a reason we speak in logical, scientific, and economic prose – despite that it’s expensive.

    That cost is how we falsify normative and moral prose. “It’s the only way to be sure” so to speak.

    -Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2021-11-04 17:40:25 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107220017176329342