Form: Mini Essay

  • Why Do You Need It?

    Apr 25, 2020, 11:12 AM WHY DO YOU NEED IT? What makes you think your theology, philosophy, or ideology is any different than putting cheese in a maze to bait a rat to work his way through it? It’s not. Why do we need these things? Because otherwise, in a division of labor larger than the tribe, the universe is un navigable, because it’s incalculable by the human brain. Why do we need units of measure, money, counting and accounting – and now banking and economics? Because otherwise the world we live in is not only incalculable but its impossible to sense and perceive. There are only three sets of laws: Physical, Natural, and Evolutionary. There is only one goal: Transcendence.There is only one purpose: Persistence (reproduction).There is only one choice: What you do with the time you were born with. To do so we need physical fitness, mindfulness, training(norms), knowledge (education), and skills (in production). To obtain them we need each other in a vast division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. And there is no better combination than sport (fitness), stoicism (mindfulness(negativa)), epicureanism (choice(positiva)), natural law (training), the sciences (education), and a craft (skills), and a family, friends, allies, market, polity, and nation to do it with. Because you have no choice until you have agency. And what you’ve just read is the recipe for agency. After that its just choice.

  • Why Do You Need It?

    Apr 25, 2020, 11:12 AM WHY DO YOU NEED IT? What makes you think your theology, philosophy, or ideology is any different than putting cheese in a maze to bait a rat to work his way through it? It’s not. Why do we need these things? Because otherwise, in a division of labor larger than the tribe, the universe is un navigable, because it’s incalculable by the human brain. Why do we need units of measure, money, counting and accounting – and now banking and economics? Because otherwise the world we live in is not only incalculable but its impossible to sense and perceive. There are only three sets of laws: Physical, Natural, and Evolutionary. There is only one goal: Transcendence.There is only one purpose: Persistence (reproduction).There is only one choice: What you do with the time you were born with. To do so we need physical fitness, mindfulness, training(norms), knowledge (education), and skills (in production). To obtain them we need each other in a vast division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. And there is no better combination than sport (fitness), stoicism (mindfulness(negativa)), epicureanism (choice(positiva)), natural law (training), the sciences (education), and a craft (skills), and a family, friends, allies, market, polity, and nation to do it with. Because you have no choice until you have agency. And what you’ve just read is the recipe for agency. After that its just choice.

  • The First Complete Statement of The Philosophy of Western Civilization

    Apr 25, 2020, 12:14 PM THE FIRST COMPLETE STATEMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION The Heroic Civilization. For reasons we are unsure of, the west combined bronze horse and wheel, and in doing so transformed from egalitarian earth worshippers to hierarchical sun worshippers. From submissive to heroic. Sovereignty. But because of their military strategy – a strategy that required large personal investments and large personal risk – they chose sovereignty: the right of the individual to act as his own legislature in his family’s affairs, as the first ‘law, rule or principle’ of their society upon which all others were to depend. Markets in Everything. The only institutional solution to choosing the strategy of sovereignty is to resort to markets in everything: relationships, marriage, production, commons, adjudication of differences, and rule. And the only means of resolving conflicts between them is the natural, judge discovered common law. In other words the only solution to sovereignty is : the absence of discretion (choice). And the only solution to the absence of choice, is rule of natural, judge-discovered law. The Rapidity of Suppression of Parasitism. The by-product of this choice of sovereignty is the rapidity with which new methods of free riding, parasitism, predation, can be suppressed – by the first case adjudicated and recorded. And secondly, the ease of expanding risk taking when such rapidity and lack of discretion is visible. And third, the trust that evolves from the consistent suppression of corruption in the state, and free riding in the commons, and parasitism and fraud in commerce, and predation by any criminal means. Not First but Fastest. In summary, the choice of sovereignty allowed the west to advance FASTER than the rest by process of DISCOVERY faster than the rest. So the West was not first, it was fastest, except in the medieval world when (like now) we were defeated by the first great lie: mysticism. Class Structure. The west has always practiced tri-partism: the estates of the realm – in one way or another. Since our origins on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia. Priests, Warriors, Laborers. We have always used the class structure ‘honestly’. Testimonial Truth and Deflationism. The west has (uniquely) practiced deconflationism (specialization) in various forms – never mixing Law, religion, and festival – and resisting the church’s usurpation of our nature worship and related festivals. We have even had in some cases, different languages for our estates of the realm: Latin, French, and German. Polytheistic (And PolyArgumentative). And so the west has always practiced polytheism of sorts: martial sovereignty, commercial rule of law, craftsman’s technology, intellectual philosophy, commoner religion, and the mythology of nature and the hearth. And each has used different forms of communication and different methods of argument. No Single ‘Book’. Because of this tripartism, this unconflated set of competing yet compatible ideas produced a very complex unwritten social order never captured in a single book in a single language using a single argument. Possibly because it could not have been until now. We simply didn’t know how. It took us hundreds of years in the ancient world, and hundreds of years in the modern to discover how to complete our single language of truthful speech: that language we call ‘science’ – a language that evolved not from our priesthood, not from our intellectuals, but from our empirical, natural, common law. The Great Lies of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Our current century and the last, and part of the previous, were victims of the same strategy that Zoroaster, Jerusalem and Mecca used against us in the ancient world: the first great lie of supernatural mysticism. We have been fighting the second great lie of pseudoscience for over a century. We are now fighting the second version of the first lie: Islam, and Islam has replaced the pseudoscience of marxists: world communism with the fundamentalist, absolutist, mysticism of religion.

  • The First Complete Statement of The Philosophy of Western Civilization

    Apr 25, 2020, 12:14 PM THE FIRST COMPLETE STATEMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION The Heroic Civilization. For reasons we are unsure of, the west combined bronze horse and wheel, and in doing so transformed from egalitarian earth worshippers to hierarchical sun worshippers. From submissive to heroic. Sovereignty. But because of their military strategy – a strategy that required large personal investments and large personal risk – they chose sovereignty: the right of the individual to act as his own legislature in his family’s affairs, as the first ‘law, rule or principle’ of their society upon which all others were to depend. Markets in Everything. The only institutional solution to choosing the strategy of sovereignty is to resort to markets in everything: relationships, marriage, production, commons, adjudication of differences, and rule. And the only means of resolving conflicts between them is the natural, judge discovered common law. In other words the only solution to sovereignty is : the absence of discretion (choice). And the only solution to the absence of choice, is rule of natural, judge-discovered law. The Rapidity of Suppression of Parasitism. The by-product of this choice of sovereignty is the rapidity with which new methods of free riding, parasitism, predation, can be suppressed – by the first case adjudicated and recorded. And secondly, the ease of expanding risk taking when such rapidity and lack of discretion is visible. And third, the trust that evolves from the consistent suppression of corruption in the state, and free riding in the commons, and parasitism and fraud in commerce, and predation by any criminal means. Not First but Fastest. In summary, the choice of sovereignty allowed the west to advance FASTER than the rest by process of DISCOVERY faster than the rest. So the West was not first, it was fastest, except in the medieval world when (like now) we were defeated by the first great lie: mysticism. Class Structure. The west has always practiced tri-partism: the estates of the realm – in one way or another. Since our origins on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia. Priests, Warriors, Laborers. We have always used the class structure ‘honestly’. Testimonial Truth and Deflationism. The west has (uniquely) practiced deconflationism (specialization) in various forms – never mixing Law, religion, and festival – and resisting the church’s usurpation of our nature worship and related festivals. We have even had in some cases, different languages for our estates of the realm: Latin, French, and German. Polytheistic (And PolyArgumentative). And so the west has always practiced polytheism of sorts: martial sovereignty, commercial rule of law, craftsman’s technology, intellectual philosophy, commoner religion, and the mythology of nature and the hearth. And each has used different forms of communication and different methods of argument. No Single ‘Book’. Because of this tripartism, this unconflated set of competing yet compatible ideas produced a very complex unwritten social order never captured in a single book in a single language using a single argument. Possibly because it could not have been until now. We simply didn’t know how. It took us hundreds of years in the ancient world, and hundreds of years in the modern to discover how to complete our single language of truthful speech: that language we call ‘science’ – a language that evolved not from our priesthood, not from our intellectuals, but from our empirical, natural, common law. The Great Lies of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Our current century and the last, and part of the previous, were victims of the same strategy that Zoroaster, Jerusalem and Mecca used against us in the ancient world: the first great lie of supernatural mysticism. We have been fighting the second great lie of pseudoscience for over a century. We are now fighting the second version of the first lie: Islam, and Islam has replaced the pseudoscience of marxists: world communism with the fundamentalist, absolutist, mysticism of religion.

  • How Humans Adapt More than Evolve

    Apr 25, 2020, 12:25 PM [I]n my work, I assume that very little genetic ‘evolution’ occurs at all. And that instead, humans possess an extraordinary ability to express multiple evolutionary strategies in response to changes, pressures, and shocks. We can call upon an amazing wealth of genetic expression of ability if we need to. And it can occur rapidly by institutional and status shifts, or slowly over centuries. So I see our genes as an inventory of expressible biases that in combinations produce very different divisions of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. From the effeminate Ashkenazi gender reversal, to the physical immaturity of Asians, to the masculine African and Muslim, and to everything in between. It’s not clear that we haven’t already passed ‘peak human’ and that once we stopped speciation with the development of large populations, long range trade, and cities. In other words, it’s adaptively preferable to have a large dumb aggressive, highly reproductive, consumptive, expansionary society rather than the benevolent and advanced worlds of star trek we imagine. If anything history shows that civilizations grow to the point where they have funded the evolution of competitors who then conquer them. But we have this wonderful adaptive hierarchy available to us. 1) LEVEL ONE (gender bias) {Paternal, Sovereign, Meritocratic, Eugenic, Packs (K)} +

    {Maternal, Collective, Equalitarian, Dysgenic, Herds (R)}

    Adaptive flexibility. 2) LEVEL TWO (dimorphism) {Increased sexual dimorphism, Decreased sexual Dimorphism} + {Increased sexual maturity, Decreased Sexual Maturity} = Adaptive Flexibility 3) LEVEL THREE (redistribution) Normative and Institutional Redistribution of reproduction (shift) + Normative and Institutional Suppression of class reproduction (shift) = Adaptive Flexibility 4) LEVEL FOUR (mating) Assortative mating and Late Marriage vs Arranged Mating and early marriage. = Adaptive Flexibility 5) LEVEL FIVE (signals) Status Signals => Behavioral Expression of Gene Expression = Adaptive Flexibility 6) LEVEL SIX (design) Education, Training, and Genetic Manipulation. = Adaptive Flexibility With these various methods we can produce a population for almost any purpose within a generation or two.

  • How Humans Adapt More than Evolve

    Apr 25, 2020, 12:25 PM [I]n my work, I assume that very little genetic ‘evolution’ occurs at all. And that instead, humans possess an extraordinary ability to express multiple evolutionary strategies in response to changes, pressures, and shocks. We can call upon an amazing wealth of genetic expression of ability if we need to. And it can occur rapidly by institutional and status shifts, or slowly over centuries. So I see our genes as an inventory of expressible biases that in combinations produce very different divisions of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. From the effeminate Ashkenazi gender reversal, to the physical immaturity of Asians, to the masculine African and Muslim, and to everything in between. It’s not clear that we haven’t already passed ‘peak human’ and that once we stopped speciation with the development of large populations, long range trade, and cities. In other words, it’s adaptively preferable to have a large dumb aggressive, highly reproductive, consumptive, expansionary society rather than the benevolent and advanced worlds of star trek we imagine. If anything history shows that civilizations grow to the point where they have funded the evolution of competitors who then conquer them. But we have this wonderful adaptive hierarchy available to us. 1) LEVEL ONE (gender bias) {Paternal, Sovereign, Meritocratic, Eugenic, Packs (K)} +

    {Maternal, Collective, Equalitarian, Dysgenic, Herds (R)}

    Adaptive flexibility. 2) LEVEL TWO (dimorphism) {Increased sexual dimorphism, Decreased sexual Dimorphism} + {Increased sexual maturity, Decreased Sexual Maturity} = Adaptive Flexibility 3) LEVEL THREE (redistribution) Normative and Institutional Redistribution of reproduction (shift) + Normative and Institutional Suppression of class reproduction (shift) = Adaptive Flexibility 4) LEVEL FOUR (mating) Assortative mating and Late Marriage vs Arranged Mating and early marriage. = Adaptive Flexibility 5) LEVEL FIVE (signals) Status Signals => Behavioral Expression of Gene Expression = Adaptive Flexibility 6) LEVEL SIX (design) Education, Training, and Genetic Manipulation. = Adaptive Flexibility With these various methods we can produce a population for almost any purpose within a generation or two.

  • On the Liability for Disloyalty

    Apr 25, 2020, 7:07 PM by Scott De Warren When we won the revolutionary war the losers were required by and large to vacate the territory. Exceptions were made for honorable Tory members that had not taken up arms against the patriots or support to the loyalists. Everyone else had to pack up and go. Why shouldn’t this be the precedent we follow. If we kick out our own kinsmen how much more should be not kick out an enemy group after the conflict? (CD: this is one of the propositions that has to be stated)

  • On the Liability for Disloyalty

    Apr 25, 2020, 7:07 PM by Scott De Warren When we won the revolutionary war the losers were required by and large to vacate the territory. Exceptions were made for honorable Tory members that had not taken up arms against the patriots or support to the loyalists. Everyone else had to pack up and go. Why shouldn’t this be the precedent we follow. If we kick out our own kinsmen how much more should be not kick out an enemy group after the conflict? (CD: this is one of the propositions that has to be stated)

  • On the Liability for Disloyalty

    Apr 25, 2020, 7:07 PM by Scott De Warren When we won the revolutionary war the losers were required by and large to vacate the territory. Exceptions were made for honorable Tory members that had not taken up arms against the patriots or support to the loyalists. Everyone else had to pack up and go. Why shouldn’t this be the precedent we follow. If we kick out our own kinsmen how much more should be not kick out an enemy group after the conflict? (CD: this is one of the propositions that has to be stated)

  • On the Liability for Disloyalty

    Apr 25, 2020, 7:07 PM by Scott De Warren When we won the revolutionary war the losers were required by and large to vacate the territory. Exceptions were made for honorable Tory members that had not taken up arms against the patriots or support to the loyalists. Everyone else had to pack up and go. Why shouldn’t this be the precedent we follow. If we kick out our own kinsmen how much more should be not kick out an enemy group after the conflict? (CD: this is one of the propositions that has to be stated)