[R]ule of Law is Rule of Law ( prohibitions, via-negativa ) regardless of the form of Government (actions, requirements, via-positiva). The only necessary function of law is the resolution of disputes. The only necessary function of government is the production of commons. In a democracy individuals vote on those commons recommended by whom? A king? A bureaucracy? Any proposed by anyone? In a republic, individuals vote for representatives who then vote on those commons. Dictator/Monarchy, Cabinet, (Representatives) Bureaucracy, People. European Parliaments like thangs and juries were originally juries, where the monarchy would petition local landowners (businesspeople) if they wished to tax them for some purpose or not. The battle over via negativa control Rule of Law vs Rule by DIscretion), and the limits of exception on rule of law vs rule by discretion, and the distribution of via-positiva rule between monarch(nation)/dictator(empire), oligarchy/parliament (intermediary between state and people), and the people, has continued. As far as I know the form of government is dependent upon the demographic distribution of the people (relative sizes of the classes), their state of development (size of the middle classes), scale of territory, and hostility and competitiveness of neighbors. If we want an ideal government – at least, the one possible by man – we probably had it: small homogenous nation states, rule of law by the natural (necessary) law of reciprocity (tort, trespass), an hereditary monarch as judge of last resort, a cabinet of professionals acting largely as venture capitalists, a small professional bureaucracy, preferably trained in the aristocratic (private secular), church or confucian model from youth. Via Negativa voting by the people in matters of taxation. And (what is causing most of our 19th-20thc problems) universal standing before the court in matters of the commons. This creates a political market for commons, a productive market for goods services and information, and a juridical market for prosecution of ir-reciprocity regardless of whether private or public.
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Rule of Law vs Government – Deconflation
[R]ule of Law is Rule of Law ( prohibitions, via-negativa ) regardless of the form of Government (actions, requirements, via-positiva). The only necessary function of law is the resolution of disputes. The only necessary function of government is the production of commons. In a democracy individuals vote on those commons recommended by whom? A king? A bureaucracy? Any proposed by anyone? In a republic, individuals vote for representatives who then vote on those commons. Dictator/Monarchy, Cabinet, (Representatives) Bureaucracy, People. European Parliaments like thangs and juries were originally juries, where the monarchy would petition local landowners (businesspeople) if they wished to tax them for some purpose or not. The battle over via negativa control Rule of Law vs Rule by DIscretion), and the limits of exception on rule of law vs rule by discretion, and the distribution of via-positiva rule between monarch(nation)/dictator(empire), oligarchy/parliament (intermediary between state and people), and the people, has continued. As far as I know the form of government is dependent upon the demographic distribution of the people (relative sizes of the classes), their state of development (size of the middle classes), scale of territory, and hostility and competitiveness of neighbors. If we want an ideal government – at least, the one possible by man – we probably had it: small homogenous nation states, rule of law by the natural (necessary) law of reciprocity (tort, trespass), an hereditary monarch as judge of last resort, a cabinet of professionals acting largely as venture capitalists, a small professional bureaucracy, preferably trained in the aristocratic (private secular), church or confucian model from youth. Via Negativa voting by the people in matters of taxation. And (what is causing most of our 19th-20thc problems) universal standing before the court in matters of the commons. This creates a political market for commons, a productive market for goods services and information, and a juridical market for prosecution of ir-reciprocity regardless of whether private or public.
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Jordan Peterson’s Health
Yes Peterson’s in a clinic to get off Klonopin (Clonazepam). Yes he had a reason to get on it (terminal cancer diagnosis of his wife). Yes his wife has rather miraculously survived. Yes he will be fine. The reason to go to clinics if you can afford it, is to reduce the burden of care on your family, and to insulate them from your behavior as you go thru withdrawal. Jordan may have low agreeableness, but he is still a very sensitive person, and his career, like that of actors, trains one to be even more sensitive. And so it’s not wonder he sought help (and could afford it.) Testimony Of Shared Experience: I am very similar to Jordan in age, ability, personality, sentiment, and conviction. And because of undiagnosed cancer, doctors thought I was depressed, and was on Clonazepam for years. I quit cold turkey when I realized what it was doing to me. And, while I have many times the willpower and pain tolerance of normal people, it was a brutal physical and emotional experience – including visual auras, panic attacks, hypersensitive nerves, overactive startle response. I can’t imagine what it’s like for normal people. My wife was amazing. I prepared her expectations for it beforehand. I don’t think it took more than about six weeks but I could be wrong. I vaguely remember the effects sticking with me by popping up now and then for months whenever I was under stress. I can still have an overactive startle response when I’m concentrating for long periods. And so, I would not ask a woman recovering from Mrs Peterson’s near death experience to carry the burden of my withdrawal at a time when she needed caretaking herself. I don’t think i’ve been quite right again since getting off it. And I still take an OCD prescription – for more than twenty years – and I don’t know if it’s because of my low level autism, or the consequences of that experience with Clonazepam. (Or the trauma of multiple bouts of cancer, divorce, and related life changes.) I have no idea. I actually don’t mind my OCD. But other people do. ‘Cause my tolerance for illogical speech drops to zero – and my ability to switch contexts does as well. I don’t like being a robot and that’s what happens. Anyway. My sympathies.
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Jordan Peterson’s Health
Yes Peterson’s in a clinic to get off Klonopin (Clonazepam). Yes he had a reason to get on it (terminal cancer diagnosis of his wife). Yes his wife has rather miraculously survived. Yes he will be fine. The reason to go to clinics if you can afford it, is to reduce the burden of care on your family, and to insulate them from your behavior as you go thru withdrawal. Jordan may have low agreeableness, but he is still a very sensitive person, and his career, like that of actors, trains one to be even more sensitive. And so it’s not wonder he sought help (and could afford it.) Testimony Of Shared Experience: I am very similar to Jordan in age, ability, personality, sentiment, and conviction. And because of undiagnosed cancer, doctors thought I was depressed, and was on Clonazepam for years. I quit cold turkey when I realized what it was doing to me. And, while I have many times the willpower and pain tolerance of normal people, it was a brutal physical and emotional experience – including visual auras, panic attacks, hypersensitive nerves, overactive startle response. I can’t imagine what it’s like for normal people. My wife was amazing. I prepared her expectations for it beforehand. I don’t think it took more than about six weeks but I could be wrong. I vaguely remember the effects sticking with me by popping up now and then for months whenever I was under stress. I can still have an overactive startle response when I’m concentrating for long periods. And so, I would not ask a woman recovering from Mrs Peterson’s near death experience to carry the burden of my withdrawal at a time when she needed caretaking herself. I don’t think i’ve been quite right again since getting off it. And I still take an OCD prescription – for more than twenty years – and I don’t know if it’s because of my low level autism, or the consequences of that experience with Clonazepam. (Or the trauma of multiple bouts of cancer, divorce, and related life changes.) I have no idea. I actually don’t mind my OCD. But other people do. ‘Cause my tolerance for illogical speech drops to zero – and my ability to switch contexts does as well. I don’t like being a robot and that’s what happens. Anyway. My sympathies.
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The President is Protecting YOU, from US.
—“It’s *interesting* that conservatives aren’t piping up to warn that patriots will rise up to defend the Constitution by any means necessary as the executive branch systematically attacks every single one of the Constitution’s structural protections against executive tyranny.”—Will Wilkinson @willwilkinson
[W]ell that’s not quite true right? Violence is a resource. Power is a resource. The question is only whether that resource can be put to good(production of capital) or ill (consumption or loss of capital). How would you measure the capital losses under your neoliberalism? For example what is the cost of one point of aggregate IQ? What is the cost of loss of rule of law? So if The President is trying to retain, and capital, and the rule of law that produces it, by using power, then it is the peaceful alternative to the Right’s restoration of capital and rule of law by violence. You have no moral foundation to appeal to for advancing dysgenia, capital consumption, population expansion, or redistribution over investment in the productivity of commons. You simply use sentimental appeal to sell false promise to those whose existence is carried entirely by white men over 35. Democracy is somewhere between a limited luxury good and a catastrophic means of hyperconsumption of accumulated civilizational capital in all its forms. We are wealthy because of what remains of rule of law, and the germanic rule of law. The ultimate achievement of our politics. So you have it backwards. The president is protecting you, from us.
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The President is Protecting YOU, from US.
—“It’s *interesting* that conservatives aren’t piping up to warn that patriots will rise up to defend the Constitution by any means necessary as the executive branch systematically attacks every single one of the Constitution’s structural protections against executive tyranny.”—Will Wilkinson @willwilkinson
[W]ell that’s not quite true right? Violence is a resource. Power is a resource. The question is only whether that resource can be put to good(production of capital) or ill (consumption or loss of capital). How would you measure the capital losses under your neoliberalism? For example what is the cost of one point of aggregate IQ? What is the cost of loss of rule of law? So if The President is trying to retain, and capital, and the rule of law that produces it, by using power, then it is the peaceful alternative to the Right’s restoration of capital and rule of law by violence. You have no moral foundation to appeal to for advancing dysgenia, capital consumption, population expansion, or redistribution over investment in the productivity of commons. You simply use sentimental appeal to sell false promise to those whose existence is carried entirely by white men over 35. Democracy is somewhere between a limited luxury good and a catastrophic means of hyperconsumption of accumulated civilizational capital in all its forms. We are wealthy because of what remains of rule of law, and the germanic rule of law. The ultimate achievement of our politics. So you have it backwards. The president is protecting you, from us.
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Understanding the Grammar Facility vs the Trivium (important)
Signs? AFAIK signs and symbols are a categorically under the grammar facility (ability). So it’s a question of whether you grasp logic (facility) grammar (continuous recursive disambiguation) and rhetoric (persuasion, argument) as a series from basic to intermediate to complex; and whether you separate sounds, actions, and marks (marks, pictures, symbols, glyphs), or categorize them as the same. Since the language facility is physically independent of sound, action, or mark, then whether we sound, act, or make marks is irrelevant. And the study of sounds, acts, and marks are just subsets, as is vocabulary. The interesting question is what limits to our calculation (reasoning) exist without language, drawing, and symbols to assist in categorization, composition, narration, and memory substitutes. SPECTRUM: 1. Sense(stimuli) … … Perception (composition) … … … Association 2. Logic Facility (constant relations) … … Imagination Facility (prediction) … … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation) 3. Grammar facility (statements) … … Paradigms (‘metaphysics’, ‘dimensions’) … … Vocabulary … … … Sounds … … … Signs (acts, actions) … … … Marks (records) … … … … accidental … … … … intentional … … … … … Mark … … … … … Symbol … … … … … … Glyph … … … … … Pictogram … … … … … Picture … … … … … Picture Series … … … … … Animation 4. Communication Facility (“Language”) … Truths … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) … … Rhetoric (argumentative, persuasive Grammars) … Descriptions … … Testimony … Ordinary Language … Narrations (inflationary Grammars) … … Narrative (description) … … … Storytelling (loading, framing) … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. (idealism-> surrealism, … … … …. supernaturalism->occult, and … … … …. pseudoscience -> magic) … … … Obscurantism (Obscuring, Overloading) … … … … Propaganda … … … Misdirection (Deceit) … … … Fraud (for gain) … … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain) IN OTHER WORDS The cognitive grammaticists are mostly right.
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Understanding the Grammar Facility vs the Trivium (important)
Signs? AFAIK signs and symbols are a categorically under the grammar facility (ability). So it’s a question of whether you grasp logic (facility) grammar (continuous recursive disambiguation) and rhetoric (persuasion, argument) as a series from basic to intermediate to complex; and whether you separate sounds, actions, and marks (marks, pictures, symbols, glyphs), or categorize them as the same. Since the language facility is physically independent of sound, action, or mark, then whether we sound, act, or make marks is irrelevant. And the study of sounds, acts, and marks are just subsets, as is vocabulary. The interesting question is what limits to our calculation (reasoning) exist without language, drawing, and symbols to assist in categorization, composition, narration, and memory substitutes. SPECTRUM: 1. Sense(stimuli) … … Perception (composition) … … … Association 2. Logic Facility (constant relations) … … Imagination Facility (prediction) … … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation) 3. Grammar facility (statements) … … Paradigms (‘metaphysics’, ‘dimensions’) … … Vocabulary … … … Sounds … … … Signs (acts, actions) … … … Marks (records) … … … … accidental … … … … intentional … … … … … Mark … … … … … Symbol … … … … … … Glyph … … … … … Pictogram … … … … … Picture … … … … … Picture Series … … … … … Animation 4. Communication Facility (“Language”) … Truths … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) … … Rhetoric (argumentative, persuasive Grammars) … Descriptions … … Testimony … Ordinary Language … Narrations (inflationary Grammars) … … Narrative (description) … … … Storytelling (loading, framing) … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. (idealism-> surrealism, … … … …. supernaturalism->occult, and … … … …. pseudoscience -> magic) … … … Obscurantism (Obscuring, Overloading) … … … … Propaganda … … … Misdirection (Deceit) … … … Fraud (for gain) … … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain) IN OTHER WORDS The cognitive grammaticists are mostly right.
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The Black Pill Is Only Taken In Ignorance
—“Unless there’s some kind of mass societal breakdown (financial collapse, major econ depression, etc) nothing will happen. The slow descent towards becoming Brazil/Mexico is the future. The 1A/2A will both go within 15 years. And there will be no mass revolt. Call it black pilled but americas future is very bleak imo. I think Europe has a far better chance of pushback, which is ironic considering the lack of 1A/2A.”—WrathOfRedbeard @RedbeardWrath
Again. If I asked you for a plan for taking over a foreign country, a political party, a religion, a political movement, a major corporation, a minor one, or a local business, by use of information and incentives alone, could you? I can and do. Do not measure others by your reflection. The Liberal (feminine) mind overestimates its abilities because social cognitive bias, and insensitivity to non-correspondence. The Conservative (masculine) mind underestimates its ability because of lack of social cognitive bias, and hypersensitivity to non-correspondence. You and others cannot consent to what you cannot imagine. I can imagine what you cannot and what you and others can consent to. The first 10k men are what matter. And there are 10k risk takers even on the right. With 10K comes 100k, wth 100k comes 1M, with 1M comes the rest, and victory … at cost.
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The Black Pill Is Only Taken In Ignorance
—“Unless there’s some kind of mass societal breakdown (financial collapse, major econ depression, etc) nothing will happen. The slow descent towards becoming Brazil/Mexico is the future. The 1A/2A will both go within 15 years. And there will be no mass revolt. Call it black pilled but americas future is very bleak imo. I think Europe has a far better chance of pushback, which is ironic considering the lack of 1A/2A.”—WrathOfRedbeard @RedbeardWrath
Again. If I asked you for a plan for taking over a foreign country, a political party, a religion, a political movement, a major corporation, a minor one, or a local business, by use of information and incentives alone, could you? I can and do. Do not measure others by your reflection. The Liberal (feminine) mind overestimates its abilities because social cognitive bias, and insensitivity to non-correspondence. The Conservative (masculine) mind underestimates its ability because of lack of social cognitive bias, and hypersensitivity to non-correspondence. You and others cannot consent to what you cannot imagine. I can imagine what you cannot and what you and others can consent to. The first 10k men are what matter. And there are 10k risk takers even on the right. With 10K comes 100k, wth 100k comes 1M, with 1M comes the rest, and victory … at cost.