You see, you think people have agency. That the rider dominates the elephant. But I undrestand very clearly, that developing agency depends on the biological ability to do so, the market demand to do so, and the discipline to do so. So I see the elephant as a very simple machine, and the rider (consciousness) as a tool with which the elephant identifies opportunities, negotiates cooperation and executes conflict. In other words I see all we think and do as JUSTIFYING the elephant. And that very,very few of us are fully human and able to transcend the elephant. And that propertarianism is a means, like stoicism, like mathematics, of transcending the elephant – or rather COMPLETING THE TRANSCENDENCE OF MAN.
It is only really becoming clear to me that the time I spent on artificial intelligence – realizing that at the time it was a dead end – is the enormous advantage that I have over my philosophical contemporaries. And it is the reason that Searle and Hayek have been so ‘right’, and why I hope to make people understand that Turing, Chomsky’s application of turing, Popper and the operationalists were so close.
All learning is continuous recursion. Epistemology and neurology are the same subject.
Disrupting transport, commerce, trade and first responders.
Starting fires, breaking water and gas, mains.
“Deplatforming” academics, the media, and politicians.
Watching the ‘urban plantations’ collapse in chaos.
Lots of barbecues, parties, and other celebrations with many new friends. 7. All the Loot you can carry. 8. Commandeering a new vehicle to transport it – and you. 9. Getting paid 250k each to go home. 10. Telling fish stories about your adventures until you’re old and grey.
And of course, there is the alternative of the status quo.
This is what revolutionaries around the world are doing. They are not trying to get control of government and to use it for territorial expansion.
Because the era of 4GW is here, and the Peace of Westphalia has ended, and the western way of war cannot concentrate forces on men in sneakers, flip flops, among the citizenry.
—“The NIAC was challenged to think beyond even our most severe power disruptions, imagining an outage that stretches beyond days and weeks to months or years, and affects large swaths of the country.
Unlike severe weather disasters, a catastrophic power outage may occur with little or no notice and result from myriad types of scenarios: for example, a sophisticated cyber physical attack resulting in severe physical infrastructure damage; attacks timed to follow and exacerbate a major natural disaster; a large-scale wildfire, earthquake, or geomagnetic event; or a series of attacks or events over a short period of time that compound to create significant physical damage to our nation’s infrastructure.
An event of this severity may also be an act of war, requiring a simultaneous military response that further draws upon limited resources.
For the purpose of this study, the NIAC focused not on the cause, but rather on the consequences, which are best categorized as severe, widespread, and long-lasting.
The type of event contemplated will include not only an extended loss of power, but also a cascading loss of other critical services—drinking water and wastewater, communications, financial services, transportation, fuel, healthcare, and others—which may slow recovery and impede re-energizing the grid.
Most importantly, the scale of the event—stretching across states and regions, affecting tens of millions of people—would exceed and exhaust mutual aid resources and capabilities. The ability to share public and private resources across businesses and jurisdictions underpins our nation’s emergency response plans and strategies today. (See Appendix C for a more detailed definition of a catastrophic outage).
This profound threat requires a new national focus. The NIAC found that our existing plans, response resources, and coordination strategies would be outmatched by an event of this severity.”—
Disrupting transport, commerce, trade and first responders.
Starting fires, breaking water and gas, mains.
“Deplatforming” academics, the media, and politicians.
Watching the ‘urban plantations’ collapse in chaos.
Lots of barbecues, parties, and other celebrations with many new friends. 7. All the Loot you can carry. 8. Commandeering a new vehicle to transport it – and you. 9. Getting paid 250k each to go home. 10. Telling fish stories about your adventures until you’re old and grey.
And of course, there is the alternative of the status quo.
This is what revolutionaries around the world are doing. They are not trying to get control of government and to use it for territorial expansion.
Because the era of 4GW is here, and the Peace of Westphalia has ended, and the western way of war cannot concentrate forces on men in sneakers, flip flops, among the citizenry.
—“The NIAC was challenged to think beyond even our most severe power disruptions, imagining an outage that stretches beyond days and weeks to months or years, and affects large swaths of the country.
Unlike severe weather disasters, a catastrophic power outage may occur with little or no notice and result from myriad types of scenarios: for example, a sophisticated cyber physical attack resulting in severe physical infrastructure damage; attacks timed to follow and exacerbate a major natural disaster; a large-scale wildfire, earthquake, or geomagnetic event; or a series of attacks or events over a short period of time that compound to create significant physical damage to our nation’s infrastructure.
An event of this severity may also be an act of war, requiring a simultaneous military response that further draws upon limited resources.
For the purpose of this study, the NIAC focused not on the cause, but rather on the consequences, which are best categorized as severe, widespread, and long-lasting.
The type of event contemplated will include not only an extended loss of power, but also a cascading loss of other critical services—drinking water and wastewater, communications, financial services, transportation, fuel, healthcare, and others—which may slow recovery and impede re-energizing the grid.
Most importantly, the scale of the event—stretching across states and regions, affecting tens of millions of people—would exceed and exhaust mutual aid resources and capabilities. The ability to share public and private resources across businesses and jurisdictions underpins our nation’s emergency response plans and strategies today. (See Appendix C for a more detailed definition of a catastrophic outage).
This profound threat requires a new national focus. The NIAC found that our existing plans, response resources, and coordination strategies would be outmatched by an event of this severity.”—
2. Disrupting transport, commerce, trade and first responders.
3. Starting fires, breaking water and gas, mains.
4. “Deplatforming” academics, the media, and politicians.
5. Watching the ‘urban plantations’ collapse in chaos.
6. Lots of barbecues, parties, and other celebrations with many new friends. Pretty much all the time.
7. All the Loot you can carry.
8. Commandeering a new vehicle to transport it – and you.
9. Getting paid 250k each to go home.
10. Telling fish stories about your adventures until you’re old and grey.
And of course, there is the alternative of the status quo.
This is what revolutionaries around the world are doing. They are not trying to get control of government and to use it for territorial expansion.
Because the era of 4GW is here, and the Peace of Westphalia has ended, and the western way of war cannot concentrate forces on men in sneakers, flip flops, among the citizenry.
Well, data is not very kind to our illusions: either the anglo illusion of an aristocracy of everyone, or the continental illusion of a peasantry of everyone. We had it right in the first place: the govt a market for exchanges between the classes.
@curtdoolittle @vdare So you see it as a biological imperative wherein modern society can escape the evolutionary governors of resources and reproduction to function independently of one another?
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50210378_10156930085547264_3380919777768767488_n_10156930085542264.jpg THE ONLY GEOSTRATEGIC MAP THAT MATTERS
look and learn….
europe america, india, china…. understand?Jaromír MiškovskýFuq it matches where ((( diversity ))) occurs, they really want to wipe us out.Jan 20, 2019, 2:13 PMJohn JonesI understand that China is buying a lot of Australian farms. Staying ahead of the malthusian curve.
Arable land would be a better map.Jan 20, 2019, 2:14 PMNeil A. Bucklewyou said the population map was the only one that metters as well.Jan 20, 2019, 2:15 PMJim GingerichNo honorable mention for the Aussies?Jan 20, 2019, 2:15 PMVengefül Bobmoran”understand?”
Not really.
I’m unsure if this is to show that some regions are already near capacity, or that some regions are barely touched.Jan 20, 2019, 2:18 PMArthur Spido”Cultivation” refers to agriculture? If that’s so, then Brazil should be “cultivated” all over.Jan 20, 2019, 2:21 PMXavier WallaceCan you explain what this means in layman’s terms?Jan 20, 2019, 2:21 PMCurt Doolittleforgive my hyperbole pls. population vs arable landJan 20, 2019, 2:27 PMAndrew GribbleIt is important to remember that many former farms have been allowed to run fallow, as tech has made it possible to grow more per acre than what our great grandparents could even imagine.
So what soil IS being worked isn’t representative of what COULD be cultivated.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMNeil A. Bucklewnothing to forgive. these are all very important.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMDominic LeyvaCan you explain what this map means?Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMNeil A. Bucklewwhere food is so you do not die.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMCurtus MaximusLooks like a map of all the productive people in the world.Jan 20, 2019, 2:30 PMDominic LeyvaMexico is represented awfully, their agriculture is really good and are top exportersJan 20, 2019, 2:30 PMDominic LeyvaI mean shit, Brazil is like #3/4 and they’re barely even colored inJan 20, 2019, 2:31 PMKeith HamburgerDon’t know that’s particularly accurate. And the granularity is extremely low.Jan 20, 2019, 2:37 PMJohann GöhmannWhat are they cultivating?Jan 20, 2019, 2:47 PMEric Myers100% cultivated means you can’t use the land for anything else. You don’t want every square inch to be farm, we need nature tooJan 20, 2019, 2:51 PMMatthew VölkischIs this only crops, or animals too?Jan 20, 2019, 3:05 PMBrian McQuistonThis can’t be accurate.*Nothing* on the Nile?Jan 20, 2019, 3:10 PMRichard HallRob Roberts Shut the borders immediatly! 😲Jan 20, 2019, 3:17 PMPhilip ChristopherJohn Jones I’d like to see arable/cultivation overlayJan 20, 2019, 3:24 PMNeil A. Bucklewthose areas are where that production is at. look at mexico. the part north of the green is barrens, mountains, desert. a terrain/climate map in comparison will make more sense.Jan 20, 2019, 3:28 PMDominic LeyvaLower Mexico isn’t desert thoughJan 20, 2019, 3:29 PMNeil A. Bucklewit is mostly forest. forested areas are not considered cultivated i think. though i do not know, if they included that in their description of what they considered cultivated.Jan 20, 2019, 3:31 PMMicah Pezdirtzcultivated agriculturally, i presume. potential vs actual cultivation, natural resource utilization?Jan 20, 2019, 3:31 PMStephen FlowersWhat about pastoral use of land, cattle raising, etc.?Jan 20, 2019, 3:34 PMCurt DoolittleJan 20, 2019, 3:59 PMCurt DoolittleCivilizations. See?Jan 20, 2019, 4:01 PMCurt DoolittleJan 20, 2019, 4:02 PMCurt DoolittlePopulationJan 20, 2019, 4:03 PMRadu M OleniucIt’s not accurate and it is flawed. The actual soils maps (with erosion, yields, intensive use of nitrates, thickness of chernozem layer, potasium and so on) looks quite different.Jan 20, 2019, 4:17 PMThiago Modelborn Pereira-BerthoIs yellow non arable land? South America looks very wrongJan 20, 2019, 4:40 PMJames SantagataR-selects question: “Where’s the US located on this map? There’s no labels.”Jan 20, 2019, 5:34 PMBenjamin BakerCroikeyJan 20, 2019, 5:38 PMBenjamin BakerEric Myers wasn’t most of the Midwest open grazing land before and after European settlement?Jan 20, 2019, 5:40 PMEric MyersThe Midwest was a biologicallly diverse Prairie with perennial crops with roots several feet thick Now it’s fields of annual plants losing top soil.Jan 20, 2019, 6:06 PMEdmund BlackadderWhoever recolonizes Africa, winsJan 20, 2019, 7:48 PMPaul BardGreen seems to be where the food is grown by productive conscientious folk.Jan 20, 2019, 8:53 PMPaul BardAustralia was green and fertile before colonisation 40,000 years ago, and may be again with good strict land management.Jan 20, 2019, 8:56 PMJustin PtakI am going to say the west coast of the US is under-reported.Jan 20, 2019, 10:16 PMMartin HartwigAustralia, don’t forget us. 😉Jan 21, 2019, 3:42 AMRoketo Panchiican confirm massive amounts of farmland along the west coast between sf and laJan 21, 2019, 4:09 AMRoketo Panchiialso significant amount in norcal from wine countryJan 21, 2019, 4:10 AMNick HeywoodThe problem with Australia is the land is so old? There’s not a lot of quality soil left.
Compared to it’s size.
Compared to area’s such as Western Russia, North America and Europe etc. Well, anywhere else, really.
And for 1/4 of the year? It bakes! Most of land mass is experiencing 100+F at about 50 miles in the from the cost, all the way round this summer.
The middle needs water plumbed from the north and a damn good sprinkling of nitrogen!
Then? Oh boy! Look the F out!
But that’s dreamin’ 🙂
It’s still massively under utilised!Jan 21, 2019, 4:25 AMArno KælandWhich rivers and rainfall made then, today’s dry areas green?Jan 21, 2019, 4:27 AMPaul BardAaron Kahland Australia has a vast inland lake which is dry almost all year round and sustained a savannah ecology before humans came with a wide variety of now extinct large mammals. Almost all those mammals were wiped out by human arrival and the savannah ecology replaced by a semi-desert fire ecology.Jan 21, 2019, 5:08 AMArno KælandI wonder whether desalanation for the purpose of re-forestation / vegetation could lead to a renewal.Jan 21, 2019, 5:10 AMPaul BardJacob Smith that’s the Aussie guy who came up with the technique of slowing down water with native grasses.
The Israelis are really the leaders in desert regeneration, from the Kibbutzim movement to the large scale desert engineering.Jan 21, 2019, 5:11 AMPaul BardAaron Kahland desalinate soil or water?Jan 21, 2019, 5:12 AMArno KælandJacob Smith Oz has plenty of energy (Uranium).Jan 21, 2019, 5:12 AMArno KælandPaul Bard Water for the purpose of re-vegetation which in time could generate cloud/rainfall requiring less desalination.
I’m no expert in this field so my assumption might be completely off.Jan 21, 2019, 5:13 AMArno KælandJacob Smith Right, the difficult task is to understand how the natural environment once worked. I expect the two critical aspects are soil and water regeneration.Jan 21, 2019, 5:28 AMPaul BardNick Heywood we need a local form of Constitutional reinforcement to make land greening part of the national mission.Jan 21, 2019, 6:46 AMNick HeywoodNot sure about that?
But the greens need “ovening”.
That’d be a step in the right direction 😁Jan 21, 2019, 12:38 PMPaul BardNick Heywood I think especialliy in regard to cohabitation with black Aussies rehabilitation is a big part of our national Australian destinyJan 21, 2019, 3:53 PMEric GroseThese maps don’t include permaculture, a way to grow food anywhere. We got permaculture from Australia, one of the most arid landscapes. Yeoman (plow) and bill mollison.Jan 21, 2019, 10:11 PMEric GrosePaul Bard at polyface farm in Virginia they had to RAISE their fence posts because they created new soil through mob grazing techniques.Jan 21, 2019, 10:13 PMArno KælandThere are actually seas of fresh water far beneath the ground.Jan 22, 2019, 4:16 AMNeil A. Bucklewfood is also prime targets. dont forget that. a couple a burned feilds and a village dies.Jan 22, 2019, 5:38 PMNikola DzhilvidzhievI didn’t quite understand why you put such a focus on the importance of the American heartland and the Mississippi river valley until seeing this map. Food matters.Jan 22, 2019, 5:53 PMTHE ONLY GEOSTRATEGIC MAP THAT MATTERS
I don’t want to appeal to anyone. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t even want attention. I want to present a constitution that solves real problems, and then foment a revolt in order to demand their solution. I am unimportant.
There is NO REASON people need to undrestand propertarianism any more than quantum mechanics or algebraic geometry, or the body of extant law and its reasoning. The intellectual work is for intellectuals and jurists in defense of that constitution.
There is however, every reason for COMMON people to fight for a better life and the end to political conflict and social strife.
I only need to convince some number of them that this will solve the problems that they face. Because only a small number who will fight is necessary.
—“I don’t think I have the stamina for trying to formulate how we’d construct a religion operationally.”–Curtus Maximus
I can define the terms. I think it’s entirely possible. Because it was at one time. And it can be again.
It’s actually liberating to understand religion:
Narrative(Strategy), Education, Ritual, Oath, Debt – to one another across time.
Creating all that is an interesting mission. Like I said, I might consider it after publishing The Law. (Assuming I live long enough.)
—“I think the proper thing to do would involve subjecting them all to falsification and letting them compete in the market for religions.”—Curtus Maximus
We “white folks” have our own derogatory class names for each other – and lots of them. The “forbidden word” for our ex-slave community members is the equivalent of what we white folks call our fellow ‘trailer-tr-sh’.
Similarly, if you look up all the pejorative names for different racial groups, you can divide them into classes (I would do it here but it would be banned.)
The point being, that our complaints are mostly that of class and difference in group behavior at the lower end, and the similarity of class behavior at the upper end.
I mean, at island 120 you start getting close, and by 140, as long as you’re an aristotelian not a theist, people around the world are pretty much the same, because they are far less dependent on imitation and consensus and far more so on falsification, knowledge, and reason.
Now, they still tend to follow their own signals, so what is good and traditional to a group remains the same. But it is possible to cooperate fairly easily at the top – which is where the cooperation occurs: on behalf of the people who are not at the top.
The problem with the categories ‘men’ and ‘women’ is that they describe two very broad distributions with significant overlap. Masculine women, effeminate men. Women with Agency, men without agency. When we use such categories we mean ‘the average tendency of the group.’
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