by Noah J Revoy
We eat harmfully.
We choose partners dysgenically.
We manage stress short-sightedly.
We don’t “weed our own garden”.
We give our children to the government too deeply, too young and for too long.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 22:14:20 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991440713677262855
Retweeted TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek):
Marx played tennis with the net down, he lied, produced fake data, went silent when he figured out his whole system was logically incoherent, pretended he had solved problems by assuming magic and impossible causation. He was a massive train wreck of a thinker. #fact https://t.co/BMyR61YUrt
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 21:23:00 UTC
WHY IT’S HARD TO ARGUE WITH PROTESTANTISM
—“A while back I did a bit of research to verify if Buddhism actually increased compassion of its followers. I looked for rates of philanthropy and charity works. The only religious community which was over represented in terms of good works were the Protestants (they account for about 68% of philanthropic work globally while representing about 27% of the religious communities – that’s a god to be thankful for…. Buddhists by the way was less 2% in good works – about half of it’s representative population).”— Bill Joslin
Buddhism is ‘selfish’, and protestantism demands good works. Hence my concern that we preserve good works, but add mindfulness by other means.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 20:55:00 UTC
via Steve Pender “The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.” – Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”
via Steve Pender “The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.” – Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”
—“One-against-one, the Spartans are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all the world. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever he commands, they do. And his command never changes: It forbids them to flee in battle, whatever the number of their foes. He requires them to stand firm — to conquer or die.”—Damaratus to Xerxes.
—“One-against-one, the Spartans are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all the world. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever he commands, they do. And his command never changes: It forbids them to flee in battle, whatever the number of their foes. He requires them to stand firm — to conquer or die.”—Damaratus to Xerxes.
THE LAW IS THE ONLY MASTER OF SOVEREIGN MEN
—“One-against-one, the Spartans are as good as anyone in the world. But when they fight in a body, they are the best of all the world. For though they are free men, they are not entirely free. They accept Law as their master. And they respect this master more than your subjects respect you. Whatever he commands, they do. And his command never changes: It forbids them to flee in battle, whatever the number of their foes. He requires them to stand firm — to conquer or die.”—Damaratus to Xerxes.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:33:00 UTC
by Noah J Revoy
We eat harmfully.
We choose partners dysgenically.
We manage stress short-sightedly.
We don’t “weed our own garden”.
We give our children to the government too deeply, too young and for too long.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:14:00 UTC
QUOTES
—“Beware the beast, man. Let him not breed in great numbers. For he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his lair. For he is the harbinger of death.”—
—“The zombie apocalypse is here. They just have 80 IQ’s rather than 40, the virus is linguistic, and not very contagious, and you don’t have to shoot them in the head – anywhere at all will do.”—
—“By any measure there is no intrinsic value to a given human life. Just the opposite – value is rare, and man is an expensive, destructive, and toxic life form for the biosphere to carry in great numbers. There is no problem facing mankind that is not trivial in comparison to the rates of reproduction of the underclasses. Eugenic reproduction will provide the next century with higher returns than any technology.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:09:00 UTC