—“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill
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Political Quakerism?
—“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill
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Free Will
FREE WILL? —“Up until now everybody has gotten it completely backwards: free will is not rebelling against nature and escaping natural cause-and-effect, but it is exactly the opposite. By becoming part of the cause-and-effect chains and inserting ourselves into them, we gain agency.”—Moritz Bierling
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Free Will
FREE WILL? —“Up until now everybody has gotten it completely backwards: free will is not rebelling against nature and escaping natural cause-and-effect, but it is exactly the opposite. By becoming part of the cause-and-effect chains and inserting ourselves into them, we gain agency.”—Moritz Bierling
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“I’m generally right – only because I know more ways to be wrong.” — Eli Harma
—“I’m generally right – only because I know more ways to be wrong.” — Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 16:31:00 UTC
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THE TIME FOR COOPERATION (EQUALITY OF SOVEREIGNTY) IS PAST by Eli Harman Peterso
THE TIME FOR COOPERATION (EQUALITY OF SOVEREIGNTY) IS PAST
by Eli Harman
Peterson is trying, Doolittle is trying, every conservative and libertarian has BEEN trying, for the last 50 years, to leave the door open to cooperation, coexistence, and compromise with the left. When they finally and inevitably fail to secure a good faith acceptance for their offer, we will be there, to do the other things. But the offer is necessary, because the inevitable refusal and betrayal are necessary, in order to legitimize what must be done. It will not be said that we didn’t give them enough chances to save themselves. We will give them too many. We already have.
( Curt Doolittle: Yes. The time for hope is past. My intentions are to provide a compromise: full reciprocity, thereby treating ‘the others’ (those who lack agency) as foreigners, with whom we settle differences by market cooperation. However, by advocating ‘market fascism’, and aristocratic rule, I’m advocating taking a parental (paternal) responsibility for the ‘others’, in the kindest sense, a domestication of them for profit, out of self-defense, in the middle of the spectrum, and their extermination at the end of the spectrum. My strategy is to simply state this truthfully. And prepare for war. And choose any of the three options that will be available to us in a state of war. I do not fear them. And there are consequences to exterminating them – although I am not sure all are bad. But to domesticate them for profit as we have done for millennia is a position I have a hard time arguing with. Market slavery is still slavery.)
Source date (UTC): 2017-03-25 12:23:00 UTC
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Hanging: Genetic Pacification in the West
Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. – PubMed – NCBI ncbi.nlm.nih.gov USUAL SUSPECTS: FROST AND HARPENDING (I get sh-t all the time from newbs, but if you follow me long enough you learn: I WORK FROM THE DATA. I don’t make sh-t up. ) Evol Psychol. 2015 Mar 6;13(1):230-43. Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. Frost P1, Harpending HC2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25748943 During that period, 0.5 to 1% of all men were removed from each generation through court-ordered executions and a comparable proportion through extrajudicial executions, i.e., deaths of offenders at the scene of the crime or in prison while awaiting trial. The total execution rate was thus somewhere between 1 and 2%. These men were permanently removed from the population, as was the heritable component of their propensity for homicide. If we assume a standard normal distribution in the male population, the most violent 1 to 2% should form a right-hand “tail” that begins 2.33–2.05 SD to the right of the mean propensity for homicide. If we eliminate this right-hand tail and leave only the other 98-99% to survive and reproduce, we have a selection differential of 0.027 to 0.049 SD per generation. …The reader can see that this selection differential, which we derived from the execution rate, is at most a little over half the selection differential of 0.08 SD per generation that we derived from the historical decline in the homicide rate.
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Hanging: Genetic Pacification in the West
Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. – PubMed – NCBI ncbi.nlm.nih.gov USUAL SUSPECTS: FROST AND HARPENDING (I get sh-t all the time from newbs, but if you follow me long enough you learn: I WORK FROM THE DATA. I don’t make sh-t up. ) Evol Psychol. 2015 Mar 6;13(1):230-43. Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. Frost P1, Harpending HC2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25748943 During that period, 0.5 to 1% of all men were removed from each generation through court-ordered executions and a comparable proportion through extrajudicial executions, i.e., deaths of offenders at the scene of the crime or in prison while awaiting trial. The total execution rate was thus somewhere between 1 and 2%. These men were permanently removed from the population, as was the heritable component of their propensity for homicide. If we assume a standard normal distribution in the male population, the most violent 1 to 2% should form a right-hand “tail” that begins 2.33–2.05 SD to the right of the mean propensity for homicide. If we eliminate this right-hand tail and leave only the other 98-99% to survive and reproduce, we have a selection differential of 0.027 to 0.049 SD per generation. …The reader can see that this selection differential, which we derived from the execution rate, is at most a little over half the selection differential of 0.08 SD per generation that we derived from the historical decline in the homicide rate.
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The Data You Want on the West Vs the Rest
Civilization: Powered by the West, Threatened by the Rest Via William Butchman http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2017/01/09/civilization-powered-by-the-west-threatened-by-the-rest/ As Butch mentioned above, (I just saw this post tonight, on March 1st) I’m increasingly confident that what accounts for the west consistently competing faster than ‘the rest’ is sovereignty, and its requirement for deflationary truth, and everything else results from it. The question is, why does it appear that westerners to have had this rather aristotelian bias “realism” or “military epistemology” even into prehistory? The only explanation that fits consists of a small number of related traits: (a) the lack of clannishness that seems to be a predisposition of near-arctic peoples everywhere in the upper hemisphere, (b) the long term use of metallurgy outside of the authoritarian mysticism necessary to organize irrigation in the river valleys, and (c) the battle tactics of raiders who family-financed bronze, horse, and wheel: beginning with voluntary membership in the ‘venture’, selection of leaders (generals), contractual adherence to promised battle plans even at risk of death, contractual distribution of proceeds from battle, and the merciless demands of military epistemology – a discipline we still practice in basic training today: testimony.
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The Data You Want on the West Vs the Rest
Civilization: Powered by the West, Threatened by the Rest Via William Butchman http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2017/01/09/civilization-powered-by-the-west-threatened-by-the-rest/ As Butch mentioned above, (I just saw this post tonight, on March 1st) I’m increasingly confident that what accounts for the west consistently competing faster than ‘the rest’ is sovereignty, and its requirement for deflationary truth, and everything else results from it. The question is, why does it appear that westerners to have had this rather aristotelian bias “realism” or “military epistemology” even into prehistory? The only explanation that fits consists of a small number of related traits: (a) the lack of clannishness that seems to be a predisposition of near-arctic peoples everywhere in the upper hemisphere, (b) the long term use of metallurgy outside of the authoritarian mysticism necessary to organize irrigation in the river valleys, and (c) the battle tactics of raiders who family-financed bronze, horse, and wheel: beginning with voluntary membership in the ‘venture’, selection of leaders (generals), contractual adherence to promised battle plans even at risk of death, contractual distribution of proceeds from battle, and the merciless demands of military epistemology – a discipline we still practice in basic training today: testimony.