https://www.amazon.com/Hive-Mind-Your-Nation-s-Matters/dp/150360067X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid&srJon Jonathan: —“This book is relevant here. There are models that predict low-IQ nations will become indebted to high-IQ nations. Maining a high-IQ population is a requirement for a healthy economy and low corruption.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-15 11:36:00 UTC
STATUS PRODUCTION IN THE DEFLATIONARY SOCIETY
(important piece)(new insight by Saini)
Ricky Saini: —“Deconflation allows more status seekers to acquire status productively – as opposed to a monopoly of status acquired by a specific elite group of individuals that hoards it over everyone else.”—
In a conflationary society one group attempts to hold all the status.
In a deflationary society, we find elites in all methods of coercion (Martial/Paternal:Force/Threat, Economic/Brotherly: Remuneration/Payment, and Priestly/Maternal:Gossip/Advocacy-Shame), plus one method of decidability: the Judiciary, and one ‘Craftsmanly’ Art, Science, Engineering, Craftsmanship. and one familial: Paternal, Maternal, Number of Children, Manners/Culture.
A deflationary society provides many more opportunities for high status by many other means, and therefore more incentive for personal achievement by social ‘competition’. There is more room for winners by moral means.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-14 22:11:00 UTC
“PROPERTY IN TOTO”: THE BASIC IDEA IS VERY SIMPLE
(Eli Harman)(important idea)
Eli Harman: —“The term Curt Doolittle uses is “property in toto” (property in all of its forms.)
But the basic idea is simple as day. It’s just that property is whatever people demonstrate the willingness and ability to claim and defend as their own, either individually, or in common.
That could be physical, private, property, or it could be the market value of the same.
It could be physical, common, property, like a park.
It could be common, intangible, property, like public order and decency, the integrity of their language, truth in the “marketplace of ideas,” the ancestral gene pool, or something else.
It could be private but intangible, reputation, intellectual property, honor, etc…”— Eli Harman
MORE:
The institution of Property is held in place by competition via judicial competition using natural law. We do not have to advocate for any form or limit to the definition of property in order to limit ‘discretionary rule’ and to retain ‘rule of law’. We merely have to demonstrate that any claim to property was obtained by homesteading, transformation (production), or exchange, without violating the One Law of Natural Law: the requirement for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer limited to productive externality.
This technique is called Via Negativa: we do not define Property per se. We define only what Property is not: that which is claimed as property(control) but obtained by the imposition of costs upon that which others have invested to obtain an interest in.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-14 20:56:00 UTC
—“In the Second World War, Imperial Japan dropped thousands of plague-infested fleas on Chinese cities.
Developed at its covert “Unit 731” biological and chemical warfare facility, these attacks are believed to have killed around 400,000 civilians.
…
There are antibiotics available to counter the disease, but they are ineffective if not administered within a day of the onset of symptoms. With most doctors having little experience of the disease, it is unlikely it would be identified before it’s too late.
And given the symptoms are easily mistaken for that of a common flu, he said it was imperative a vaccine is developed.
The window for antibiotic treatment is very narrow, so it is usually between 20 – 24 hours after the appearance of the symptoms of the disease. If you delay the treatment then you will still see people dying.
A HISTORY OF PLAGUE AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON
Given the virality of the plague, history is littered with instances of it being used as a biological weapon.
Historical accounts from the far east describe it being used by the Mongols, Huns and rampaging Chinese armies to infect adversaries.This involved catapulting infected animals or corpses of plague victims into besieged cities, or dumping them into water supplies to infect enemies’ drinking water.
During the Second World War, Imperial Japan pioneered warheads filled with disease-ridden rats, mice, clothing and fleas which it dropped on Chinese civilians.The disease had been developed at the so-called “Unit 731” facility in northeast China, which was the site of some of Japan’s most horrendous war crimes. An estimated 250,000 people were subjected to experimentation at the site.
Following the war, both the US and Russia harnessed the technology – much of which was based on Japanese and German research – to use plague as a weapon.Studies have since revealed the USSR focused on developing “aerosolized” forms of the disease – thereby removing the need for it to be transmitted via infected fleas or animals.And despite being a signatory to a convention banning the development of such weapons, Russia was found to still be creating the weapons as late as the 1990s when former USSR microbiologist Ken Alibek defected to the US.
The plague is physically transmitted, just like Ebola, so therefore simple quarantine measures are effective. If this scenario was to actually work, then we would have seen epidemic level plaque outbreaks after the dark ages when we learned it was spread by microbe infected rats and fleas. There have not been any of that type of outbreak that wasn’t quickly quarantined.
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Source date (UTC): 2017-01-13 21:43:00 UTC
—“See, for example, the insightful comments by Childs (1914, 1-2) who notes ‘[t]he word “property”, in law, has two significations, meaning, first, “something owned”; and, second, “ownership”. … Property in its first sense – that of “something owned”, is classified into Real Property, or Realty, and Personal Property, or Personalty’.
Blackstone uses the term ‘property’ in the sense of dominium (ownership right over a thing): see Blackstone (1893 [1753]), for example Chapter II. In contrast. Pollock in his seminal work on possession uses the term ‘ownership’, while the term ‘property’ mostly identifies the thing owned; see for example Pollock (1888, 8-12; also Pollock and Maitland 1898, Chapter IV).”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-13 20:00:00 UTC
—“No man has (or ever had) any inherent right to the use of the earth; nor to personal independence; nor to property, nor to wives, nor to liberty of speech; nor to freedom of thought; nor to anything except he can (by himself or in conjunction with his allies) assert his ‘rights’ by Power.
What are (in popular parlance) called ‘rights,’ are really ‘spoil’ — the prerogatives of formerly exerted Might; but a ‘right’ lapses immediately, when those who are enjoying it, become incapable of further maintaining it.
Consequently all ‘rights’ are as transient as morning rainbows, international treaties, or clauses in a temporary armistice. They may be abrogated at any moment, by any one of the contracting parties, holding the necessary Power.
Broadly speaking therefore, Might is incarnated Right, and rights are metamorphosed mights. Power and Justice are synonyms; for Might is mighty and does prevail. They who possess the undisputable Might (be they one, ten, or ten million) may and do proclaim the Right.
Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power— and Power is founded on brain and brawn — on Organic Animality.
Just as parents dictate right to their children, so masterful animals dictate right to millions and millions of sodden-livered, baby-minded men.
Monarchic rulers are the gaudy jumping-jacks, and representative institutions the tax gathering mechanism of the Mighty-Ones. Banks and safe-deposits are their treasure-stores, and armies and navies their sentinels, executioners, watchmen.” – Sam Hyde
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-12 13:17:00 UTC
—“Veritatis simplex oratio est”–Seneca
(The language of truth is simple.)
Unfortunately, the language by which we discover it is not.
Else it would not have taken us millennia to create it.
Gods work with simple rules. But they transcribe them in the most complex of languages: the fabric of the universe.
The translation effort has been our costliest monument.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-12 10:23:00 UTC
James Augustus Berens:
—“Heroic Man, by necessity, is uncultured—more precisely de-cultured. He seeks the destruction in himself of that which is untrue, dishonest, lowly. For industrialized mass culture is driven by values produced and consumed by the herd, those domesticated masses so enthralled with their own mediocrity that their sheepishness eludes them.
Indeed an honest observer would risk little to note that common man, that tame, soft fellow seems almost incapable of grasping even the most basic of truths about his fundamental condition.
But mans collective mastery over nature subsumes with it the elimination, nay the distancing, of the contest; and as such, the ultimate test of that which he values. It has come to pass that we are so free of our original burden—the shrill and unforgiving mistress we call nature—that we actively hold anti-values as the highest of all values, and the consequences for our mis-valuations are so far removed from the immediately perceptible that it takes a mad man or a genius to see the necessary course of subsequent events (most likely one must suffer through both).
But Heroic Man gives easily to his own restlessness and distaste of common values. And as such seeks values of the highest degree, only those tested by time, his enemies and nature. And where the random course of events fails to deliver a satisfactory test, the Hero—to the bewilderment of the domesticated herd—most paradoxically tests all that is himself by confronting that primordial principle that governs all of existence, including his own. That is, the law of entropic decline, disorder, decay.
Only at the edge of near-death, does our Hero re-affirm his values, does he say yes to himself and yes to the world. It is, in this particular manner—the test, crucible & contest—that the Hero transcends mere man, that he aligns himself with The True, The Beautiful & The Good.
For nothing is more True than Survival.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 22:36:00 UTC
Joel Davis: —“By violence we may test our will against reality. By triumph we may manifest our will in reality. And we can argue about what is and what isn’t until we are blue in the face… Ultimately the test of whether your ideas can transform into reality will be whether you succeed or fail in overcoming that which resists it’s manifestation.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 22:35:00 UTC
FACEBOOK ONE OF AMERICAS MOST HATED COMPANIES
—“Mark Zuckerberg will be grappling with a growing problem in 2017: Facebook hate.
The social-networking giant has landed on a list of “America’s Most Hated Companies,” with users hacked off over its handling of everything from fake news to privacy concerns.
Facebook’s name ended up in sixth place behind Comcast, Bank of America, Mylan, McDonald’s and Wells Fargo.
Trailing Facebook on the miserable list of 12 were the slightly less-hated Spirit Airlines, Dish Network, Sears, Sprint, Walmart and Charter Communications.”—
I mean, if you’re more hated than a cell phone provider, you gotta be real sh_t.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-11 16:36:00 UTC