—Many countries have a founding myth that inspires and sustains a national culture.—@CatoInstitute
Strangely enough, while the USA started out with Rule of Law, and the Rights of Englishmen, and developed myths instead. 😉
We did it backwards I guess. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-19 08:45:00 UTC
Retweeted Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63):
When a managed economy begins to fail, the only direction is to manage it more & more. It’s how “democratic socialism” leads to repression.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-19 08:17:00 UTC
RT @conradhackett: Nonmarital births
Chile 71%
Mexico 65%
France 57%
UK 48%
Spain 43%
US 40%
Germany 35%
Canada 33%
Turkey 3%
Japan 2% http…
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 18:06:04 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/732995686531207168
http://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/732991339411841026/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=732995686531207168Retweeted Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett):
Nonmarital births
Chile 71%
Mexico 65%
France 57%
UK 48%
Spain 43%
US 40%
Germany 35%
Canada 33%
Turkey 3%
Japan 2% https://t.co/4XZ8GdZaLU
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 14:06:00 UTC
“The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.”
“Fire is the poor man’s artillery.”
“The Molotov is the poor man’s grenade.”
“The RPG is the most significant revolution in man portable weapons since the invention of the machine gun”.
“Infrastructure is everywhere. You cannot defend ‘everywhere’ from domestic actors.”
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 09:09:00 UTC
PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS ANALOGOUS TO WARGAMING
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Meaning that the purpose of planning is to get you to think through the multitude of possibilities. Your purpose is to achieve one of the favorable outcomes, and none of the unfavorable outcomes.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 09:01:00 UTC
“Look weak when you are strong, and look strong when you are weak.”
We forget that our first philosopher advanced truth, and their first philosopher advanced deception. China is an enormous hegemony and a culture of deception, non-confrontation, and delay until no fight is necessary. Westerners are a heroic minority and settle problems quickly, before they cannot handle them. We live in different worlds. Truth vs Deception. Confrontation vs Delay. Eliminate risks early vs wait for opportunity.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 08:46:00 UTC
—“Spain is hardly an intellectual superpower, it translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 03:02:00 UTC
—“Anglos have different enough cognitive limitations compared to Germans, and … at least some of them cannot visualize as well as we do”— Johannes Meixner
This keeps rolling around in my head. There is some evidence that this is true – that german mentality is more visual and english more verbal, just as english are more visual than ashkenazis.
It’s certainly true that german literature is more visual. That the language is more descriptive. I wonder if german thought is more empirical, romantic, aesthetic, and ‘direct/factual’, and english more logico/legal and moral, utilitarian, and political.
I think there might be a tendency in english to favor that which is good and in german that which is true.
I bet that’s a testable hypothesis. Yes that’s probably testable.
Humans are endlessly fascinating.
Not that I have time to test it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 02:50:00 UTC
—“Bad individuals attract each other to form Bad groups; then comes Bad communities and Bad nations.”—Kari Bannerman
Pretty much yep. But I tend to think of it this way: people group by reproductive, productive, political, and signal strategies.
***And it is irrational to suggest that they do otherwise***
Why? Because why should a human tolerate an undesirable condition of there are rational means of changing it that lack negative consequences for him?
If one does not produce negative consequences for bads, then one will find them.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-17 09:59:00 UTC