—“In his philosophy of writing history, Barzun emphasized the role of storytelling over the use of academic jargon and detached analysis. He concluded in From Dawn to Decadence that “history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars.”—Jaques Barzun
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-21 00:56:00 UTC
—“A further problem is that a person recognizing a lie perceives no personal cost as a consequence – after all he was not a victim of deception. He who is deceived also perceives no cost because, rather than feeling deceived, he instead feels more enlightened. The relative absence of cost makes deception very profitable.”— Aaron Kahland
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 10:34:00 UTC
“Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.”–Vladimir Lenin
Yeah. Well, I’m there Vova.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 08:12:00 UTC
“Writers are engineers of human souls.” ― Yury Olesha
( Roman Skaskiw )
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 08:00:00 UTC
GENIUS
—“The difficulty with pollution of physical commons is identifying the polluter. Non-difficulty is calculating damages. Problem with liars is not identifying the culprit, which is easy, but quantifying damages.”— Aaron Kahland
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 06:12:00 UTC
—“It happened once that he set sail for Corinth and, being overtaken by a storm, he was in great consternation.
Someone said, “We plain men are not alarmed, and are you philosophers turned cowards?”
To this he replied, “The lives at stake in the two cases are not comparable.””—Aristippus
Thanks Paul. 😉
Aristocratia.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 03:47:00 UTC
—“Parasitism robs everyone of Liberty. Let’s see if Rothbardians are at ease with this. :)”— Jorge Alfredo Olortegui Oneeglio
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-19 06:03:00 UTC
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 04:58:00 UTC
THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ACADEMY
–“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether of the new economy. It is noteworthy, then,that Google has found that academic success has little correlation with being productive in the workplace. Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013:
–One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.s (grade point averages) are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.–
Signaling an ability to grind though four or five years of institutional coursework is no longer enough; the signaling needed to indicate an ability to create value must be much richer in information density and more persuasive than a factory model diploma.”–
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-15 23:57:00 UTC
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/national-wealth-and-iq/NATIONAL WEALTH AND IQ
We have lost three points due to immigration already. Two more points and there is no way that our norms and institutions can compensate for it.
Now, I usually put it this way: all verbal IQ over 106 provides the ability to express ideas and to repair machines. Below that people must learn by imitation. So the less of your population is below 106 (which is a sort of magic number) the better off you will be. The further below 106, the worse off that you would be.
Northern Europeans were about on par with the Ashkenazim in 1850. We have lost our comparative advantage, and we are about to lose our relative advantage.
Progressive idiocy aside: breeding matters. And good people don’t breed as much as not-so-good people.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-15 12:55:00 UTC