Form: Quote Commentary

  • Avast Ye Landlubbers, Tis Time to Hoist the Black Flag, Spit on Ye Hands and Begin Slitting Throats!

      “Naval strategists are struggling to find ways to counter a rising Chinese Navy. The easiest and most comfortable course is to ask for more ships and aircraft, but with a defense budget that may have reached its peak, that may not be a viable strategy. Privateering, authorized by letters of marque, could offer a low-cost tool to enhance deterrence in peacetime and gain advantage in wartime. It would attack an asymmetric vulnerability of China, which has a much larger merchant fleet than the United States. Indeed, an attack on Chinese global trade would undermine China’s entire economy and threaten the regime’s stability. Finally, despite pervasive myths to the contrary, U.S. privateering is not prohibited by U.S. or international law.” https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/unleash-privateers born too late to explore the high seas 🙁 born too early to explore the solar system 🙁 born just in time for the revival of piracy

  • Avast Ye Landlubbers, Tis Time to Hoist the Black Flag, Spit on Ye Hands and Begin Slitting Throats!

      “Naval strategists are struggling to find ways to counter a rising Chinese Navy. The easiest and most comfortable course is to ask for more ships and aircraft, but with a defense budget that may have reached its peak, that may not be a viable strategy. Privateering, authorized by letters of marque, could offer a low-cost tool to enhance deterrence in peacetime and gain advantage in wartime. It would attack an asymmetric vulnerability of China, which has a much larger merchant fleet than the United States. Indeed, an attack on Chinese global trade would undermine China’s entire economy and threaten the regime’s stability. Finally, despite pervasive myths to the contrary, U.S. privateering is not prohibited by U.S. or international law.” https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/unleash-privateers born too late to explore the high seas 🙁 born too early to explore the solar system 🙁 born just in time for the revival of piracy

  • Military as Source of Our Strategy vs Being Undermined to Destroy Our Strategy

    May 5, 2020, 11:01 AM by Alex Hill 1.) 4GW makes support personnel primary targets. In fact, that’s the entire basis of it. Militias need to have as much self sufficiency and as little logistical needs as possible. The regular military is bogged down as soon as insurgents lay IEDs aimed at logistics convoys. 2.) a militia is not regular military. We can’t afford dedicated specialization in the same fashion as the regular military’s MOS system. Everyone has to be generally skilled much in the same was a Green Beret ODA team works with specific team roles. This also echoes the urban specialized labor versus the rural generalized labor divide. 3.) there is a direct correlation between the rise of feminism and the rise of women in the military, and the military has repeatedly been used as a social experiment because of its top-down nature. Then they’ll want to be able to exercise political suffrage because of service, which then jeopardizes the polity with the politics of Feels. That would be repeating the same mistakes we’ve made and I won’t have any of it.

  • Exactly – I Do My Thing. Use P for Your Purposes

    May 23, 2020, 12:42 PM

    —“…There are more diplomatic leaders in the Prop movement, besides Curt…. Just let Curt do his thing (law)…don’t ask him to be a politician, or a theologian, or even be less cranky and autistic- he’s not interested, or able, frankly. Take what you can from the methodology and form your own tribe, then use this to get what you want out of this movement.”— Shannon Constantine

  • Exactly – I Do My Thing. Use P for Your Purposes

    May 23, 2020, 12:42 PM

    —“…There are more diplomatic leaders in the Prop movement, besides Curt…. Just let Curt do his thing (law)…don’t ask him to be a politician, or a theologian, or even be less cranky and autistic- he’s not interested, or able, frankly. Take what you can from the methodology and form your own tribe, then use this to get what you want out of this movement.”— Shannon Constantine

  • Why Does It Appear that The Relationship Between Intelligence and Income Disappearing

    May 23, 2020, 2:48 PM —“Great study, but very puzzling that intelligence does not predict income in this study. Too young age at follow-up? Intelligence income relationship is confounded by age (at younger ages, lower intelligence people make more money).— https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20763”—Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil (Short version: college eduction is no longer a proxy for intelligence). We have a set of problems in making that assessment. (a) between women and underclass preference for pseudoscience, the use of degrees as proxy for intelligence has been eliminated. (b) IQ doesn’t determine wealth: conscientiousness does. (c) IQ determines complexity of work. (d) BUT IQ also determines rate of adaptation, abstractions, error (and FRAUD) detection. So while we can make wealth anywhere on the spectrum there’s an increasing premium on learning, error detection, and abstraction (engineering, tech, law, finance, science, mathematics). (e) the net (uncomfortable truth) is that, confirming tradition, there is a premium on ethics and discipline at the bottom and middle with increasing incentive for ‘cheating’ hidden in complexity at the top (finance, economics, politics), with the middle holding moral high ground. (Which is why I specialize in expansion of the law to reverse the innovations in free riding, cheating, fraud, parasitism, and predation made possible by the expansion of complexity during the 20th century. Particularly using math, econ, and academic pseudosciences. 😉 )

  • Why Does It Appear that The Relationship Between Intelligence and Income Disappearing

    May 23, 2020, 2:48 PM —“Great study, but very puzzling that intelligence does not predict income in this study. Too young age at follow-up? Intelligence income relationship is confounded by age (at younger ages, lower intelligence people make more money).— https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20763”—Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil (Short version: college eduction is no longer a proxy for intelligence). We have a set of problems in making that assessment. (a) between women and underclass preference for pseudoscience, the use of degrees as proxy for intelligence has been eliminated. (b) IQ doesn’t determine wealth: conscientiousness does. (c) IQ determines complexity of work. (d) BUT IQ also determines rate of adaptation, abstractions, error (and FRAUD) detection. So while we can make wealth anywhere on the spectrum there’s an increasing premium on learning, error detection, and abstraction (engineering, tech, law, finance, science, mathematics). (e) the net (uncomfortable truth) is that, confirming tradition, there is a premium on ethics and discipline at the bottom and middle with increasing incentive for ‘cheating’ hidden in complexity at the top (finance, economics, politics), with the middle holding moral high ground. (Which is why I specialize in expansion of the law to reverse the innovations in free riding, cheating, fraud, parasitism, and predation made possible by the expansion of complexity during the 20th century. Particularly using math, econ, and academic pseudosciences. 😉 )

  • The Compromise Between Europeans and Christians Is the Same as Between Men and Women: A Trade

    May 24, 2020, 10:09 AM

    —-“Stop your Nietzscheanism. At least Christianity allows for forgiveness and cancel culture don’t. “We are all sinners,” don’t forget that.”—Haniel @HanielAzzi

    Cancel Culture (marxism, neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and difference-denialism) are just christianity v2: undermining meritocracy, reason, evidence, and testimony by replacing the false promise of life after death with the false promise of equality after replacement. Cancel culture is just the strategy of women to undermine, just as christianity is the strategy of women to create social constructions. This is because women are fearful because their bodies evolved to supply fetuses rather then muscles and speed, they’re nervous systems evolved to include their offspring, and verbal ability a discount on manipulating children. And because of these adaptations they’re physically weaker, and emotionally neurotic, but verbally superior, and so they compete as they can by manipulation, using the positive range of seductions: feeding, caring, nurturing, and informing, and the negative spectrum of disinformations: approval and disapproval vs truth or falsehood, half truth vs complete truth, undermining vs debate, resistance and advocacy vs boycott and cooperation, short term devotion vs persistent loyalty. There are no gods, no heaven, no sins. Only myth, evolution, and crimes. Crimes of violating physical, natural, and evolutionary laws, by acts of irreciprocity in display, word, or deed, that resist our evolution into the gods we imagined by truth, science, technology and markets. We are the only gods that may yet be. And in the test of civilizations, only western man discovered the laws of the universe and adapted their civilization to mirror them. If there were gods, europeans would be the chosen people, Aristotle their prophet, and truth their scripture. Christianity is the religion of false promise, ignorance, deceit, manipulation, en-serfment, poverty, and the dark ages, that asks women, slaves, and the weak, to submit to a false god, of an alien people, who produced nothing except lies, usury, rent seeking, and organized crime. Simple people need lies and social construction to reinforce them against insecurities, worries, stresses, slights, signaling, and status pressures in order to sedate their neuroticism from the pressures of low status and low agency – providing the illusion of understanding and control. It is sufficient for them, just as fairy tales are for children. To say we all need mindfulness: personal, interpersonal, social, political, and metaphysical is nothing more than to state we need to limit the cost of a neural economy frustrated by incalculability of status in the chaos outside the life of the hunting-gathering tribe. To say that pagan ‘religion’, aryan, stoic, epicurean values solved the problem of masculine religions, but did not solve the problem of feminine religion (traditional religion of the hearth), is simply to note that Rome expanded into old poor, majority underclass, semitic civilization without first solving the problem of producing a religion of women, slaves, and underclasses – is simply to say that we grew too fast under aryanism in the ancient world just as we are growing too fast under aryanism in the modern world – and that rates of adaptation reflect confidence, agency(conscientiousness), intelligence, and neuroticism – which is what separates the genders and classes. In a rapidly evolving commercial empire under Western Rome, and a collapsing commercial empire under Eastern Byzantium, Christianity provided women, slaves, and the underclasses a means of obtaining self-worth, and status by demanding reciprocal behavior despite their lack of physical, emotional, mental, social, economic, political agency. Monotheism is the religion of the herd not yet human. But the enduring values of our civlization are not semitic christian – they’re four thousand years old, first captured in writing by the Greeks: Excellence and Beauty, Heroism and Duty, Truth and Oath, Sovereignty and Reciprocity, Jury and Law, and resulting markets in everything as the only means of survival: evolution. This set of values – despite that they were only metaphysical, traditional, and institutional, functioned as the operating principle for western civilization that produced the fastest innovation and adaptation possible by man, and dragged mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering and early death. The restoration of Aristotelian thought, northern and Atlantic trade, the contractualism that trade demanded, the printing and literacy that resulted, re-harmonized our scholarly thought with our social, commercial, legal, and military thought restored european civilization. The 20th century false promises are just the second attempt to destroy western civlization from within – by marxism neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and human difference denialism – planted the fertile minds already accustomed to false promise as escape from reality. The dirty secret of western civlization, is that the martial aristocracy created western civilization by profiting from the incremental domestication man like they domesticated animals, using incremental slavery, serfdom, freedom, citizenship, and sovereignty to produce equals. And the failure of the British Experiment of an Aristocracy of Everyone, was caused in the modern world as it was in the ancient by over extension of the franchise to those peoples insufficiently genetically pacified by western values, to survive persist, and participate in them. So continuing our thousands of years of civilizational tradition, the aristocracy of the masculine who have agency in reality, agree to use our law of reciprocity, to trade loyalty with the priesthood of the feminine who lack agency in reality, to persist our civilization. Because we all prioritize the pagan(aryan/martial), heathen(ancestor/nature), Aristotelian (masculine/scientific), secular humanist (feminine), christian (feminine) differently. And given each of us varies on the spectrum between the feminine and masculine mind, we prioritize our systems of calculating (faiths), according to our genetic needs. But as long as we hold to our ancestral law of oath, contract, reciprocity, jury, markets we survive, prosper, and evolve. And that is enough. And that is what I seek to achieve: the continued evolution of our tradition from informal traditional law, to rights of anglo saxons, to British constitution, to american constitution, to finally a ‘bible’ of western civilization written in the neutral language of our martial-dominant male, judicial-neutral, priestly-feminine Trifunctionalism: the Natural Law of Reciprocity. And our continued evolution into the gods we imagined.

  • The Compromise Between Europeans and Christians Is the Same as Between Men and Women: A Trade

    May 24, 2020, 10:09 AM

    —-“Stop your Nietzscheanism. At least Christianity allows for forgiveness and cancel culture don’t. “We are all sinners,” don’t forget that.”—Haniel @HanielAzzi

    Cancel Culture (marxism, neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and difference-denialism) are just christianity v2: undermining meritocracy, reason, evidence, and testimony by replacing the false promise of life after death with the false promise of equality after replacement. Cancel culture is just the strategy of women to undermine, just as christianity is the strategy of women to create social constructions. This is because women are fearful because their bodies evolved to supply fetuses rather then muscles and speed, they’re nervous systems evolved to include their offspring, and verbal ability a discount on manipulating children. And because of these adaptations they’re physically weaker, and emotionally neurotic, but verbally superior, and so they compete as they can by manipulation, using the positive range of seductions: feeding, caring, nurturing, and informing, and the negative spectrum of disinformations: approval and disapproval vs truth or falsehood, half truth vs complete truth, undermining vs debate, resistance and advocacy vs boycott and cooperation, short term devotion vs persistent loyalty. There are no gods, no heaven, no sins. Only myth, evolution, and crimes. Crimes of violating physical, natural, and evolutionary laws, by acts of irreciprocity in display, word, or deed, that resist our evolution into the gods we imagined by truth, science, technology and markets. We are the only gods that may yet be. And in the test of civilizations, only western man discovered the laws of the universe and adapted their civilization to mirror them. If there were gods, europeans would be the chosen people, Aristotle their prophet, and truth their scripture. Christianity is the religion of false promise, ignorance, deceit, manipulation, en-serfment, poverty, and the dark ages, that asks women, slaves, and the weak, to submit to a false god, of an alien people, who produced nothing except lies, usury, rent seeking, and organized crime. Simple people need lies and social construction to reinforce them against insecurities, worries, stresses, slights, signaling, and status pressures in order to sedate their neuroticism from the pressures of low status and low agency – providing the illusion of understanding and control. It is sufficient for them, just as fairy tales are for children. To say we all need mindfulness: personal, interpersonal, social, political, and metaphysical is nothing more than to state we need to limit the cost of a neural economy frustrated by incalculability of status in the chaos outside the life of the hunting-gathering tribe. To say that pagan ‘religion’, aryan, stoic, epicurean values solved the problem of masculine religions, but did not solve the problem of feminine religion (traditional religion of the hearth), is simply to note that Rome expanded into old poor, majority underclass, semitic civilization without first solving the problem of producing a religion of women, slaves, and underclasses – is simply to say that we grew too fast under aryanism in the ancient world just as we are growing too fast under aryanism in the modern world – and that rates of adaptation reflect confidence, agency(conscientiousness), intelligence, and neuroticism – which is what separates the genders and classes. In a rapidly evolving commercial empire under Western Rome, and a collapsing commercial empire under Eastern Byzantium, Christianity provided women, slaves, and the underclasses a means of obtaining self-worth, and status by demanding reciprocal behavior despite their lack of physical, emotional, mental, social, economic, political agency. Monotheism is the religion of the herd not yet human. But the enduring values of our civlization are not semitic christian – they’re four thousand years old, first captured in writing by the Greeks: Excellence and Beauty, Heroism and Duty, Truth and Oath, Sovereignty and Reciprocity, Jury and Law, and resulting markets in everything as the only means of survival: evolution. This set of values – despite that they were only metaphysical, traditional, and institutional, functioned as the operating principle for western civilization that produced the fastest innovation and adaptation possible by man, and dragged mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering and early death. The restoration of Aristotelian thought, northern and Atlantic trade, the contractualism that trade demanded, the printing and literacy that resulted, re-harmonized our scholarly thought with our social, commercial, legal, and military thought restored european civilization. The 20th century false promises are just the second attempt to destroy western civlization from within – by marxism neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and human difference denialism – planted the fertile minds already accustomed to false promise as escape from reality. The dirty secret of western civlization, is that the martial aristocracy created western civilization by profiting from the incremental domestication man like they domesticated animals, using incremental slavery, serfdom, freedom, citizenship, and sovereignty to produce equals. And the failure of the British Experiment of an Aristocracy of Everyone, was caused in the modern world as it was in the ancient by over extension of the franchise to those peoples insufficiently genetically pacified by western values, to survive persist, and participate in them. So continuing our thousands of years of civilizational tradition, the aristocracy of the masculine who have agency in reality, agree to use our law of reciprocity, to trade loyalty with the priesthood of the feminine who lack agency in reality, to persist our civilization. Because we all prioritize the pagan(aryan/martial), heathen(ancestor/nature), Aristotelian (masculine/scientific), secular humanist (feminine), christian (feminine) differently. And given each of us varies on the spectrum between the feminine and masculine mind, we prioritize our systems of calculating (faiths), according to our genetic needs. But as long as we hold to our ancestral law of oath, contract, reciprocity, jury, markets we survive, prosper, and evolve. And that is enough. And that is what I seek to achieve: the continued evolution of our tradition from informal traditional law, to rights of anglo saxons, to British constitution, to american constitution, to finally a ‘bible’ of western civilization written in the neutral language of our martial-dominant male, judicial-neutral, priestly-feminine Trifunctionalism: the Natural Law of Reciprocity. And our continued evolution into the gods we imagined.

  • Testimony

    May 26, 2020, 11:40 PM TESTIMONY: “LIKE EATING CHOCOLATE FOR THE FIRST TIME”

    —“Been saturating my available time with P material for several weeks now with no contamination of any other works. It’s like eating chocolate for the first time…the inevitable devouring follows.”—James Robertson