–“I never understood how letting everyone vote is a good thing”–Peter Sorrentino Well, I think originally jefferson’s idea was that being as inclusive as possible decreased the chances of concentrating power. Universal white males in 1856 White women in 1920 Minorities in 1965. So you can see what happens rather rapidly. The experiment has been a failure. We just need to rule. Return to rule for money and profit. 😉 Militia > King (General) > Judge > Sheriff > Family > Individual.
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THE POSSIBILITY OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION Replying to @DiasporaDiabhal @thefaceberg
THE POSSIBILITY OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Replying to @DiasporaDiabhal @thefaceberg
1) While historically a small percentage (under 3%) of unwed males have been the cause for most revolutions (men being a surplus resource of violence like any other resource) it is trivial at this point in time for very small numbers to bring an end to the american government.
2) In fact I cannot think of a time in history where such a revolution would be so trivially brought about. Not just because of a small number of men, but because, like the fall of the roman empire, the basis of our civilization (military service and common law) has been undermined and the common man married or not are in rebellious mood.
3) In the ancient world, judaism was invented to resist, christianity to subvert, then islam used to conquer, and destroy all the great civilizations of the ancient world, creating the Abrahamic Dark Ages. So immigration of hostiles, the conversion of our women and underclass….
4) Localized rebellion, invasion, the costs of land vs marine policing, the plagues, and the islamic conquest of mediterranean and indian ocean trade, combined with a surplus of males able to retreat into deserts, destroyed every single great civilization between 100 and 1200 …
5) … with the Fresh Reserves of newly islamicized Turks, assisted by plague. accomplishing what the exhausted arabs could not in 1453. It took until 1683 to exhaust the Turks, who could not govern the arabs either. So we have fought islam for 1400 years.
6) And so far, only China, Japan, and Korea, on one end, and America on the other, have resisted the Muslim Conquests. Today muslims are accomplishing through migration what they could not achieve through martial means. It’s just numbers.
7) So imagine something as simple as cutting off EBT (welfare payments) to urban centers by serial overloading (shorting) of power lines, and cutting of transmission lines. That is one of only a hundred similar techniques that do not require armed conflict so much as “just letting the pressure of the dam, do its work”.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 13:16:00 UTC
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FROM QUORA —“Leaving racial supremacy theories aside, what is the fact and wha
FROM QUORA
—“Leaving racial supremacy theories aside, what is the fact and what is the fiction behind the Nazi version of Aryan history?”—
CONTROVERSIAL
1) The Nazi propaganda was absolutely pseudoscientific nonsense. We have to understand that the Nazi program was aesthetic – a sort of secular religion – to inspire people who were utterly hopeless and defeated. It was the most successful pseudo-religious program after Marxism – and it was invented largely to oppose marxism (bolshevism) as was all fascism.
So the nazis were speaking in a sort of secular religious prose of nationalism the same way that today’s american and western postmodernists speak in a sort of secular religious prose (“Political Correctness”). These are outright falsehoods, and todays academy (postmodernists) openly admit that they are speaking falsehoods because “all that matters is power, not truth, and truth is a weapon of the aristocracy”.
The problem arises when we try to treat these movements with anglo-empirical-legal understanding rather than continental-fictional-philosophical understanding, which is simply religious “fictions” (falsehoods) or political ‘ideologies’. It’s inspirational, like myth and religion, not historical or scientific.
2) HOWEVER, first, the late 19th century archeologists were correct, in that the indo europeans were of Aryan (PIE) origins, and that that origin was in Europe (or at least in Ukraine), and that these people moved westward in waves, and brought with them aryanism (paternal, aristocratic, sky worshipping, expansionary, militaristic, technological) civilization, and that they settled in what is today’s poland, spread, and spread into high (Denmark,German) middle (Celtic), and lower (Ital and Hellenic) civilizations, without major impact on old europe (balkans) who were the first major metalworkers.
How do we know?
a) neoteny (domestication) (morphology, endocrine expression, personality traits)
c) verbal acuity (appears we have been trading spatial for verbal for a long time)
b) demographic distribution (very little underclass, if any).
c) Selection for long winters, close quarters, indoors.
In other words, the dozen or so minor races began local speciation, and the delta is highest in Haplogroup I(nordics), and gentility highest (apparently) in slavs.
Manorialism began in today’s Holland in the 7th or 8th century, and served to extend the meritocracy of scandinavians, high germans, and baltics. It spread southward (via the Hajnal line). And the germanic prohibition on capital punishment was eliminated first by romans, but by the 12th century reversed, and capital punishment was aggressively used through the end of the 19th century.
The far east and far west achieved higher rates of neoteny, albeit from different generations of homo sapiens sapiens, with greater selection pressure on the most northern peoples. (Something happens with cro-magnon generation and we don’t know yet what that was.)
The simple difference of lactose tolerance meant 40% more calories from the same food source for doing nothing, and this, with bronze, wheel, horse, voluntary militia, and Individual Sovereignty is the reason for indo european expansion.
The steppe and desert (Tribal peoples) did not go thrugh this process and instead under fertile crescent food production, expanded the underclasses.
So the asymmetry of our cultures is due in large part to the differences in selection pressures resulting in asymmetric distribution of classes. In other words, far east and far west reduced underclasses, and everyone else increased them.
The difference between far east and far west is western verbal acumen, and easter spatial acumen. The reason for this I think I understand, but is due to the time at which each group left africa.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 12:55:00 UTC
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TO TALEB (THE WESTERN CULT IS SOVEREIGNTY AND LAW) (possibly important post for
TO TALEB (THE WESTERN CULT IS SOVEREIGNTY AND LAW)
(possibly important post for followers)
Replying to @nntaleb @bryan_caplan @tylercowen
Nassim: a) Substitute “Warranty and Liability” for “Skin in the Game” and you switch from discourse under colloquial, rhetorical, propter-hoc, low trust, heterogeneous, bazaars, to scientific post-hoc, high trust, homogenous, rule-of-law ‘markets’ proper.
Nassim: b) I’ve watched you slowly move this direction, but I haven’t seen you include the fact that western civ and all it’s +/-‘s are the result of the primacy of sovereignty and reciprocity in the traditional law back into oral (pre-)history.
Nassim: c) And so, my reading of history, is that the aristocracy was taught to rule (meaning decide, not direct), and the nobility to govern (direct), and labor to obey. (Indo European Tripartism). Otherwise I’m certain your positioning of the ‘Doctrine’ vs ‘Techne’ is correct.
Nassim: d) So my read is the law is taught as a craft (practiced) and the ‘liberal arts” are taught as doctrines, and we are wasting a phenomenal amount of money not separating Techne(craft), Religion(obedience), and Law(Rule). Meaning the problem is the Academy (secular church).
Nassim e: (Closing) So my intuition is that we all carry our cultures with us and possibly to some degree in our genes, and that this cultural difference is what you are intuiting, but expressing in literary, rational, and mathematical rather than western (legal,scientific) form.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-26 10:45:00 UTC
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Um. My view is that women’s social priorities and sensitivities are often in con
Um. My view is that women’s social priorities and sensitivities are often in conflict with any organization that they participate in. Men are just far less ‘influenced’ by those sensitivities and priorities, which turns out to be the reason women prefer working for (competent) men: they insulate the workplace from women’s baser instincts.
Water will find a way through any wall. I tend to view women’s intuitions as shit testing everyone until the walls fall apart. The only way that women are truly safe is if they can’t break the wall. Ergo, I am not sure men need to tell women what to do, as much as prevent them from defecting and undermining to the point where the wall may fracture.
Men have different behaviors which are largely masked by marriage (redistribution of females). Without that arrangement, there is always a surplus of men, and while women are dangerous in the long term. ANGRY MEN EVEN IN VERY SMALL NUMBERS ARE VERY DANGERS IN EVERY SINGLE MOMENT.
Hence the universal religious attempt to pair us off.
Men think more, women feel more, and there is value in both techniques.It’s when we limit eachother not command each other that we make the optimum use of those intuitions.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 21:44:00 UTC
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READING? —“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the bett
http://propertarianism.com/reading-listRECOMMENDED READING?
—“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the better) you would recommend?”—
I don’t think I can narrow it to three. Maybe three in each discipline. My reading list is at propertarianism.com/reading-list http://propertarianism.com/reading-list and the first section “the short list’ includes what I recommend. Notice that I rarely if ever recommend philosophy, and almost always recommend history.
I think If I had to suggest the minimum it would be:
BASICS (EASY)
1 – Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
2 – Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
3 – Hazlitt: economics in one lesson
4 – Durant: Lessons of History
HISTORY
1 – Keegan’s History of Warfare
2 – Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
3 – Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
4 – Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
THE PROBLEM
7 – Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)
8 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 1
9 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 2
Roughly speaking that gives you military, religious, economic-cultural, and legal history, which comprise, as I understand it, the social sciences.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 09:51:00 UTC
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READING? —“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the bett
http://propertarianism.com/reading-listRECOMMENDED READING?
—“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the better) you would recommend?”—
I don’t think I can narrow it to three. Maybe three in each discipline. My reading list is at propertarianism.com/reading-list and the first section “the short list’ includes what I recommend. Notice that I rarely if ever recommend philosophy, and almost always recommend history.
I think If I had to suggest the minimum it would be:
BASICS (EASY)
1 – Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
2 – Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
3 – Hazlitt: economics in one lesson
4 – Durant: Lessons of History
HISTORY
1 – Keegan’s History of Warfare
2 – Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
3 – Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
4 – Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
THE PROBLEM
7 – Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)
8 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 1
9 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 2
Roughly speaking that gives you military, religious, economic-cultural, and legal history, which comprise, as I understand it, the social sciences.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-25 09:51:00 UTC
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people from good families and tribes vs those who are not. you value what is val
people from good families and tribes vs those who are not. you value what is valuable to you, and all psychologism is fraud. Either you can explain incentives or you are a gossip (excuse maker) and nothing more.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 20:35:34 UTC
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My new @guardian essay on American tribalism
“Our tribal ‘moment’ is anything but; it’s a return to normalcy after a brief whiff of exceptionalism, of being outside history”
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true
true.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 20:31:55 UTC
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it doesn’t challenge it at all it just says the record it too incomplete to elim
it doesn’t challenge it at all it just says the record it too incomplete to eliminate doubt. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence & it is very hard to posit other than geographic and climate differences. that we die, drift and select at different rates doesn’t conflict.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 20:30:21 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/988515441567027210
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@katewong
New study challenges the notion that climate change drove diversification of early human species, suggests that the apparent pattern of diversity can instead be explained by uneven sampling of the human fossil record https://t.co/hV2ZGYbtPw
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