https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan(by request)
Just FYI, the WIKI article on the Maidan Revolution is actually pretty accurate. (Like everything they do in ukraine – which is why I love them. Ukrainians are as objective and cautiously optimistic as russians are subjective and pessimistic. I wish I’d thought of that before but that’s actually it.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 11:04:00 UTC
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN
Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational.
by Dan Fodor
I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties).
This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept.
Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of.
(a subtle bit of genius)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:34:00 UTC
https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/cdc-buried-study-showing-guns-are-used-more-often-for-protection-than-crime-x970gOZQOk2kB7knmCgdIQ/https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/cdc-buried-study-showing-guns-are-used-more-often-for-protection-than-crime-x970gOZQOk2kB7knmCgdIQ/
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:26:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:26:00 UTC
MARKETS SERVE THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY
by Jim Leis
So as a very simple example, complexity structurally demands trial. And also innately breaks up large populations in preference for smaller ones; large ant hills and wolf packs split at certain sizes. Actually, complexity demands it.
So, on a very base level, globalism is too hierarchical and statist for complexity. Globalism, socialism, communism, will never work because it drives complexity out of a society. Which will kill it.
Put another way, a king’s power is in upholding the rule of law. If he amasses too much power, regulating business, property, etc., he relegates his fellow citizens to robots and kills complexity, and then kills society.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:05:00 UTC
ABRAHAMISM: THE RELIGIONS OF THE ENEMY.
by Alex Macleod
–“You cannot have an enemy be the core of your culture.”–
To put it very simplistically isn’t that what Judaism (goyim), Mohamedism (unbelievers) and Christianity (the devil) have?
(Curt: Exactly. The abrahamic religions are the semitic pastoralist revolt against the agrarian metal workers. Thus explains the invention of organized religion as a resistance movement against transcendence [property].)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:01:00 UTC
TALEB AND DOOLITTLE
(worth repeating)
And Taleb is the counter to Keynesian Probabilism, the same way I am counter to Marxist, Boasian, Freudian, Frankfurt School, Postmodern pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism. And there are very few of us working on ending the 19th-20th century’s experiment with ‘new mysticism’.
Taleb = truth in probability. (anti-innumeracy – numbers )
Doolittle = Truth is testimony. (anti-fictionalism – words )
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 09:56:00 UTC
TRUMP LOOKS FOR AND USES POSTURING TO DRIVE OPPONENTS INTO “FAIR DEALS”.
If you posture or virtue signal, Trump will humiliate you for it. Trump takes posturing off the table. He is a master of it. And his response is always the same: “lets just do a fair deal”. This is a variation on “The Last Moral Man” negotiating tactic. This strategy is almost impossible to defeat. Which is one of the reasons it’s helpful to have a larger number of people involved in any negotiation – so that people posture themselves into traps, which you can then use against them.
(I know because I do the same damned thing)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 09:23:00 UTC
I would prefer outlawing all charities that did not convey 100% of donations to the target. and I would demand warranty of that fact. This forces volunteers to produce goods through direct action and eliminates the profit incentive for virtue signaling.
I would prefer outlawing all charities that did not convey 100% of donations to the target. and I would demand warranty of that fact. This forces volunteers to produce goods through direct action and eliminates the profit incentive for virtue signaling.