Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 14:31:00 UTC
Form: Short Note
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Curt Doolittle shared a post
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 13:20:00 UTC
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TWO MEANINGS OF ABSOLUTISM: ONE GOOD, ONE BAD. 1) The form of government must be
TWO MEANINGS OF ABSOLUTISM: ONE GOOD, ONE BAD.
1) The form of government must be flexible enough to account for ordinary times ( rule of law, judicial monarchy, and markets), endure warfare (fascism), and distribute windfalls ( participatory commons selection ) – although the latter is always questionably necessary unless sufficient to shift classes.
2) When one says “Absolutism” in government, one can refer to total discretion in the administration of state and production of commons but remaining under rule of law. Otherwise it just means ‘dictatorship’.
3) When one says “absolutism” in rule of law, and therefore morality and ethics, this is my position on the natural law of reciprocity. In that it is an exceptionless rule. And therefore a case of “Absolutism”. In other words “Natural Law of Reciprocity = White Sharia = Absolutism”.
For reasons that are strange if you think about it, westerners have no concept of absolutism because in the west, truth is always beyond our grasp and markets are our means of decision making between sovereigns. (Assuming you’re from the martial/craftsman/property owner rather than priestly or peasant classes).
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 07:19:00 UTC
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Some People Want Transcendence
(It’s just self inducing endorphins – and another form of drug use as escapism. That doesn’t mean the religious “Spiritual” is not a psychological need to relieve the stress of ongoing computation with fragmentary knowledge. ) Yeah, but what if that experience is in fact what you want to consume? And what if consuming that experience both does no harm (directly or indirectly), creates no risk (directly or indirectly) and does you good? Or conversely, what if that is ‘the best that many can hope for’, because the rational requires more agency than they possess? So I think these people fall into camps: 1 – Pedagogical utility of intuitionistic expressions. (good) 2 – Political and Social Necessity: Mindfulness (good) 3 – Cognitive Therapy. (good) 4 – Action Avoidance (bad) 5 – Escapism (bad) Some of us are judges, and most of us need mindfulness, but some of us need to be therapists and some of us need therapy. I don’t necessarily like the ‘Transcendent’ because as far as I know that’s just searching for a manual means of producing endorphins that compensate for weaknesses of social, sexual, economic, and political market value. Just as alcohol and drugs are artificial means of self medication. And just as you see all forms of drug users excusing their dependencies, you see the ‘transcendent’ justifying their dependencies. Hence why I advocate stoicism because it is self improvement not self medication.
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Some People Want Transcendence
(It’s just self inducing endorphins – and another form of drug use as escapism. That doesn’t mean the religious “Spiritual” is not a psychological need to relieve the stress of ongoing computation with fragmentary knowledge. ) Yeah, but what if that experience is in fact what you want to consume? And what if consuming that experience both does no harm (directly or indirectly), creates no risk (directly or indirectly) and does you good? Or conversely, what if that is ‘the best that many can hope for’, because the rational requires more agency than they possess? So I think these people fall into camps: 1 – Pedagogical utility of intuitionistic expressions. (good) 2 – Political and Social Necessity: Mindfulness (good) 3 – Cognitive Therapy. (good) 4 – Action Avoidance (bad) 5 – Escapism (bad) Some of us are judges, and most of us need mindfulness, but some of us need to be therapists and some of us need therapy. I don’t necessarily like the ‘Transcendent’ because as far as I know that’s just searching for a manual means of producing endorphins that compensate for weaknesses of social, sexual, economic, and political market value. Just as alcohol and drugs are artificial means of self medication. And just as you see all forms of drug users excusing their dependencies, you see the ‘transcendent’ justifying their dependencies. Hence why I advocate stoicism because it is self improvement not self medication.
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Schooling Reverses Fertility Rates
Amt of Schooling # Children ------------------------------------------------------- No schooling 6.67 Islamic Schooling, no Western Schooling 7.78 Western Schooling to ages 7 to 11 4.5 Western Schooling to ages 12 to 13 1.44 Western Schooling to ages 15 to 16 1.57 Western Schooling to age 17 and above 1.50
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Schooling Reverses Fertility Rates
Amt of Schooling # Children ------------------------------------------------------- No schooling 6.67 Islamic Schooling, no Western Schooling 7.78 Western Schooling to ages 7 to 11 4.5 Western Schooling to ages 12 to 13 1.44 Western Schooling to ages 15 to 16 1.57 Western Schooling to age 17 and above 1.50
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Understanding Cities
Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost. Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes. For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption. So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital. In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.
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Understanding Cities
Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost. Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes. For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption. So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital. In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.
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Long History of The Study of Dual Ethics
We take for granted our monological ethics. But while MOST groups practice CAST ethics, almost no other people practiced MONOLOGICAL ethics. The difference being that progressive restitution required (higher classes required higher restitution). But the law was the same for all. This is what we mean by “Rule of Law”: no discretion, same law for all, no law applied in retrospect. —“…the Jews must be mentioned. Their conduct is regulated by a ‘dual code‘; their conduct towards their fellows is based on one code (amity), and that towards all who are outside their circle on another (enmity). The use of the dual code, as we have seen, is a mark of an evolving race. My deliberate opinion is that racial characters are more strongly developed in the Jews than in any other race.”— —Sir Arthur Keith, A New Theory of Human Evolution, (London: Watts & Co., 1948), 390.