USA has a resource curse also. It has land it can sell to immigrants to fund an extraordinary military.
We were better off with 13 colonies.
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-19 09:48:00 UTC
Form: Short Note
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USA has a resource curse also. It has land it can sell to immigrants to fund an
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The Demands of A World Power Today
THE DEMANDS OF WORLD POWER – TODAY To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict. Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading and conquering neighbors. The only reason russia exists is that the rest of the world didn’t shut her out of the financial and economic system out of fear she’d use her missiles. Canada by contrast has something on the order of 75K total military personnel, which cannot even defend itself without the USA paying for it (just like europe).
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The Demands of A World Power Today
THE DEMANDS OF WORLD POWER – TODAY To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict. Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading and conquering neighbors. The only reason russia exists is that the rest of the world didn’t shut her out of the financial and economic system out of fear she’d use her missiles. Canada by contrast has something on the order of 75K total military personnel, which cannot even defend itself without the USA paying for it (just like europe).
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Fight This War, Not The Last One
FIGHT THIS WAR NOT THE LAST ONE I wouldn’t recommend fighting a revolution in favor of fascism, any more than I would recommend conducting a war using horse cavalry. Every generation we get an opportunity to modernize our weapons. Truth is enough. Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Testimonial Truth, Propertarian Ethics. Nomocratic Rule of Law, with Natural Law, Market Government, And Treasury Credit. Deprive the financial sector off fiat money gains. Deprive the media of copyright. Deprive everyone of unwarranted statements in the commons. Grant everyone universal standing in matters of the commons. Lying, Statism and Corporatism will evaporate under the weight of our prosecutions.
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Fight This War, Not The Last One
FIGHT THIS WAR NOT THE LAST ONE I wouldn’t recommend fighting a revolution in favor of fascism, any more than I would recommend conducting a war using horse cavalry. Every generation we get an opportunity to modernize our weapons. Truth is enough. Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Testimonial Truth, Propertarian Ethics. Nomocratic Rule of Law, with Natural Law, Market Government, And Treasury Credit. Deprive the financial sector off fiat money gains. Deprive the media of copyright. Deprive everyone of unwarranted statements in the commons. Grant everyone universal standing in matters of the commons. Lying, Statism and Corporatism will evaporate under the weight of our prosecutions.
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(cultural observations) The seasons turned, and Fall started today in Ukraine. I
(cultural observations)
The seasons turned, and Fall started today in Ukraine. It’s cold. The heat is on. The parking places are all taken but the streets are not busy. People are wearing jackets. Young couples are cuddling in one of my favorite restaurants.
I’d sort of sworn off women for a while, but I’m too much of a cuddly person. Just can’t be happy without it. 🙂
The ultimate life seems to be catching the fall foliage in New England, and then the Florida palms in winter. You can’t really do that here in Europe.
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-19 07:46:00 UTC
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Philosophers and Feeling vs Scientists and Reporting
Aug 25, 2016 11:31am Philosophers place greater weight upon FEELING, and the cognitive scientists place greater weight on REPORTING, which tells us nothing about TRUTH but a great deal about the instrumentation available to SUBJECTIVE introspective and OBJECTIVE empirical testing. My experience is that while in retrospect the initial stage of awareness is arguably ‘me’ or ‘i’, while in that state any such ‘experience’ (feeling) other than ‘satisfaction/dissatisfaction’, ‘urgency/calm’, ‘dominant/submissive stance’ does not seem to exist. So one can ‘feel’ first, but not understand, and the one can understand but not report upon, and finally one can feel, understand, and report upon. Interestingly, analyzing feelings can change them(association), and reporting upon feelings can change them(signaling) – sometimes falsely. (Which obvious in retrospect) Curt Doolittle
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Philosophers and Feeling vs Scientists and Reporting
Aug 25, 2016 11:31am Philosophers place greater weight upon FEELING, and the cognitive scientists place greater weight on REPORTING, which tells us nothing about TRUTH but a great deal about the instrumentation available to SUBJECTIVE introspective and OBJECTIVE empirical testing. My experience is that while in retrospect the initial stage of awareness is arguably ‘me’ or ‘i’, while in that state any such ‘experience’ (feeling) other than ‘satisfaction/dissatisfaction’, ‘urgency/calm’, ‘dominant/submissive stance’ does not seem to exist. So one can ‘feel’ first, but not understand, and the one can understand but not report upon, and finally one can feel, understand, and report upon. Interestingly, analyzing feelings can change them(association), and reporting upon feelings can change them(signaling) – sometimes falsely. (Which obvious in retrospect) Curt Doolittle
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Positive Philosophy And Negative Law
Aug 25, 2016 2:46pm If you want to inspire, inform, and rally, i think that’s a domain of ‘MEANING”, whereas if I want to scrutinize your use of inspiration, information, and rallying that’s a question of ‘TRUTH’ as in DECIDABILITY (science). Since I think the jury is in, and that the past century was lost as Hayek suggested to social pseudoscience for the purpose of conducting theft on a previously unheard of scale, then we have the questions of golden (meaning) and silver (truth) rule. We attempt to advocate and inform, and prohibit and prosecute. As far as I know, truth requires criticism not justification. So at this point we are pretty clear that religion is positive and aspirational and justificationary for the purpose of rallying, and law is negative, prohibitive, critical for the purpose of preventing parasitism> And if we wish to unite philosophy science, morality and law, then at this point we have done so. Some of us inspire and explore and some of us prosecute and judge. And it is the competition between innovation and prosecution that we find truth and utility and morality. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Positive Philosophy And Negative Law
Aug 25, 2016 2:46pm If you want to inspire, inform, and rally, i think that’s a domain of ‘MEANING”, whereas if I want to scrutinize your use of inspiration, information, and rallying that’s a question of ‘TRUTH’ as in DECIDABILITY (science). Since I think the jury is in, and that the past century was lost as Hayek suggested to social pseudoscience for the purpose of conducting theft on a previously unheard of scale, then we have the questions of golden (meaning) and silver (truth) rule. We attempt to advocate and inform, and prohibit and prosecute. As far as I know, truth requires criticism not justification. So at this point we are pretty clear that religion is positive and aspirational and justificationary for the purpose of rallying, and law is negative, prohibitive, critical for the purpose of preventing parasitism> And if we wish to unite philosophy science, morality and law, then at this point we have done so. Some of us inspire and explore and some of us prosecute and judge. And it is the competition between innovation and prosecution that we find truth and utility and morality. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine