Steve Pender just PM”d me a few ideas that were very interesting, and tied in with my interest in stoicism (demonstrated action) as a cultural discipline. If you stop creating (transforming), only work in a bureaucracy, only work with information, and listen only to marketing… what happens?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 14:09:00 UTC
SCARY IDEAS FROM AN ACCIDENTAL PROCESS OF DEDUCTION….
(I need to write about the immorality of the feminist movement, given that it breaks the contract for cooperation between the genders in a division of labor. I can support his with the evidence that women have universally acted to impose immoral laws. I can then demonstrate that it is possible to construct institutions that allow us to cooperate without the systemic theft enacted by women at the encouragement of feminists. And demonstrate yet again that we act almost entirely as gene machines, and all our language is merely justification for one theft or another, or the prevention of one theft or another: a complex negotiation.
Now if morality is objective, and if we can conquer and subjugate pirates, and thieves, why can we not conquer and subjugate all thieves? Even purely immoral ones?
Worse…. IS THAT WHAT MEN ACTUALLY DID?
Roll that one around in your head for a minute: was monogamous, propertarian, paternalism merely the only available solution to prevent the natural thievery of women, as a natural expression of their genetic intuitions, which favor their genetic strategy even at the expense of in-group members. While the male strategy comes only at the expense of out-group members?
Very weird. I have to think about this a bit more.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 07:29:00 UTC
WHY DO WE LET THEM LIE TO US?
They lied to us and they taught us to lie. But why were we weak? What made warriors into gullible victims? Why did the cosmopolitan lies, and the lies of the christians, succeed? Why could we not resist the christian lies, the cosmopolitan pseudoscientific lies, and the socialist, postmodern and feminist lies?
(Altruism. Trust. Our Respect for the Commons.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 04:55:00 UTC
CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: WORK AVOIDANCE
You see people in Ukraine say “I like my work”, in which case they mean they like the customers or people that they work with.
Once in a while see people say that they like the work itself (technology people).
But you rarely meet people who wouldn’t rather be sitting around gabbing.
I just can’t quite get over it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 03:54:00 UTC
ON MALES AND POSITIVES STRESS
(from elsewhere)
A conversation with a female friend and ballet dancer. Who like many women recommend Yoga or some variation.
–“hmmm….. You know, it’s sort of like Yoga.
I’m a man. I can’t ‘hear’ my body – much at all. Not like a woman can. So I don’t get the ‘feelings’ that you would get from these kind of female-enjoyable activities unless there is a lot of motion involved.
Dancing works, fencing works, running fast works, sports work, and lifting really ‘heavy’ weights with full body motion works.
But honestly, if you can imagine the lack of stimuli in a sensory deprivation chamber, then that’s what it’s like for me to do any ‘subtle’ form of exercise. It’s literally emotionally painful.
I have to experience ‘stress’ to feel that ‘calm’ that most women (and beta males) get out of yoga or tai-chee or anything similar. Physical and mental “Stress” without “threat” is my version of physical ‘peace’.
I wish I could have learned how to express that earlier in my life. I should probably write something on the subject so that other men have the words to express how they feel in rational terms. Because this is the problem for a lot of men.
Our bodies love stress. We even love threats. We just don’t want threats with meaningful consequences. That is why men like to play ports. And video games. Physical and mental stress without the danger of physical consequences.
When we can have 3d video games that require full body motion, and where we can run around and safely play ‘war’ from within the safety of our homes, then men will be rescued from the physical and mental harm of post industrial society.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-17 04:21:00 UTC
http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-is-killing-the-workplace-2010-8?IR=T(Not Me. Nope. Too Dangerous.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 15:05:00 UTC
Ok. This isn’t my thing. I’m just trying to look into the economics and the math of it. But if Ebola really can have a 42 or even 21 day incubation period, that means it’s impossible to know if you have been exposed, and so every sniffle someone gets is suspect. I know people aren’t contagious until they show symptoms, but this long a period means you can’t really isolate people, and that unless you are perfectly healthy you must stay home. I guess we could temporarily criminalize public illness for a while. But it’s almost impossible to control. And with these mortality rates it’s not like 1918 even. It’s very hard to wipe out something with these characteristics. That outbreak had only a 20% mortality rate and killed about 6% of the world population. I don’t really know enough about transmission to have an opinion, but with the extreme level of care needed, that long a a gestation period, the mortality rate, it seems economically devastating just from having to fight it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 08:57:00 UTC
TABOOS
You know, I look at investigating taboos as intellectual honesty. And I know that makes people a little frustrated with me. But I have to fully explore the intellectual taboos to understand their CONSTRUCTION. So, I don’t think it’s wise to avoid these subjects, as much as it is to understand how and why they are constructed so that we can develop arguments and institutions that solve the REAL PROBLEMS that taboo subjects (ideas, biases, norms) evolved to counter. You cannot solve something by pretending it’s false, or avoiding it because it’s undesirable.
Sometimes you just need to get in there and get your hands dirty.
(Reminds me of that woman who dissects beached whales and can’t get the small off of her for a few weeks afterward… lol).
Most taboos exist for reasons. Good reasons. Most stereotypes are true. That does not mean we should not understand them so that we can find institutional solutions that allow us to replace A-RATIONAL taboos, with rational institutions.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 05:53:00 UTC
Met a new smart fellow today on Linked in of all places: Emil Suric. From Westchester. Finance. (Has good taste btw.) Just started with Deloitte. On the capital track. High reading comprehension. I think Croatian background? Not a lot of info on FB. Lucky to have found him. -Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 04:13:00 UTC
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/bernard-henri-levy-a-marshall-plan-for-ukraine-367900.htmlA MARSHALL PLAN FOR UKRAINE!!!
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-14 22:41:00 UTC