Every time one of you ‘gets’ some part or other (Bill just blew my mind) I feel elated. Why? Unless you’ve been following me for years, you don’t know how hard I worked to make this understandable, and when you understand it’s proof I (we together) can.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 18:35:00 UTC
IS LEFTISM A DISEASE? WE ARE SPECIATING
(dividing into species)
—“Curt do you think that leftism is simply a mental illness or is there an actual reason why people adopt such an unreasonable belief system?”—
I think it’s a pre-cognitive genetic (evolutionary) strategy that some people have evolved just as conservatism is a genetic (evolutionary) strategy that others have evolved.
And I think the difference is caused by the female reproductive strategy that favors women and the lower classes, and male reproductive strategy that favors males and the middle/upper classes.
And this is confirmed pretty simply by the reproductive attractiveness of conservatives and liberals. Conservatives tend to be more reproductively desirable, and have greater agency. These are genetic markers.
My view is that we WERE speciating regionally by race when we discovered metalworking.
My view is that we are wealthy enough to speciate by need for commons – and that’s what we are in the process of doing.
And that the mistake is to think that our interests are better served by the production of COMPROMISE commons versus SPECIALIZED COMMONS that suit our reproductive strategies.
All peoples are better served by the production of SPECIALIZED COMMONS. And we can (finally) afford to produce them.
And that is what we see across the world.
WE NEED TO SPECIATE.
WOLVES(conservatives) Packs, and SHEEP(liberals) Herd.
Revolt, Separate, Prosper, Speciate.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 18:13:00 UTC
UNPLEASANT TRUTHS
THE DEAD END RIGHT
W.N. is a dead end. Nationalism is not.
National Socialism is a dead end. Redistribution is not.
Religion is Dead End. Institutional models are not.
Takeover is a dead end. Separatism is not.
Demonstrations are a dead end. Direct action is not.
Solving your problem is a dead end. Solving everyone’s is not.
Ideology is a dead end. Economics Incentives Are Not.
THE SOLUTIONS MOVEMENTS NEED
All revolutions occur because of a convergence between:
(a) the state’s inability to modify it’s behavior to serve the diverging interests of the public.
(b) a common knowledge of an alternative condition (order) that would be preferable,
(c) a surplus of males that are agitated by this condition,
(d) an economic or political event that provides opportunity for collective action that can ‘spiral’ (increase in momentum).
REALITIES OF MOVEMENTS
The early adopters seek the fringe. The population seeks an Overton Window. As movements age, they upgrade members from the fringe to the Overton Window: Fringe personalities perform research for talented personalities that perform research for mainstream personalities.
We have better followers this year than last.
We had better followers last year than the year before.
We had better followers the year before last, than the year before … and so on.
I don’t want to associate with the fringe that hinders capture of the Overton Window. They are a dead end. All that matters is the people who will fight, resist, advocate, or not get in the way. And those people will be captured by economic and cultural incentives – not ideology.
REVOLUTION
A moral License.
A set of Demands.
A plan of Transition.
A means of raising the cost of the status quo.
Thanks.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 17:54:00 UTC
(Quote of the Day)
—“I don’t agree that physical violence is always the answer, but thats only because I prefer to mentally violate people who cant be reasoned with.”— A Female Friend
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 17:12:00 UTC
UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG.
Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reciprocity is that it is the only reason under which the strong and able have a greater interest in cooperation than predation.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:06:00 UTC
NATURAL LAW VS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
John Mark
“Xyz is a social construct” carries no testable content. What they mean to say is “Human groups don’t actually need xyz to be successful. People have told us we need xyz but we would be better off without it.”
Insert “legislation” or “rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity” for “xyz” and we have a testable statement.
As far as I know, rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity with full accounting (of all forms of property) can and would adapt to social conditions – meaning that regardless of what actions people are taking in a polity, such a system of law would provide legal recourse and restitution for individuals or groups who experienced others violating reciprocity in dealings with them.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:05:00 UTC
MORE NATURAL LAW
—“When we hear the sophists claim that law is a social construct, they should be saying that legislation is a social construct?”— Steven Jackson
Yes. Natural Law (Reciprocity). Law (judicial findings of irreciprocity), Legislation( Commands of Representatives given force of law), Regulation ( Commands of Bureaucracy), Discretion (Commands of Individuals).
—“Natural law is not a construct but a reality that adapts to social conditions?”— Steven Jackson
Natural law was ‘discovered’ as the universal method of decidability independent of individual and group differences in judgements, and from which there is no incentive for retaliation.
Natural law (reciprocity) is the only condition under which both (a) cooperation is the necessary means of survival, reproduction, and flourishing, and (b) individuals cannot prey upon one another, and (c) it is in the self interest of the strong (and sovereign) to adhere to instead of predation, parasitism, and coercion.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:01:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 14:47:42 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a link.
Retweeted Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks):
The wise professor Barbara Oakley.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 14:42:23 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a link.
Retweeted Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks):
Kuhn on the Greeks’ unique creation of scientific culture https://t.co/PR9xYO0rub Sparked by some recent conversation, here again is a striking quotation from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
âEvery civilization of which we have records has possessed a… https://t.co/5pNOougBp5
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 14:41:44 UTC