HENCE WHY EUROPEANS NEED THEIR EMPIRE OF NATION STATES UNDER OUR OWN “SHARIA”: NATURAL LAW
—“Our field’s fixation on the Westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states … In fact, it is a very distorted view of even the Westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. Almost all of the emerging European states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… Ironically, it was the European empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world…”— Burbank and Cooper
The reason we have cognitive science is because psychology was pure nonsense and so a group branched off to create a science where previously there was none.
(I cannot keep up with your sock accounts and I usually have a long list of friend requests that I have to review. So if you’re going to make a sock, at least load it with some posts that I can understand, or pm me.)
We are not the same. we have different genes and processes and needs. The truth is that if you are getting enough exercise your body will tell you what to eat via cravings. If you are struggling to define what you need to eat via then you are not getting enough exercise. Most foods i see today are used as sedatives for lack of exercise, sociability, and rest. If you are using food as a curative or sedative you’re working on the wrong problem. It’s fitness, socialization, and rest.
Ive been saying this for the past three years, but we need a ‘college’, so that we can bring dozens of people together, take in fees for teaching natural law, and provide room, board, and fitness using government money (that we will never really have to repay).
We have all the pieces. The primary problem has been my health. And my current environment isn’t helping me any. I’m healthier, but I need to get in better shape so that my energy lasts longer. And I need longer periods of quiet to get into the ‘flow’ that are just impossible right now.
I’ve been reluctant to start teaching classes online because I don’t have a place for a studio and by the time I get a studio set up, I’ve used too much of my energy, and thought about too many different to teach the subject with passion.
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If you look at Africa, North Africa developed rapidly under the Egyptians and Phoenicians, and only failed under islam.
If you look at west africa, it sure looks like civilization should have taken off there, and the only thing I can see so far is (a) limited productivity of the territory meaning high cost of administration, (b) lack of eurasian or south american domesticated animals and vegetables, (c) painful disease gradients, and (d) isolation from trade once they reached sufficient scale, that they needed eurasian technology from others to continue scale. I’m just too ignorant still to understand. But it looks like a ‘Jared Diamond’ argument there.
If you look at east africa, the two red sea routes (the isthmus across the south, and the river at the north) this territory was ‘hostile and unexplored’ and the trade route poorly usd until roman times (and was prime booty for islam).
If you look at the territory between east and west africa, and between east africa and the highlands of southern africa, these regions are just too costly to transit for trade – especially in comparison to the mediterranean. I mean, geography is just … damn, africa is HUGE.
The route across the isthmus like that between alaska and siberia was walkable or at least open to simple migration out of africa. The semitic peoples (i think) developed out of west eurasians on this land bridge route, then moved north, and once the semitic peoples developed they migrated southward and established kingdoms in the horn of africa. (the one that is now slowly splitting off of africa to form a large island as big as the british isles.)
Even once horses were introduced, the climate is not beneficial for raising horses (especially compared to mongolia or the european plain).
Trade tended to round the west coast rather than cross the center. Meaning that trade with west africa was prohibitively distant until the age of sail.
—“cavalryman in West Africa ultimately lost out to the musketeer. Firearms were not only, eventually, a more efficient arm of warfare: they were also very much cheaper than horses. The same happened in Asia, of course: but perhaps not quite so inevitability. For a very long time firearms were inferior both in range and rate of fire to the Turkish compound bow. The Tatars of the Crimea were still, in the seventeenth century, raiding effectively in Eastern Europe against the opposition of field artillery and troops armed with muskets. And western writers on Ottoman expansion have tended to lay too much emphasis on the Janissaries – infantry musketeers – as against the Ottomans’ more significant light cavalry. But gunpowder had nevertheless sounded the death-knell of the mounted archer’s invincibility. In West Africa the heyday of the cavalryman lasted for a much shorter period than in Asia – not more than five centuries”—
Still have to study each of these west african empires, because it sure looks like there was sufficient mass there.William L. BengeThe space race has money flowing into whether or not and then how to teraform Mars, while there’s an entire continent on earth that could benefit from a similar tecnnological push for teraforming: Africa. Except, very unlike Mars, there’d be scores of corrupt governments on the continent to have to contend with at every turn. Definitely prohibitive. Unfortunate.Apr 05, 2018 1:44amWilliam L. BengeLushness from coast to coast on the continent, along with robust agg, would be the next wonder of the world.Apr 05, 2018 1:47amWilliam L. BengeWould make the great pyramids of Egypt look like child’s play, Panama canal too.Apr 05, 2018 1:49amWilliam L. BengeNevermind, the mohammedans would have to be domesticated first. Idea wrecked.Apr 05, 2018 1:52amJames HarroldThough wouldn’t terraforming a subsection of the planet have possible unforeseen consequences for the whole planet. At least on mars, there’s no life (that we’ve detected) so theres little collateral damage if we attempt to terraform it.Apr 06, 2018 9:09amWilliam L. BengeYes, seems undeniable would offer surprises but since my expertise here is nil have to say IDHDC as to what a reasonable purview looks like on the topic. I mean, the fact that actual scientists are conversing about terraforming a planet and even conducting field research for it has me, well it’s surreal my man.Apr 06, 2018 9:37amJames HarroldOh yeah definitely. And usually they start with smaller scale proof of concept and for the most part I think Africa has parts that could be interesting to experiment with. I was just kind of running that simulation in my head and remembering some case studies of even much smaller changes completely changing ecosystems for better or for worse.Apr 06, 2018 9:48amFOUR AFRICAS
If you look at Africa, North Africa developed rapidly under the Egyptians and Phoenicians, and only failed under islam.
If you look at west africa, it sure looks like civilization should have taken off there, and the only thing I can see so far is (a) limited productivity of the territory meaning high cost of administration, (b) lack of eurasian or south american domesticated animals and vegetables, (c) painful disease gradients, and (d) isolation from trade once they reached sufficient scale, that they needed eurasian technology from others to continue scale. I’m just too ignorant still to understand. But it looks like a ‘Jared Diamond’ argument there.
If you look at east africa, the two red sea routes (the isthmus across the south, and the river at the north) this territory was ‘hostile and unexplored’ and the trade route poorly usd until roman times (and was prime booty for islam).
If you look at the territory between east and west africa, and between east africa and the highlands of southern africa, these regions are just too costly to transit for trade – especially in comparison to the mediterranean. I mean, geography is just … damn, africa is HUGE.
The route across the isthmus like that between alaska and siberia was walkable or at least open to simple migration out of africa. The semitic peoples (i think) developed out of west eurasians on this land bridge route, then moved north, and once the semitic peoples developed they migrated southward and established kingdoms in the horn of africa. (the one that is now slowly splitting off of africa to form a large island as big as the british isles.)
Even once horses were introduced, the climate is not beneficial for raising horses (especially compared to mongolia or the european plain).
Trade tended to round the west coast rather than cross the center. Meaning that trade with west africa was prohibitively distant until the age of sail.
—“cavalryman in West Africa ultimately lost out to the musketeer. Firearms were not only, eventually, a more efficient arm of warfare: they were also very much cheaper than horses. The same happened in Asia, of course: but perhaps not quite so inevitability. For a very long time firearms were inferior both in range and rate of fire to the Turkish compound bow. The Tatars of the Crimea were still, in the seventeenth century, raiding effectively in Eastern Europe against the opposition of field artillery and troops armed with muskets. And western writers on Ottoman expansion have tended to lay too much emphasis on the Janissaries – infantry musketeers – as against the Ottomans’ more significant light cavalry. But gunpowder had nevertheless sounded the death-knell of the mounted archer’s invincibility. In West Africa the heyday of the cavalryman lasted for a much shorter period than in Asia – not more than five centuries”—
Still have to study each of these west african empires, because it sure looks like there was sufficient mass there.
It’s not like my work isn’t open to criticism. The whole point of doing work in public is to attract criticism in order to improve the work. Friends, followers, and lurkers have been incredibly helpful and contributed significantly to my ‘community’ project: propertarianism.
The correct criticisms of my work are:
1 – it’s not published (that’s true).
2 – it’s not finished in complete enough form that you can understand it without following me for a while. (That’s True.)
3 – I conflate (not on purpose) metaphysics, epistemology and ethics (decidability), with political advocacy (market government) with the cause of western civilization (aryanism: heroism, truth, promise(contract), sovereignty, rule by voluntary reciprocity, and markets in everything as a consequence). This confuses people. It’s a good criticism.
4 – Law (decidability) isn’t ‘enough’ for pedagogy (meaning), and people need religion: ritual and myth. (intuition). This is true. But one of my open research questions is this: is nature, history of family, and history of real heroes, and the truth enough if wrapped in ritual and festival? Can we have a ‘religion without lies’. And I think the answer is yes. The problem is, that’s an entirely different scope of work. And I don’t engage in the pragmatism of conflating the via negativa of law (truth) and the via-positiva of education (religion). So in keeping with the competition between via-positiva and via-negativa my intention is to produce two works, the first law, the second, ‘religion’. I have had this intention for a very long time. I don’t see how to avoid it. I had originally intended to incorporate the law in the CENTER of the ‘religious’ prose with fables in the beginning and history at the end. But that would lead to a ridiculously large tome no one could possibly carry around (i’ve tried). It is possible to condense the scientific content into a constitution of Natural Law (‘the law’) and place that in the center between myth and history. And so I might do that (if I live long enough). But I don’t want to conflate using pragmatism, the necessary competition between very clear truth, and very clear wisdom. That would only continue to duplicate the CRIME of the Abrahamists.
5 – It’s not sufficiently explanatory. Well it is actually and that’s what will horrify you as all your sacred cows are slaughtered without mercy. My work consists of constant relations from physics through sentience. And it’s as dehumanizing as was darwin, copernicus, and aristotle.
6 – It’s pretty counter-intuitive, and hard to understand, because of the terminology. (this is true. but because I must create a universal language of decidability across all fields of human knowledge, I pulled the best term from each field, deflated it, arranged them in series, and this ‘competition’ caused extraordinary narrowing of meaning ( ergo, vast increases in precision). So just as eliminating the divine from argument to gain greater precision we eliminate conflation from argument to gain greater precision.
7 – There are no known technical criticisms. The truth is, that I do not know of any technical criticism of my work and I am seriously doubtful that there will exist any such criticisms – ever. It will take you a very long time to understand why. The reason is, that while I am writing in prose form, the thought process I use is procedural testing of relational calculus. (that’s what databases do). Just as I write law in the language of philosophy using the methods of science. It will be very hard to criticize what I have done here. As far as I know it is not possible. And I am an exhaustive analyst.
But the fact that you don’t understand algebraic geometry, understand formal logic, Understand relational calculus, understand algorithms, or understand testimonialism’s dimensional grammar that depends upon definitions in the form of relational calculus, is just a lack of familiarity with the grammar.
And I don’t write everything formally. I start with quick sketches, and when I’m done, I should end up with little more than one or more series of dimensional definitions, with all the ‘meaning’ deducible from that set of definitions.
Once I have that then I iterate on explaining it until I get as close as possible to aphorisms if I am lucky or operational proofs otherwise, and sometimes I just resort to a narrative that make use of the terms in order to provide context.
In other words, I’m writing PROGRAMS, and text is just inline documentation for definitions that perform functions.
1 – False dichotomy. a) Aryanism (since the time of the Yamna) has always been expansionary and to some degree, messianic. b) the principle purpose of expanding trade was not originally enrichment so much as creating trade interdependence in order to limit war.
2 – c) the scholistics were horrified by the new world slaughter, and d) the church was exceptionally interested in education and conversion. 3) so it is more accurate to say that colonialism was a continuation of “Heroism, Rule for Profit”, just as was practiced by China.
3 -The dirty secret of western civilization is that while we invented Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Natural Law,and Market Politics that gave us reason and science, we started out as cattle raiders, pirates, and conquerors, and all the ‘goods’ that we gave the world were a byproduct.
4 – While the french, spanish and british were exploitative the english, left behind a great work unfinished because of the russian vs german competition over the Intermarium.That said,had england completed her mission it would have been the greatest achievement in human history.
