Great selection. Great Range. Great people. Great service. Good advice. Clean. Well maintained. Zero ‘creepy’ factor. Especially good for suburbanite novices to learn. I’ve been doing business with Wade’s since about 1992, and I have always felt welcome, attended to, well serviced, and honestly treated. Wade is also a “stand-up guy” with a long history of community support.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 11:22:00 UTC
—“Always marry a girl 10 years younger than you. Because if you don’t you’ll find that is the exact age difference between you and your second wife.”—James Santagata
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 10:27:00 UTC
BECOMING GODS
I told everyone all along that if you understand Propertarianism, that like Copernicus’ universe, like Darwin’s evolution, and like artificial intelligence’s forthcoming consciousness, that knowledge is liberating and empowering but dehumanizing.
Maturity comes at the cost of the comforts of ignorance and innocence. Awareness that you have superceded your fairy tales, superceded your impulses, superceded your parents, superseded, conventions, superseded legislation and regulation, superseded competitors, and superseded all but a few of mankind. Each step in the development of agency takes us farther toward calculation and farther away from the retreat into the animal brain of impulse instead of reason and submission to the pack instinct instead of rule.
The universe is not kind. That is why it needs gods. And gods we can, must, and shall be. Although it is likely that not all of us can make the journey. For those that can, welcome to the post-human – to the language and thought of gods: one continuous set of relations from the fabric of the actionable universe to every potential transformation of it.
Return to Paternal, Eugenic, Evolutionary Rule as our primary occupation. The incremental, intergenerational, production of gods.
Man, warrior, craftsman, husband, father, judge, headman, aristos, hero, legend, god.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 10:22:00 UTC
MSNBC fires Sam Seder after ‘alt-right’ group digs up old Polanski joke
Sam Seder, an MSNBC contributor and podcast host, has been let go by the network in response to the backlash over a 2009 (since-deleted) Tweet satirizing defenders of Roman Polanski. Seder contends that outrage was part of a smear campaign by “alt-right” figure Mike Cernovich designed to get him fired.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 03:32:00 UTC
“RECIPROCITY OR WAR.”
—“You say many good things, but for me the best you ever said, and the simplest was “Reciprocity or War.” The whole philosophy in three words.”—Torsten Norgate
I guess it’s that simple, isnt’ it?
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 03:14:00 UTC
A LESSON IN SHEDDING SILLY IDEAS : DO.
It is very hard to tell certain truths to certain groups of people. They may be friends, or partners, or allies, or people you just care about. And it’s in your interest to treat one another as peers, so that trust can reciprocate.
But the reality is, that unless you have achieved a certain degree of perfect independence, and a certain amount of time managing hundreds if not thousands of people, you really are about as ignorant as your average liberal bimbo.
Unless you have survived as an entrepreneur, or ceo or equivalent at some scale, have accumulated financial independence, and have an iq in the 130’s or more, and because of your survival – your need to think and function empirically – you are no longer able to harbor fantasies about yourself, others, this world, or other bits of 20th century normative nonsense, you are kind of …. stupid really, from the perspective of the big boys.
A woman can no longer harbor fantasies when she has three or more children. A man can no longer harbor fantasies about the world when he has fifty employees. And he can no longer harbor fantasies about human beings when he has two hundred. And he can no longer harbor fantasies about himself when he has five hundred. At but a few thousand employees you are largely a calculator that cannot err without tragic consequences for everyone.
I know that from the major capitalist’s perspective I can come across as idealistic and naive – an artist. For the simple reason that I want to pursue bigger, longer returns than the major investment community is able to rationally choose to participate in. I am an artist and philosopher dressing as an entrepreneur for a host of reasons.
I understand the passions of young men, and in particular the struggles of those ‘on the spectrum’ who mature late, but because they do so extend their period of learning so that they can continue to develop deeper insights.
And it’s cathartic for me to help others when there was no such help available for me.
So sometimes, it is very hard to be silent.
But the truth is, that men of achievement act, are not lost, are not uncertain, and are not searching. They do. And after having done, they achieve fulfillment. But having done nothing it is very hard to discover it.
Learn to fight. Master a craft. Build a family. Join people building a business, build a business, accumulate capital. Accumulate friends and relationships. Accumulate experiences. Accumulate power and influence – or – accumulate relationships with those that do.
Do.
Because you cannot find fulfillment in anything meaningful if you’re ignorant, stupid, and have a head full of childish nonsense.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 03:13:00 UTC
Supreme Court: Bakers and Gays.
(sorry, just had to crank this one out at 2:45am)
Arguments before the court are incorrect. There is a vast difference between personal conviction, small business between individuals, enterprise policy, and practical monopoly.
There is no practical monopoly of cake bakers, there is no enterprise policy forcing interpersonal rejection, and so this is an interpersonal matter of a difference in ethics.
I mean, I wouldn’t ask a jew to make a nazi cake. I just wouldn’t because that would VIOLATE RECIPROCITY.
And I wouldn’t confuse my personal conviction with corporate policy, nor near monopoly policy depriving choice in a market, nor political policy determining rights under rule of law before the courts.
I don’t let certain people service me in stores because I do not want to reward their manner of dress or speech or behavior, or ‘attire of separatism’. But I am happy to simply move on to someone else, and aside from utilities, I don’t see any commerce I can conduct that is a near monopoly.
So this has been a travesty since the beginning.
Voluntary Reciprocity provides the answer to everything.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 02:45:00 UTC
(love you all. g’nite.)
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 01:21:00 UTC
You know, I was locked down on a terribly hard problem from august until november, and I feel like a truckload has been taken off my shoulders. And so I’m writing a lot more. Largely because my entire being isn’t consumed every moment of waking and sleeping trying to figure out how to communicate and teach something very hard.
And it’s like I can freaking breathe for the first time in months.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 01:17:00 UTC
YOU ARE FREE TO DREAM
I want to repeat this quote from someone very bright who clearly understands the work:
—“You have completed the Enlightenment and taken Liberalism to its’ logical end, I simultaneously realised that you have stripped Liberalism of all its’ (faux-)sacredness around which we have all been culturally conditioned.”— Joel Davis
Once all our myths are dispersed to the wind, and we have but science laid out before us, what choice do we have to build a society upon?
You see?
We have been in a mental prison for a very long time.
Propertarianism sets us free to dream of what may yet come to be – that is not false.
I can propose the formal institutions (institutional science). I can build a constitution for any people of any order, no matter what they wish. But that is not to say what they should wish for.
BUT WHAT DREAMS MAY COME WHEN WE HAVE SHUFFLED OFF THIS MORTAL COIL??????
What dreams can we bring about once freed from the prison of abrahamism, of the enlightenment fallacies, of deceits?
THAT’S YOUR JOB.
DREAM.
Source date (UTC): 2017-12-06 01:01:00 UTC