https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_diasporaMORE GERMANS IN GERMANY OR AMERICA?
There are more Scots and Irish in America than in their native lands. But is it true that there are more Germans in America than in their native land? Not quite. There are, at last count 58M americans of german extraction, and 65M germans of german extraction in Germany. So there are still more ethnic germans in germany than in the USA.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-27 09:02:00 UTC
That we need markets so that we can cooperate on means if not ends, and that we need markets for commons so we can produce commons necessary for the differences in our distributions is hard to argue with.
The question is whether we need variation in the law by which we reconcile disputes, and whether we need variation in truth vs falsehoods. While it is possible to speak truthfully in most modern languages with some effort, it is not clear that cooperation is possible between the more truthful and higher trust polity, and the less truthful and lower trust polity. Or between polities that are both low trust and both high in falsehoods but that are incompatible because those differences are irreconcilable.
All humans can cooperate perfectly under aristotelian (testimonial) truth, perfect reciprocity, and markets of voluntary cooperation. But this means that those of the best genetic ability will eventually replace those that are less so. So there is group evolutionary advantage to hostility, differences, uncooperativeness, falsehood, and deceits.
Which is what we see…
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-27 07:31:00 UTC
I try not to rationalize these things, and think I’m terribly smart, and instead I just look at the evidence – the evidence left behind by abrahamic religions (judaism, christianity, and islam) is tragic – and the evidence of their reformed versions (pseudoscientific marxism/socialism, pseudoscientific social democracy, and pseudo-rational postmodernism) is just as bad.
The abrahamic method of ‘suggestion’ by which one bypasses reason via overloading and conflation, is the worse thing to happen to humanity outside the great plagues (polio, tuberculosis, malaria, bubonic…).
I mean, between the christian dark ages, the jewish inability to hold territory and constant persecution, and the hundreds of millions of dead from islam and communism, not to mention the loss of the great civilizations of north africa, persia, the western roman empire, the byzantine empire, and the indus valley, its hard to imagine which is worse: plagues of the mind or body.
We humans demonstrate all sorts of demand. A lot of what we demand is bad for us. Truth, Excellence, and Beauty among them. But much of what we demand is the comfort of avoiding all efforts at truth excellence and beauty – producing deception, crime, and decay.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-27 07:12:00 UTC
stupidity tolerance maximized for the day
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 23:06:00 UTC
http://nj1015.com/8-lakewood-millionaires-were-welfare-cheats-more-arrests-coming-officials-say/THE HASSIDIC CRIMINAL CLASS
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 20:10:00 UTC
WE FACED OUR IGNORANCE WITH COURAGE AND DESTROYED SUPERNATURALISM
Can we face our ignorance, and this time, destroy our pseudoscience and pseudorationalism?
WHEREAS
1) Operational descriptions are perfectly testable – informationally complete.
2) Names of operational descriptions for brevity – but at the expense of lost information.
3) Names of categories of operational descriptions for brevity – but at the expense of lost information.
4) Conflation of names of categories of operational descriptions for (a) transfer of meaning by association, (b) admission of ignorance, (c) use to obscure ignorance (d) use for deception.
5) Use of abstract categories “thing”, “is/are/was/were” for (a) brevity (b) admission of ignorance (c) to obscure ignorance (d) for deception.
CONVERSELY
One can speak entirely in operational descriptions limiting one’s self to operational grammar. The uncomfortable problem that results, is the near universal admission of our near universal ignorance, and our use of pretentious prose to obscure our ignorance and deceit.
This is what I have learned from our failure to defeat the pseudosciences and pseudo-rationalisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 19:47:00 UTC
Retweeted Charles Murray (@charlesmurray):
A discussion of computer gaming that everyone over 50 needs to read. Much more complicated than “wasting time.” https://t.co/xFB8mef6Kd
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 14:51:00 UTC
—“I love violence. Violence is a form of wealth. One can spend it wisely. One can spend it unwisely. One can fail to maintain it, and see it inflated or deflated away. “—
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 12:47:00 UTC
Untruth is profitable in the short term for the individual. Truth is profitable in the long term for the polity. Just as theft is profitable for the individual, and ordered rule of law is profitable in the long term for the polity. In general, the service of governments is to suppress local parasitism (corruption and crime), thereby reducing local transaction costs and dramatically increasing productivity. The problem for the polity is then in minimizing or eliminating those centralized rents through the distribution of the costs of policing. So far this has been almost impossible for all societies. It’s possible now, largely because of the possibility of information transparency.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 12:41:00 UTC
HARRIS VS PETERSON IN INTELLIGENCE
I would like say something politically incorrect, so if you’ll forgive me I’ll suggest this: is that peterson is a pretty common northern european demonstrating pretty common northern european modeling skills and ‘awareness of the pack’ – or european ‘formation-thought’, whereas Harris is a pretty common ashkenazi demonstrating pretty common verbal and personal awareness skills. And that two people with relatively similar degrees of intelligence (just as in men and women) will tend to master those forms of inquiry and analysis with which they are genetically dominant. There is a reason for example for the distribution of northern european directors and jewish writers. Just as there is a reason for the distribution of east asian engineers and ashkenazi lawyers. And there is a good reason for the asymmetric distribution of western artists and the near absence of ashkenazi arts. Just as, at least in the personality trait of openness (intellectual curiosity) women favor aesthetics and men favor ideas. If you examine the traits of different peoples around the world, most of our differences are reducible to (a) the degree of Neotonic (paedomorphic) selection (domestication), and (b) the distribution of what we consider gender traits between the genders.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-26 12:36:00 UTC