ROME FELL FROM WITHIN
—“You also seem to be under the false impression that the ‘Barbarians’ destroyed Rome. Not really true – Rome destroyed itself from within – much as the Soviet Union did. The Germanics just picked up the pieces.”— Aaron Kahland
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 14:25:00 UTC
https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/PROPERTARIANISM: NOT AN EBOOK BUT PRETTY CLOSE:
—“Curt: Do you have an e book out yet?”—
The idea of an ebook kind of bothers me. I don’t know why I would do that. But if you want the equivalent it’s up on the site.
That is current thru last fall. At present I’m still working on synthesis ( making it all a little easier to understand), and on completing the work on the formal logic, so that isn’t all in there. But most of the major concepts are in there already.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 14:24:00 UTC
*I am a man. I have violence in me. I have wrath in me. I just own them. They do not own me.*
I would wish all my brothers the same. Time is but an asset that we can spend or multiply. Violence is your first wealth. With violence we construct the possibility of all other forms of wealth. But to do so, we must own our violence, and own our wrath, and employ them only when producing more wealth than we consume with the exercise of our violence, our wrath, and our heady murder.
When we have made more time, more wealth, more numbers with our violence, our wrath, and our heady murder, we have earned our joy in spending our violence on that which produces the greatest returns.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 12:43:00 UTC
***Boys fight, young men go to war, men build businesses, grown men use finance, and senior men use politics, and those of us who can, use pure ideas.***
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 11:41:00 UTC
(humor)
—“Originally my wife considered me an “Aspie” which I protested. A short while later, after having asked her to write it down, I realized she meant “asshole” not “Aspie” so I was in full agreement but I did ask her expand on why I should care. Her only comment to that was, “what an asshole”.”–James Santagata
Tell her you’re a man. Her ability to NOT be an asshole is a privilege created by men on her behalf.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 11:27:00 UTC
NERDS, ASPIES : ENJOY THE ‘PRIVILEGE’
You’re just male. Aspie is extremely male. Autistic is when the male brain reaches a state of localism such that it is no longer able to serve the function necessary for the survival of the organism.
Women have the same problem of evolving into psychotics where the brain reaches a state lacking sufficient localism for self monitoring, and is no longer able to serve the function necessary for the survival of the organism.
The difference is that women are privileged and so we take care of them when they are ‘crazy’ in no small part because they are less harmful. But an adult male that is fully autistic and therefore impulsive and rageful is extremely dangerous (if he can even survive into adulthood)
Now, you can combine the male brain with rapid maturity, or with delayed maturity. And with deep physical maturity, or shallow physical maturity. And with large or small size in maturity.
If you look at men through those three axis
1 – the male-autisic / balanced / female-psychotic brain
2 – the size (height)
3 – the depth and rate of maturity (think black vs asian)
You can produce pretty much the entire spectrum of males.
Now, that said, you can search for an online test, but the only way to know if you have aspie traits is to go to a specialist in autism and aspieness, and he will tell you.
In my opinion, if you are a borderline aspie, you are in the sweet spot where you are socially functional, possess self awareness, but still have the ability to insulate (DEFLATE) concepts.
But it is true: it is harder to be happy when you are smart. Easier when you are average.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 11:24:00 UTC
As a Westerner, and follower of Aristocracy, I separate the True and the Meaningful, and let ideas ‘fight it out’ in my mind.
This is, what I believe, is the western tradition: deflation and competition.
And I believe, that, to the best of their linguistic ability, the chinese tried to do the same.
And I am fairly certain that the reason for the success of the eastern Chinese Reasoning-Buddhist-Bias/Japanese Shinto-Bias, and Western Reasoning-Literary/Mythic bias, and the ABJECT FAILURE of every civilization who adopts the iranian/indian/semitic conflationary bias, is this lack of competition IN THE MIND.
(I haven’t done the work at testing how negative an impact buddhism had on china, like I have with christianity on the west)
Now, I can understand how Anyone (you) would prefer instruction in a conflationary and static idea, rather than to learn to synthesize a pair of deflationary can competing forms of communication (law and literature).
People say that they prefer socialism (static prediction) over market competition. But they prefer the EXPERIENCE of one and the results of the other.
People say that they prefer authoritarian rule, over the results of a market for the production of commons, but they choose to migrate to markets for the production of commons.
But the practice at reconciling the law with the literary is EXACTLY what makes you, and a civilization great.
People may prefer to read conflationary literature. But they prefer to live under rule of law.
The result of the good (commons) is produced by efforts at production, not recreational reading.
The same for private (psychological) goods. One must put in effort whether stoic disciplines of contemplation and actions, shinto ritual, buddhist disciplines of meditation and ritual, christian prayer and ritual, muslim heavy-repetition prayer and ritual, or jewish social and literary ritual.
So when I say, yes, Hegel is right a lot, and Kant is right a lot, it is because they were searching to replace the comforting conflationary monopoly imposed by the church on our people, at the expense of our prior competition between polytheistic nature-worshipping myth, and our common aryan law (of torts).
Yet it is not the thoughts, words and deeds themselves that teach us to be western. It is that we must reconcile the competition between the specializations of thoughts (stoicism), words(literature), and deeds (law), so that we never are imprisoned by the comforting certainty of the stasis and conflation.
The gnostics were right. Only a ‘devil’ would teach monotheism.
And that is what the record of history tells us.
Monotheism = Statis, Submission, Dysgenia, and imprisonment.
Competition = innovation, empowerment, eugenia, and transformation.
Do you have the right to sell or pitch or advocate suicide cults? Communism/Socialism?
What about Monotheism?
What’s the difference whether you advocate murder-suicide in the near, medium, or long term?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:46:00 UTC
—“Hey Curt, when did you realize your “aspieness”? And when did your family?”— a friend
I was always conscious of some significant difference, but I don’t remember when I understood it was the autism spectrum. I understood over a long period of time rather than in a moment.
It’s more …. that because I was constantly suffering, I kept track of research in cognitive science, and then when the autism research became meaningful I realized that was the cause. ( I still subscribe to the dopaminergenic theory of cognitive evolution by the way – which is why I understand western ‘innovation’ or ‘restlessness’ as Hegel would say ).
What I remember is the ‘peace’ it gave me, and that I lost all my frustration or guilt with other people and myself – and I learned to ‘love’ my gift of aspieness.
This ‘trait’ is very common in my family and almost everyone has some aspect of it to some degree or other. My grandfather, My grandmother, me, my sister, my children all have some aspect of it.
I have found that it makes my entire family happier to understand the cause of the difference.
Another example of how psychology rather than biology was harmful: it made us think something was wrong, rather than ‘god intended us to be this way for a purpose’. Well it turns out that in fact, the spectrum of feminine psychosis/solipsism masculine analytic/autism is in fact how nature ‘intended’ so to speak.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:24:00 UTC
THE SOURCE IS LAW. ITS JUST NOT INSPIRATIONAL
—“Do you enjoy Taleb?”—Zachary Davidson
Enjoy??? No. Empathize with. Sure. Understand that he is trying to solve the same problem, Yes.
(He’s one of the four horsemen of the reformation: peterson, haidt, doolittle, taleb.)
Taleb is an interesting mix of quantitative and literary, and he clearly understands the problems of idealism and realism, and he is readable because of his idealism, but he doesn’t seem to grok, or can’t imagine, the relationship between the record of the common law of torts and the problem he is trying to solve.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:08:00 UTC
—“ISIS is left-wing, because they have a stated egalitarian ideology that views all races as equal and lay a universal claim to political authority, believing that all cultures and governments not subservient to the Islamic State are illegitimate and hence rightful for ISIS to conquer”—Amr Ibn Hisham
Yes. Test?
r/left/universal/dysgenic VERSUS k/right/particular/eugenic
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:01:00 UTC