ELI AT HIS BEST – SUITABLE FOR FRAMING.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-06 10:27:00 UTC
Source: Facebook
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Curt Doolittle shared a post
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Source date (UTC): 2015-06-06 10:25:00 UTC
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“The Volga trade route lost its importance by the 11th century due to the declin
—“The Volga trade route lost its importance by the 11th century due to the decline of silver output in the Abbasid caliphate, and thus, the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, which ran down the Dnieper to the Black Sea and the Byzantine Empire, gained more weight.” —
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-06 08:04:00 UTC
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Need some Eli Harman today. (He’s on vacation. I guess we have to give him a lit
Need some Eli Harman today.
(He’s on vacation. I guess we have to give him a little time off now and then. 🙂 )
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-06 05:59:00 UTC
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UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA It is hard for westerners subject to multiple competing ide
UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA
It is hard for westerners subject to multiple competing ideological frameworks while at the same time, protected by rule of law, in a high trust culture, where people largely tell the truth, to imagine how primitive, superstitious, pseudoscientific, paranoid, conspiratorial, the Russian mind is.
They live in a world of lies. In their world of lies they are rational actors.
They exist without the cultural luxuries we take for granted as human nature. They are anything but natural.
But it should be a lesson to us that the media frames opinion. It does not measure it.
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Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 10:47:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 10:37:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 10:36:00 UTC
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THREE CLASSES AND THREE CHOICES: SCIENTIFIC NOBILITY, UTILITARIAN (DECEITFUL) PU
THREE CLASSES AND THREE CHOICES: SCIENTIFIC NOBILITY, UTILITARIAN (DECEITFUL) PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL, MYSTICAL PRIESTHOOD.
(religious trigger warning)
Kant was still a Christian`, arguing in unscientific language of morality. He was not able to make the leap from truth to jury, law, science and economics.
We face the same problem with Today’s Christians. Traditionalists often hold proper sensibilities and express them in the language of belief, rather than the language of institutions, incentives, law, and economics – the art of cooperation rather than totalitarianism that requires submission in all the monotheistic religions, and which demands we abandon truth in favor of useful analogy.
What traditionalism requires is submission – and in exchange one gains freedom from the burden of perpetual calculation of events.
The value of religion – still measurable today – is that it is increasingly valuable as intelligence decreases. And decreasingly valuable as intelligence increases.
So we really have two choices: we can have two systems of thought: scientific and mythical, while insisting that the mythical contain moral content only, with full knowledge that the scientific method is aristocratic and libertarian in construction and the mythical narrative is proletarian and authoritarian in construction.
Or, we can suppress the reproduction of the lower classes and merely pay them off until there are so few left that their cost is below noise level.
(Spoken as a Catholic myself.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 07:43:00 UTC
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THE END OF HISTORY: THE SCIENTIFIC (TRUTHFUL) CIVILIZATION: THE WEST. (profundit
THE END OF HISTORY: THE SCIENTIFIC (TRUTHFUL) CIVILIZATION: THE WEST.
(profundity of the day)(read it)(propertarianism provides the wilsonian synthesis)
If I am correct, and that the reason for western rapidity of innovation, economic velocity, and intellectual progress, is the prevalence of truth telling in all walks of life; and that truth telling begets truth-thinking; and that truth-thinking leads to multitudinous goods – faster than all other institutional solutions; then why are not truth-speaking and truth-thinking as radical an innovation as literacy and reading?
(I am pretty sure it is.)
Oath-giving was expensive. Juries were expensive. A senate is expensive. Rule of law was very expensive. Literacy was terribly expensive. Science was expensive. High trust was very expensive. Yet these investments in our commons are the very reasons that westerners produce every good faster than all competing civilizations in both the greco-roman and re-enlightened eras.
We succeeded in incremental suppression of all free riding, and incremental increase in normative taxation – bearing costs for the production of norms.
If we require the payment of truth telling, no other innovation in institutions can compete with it.
Once we have implemented truth telling as common property with universal standing, then we can eliminate the centralization of parasitism in the state: monopoly bureaucracy. We will have successfully suppressed local parasitism and eliminated transaction costs by centralizing parasitism as a means of paying for the transition. Then eliminated the central bureaucracy as a means of parasitism. We can then – and only then – finally live in a nomocracy: under rule of law.
This simple act will result in the ‘scientific civilization’. It will complete the enlightenment attempt to restore our western civilization to its hellenic and indo european origins – rescuing it from babylonian mysticism forever. Not because people ‘believe’ one thing or another. But because we have eliminate all opportunity to, and utility in, doing otherwise.
(And if that isn’t the most profound argument you’ve run into this year I’ll be surprised.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 07:34:00 UTC
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“FEMININITY IS A LUXURY GOOD”– L’viv in spring. It’s a 24 hour a day parade of
–“FEMININITY IS A LUXURY GOOD”–
L’viv in spring. It’s a 24 hour a day parade of beauty.
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 07:24:00 UTC