http://www.quora.com/North-America/Why-is-the-dominant-racial-ethnic-narrative-between-White-America-and-Black-America-when-the-state-of-Native-America-ought-to-be-addressed-first/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:58:00 UTC
http://www.quora.com/Does-the-U-S-really-have-good-friends/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:48:00 UTC
THE STATE IS THE PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION, NOT THE OTHER WAY ‘ROUND.
—“Another problem of inverse causation. We are trained to think that civilization is the fruit of the state, when historically, it is the state that came from civilization. Further, to a specific civilization, a specific type of state.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:50:00 UTC
ERIC FIELD GETS IT RIGHT – ORGANIZERS OF PRODUCTION IN THE DIVISION OF INTERTEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE AND LABOR
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:37:00 UTC
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-just-17-black-teens-live-with-parents-54-for-whites-both-low-marks/article/2560151THE FAMILY IS, LIKE LAW, A PRECIOUS BUT ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT
That must be protected, or the consequences for civilization are catastrophic.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-just-17-black-teens-live-with-parents-54-for-whites-both-low-marks/article/2560151
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:34:00 UTC
http://pic.twitter.com/EUQafiYnlX—“…just a couple of centuries or so. Is that really enough time to effect that much genetic change according to your theory?”—
“Yes:
“One of the simplest models of directional selection, truncation selection, where the bottom (or top) x% for a trait fail to reproduce is easy to model and produces something that closely fits observed situations.
“Say those 1 standard deviation below average for a trait fail to reproduce – roughly the bottom 16%. (In terms of numbers, this isn’t far off from the fraction of people that fail to reproduce in modern America.)
“The breeder’s equation gives us the selective effect:
“[R = h^2 * S]
“R = response to selection (mean of trait in following generation. S = selection differential (mean of trait of parental population). h^2 = additive heritability of trait.
“If we assume those 1 s.d. below average fail to reproduce, then the mean of the parental population (assuming trait in question is normally distributed) is the mean of truncated bell curve cut at -1 s.d. which you can find (with some…fancy math) to be +0.29 sd.
“Since the additive heritability of most traits is 0.5, the response to selection in that case is 0.29 * 0.5 = 0.145 sd/generation. If this were IQ, that would correspond to a ~2.2 point gain per generation. Assuming sustained selection, the population mean would move one whole standard deviation in just 7 generations (or about 200 years)! I mentioned IQ, but this will work just as well for any quantitative trait with a similar additive heritability, including the personality traits associated with a fine manorial serf – which you [could] model collectively as a ‘manorial quotient’ (MQ).”
…and here…
“The World Values Survey gives us a neat way to quantify overall mean clannishness around the world:
Based on #WVS data: Welzel-Inglehart Cultural Map 2015. pic.twitter.com/EUQafiYnlX
— World Values Survey (@ValuesStudies) January 26, 2015
“It’s even mapped in standard deviations.
“Outbreeding has produced an evolutionary shift to the right (maybe to the upper right) for NW Euros on this map. If we assume they started about where the Slavs are now, that means they moved +2 or +3 s.d. over the course of the relevant evolutionary time. Such a change (given the case of strong, sustained directional selection) could take as little as 400-600 years, given the formula above.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:26:00 UTC
http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/19/the-intermittent-little-ice-age/#more-17805ie: We just dunno yet.
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 07:58:00 UTC
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ron-paul-good-news-that-secession-is-happening#.ay4P11pWvRON PAUL IS ON MESSAGE NOW.
Repetition: “the only solution to american politics is nullification and secession.”
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. That’s the postmodern way!!!! 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 07:19:00 UTC
He closed the stoic schools, to make people easier to manipulate, and lies more effective means by which to govern.
Stoicism is an aristocratic personal religion.
Polytheism is a public religion of social rituals.
Monotheism is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against humanity.
Just as economic monopoly is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against man.
Just as majority rule is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against man.
Just as statism (monopoly) is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against man.
Just as universalism is a political crime, a moral crime, and a crime against man.
We are unequal – in our division of knowledge and labor.
That is our success, not our limitation.
Voluntary exchange is the only epistemic necessity by which the division of knowledge and labor can be accumulated, distributed, and made use of by man.
Equality is suicide.
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 07:16:00 UTC
—“the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout the world though, is to take responsibility for yourself. Accept that you have absolute control over what you have control over, and don’t worry about the rest of it. If you take the responsibility you need to take, then you will perform. If you don’t, you will fail.
You cannot control whether you achieve X in XX:XX. What you can control is, “I will do XYZ every day. I will try to perform better and faster, every time I perform XYZ. If I do this, eventually, I will achieve X in XX:XX, then I will continue to improve.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:05:00 UTC