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  • WHY DO WE SEE POLAR OPPOSITION TODAY? APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE I’m sorry to intrude

    WHY DO WE SEE POLAR OPPOSITION TODAY?

    APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE

    I’m sorry to intrude on your poetic speech with my painful, oft turgid, analytic, alternative, but I thought this might provide you and others with another way of looking at the issue as if there are two sides.

    EXPLANATION

    In all multi polar systems, just as in all majority democracies, we see a major party (dominant alliance of interests) and a contesting party (resistance to the dominant alliance of interests) and all other parties(alliances) are statistically irrelevant.

    There is nowhere in life that this is not true. (I think there is a term for this effect, but it escapes me at the moment.)

    In most of history the military (aristocracy) as been the primary influence, and various religious organizations constitute the opposing force.

    But once we developed industry the economic power of business, industry and finance produced greater influence than the church and state could muster.

    Once the church was eliminated by Darwin, Science, The Academy, long subservient to the church, took over the church’s role as myth-maker. (Unfortunately just as the cosmopolitans and women were freed from cultural constraints under universal suffrage, ).

    The craftsmen (labor) attempted to ally with the Academy and State but Industry rebelled taking jobs away. But for some time the academy controlled the state via labor.

    The socialists and feminists were successful in forming an alliance with the academy to take over the government and push the military aristocracy from power. They were able to do this mostly because of the combination of media and postwar consumption, combined with the geographic expansion of the united states western territories as nearly free land. Plus the cost of fighting communism gave the academy and their desire as a vehicle for expansion of their power.

    In all these organizations oligarchies do form. But there always will exist four organizations: craft (without power), priesthood/academy(gossip as a moral weapon of power – especially in the west where altruism is the high chivalric virtue), the organization of production (remunerative incentives), and the martial aristocracy.

    What we see is a conflict between the four powers to control institutions.

    We live in a malevolent theocracy of academy and state reliant mostly on numerological pseudoscience to justify selling off consumption of the commons, in exchange for dysgenic expansion that increases their supporters.

    Theocracies, like corporations do not care about families, they are about power.

    Aristocracy is a family business.

    Families matter.

    SO WHAT?

    So there are always four dominant forces (alliances) reflecting the four possible means of coercion (none, gossip, trade, and force), and these forces battle over whatever institutions exist in any civilization in order to expand their power. But as always, because each follows the best use of power, the end result is always a dominant and resistance group, with the reset nearly invisible because they are immaterial.

    I think what I try to bring to the table is the fact that these four strategies (if the first ‘none’ can be considered a strategy), reflect reproductive strategies, and that the masculine (tribal) feminine (universal) and the commercial (selfish or neutral), battle for control of institutions that give preference to their methods and biases, and therefore their genetic preferences.

    So Red has evolved into the aristocratic meritocratic, slowly reproducing, high investment, nuclear and absolute nuclear family of the northern europeans that reflects the male reproductive strategy where insurance is denied in order to force productivity: a eugenic tribe. And Blue has evolved into the equalitarian, rapid reproduction, low investment, traditional and single parent family, where insurance is provided by the state, in order to ensure as many offspring survive as possible. And each has collected the allies available to pursue it’s ends. This is why women dtermine elections: they are the only gruop that is not balanced. women and minorities vote for dysgenia, and men and married women vote for eugenia (keeping their own production.) And really there isn’t more to it than that.

    Democracy failed the moment it changed from one FAMILY ONE VOTE to one INDIVIDUAL one vote. Because the familiy – particular the nuclar family – is by virtue of mate selection under monogamy, a compromise of reproductive strategies within which the majorty of us are relatively equal. But by converting to an individualist society rather than familial, we removed our compromise between competing reproductive strategies from the family, and elevated it into the state, where it is just a competition between the male eugenic and the female dysgenic and nothing else. There is no reason to be had since the only possible compromise can be constructed outside of government.

    I could write volumes more on this but it’s enough to get the point across:L

    1) Judicial Law must apply to individuals because individuals act.

    2) Governmental “Law” (contracts for the production of commons) must represent families or insufficient common interests exists for any such institution to choose solutions that satisfy a common interest.

    For these reasons universal democracy must always end in socialist tyranny where women can bear their offspring and place the burden of their upkeep on the state (men). This has to do with simple numbers, and simple genetic interests. A minority of males and a majority of females are better off constructing the greatest rents possible to feed dysgenic reproduction and the minority of productive people who they (and evolution) would prefer to choose eugenic (meritocratic) reproduction are merely farmed by the unproductive.

    Uncomfortable truth but truth none the less.

    (Note: I don’t mean that ALL our behavior is entirely in our genes as much as our class (reproductive value) is evidenced by in our genes and we gravitate to the strategies that suit our genes. )

    Curt Doolittle

    http://www.popehat.com/2014/10/21/gamer-gate-three-stages-to-obit/#comment-1283725


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 10:05:00 UTC

  • Genius

    Genius.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 08:12:00 UTC

  • I still can’t find a reason why under fiat money, we charge interest on home, co

    I still can’t find a reason why under fiat money, we charge interest on home, condo and apartments constructed and owned by individuals. As far as I know the private mortgage industry is entirely parasitic and is the primary driver of inflation.

    I mean. That’s what it looks like, and I can’t find a competing argument.

    The MMT folks are partly right.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 07:44:00 UTC

  • GEEK TORTURE 🙂 So I send Vitalii a note that I am blown away at how fast the ap

    GEEK TORTURE 🙂

    So I send Vitalii a note that I am blown away at how fast the app is now, and he says that he can make it 5x faster, but that he won’t tell me how and I have to wait until the other work is done.

    It’s like having your parents tell you that you must wait for a present until Christmas. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 05:55:00 UTC

  • RETURNING ARISTOCRACY, AND THEREFORE TRUTH, TO THE ACADEMY (worth repeating) My

    RETURNING ARISTOCRACY, AND THEREFORE TRUTH, TO THE ACADEMY

    (worth repeating)

    My preference would be to teach War, Politics, Law, Economics, Finance, and Propertarian philosophy as a curriculum in all universities so that the Cathedral possessed internal competition. And it would restore male female balance to the Academy’s numbers of graduates.

    I should add to that that in high school or in college, either one, we should restore, grammar, rhetoric and testimony.

    if we taught grammar, rhetoric and testimony, within a generation that would restore western civilization.

    “What color is the cube”

    “From this angle I see two sides of the cube, and those two sides are white”

    “So the cube is white”

    “No, I cannot testify to that, I can only testify to seeing two sides of the house, and they are white”.

    You see, warriors cannot add imaginary content to observations because people will die, or opportunities will be lost, if they do. So testimony evolved in the west out of the cult or raiders, and the rituals of initiatic warriors.

    The truth is enough.

    But only if people know the difference between observation and imagination.

    Filling in the blanks is lying.

    You don’t fill in the blanks. Because imagination contains bias.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 05:08:00 UTC

  • ANGLO WORLD: THE SPORT OF CONFLICT In the anglo world, our law evolved such that

    ANGLO WORLD: THE SPORT OF CONFLICT

    In the anglo world, our law evolved such that the judge was a trusted referee for combatants, not an authority. The judge is a referee, the two sides enter combat and the jury (the audience) determines who has won or lost. The common law had then to be understandable by common jurors, since they determine the outcome -they ‘judge’. The ‘judge’ himself or herself, is merely a referee to ensures that the rules of the game are obeyed.

    Why does the jury system work in the anglo-sphere and why is it either feared or unworkable in others? And what can we learn from that?


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 05:03:00 UTC

  • THOUGHTS: ARE MEMBERS BIASED AGAINST THE ENTRY OF CONSERVATIVES; and second, is

    http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-psychology-biased-republicansTHREE THOUGHTS: ARE MEMBERS BIASED AGAINST THE ENTRY OF CONSERVATIVES; and second, is there a bias toward support of left conclusions in research by those members; and third, are members with a bias drawn to the discipline of psychology?

    It’s a specialization. The military is a specialization.

    Psychology, if not for its complete abandonment of freudianism, and adoption of Operationism would have perished as a pseudoscience, as has social science, if it had not reformed. As it has reformed, it has moved more to the center. In practical terms Haidt appears to function as a classical liberal libertarian today (not a libertine libertarian), despite his left sentiments.

    But its merely a specialization. If we took military strategy and tactics, and put it into the university system, instead of in the war colleges, you would see that most were conservative. (in fact that’s a pretty good idea).

    Moral biases lead us to specializations where we can exercise our moral biases.

    As I became self aware, I realized that I write the particular brand of philosophy I do because my highest moral priority is conflict prevention. I am very, very good at conflict, but that is partly because I dislike it so much, that I want it to end.

    It so happens that in order to write something reasonably scientific about the subject of philosophy – particularly ethics and politics – that my cognitive bias is terribly useful. Because law is the philosophy of conflict resolution.

    So its logical that psychology will move to left of center, as the scientific evidence forces center bias, while the people drawn to the subject continue to demonstrate left bias.

    I am fairly sure that if we required operational speech in all disciplines we would see the same motion as we have in psychology: toward a reformation and drive back to the classical liberal center.

    But I doubt that we would change the preference for those with progressive (female reproductive strategy) bias to the field.

    My preference would be to teach War, Politics, Law, Economics, Finance, and Propertarian philosophy as a curriculum in all universities so that the Cathedral possessed internal competition. And it would restore male female balance to the Academy’s numbers of graduates.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 04:23:00 UTC

  • ON THE SINGLE ENGINE (ANGLO) WORLD ECONOMY I’ve followed Roubini for many years

    http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-growth-and-weakening-global-economy-by-nouriel-roubini-2014-10#qijbgttUhPYimsC2.99″—ROUBINI ON THE SINGLE ENGINE (ANGLO) WORLD ECONOMY

    I’ve followed Roubini for many years now, mostly because I think using the same frames of reference (incentives rather than statistics), and so I understand him more clearly than I do most other (correlative) economists. I am never interested in up-sides. That is the job of people with specialized knowledge of sectors, and instead I’m interested in politics and entrepreneurship. And Roubini’s ideas emphasize political and entrepreneurial risk, rather than financial opportunity.

    This is a short but accurate article on the state of the world economy., I tend to follow Roubini Global Economics and George Friedman (See The Next 100 Years George Friedman) and advise those who are likewise interested in the political and entrepreneurial cycle (rather than financial opportunity) to do likewise.

    Here are a few comments from others:

    IT”S TRUE, NOT MORAL, NOT PREFERABLE, BUT TRUE

    —“Roubini is a realist and he is using the basic operating assumptions of the world economy in his analysis. These assumptions include two crucial monetary facts, namely, 1. the status of the US Treasury bill as an unrivaled store of value (a status unaffected by the 2008 crash and all its consequences), and 2. the centrality of the City of London in global currency markets. The US stores value, produces liquidity (through QE and ultra-low policy rates), and consumes other countries’ manufactures with the money. The UK creams off huge profits from the froth of exchange (and their central bank has also produced a good bit of liquidity to keep the financial markets rolling, I might add). Both these functions are systemically necessary to the current pattern of the global economy, and they have have persisted since the mid-1970s with only incremental changes owing mostly to the rise of China and the consequent relativizaton of the importance of Japan. We may find these two crucial operating conditions aberrant from the viewpoint of neoclassical economics, or just plain unjust from the viewpoint of equality between nations, but they exist, they function and so far, they have only been perturbed, not altered, by the tremendous crisis of the last six years.”—

    THE PROBLEM

    My problem with this is that it creates very bad behavior in the world, and that is why the empire must fall.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 01:58:00 UTC

  • “What a stark contrast to the realities of our present, co-opted, american syste

    —“What a stark contrast to the realities of our present, co-opted, american system, wherein “redress of grievance,” by the body of people is rejected as “not having standing,” and where the judiciary remains unconvinced (biased) that harm has been imposed upon an individual – when in actuality, injury by (previous) government action was imposed upon all.”— William L. Benge

    (edited for clarity)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 18:21:00 UTC

  • damn… it’s not that you have a right to ancestral lands, (under narrow conditi

    damn… it’s not that you have a right to ancestral lands, (under narrow conditions), it is that you have a moral obligation to restore ancestral lands. Interesting….


    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 17:51:00 UTC