Did you msg me about the Ottomans?
Someone wrote to me about the Fall of the Ottomans the other day. Could you comment below? I want to put together a course that consists of a bunch of videos by individual instructors rather than just one, on the general message in both that book and Buchanan’s book on churchill, and maybe the german and russian perspectives.
Thanks
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 16:32:00 UTC
(SITE UPDATE:
1 – The bug in the “Apply” course has something to do with bad data. Apparently the underlying code is very unforgiving of changes to the courseware content – meaning, that it doesn’t clean up after itself very well and breaks if you aren’t logged in. That said, hopefully I’ll get this bit up and running shortly.
2 – The difficulty with the home page’s text on mobile is going to try my patience. I will fix it when I have patience. I don’t have patience right now. In fact, I have to go to the studio and fix the over-complicated-overpriced-oversized theatre’s audio visual stuff at the moment which is gonna end my patience for the day. lol
3 – Apparently I’m going to get the proposals for the WAR courses rather shortly.
4 – I heard from KMAC on the Group Strategy Course material and he says he’ll look and get back to me. Either way I’m pretty sure he will review the material for us.
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Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 16:30:00 UTC
Good criticism. A few things.
—“He presents as bumbling intellectual, not rabble rouser – he’s barely coherent for most of us let alone capable of inspiring a mob.”–
Totally agree. Although my behavior as CEO, and as an intellectual consist of very, very different techniques. And I don’t particularly like myself as a CEO, even if I am good at it.
—“He does, however, have training in people management or is naturally good at it. He knows how to bring men into a fold, how to flatter them and make them feel special or important.”—
Um. I use the “king of the hill game” method of teaching.
–“…cult…”—
I would be the worst possible cult leader. I’ve said all along that ‘leadership will emerge’ (and it does). Because I do not see myself, or want to see myself, as other than a mad scientist of political revolution.
If I was a cult leader type I would try to hold all the power myself rather than try to build a cadre of talented people, and train them to go out and be the equivalent of the jesuits and inquisition against the left.
It is very hard to see my constitutional reform as anything other than an extremely practical and thorough reformation of the 20th century postwar order and the redistribution of capital to the middle class from the parasitic classes.
This occurs in every civilization with relative frequency. We must continually incrementally suppress parasitism – because man continually incrementally invents means of parasitism.
Now picketey would say that this is a natural feature of current capitalism. Pareto would say it is a necessary feature of the production of wealth. Evolution would say that it is merely class rotation. And I would say it is merely a failure to maintain the competition of via negativa law and via positiva markets to continuously incrementally suppress new inventions of parasitism whenever new means of rents are invented.
My view, like the georgists, would be that land rents go to the monarchy, and taxation go to the commons.
—-“It’s not a cult. My use of that word was flippant. A better description would be that the primary motivation, at the initial stage for newcomers is to win favour with the big chief (Curt) and less so commit fully to the ideas. You do however delegate to a considerable degree and, as you say, are more than happy to bring others up than hold onto the power base.”—
—“You’re also genuinely motivated by good ideas and not ego which is quite rare. My point really was that it’s extremely difficult to eliminate the negative aspects of ‘Alpha-worship’. Corruption of the initial framework, regardless of how well it began, then becomes inevitable as members less capable of handling the ideas defend the position, or territory, more aggressively in order to maintain their position and remain useful. I notice that followers who seem to actually understand the material are less supplicatory, less aggressive to criticisms by outsiders and are generally less sycophantic.”—
I agree. On the other hand i am very grateful that these devotees prevent gsrm, defend the brand, and save me the time and effort of self defense. This discourages idiots from wasting my time so that we get better criticisms.
the one thing i get from the best people is to not waste time with those who are a waste of time.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 14:25:00 UTC
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50210378_10156930085547264_3380919777768767488_n_10156930085542264.jpg THE ONLY GEOSTRATEGIC MAP THAT MATTERS
look and learn….
europe america, india, china…. understand?Jaromír MiškovskýFuq it matches where ((( diversity ))) occurs, they really want to wipe us out.Jan 20, 2019, 2:13 PMJohn JonesI understand that China is buying a lot of Australian farms. Staying ahead of the malthusian curve.
Arable land would be a better map.Jan 20, 2019, 2:14 PMNeil A. Bucklewyou said the population map was the only one that metters as well.Jan 20, 2019, 2:15 PMJim GingerichNo honorable mention for the Aussies?Jan 20, 2019, 2:15 PMVengefül Bobmoran”understand?”
Not really.
I’m unsure if this is to show that some regions are already near capacity, or that some regions are barely touched.Jan 20, 2019, 2:18 PMArthur Spido”Cultivation” refers to agriculture? If that’s so, then Brazil should be “cultivated” all over.Jan 20, 2019, 2:21 PMXavier WallaceCan you explain what this means in layman’s terms?Jan 20, 2019, 2:21 PMCurt Doolittleforgive my hyperbole pls. population vs arable landJan 20, 2019, 2:27 PMAndrew GribbleIt is important to remember that many former farms have been allowed to run fallow, as tech has made it possible to grow more per acre than what our great grandparents could even imagine.
So what soil IS being worked isn’t representative of what COULD be cultivated.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMNeil A. Bucklewnothing to forgive. these are all very important.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMDominic LeyvaCan you explain what this map means?Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMNeil A. Bucklewwhere food is so you do not die.Jan 20, 2019, 2:28 PMCurtus MaximusLooks like a map of all the productive people in the world.Jan 20, 2019, 2:30 PMDominic LeyvaMexico is represented awfully, their agriculture is really good and are top exportersJan 20, 2019, 2:30 PMDominic LeyvaI mean shit, Brazil is like #3/4 and they’re barely even colored inJan 20, 2019, 2:31 PMKeith HamburgerDon’t know that’s particularly accurate. And the granularity is extremely low.Jan 20, 2019, 2:37 PMJohann GöhmannWhat are they cultivating?Jan 20, 2019, 2:47 PMEric Myers100% cultivated means you can’t use the land for anything else. You don’t want every square inch to be farm, we need nature tooJan 20, 2019, 2:51 PMMatthew VölkischIs this only crops, or animals too?Jan 20, 2019, 3:05 PMBrian McQuistonThis can’t be accurate.*Nothing* on the Nile?Jan 20, 2019, 3:10 PMRichard HallRob Roberts Shut the borders immediatly! 😲Jan 20, 2019, 3:17 PMPhilip ChristopherJohn Jones I’d like to see arable/cultivation overlayJan 20, 2019, 3:24 PMNeil A. Bucklewthose areas are where that production is at. look at mexico. the part north of the green is barrens, mountains, desert. a terrain/climate map in comparison will make more sense.Jan 20, 2019, 3:28 PMDominic LeyvaLower Mexico isn’t desert thoughJan 20, 2019, 3:29 PMNeil A. Bucklewit is mostly forest. forested areas are not considered cultivated i think. though i do not know, if they included that in their description of what they considered cultivated.Jan 20, 2019, 3:31 PMMicah Pezdirtzcultivated agriculturally, i presume. potential vs actual cultivation, natural resource utilization?Jan 20, 2019, 3:31 PMStephen FlowersWhat about pastoral use of land, cattle raising, etc.?Jan 20, 2019, 3:34 PMCurt DoolittleJan 20, 2019, 3:59 PMCurt DoolittleCivilizations. See?Jan 20, 2019, 4:01 PMCurt DoolittleJan 20, 2019, 4:02 PMCurt DoolittlePopulationJan 20, 2019, 4:03 PMRadu M OleniucIt’s not accurate and it is flawed. The actual soils maps (with erosion, yields, intensive use of nitrates, thickness of chernozem layer, potasium and so on) looks quite different.Jan 20, 2019, 4:17 PMThiago Modelborn Pereira-BerthoIs yellow non arable land? South America looks very wrongJan 20, 2019, 4:40 PMJames SantagataR-selects question: “Where’s the US located on this map? There’s no labels.”Jan 20, 2019, 5:34 PMBenjamin BakerCroikeyJan 20, 2019, 5:38 PMBenjamin BakerEric Myers wasn’t most of the Midwest open grazing land before and after European settlement?Jan 20, 2019, 5:40 PMEric MyersThe Midwest was a biologicallly diverse Prairie with perennial crops with roots several feet thick Now it’s fields of annual plants losing top soil.Jan 20, 2019, 6:06 PMEdmund BlackadderWhoever recolonizes Africa, winsJan 20, 2019, 7:48 PMPaul BardGreen seems to be where the food is grown by productive conscientious folk.Jan 20, 2019, 8:53 PMPaul BardAustralia was green and fertile before colonisation 40,000 years ago, and may be again with good strict land management.Jan 20, 2019, 8:56 PMJustin PtakI am going to say the west coast of the US is under-reported.Jan 20, 2019, 10:16 PMMartin HartwigAustralia, don’t forget us. 😉Jan 21, 2019, 3:42 AMRoketo Panchiican confirm massive amounts of farmland along the west coast between sf and laJan 21, 2019, 4:09 AMRoketo Panchiialso significant amount in norcal from wine countryJan 21, 2019, 4:10 AMNick HeywoodThe problem with Australia is the land is so old? There’s not a lot of quality soil left.
Compared to it’s size.
Compared to area’s such as Western Russia, North America and Europe etc. Well, anywhere else, really.
And for 1/4 of the year? It bakes! Most of land mass is experiencing 100+F at about 50 miles in the from the cost, all the way round this summer.
The middle needs water plumbed from the north and a damn good sprinkling of nitrogen!
Then? Oh boy! Look the F out!
But that’s dreamin’ 🙂
It’s still massively under utilised!Jan 21, 2019, 4:25 AMArno KælandWhich rivers and rainfall made then, today’s dry areas green?Jan 21, 2019, 4:27 AMPaul BardAaron Kahland Australia has a vast inland lake which is dry almost all year round and sustained a savannah ecology before humans came with a wide variety of now extinct large mammals. Almost all those mammals were wiped out by human arrival and the savannah ecology replaced by a semi-desert fire ecology.Jan 21, 2019, 5:08 AMArno KælandI wonder whether desalanation for the purpose of re-forestation / vegetation could lead to a renewal.Jan 21, 2019, 5:10 AMPaul BardJacob Smith that’s the Aussie guy who came up with the technique of slowing down water with native grasses.
The Israelis are really the leaders in desert regeneration, from the Kibbutzim movement to the large scale desert engineering.Jan 21, 2019, 5:11 AMPaul BardAaron Kahland desalinate soil or water?Jan 21, 2019, 5:12 AMArno KælandJacob Smith Oz has plenty of energy (Uranium).Jan 21, 2019, 5:12 AMArno KælandPaul Bard Water for the purpose of re-vegetation which in time could generate cloud/rainfall requiring less desalination.
I’m no expert in this field so my assumption might be completely off.Jan 21, 2019, 5:13 AMArno KælandJacob Smith Right, the difficult task is to understand how the natural environment once worked. I expect the two critical aspects are soil and water regeneration.Jan 21, 2019, 5:28 AMPaul BardNick Heywood we need a local form of Constitutional reinforcement to make land greening part of the national mission.Jan 21, 2019, 6:46 AMNick HeywoodNot sure about that?
But the greens need “ovening”.
That’d be a step in the right direction 😁Jan 21, 2019, 12:38 PMPaul BardNick Heywood I think especialliy in regard to cohabitation with black Aussies rehabilitation is a big part of our national Australian destinyJan 21, 2019, 3:53 PMEric GroseThese maps don’t include permaculture, a way to grow food anywhere. We got permaculture from Australia, one of the most arid landscapes. Yeoman (plow) and bill mollison.Jan 21, 2019, 10:11 PMEric GrosePaul Bard at polyface farm in Virginia they had to RAISE their fence posts because they created new soil through mob grazing techniques.Jan 21, 2019, 10:13 PMArno KælandThere are actually seas of fresh water far beneath the ground.Jan 22, 2019, 4:16 AMNeil A. Bucklewfood is also prime targets. dont forget that. a couple a burned feilds and a village dies.Jan 22, 2019, 5:38 PMNikola DzhilvidzhievI didn’t quite understand why you put such a focus on the importance of the American heartland and the Mississippi river valley until seeing this map. Food matters.Jan 22, 2019, 5:53 PMTHE ONLY GEOSTRATEGIC MAP THAT MATTERS
look and learn….
europe america, india, china…. understand?
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 14:07:00 UTC
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50401032_10156930036897264_1156147789550321664_o_10156930036892264.jpg Relative Sizes of the Large Countries.
You know this tells me that the USA has 100M too many people in it. lol
(ht: to whomever posted russia )Micah PezdirtzThe US – 100m is still brazilJan 20, 2019, 1:56 PMMicah Pezdirtzdepending on which 100m you remove…Jan 20, 2019, 1:56 PMGreg HamiltonExactly the number I’ve said for a long time.Jan 20, 2019, 2:10 PMGreg Hamilton1965-1970 population was probably the right amount.Jan 20, 2019, 2:12 PMJames Dmitro Makienkoand Canada has too few. This is acknowledged even by the liberal government who wants to bring a lot more third worlders into the country. I hope Canada will follow suit after the coming American purge of dishonesty and the population can be more harmonically adjusted to align with similar culture.Jan 20, 2019, 2:24 PMBrandon CheshireWe don’t have much arable land, and we’re currently paving over it.Jan 20, 2019, 2:55 PMGöran DahlThe distance between New Delhi and Trivandrum is greater than the distance between London and Moscow.Jan 20, 2019, 3:00 PMDaniel Roland AndersonGreg Hamilton
And the ethnic mix was probably close to optimal. Then, the Immigration Act of 1965.Jan 20, 2019, 3:33 PMNick HeywoodAustralia has 100 million to few!
When TF are you a’holes comin’ over?!?!?Jan 21, 2019, 3:50 AMYiannis KontinopoulosIf the US has 100M too many, how many too many does China have lolJan 21, 2019, 9:51 AMCurt Doolittleis ‘a sh-t ton’ a precise enough number??Jan 21, 2019, 9:56 AMYiannis KontinopoulosIt’s operational, so good enough for meJan 21, 2019, 9:57 AMDylan Boswell100 million too many, yes. It’s called California.Jan 21, 2019, 1:43 PMPhilip ChristopherNick Heywood when you stop having so many water shortages and toilet spidersJan 21, 2019, 1:58 PMCurt Doolittle40m in california. It’s a hell of a good start. ;)Jan 21, 2019, 6:17 PMDmitry NikolovWhoever* 😉Jan 21, 2019, 7:43 PMJames Fox HigginsNothing a tightly puckered butthole can’t crush and destroy!
Actually, that method is effective against BOTH of the issues we have here in Australia 🤣 💪 🍻Jan 21, 2019, 9:50 PMNick HeywoodYou got a video demonstration of this, James Fox Higgins?? 😂🤣😂🤣Jan 22, 2019, 1:46 AMJames Fox HigginsOnly in the premium section of my site mate. Gonna sign up? ;)Jan 22, 2019, 1:58 AMNick HeywoodNo!
Mum warned about those sorts of sites! =DJan 22, 2019, 4:24 AMRelative Sizes of the Large Countries.
You know this tells me that the USA has 100M too many people in it. lol
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Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 13:50:00 UTC
OUR LIBRARY: YOUR EDUCATION
You should not be economically limited in your self education. Nearly everything (and more) that is in our reading list is in our digital library to either download or ask me for.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 13:35:00 UTC
You tagged Loui Bybjerg-Christiansen photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50797005_10156930001292264_7063616503353966592_n_10156930001262264.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50739368_10156930001362264_1670158725232459776_o_10156930001347264.jpg Khairunnisa SimmondsThis one’s not terribly practical. All that lacing up.Jan 21, 2019, 12:48 PM photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50930225_10156930001337264_403444669163241472_n_10156930001332264.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50816656_10156930001452264_6853683600051666944_o_10156930001447264.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50283613_10156930001407264_2959221458942820352_n_10156930001402264.jpg Gonna get hammered for this topic again, but you know, the signaling behind the economics of producing clothing drove fashion, not it’s function, comfort or beauty. What we wear today is really designed to conform to european military dress but be cheap substitutes.
We had the perfect clothing before, that gave us plenty of signal opportunity, plenty of function, comfort, and beauty whether male or female.
You ever try to run or fight in jeans or dress pants?
T-shirts and tunics and leggings are about as good as it gets.
(And yeah, I got married in a kilt and I’m forever a fan.)
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 13:32:00 UTC
“EXHAUSTING”
by Rosenborg Predmetsky
It’s just as I’d said in a previous post: Curt’s posts can be exhausting to read, but for the exact opposite of why continental philosophy is exhausting to read: The first is exhausting because so much substance is compressed in so little, whereas in continental philosophy, so little is enshrouded by so much.
by John Mark
YES. When I found Curt the experience was the opposite of when I tried to read philosophy.
Philosophy: “There’s got to be something worthwhile in here somewhere.”
Curt: “OMG I could spend an hour thinking about each paragraph.”
(CD: these guys made my day. not because of my ego. But because when someone understands, I feel ‘validated’ – because the hard work did some good and I didnt end up just writing to myself. Moreover, it means they are becoming leaders – so I don’t have to… lol. 😉 )
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 13:26:00 UTC
MISSION STATEMENT: DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM AT ONCE
—“Therefore, the Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and, even to avoid a war, would not let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others.” — Machiavelli, The Prince
—“Even today, putting off that which must be done is not to our advantage. If it must come, let it be in my time.”- Noah J Revoy
We are in our current predicament because we did not deal with the problem at once.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 12:39:00 UTC
UM. YOU WANT A PROPHET, OR EQUIVALENT? SORRY.
I don’t want to appeal to anyone. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t even want attention. I want to present a constitution that solves real problems, and then foment a revolt in order to demand their solution. I am unimportant.
There is NO REASON people need to undrestand propertarianism any more than quantum mechanics or algebraic geometry, or the body of extant law and its reasoning. The intellectual work is for intellectuals and jurists in defense of that constitution.
There is however, every reason for COMMON people to fight for a better life and the end to political conflict and social strife.
I only need to convince some number of them that this will solve the problems that they face. Because only a small number who will fight is necessary.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 12:37:00 UTC