It is extremely clear that among the masculine and feminine biases – in particularly the need for community – favors the verbal, illusory, feminine, and conformist in some pools, and the actionable, existential masculine, and disruptive in others. Gender biases expressed at group levels at all scales. What is not clear is how absolutely rare the disruptive is – nor how – counter to intuitions – it’s the most important evolutionary trait for any civilization.
—“The Greek-Roman world was not…converted to a new religion, but compelled to embrace it.” The Emperor Theodosian issued a series of decrees or rescripts in the years 341, 345, 356, 381, 383, 386 and 391 CE. They effect of these orders was to “suppress all rival religions, order the closing of the temples, and impose fines, confiscation, imprisonment or death upon any who cling to the older [Pagan] religions.” The period of relative religious tolerance in the Roman Empire ended as Pagan temples were seized and converted to Christian use or destroyed. Priests and Priestesses were exiled or killed. Christianity and Judaism became the only permitted religions. In Spain, bishop Priscillian, who taught some Gnostic beliefs was the first person to be condemned as a heretic and executed by his fellow Christians on religious grounds. The church used the power of the state to begin programs to oppress, exile or exterminate both Pagans and Gnostic Christians. By the end of the century, Pagan temples had been either destroyed or recycled for Christian use. Pagan worship became punishable by death. But government toleration was not without its cost. The Emperor Constantine and later political rulers demanded a major say in the running of the church and in decisions on its beliefs. “—
— “The primary tool of feminist communication: gossip, shaming, PC language, which has become the new religious orthodoxy and the new sins” — Dax Rayner
NAIL IN THE OBVIOUS COFFIN…. LATER MARRIAGE LEADING TO PAIRING OFF, AND INCREASING INCOME DIFFERENCES
The best results on assortative mating and inequality I have seen
by Tyler Cowen
This paper studies the evolution of assortative mating in the permanent wage (the individual-specific component of wage) in the U.S., its role in the increase in family wage inequality, and the factors behind this evolution. I first document a substantial trend in assortative mating, as measured by the permanent wage correlation of couples, from 0.3 for families formed in the late 1960s to 0.52 for families formed in the late 1980s.
I show that this trend accounts for more than one-third of the increase in family wage inequality across these cohorts of families. I then argue that the increase in marriage age across these cohorts contributed to the assortative mating and thus to the rising inequality.
Individuals face a large degree of uncertainty about their permanent wages early in their careers. If they marry early, as most individuals in the late 1960s did, this uncertainty leads to weak marital sorting along permanent wage. But when marriage is delayed, as in the late 1980s, the sorting becomes stronger due to the quick resolution of this uncertainty with work experience.
After providing reduced-form evidence on the impact of marriage age, I build and estimate a marriage model with wage uncertainty and show that the increase in marriage age can explain almost 80% of the increase in assortative mating.
( The joy of saying inappropriate things at the thanksgiving dinner table, and watching the “natural vote” as a third of the people burst into shameful laughter, a third can’t decide how to respond, and the remainder are absolutely horrified. lolz )
LAW CHANGES HUMAN BEHAVIOUR FIRST. SOCIAL SHAMING SECOND, REWARD THIRD.
by Bill Joslin
Law changes human behaviour first. Social shaming second, reward third.
Subsumed in a world of business people who manage by leaning on the crutch of “incentives”(bonuses, commissions etc) I’m often aghast at how blind they are to the strength of disincentives in average workers.
People, when under stress, will gladly take on opportunity costs to avoid pain (lose that bonus to avoid the continual abuse of a shitty client).
We’re wired to avoid costs and mitigate risk almost to the point of death. When disincentives are suppressed (when we’re trained to behave properly), incentives come into play.
—“You (we) must meet violence for violence and threat for threat. Else you (we) will be overrun by tyrants claiming to be tolerant.”— Stephen Klostermeier
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/46501222_10156795733877264_5477799498317037568_n_10156795733872264.jpg I’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the left retreats into socialism and shaming, the libertarian and right must retreat into fascism and threat. I restore that honesty to the discourse. So that’s what you’re seeing. Me restoring war (violence) to the discourse. It’s very hard to be a moral person and disagree with ‘markets in everything’.Stephen ThomasYou must meet violence for violence and threat for threat. Else you will be overrun by tyrants claiming to be tolerant.Nov 22, 2018, 10:14 AMNoah J RevoyMy impression is that you are primarily motivated by love with strong secondary tones of K-selected, masculine disgust for lies.Nov 22, 2018, 10:24 AMAndrew MaughanIts physics really. An object in motion will remain in motion until/unless acted upon by an EQUAL or GREATER opposing force. I find that the same goes for human emotion and behavior. The right of today seems to believe that appeasement and capitulation will somehow stave the onslaught of radical socialism which frankly goes against basic reason.Nov 22, 2018, 10:28 AMJennifer DeanWhen the left advances with replacement and genocide, we must advance with an equal threat.Nov 22, 2018, 11:01 AMSkye StewartI get the same thing all the time. People always assume the worst about us. “Conservative” bastards 🧐Nov 22, 2018, 11:19 AMCurt Doolittlepretty much, yep.Nov 22, 2018, 11:33 AMCurt Doolittle(because of childhood I also have a purely subconscious and inescapable feeling I need to protect people. So thats’ the tird leg of the cognitive stool.)Nov 22, 2018, 11:34 AMCurt DoolittleYep.Nov 22, 2018, 11:34 AMSolomon VolodymyrI get this. I’m not one of these skinhead twats who loves fighting and gets off fantasizing about genocide, far from it – by personality type, I should be a leftist and in fact was once upon a time – but I am drawn to your sort of quasi fascism. Well call me a nationalist and a pragmatist; I altogether loathe ideology.Nov 22, 2018, 12:09 PMSolomon VolodymyrSkye Stewart you’re pretty left on a few topics but you’re still on our level. There can and in fact must be dialogue between left and right but it has to be within a logical framework between sensible, non-lying people – the kind of paradigm we currently sorely lack in mainstream politics.Nov 22, 2018, 12:13 PMSkye StewartSolomon Volodymyr to which leftish propensities do you refer? Out of interest ☝🏼Nov 22, 2018, 12:20 PMSolomon VolodymyrWell generally you seem to care about stuff that alt-righters don’t. You have I’d say a more balanced view, just from what you shareNov 22, 2018, 12:22 PMAndrea RoyallPeace was never an optionNov 22, 2018, 12:56 PMMartin ŠtěpánI too was a leftist. But truth is the truth.Nov 22, 2018, 2:54 PMMartin ŠtěpánJust made me think. Contrary to what Curt says, an individual can actually speak no only honestly but also truthfully, provided he only speaks in tautologies. It’s probably not a very useful insight…Nov 22, 2018, 2:57 PMMartin ŠtěpánDepends. We all have some left-wing ideas to someone who understands right-wing as libertarianism. Like welfare for the childless.Nov 22, 2018, 3:22 PMSkye StewartMartin Štěpán https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31FQ1_jjlQNov 22, 2018, 3:29 PMCurt DoolittleThat’s not contrary to what I say. On the other hand, speaking exclusively in tautologies is hard to imagine, although different descriptions of the same operations are technically tautologies.Nov 22, 2018, 3:38 PMMartin ŠtěpánIt is what it is.Nov 22, 2018, 3:42 PMJames SantagataNoah J Revoy that’s a great insight but I think most of us, hate the fact that these lies are so bald-faced, and so blatant as to be insulting. And then when we expose the liars as lairs, their arrogance and supremacist chutzpah is so great, so beyond that pale, that it boils the blood.Nov 22, 2018, 5:46 PMNoah J RevoyJames Santagata Don’t take our intolerance for lies for granted. So many people prefer lies, no matter how offensive, rather than a truth that requires them to take an unpleasant action.
We who love truth and hate lies of all sorts. We who would rather suffer the pain of truth than live comfortably in lies. We are the minority and we will remain so for generations to come. We are going to have to drag the masses out of the darkness of their decadent lies by force.Nov 22, 2018, 5:51 PMJames SantagataNoah J Revoy e.g, “can’ t we all just get along”, “be nice”, “let it go”, etc.Nov 22, 2018, 6:35 PMCurt DoolittleWhy can’t we just escalate instead? lolzNov 22, 2018, 7:01 PMJames SantagataCurt Doolittle We should. We should welcome conflict.Nov 22, 2018, 7:17 PMNicola WrightI have an acquaintance who identifies as an actual communist. Even he is labelled a ‘racist nazi’ because he’s outspoken against SJW rhetoric. The racist nazi label used as silencing tactic is quickly losing it’s power.Nov 23, 2018, 2:47 AMSkye StewartArguably the most famous communist/philosopher in the world is Slavoj Žižek. He deconstructs postmodern and SJW beliefs and tendencies better than many anti-communist Right wingers.Nov 23, 2018, 10:46 AMI’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the left retreats into socialism and shaming, the libertarian and right must retreat into fascism and threat. I restore that honesty to the discourse. So that’s what you’re seeing. Me restoring war (violence) to the discourse. It’s very hard to be a moral person and disagree with ‘markets in everything’.
