Jan 8, 2020, 6:10 AM
—“The flaw is male hierarchies are infinitely scalable. Female hierarchies are not scalable; they degenerate and collapse as their social control systems weaken in groups past dunbar’s number. Sucessful grandmothers would’ve held the balance of power in tribal life. This control was then passed to churches, allowing for larger populations to work together. Men are an army; women are a coven.”—Andrew M Gilmour
Jan 8, 2020, 6:10 AM
—“The flaw is male hierarchies are infinitely scalable. Female hierarchies are not scalable; they degenerate and collapse as their social control systems weaken in groups past dunbar’s number. Sucessful grandmothers would’ve held the balance of power in tribal life. This control was then passed to churches, allowing for larger populations to work together. Men are an army; women are a coven.”—Andrew M Gilmour
Jan 8, 2020, 6:24 AM Every group has a competitive (evolutionary) strategy at its formation. We develop narratives (excuses) and rules to persist that strategy, while maintaining some form of reciprocity. Once entrenched these are almost impossible to change. There are a limited number of properties to these strategies. I haven’t disambiguated them yet, but at the general level they’re the nature of the world, the nature of man, the ‘right’ organization of the hierarchies to conduct and persist that strategy, and ‘right action’ within it. The norms and language vary according to the stage of development and long term demands. These rules allow us to habituate, predict, and calculate our actions giving us the perception of the constancy of the universe by minimizing the complexity of our cognitive costs. We are superpredators after all, and it’s amazing that we can cooperate in such vast numbers.
Jan 8, 2020, 6:24 AM Every group has a competitive (evolutionary) strategy at its formation. We develop narratives (excuses) and rules to persist that strategy, while maintaining some form of reciprocity. Once entrenched these are almost impossible to change. There are a limited number of properties to these strategies. I haven’t disambiguated them yet, but at the general level they’re the nature of the world, the nature of man, the ‘right’ organization of the hierarchies to conduct and persist that strategy, and ‘right action’ within it. The norms and language vary according to the stage of development and long term demands. These rules allow us to habituate, predict, and calculate our actions giving us the perception of the constancy of the universe by minimizing the complexity of our cognitive costs. We are superpredators after all, and it’s amazing that we can cooperate in such vast numbers.
Jan 8, 2020, 8:04 AM
—“The dissident right wing is split on Aristotle and Plato. You being an Aristotelian and someone like Richard Spencer being a Platonist. Save the West with science and law for the Aristotelian vs Save the West with justification and idealism for the Platonist.”—Clown Baby @ClownBa73413423
Correct.
Aristotelian < Platonist < Theologian. The three grammars of cognitive development.
1. Empathic, Narrative, Theological > 2. Rational, Ideal, Platonist > 3. Empirical Measurement Aristotelian. The brain evolves in that order. It’s not a mystery why we preserve the use all three. But why don’t other civ’s?
1. Feel – Drag (Comfort) – Empathic, Narrative, Theological … 2. Reason – Sell (Explain) – Rational, Ideal, Platonist … … 3. Empirical – Tell (Decide) – Empirical Measurement Aristotelian
Jan 8, 2020, 8:04 AM
—“The dissident right wing is split on Aristotle and Plato. You being an Aristotelian and someone like Richard Spencer being a Platonist. Save the West with science and law for the Aristotelian vs Save the West with justification and idealism for the Platonist.”—Clown Baby @ClownBa73413423
Correct.
Aristotelian < Platonist < Theologian. The three grammars of cognitive development.
1. Empathic, Narrative, Theological > 2. Rational, Ideal, Platonist > 3. Empirical Measurement Aristotelian. The brain evolves in that order. It’s not a mystery why we preserve the use all three. But why don’t other civ’s?
1. Feel – Drag (Comfort) – Empathic, Narrative, Theological … 2. Reason – Sell (Explain) – Rational, Ideal, Platonist … … 3. Empirical – Tell (Decide) – Empirical Measurement Aristotelian
—“Curt, please explain the chart. ty.”—bagofcells
Outline Map: ..Black = major oil fields ..Red= Iran’s sphere of influence (conquest) ..Green=those who want to contain iran. ..Blue= India and Russia (partnership) ..Yellow = China (power hungry) Yellow-Red Map: … black dots = oil. Green Map: … Population and Muslim Factions ANALYSIS
World cannot tolerate fundamentalist islamic expansionary, militant nuclear iran with control over world oil reserve,and energy prices. Iran is not USA/UK trying to spread rule of law, human rights, science, medicine, tech, commercial prosperity. 10x as bad as China as enemy. Instead, decimate Iranian military capacity, and economy, pull in competing middle eastern states, and let islamic civilization slowly modernize over generations, and USA can leave. Otherwise another world war and 100’s of millions dead. This is how grownups see the world.
—“Yeah I will buy this read. Another way to look at it is that it would be irresponsible of the major powers to let radicals who got rich by luck (sitting on oil) have a de facto veto over all world political decisions via nuclear weapons. The ME states never had to fully mature or develop responsible and functional institutions.”—Michael Churchill
—“Curt, please explain the chart. ty.”—bagofcells
Outline Map: ..Black = major oil fields ..Red= Iran’s sphere of influence (conquest) ..Green=those who want to contain iran. ..Blue= India and Russia (partnership) ..Yellow = China (power hungry) Yellow-Red Map: … black dots = oil. Green Map: … Population and Muslim Factions ANALYSIS
World cannot tolerate fundamentalist islamic expansionary, militant nuclear iran with control over world oil reserve,and energy prices. Iran is not USA/UK trying to spread rule of law, human rights, science, medicine, tech, commercial prosperity. 10x as bad as China as enemy. Instead, decimate Iranian military capacity, and economy, pull in competing middle eastern states, and let islamic civilization slowly modernize over generations, and USA can leave. Otherwise another world war and 100’s of millions dead. This is how grownups see the world.
—“Yeah I will buy this read. Another way to look at it is that it would be irresponsible of the major powers to let radicals who got rich by luck (sitting on oil) have a de facto veto over all world political decisions via nuclear weapons. The ME states never had to fully mature or develop responsible and functional institutions.”—Michael Churchill
Jan 9, 2020, 11:43 AM
—“I think that this new generation needs to see the 1976 film “Network” – especially the boardroom scene. At least it will expand thought processes.
There are no countries – only business holdings.”—JWarren Prescott
Jan 9, 2020, 11:43 AM
—“I think that this new generation needs to see the 1976 film “Network” – especially the boardroom scene. At least it will expand thought processes.
There are no countries – only business holdings.”—JWarren Prescott