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PART 6 – The Prosecution
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Man – Action – Transcendence
COMPETITION: GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TRUTH, ARGUMENT, AND NARRATIVE METHOD – (each uses its own)
( … ) (undone)
CIRCUMPOLAR CIVILIZATION (division of trust / truth)
( … ) (undone)
RACE:
Race and Group differences are attributable almost entirely to the local ability to engage in Neotonic reproduction thereby reducing the depth of physical maturity and effectively preserving youthfulness – and therefore aggression and impulsivity PLUS the ability to cull the lower classes. Europeans aggressively culled the lower classes for almost 1000 years, as did the Chinese and Japanese, both through manorialism and aggressive hanging. Between Neotonic reproduction and culling of the underclasses some groups are ‘more evolved’ than others. However, this means that almost all groups can ‘domesticate their populations and develop advanced societies if they are able to use policy to reduce underclass rates of reproduction below the replacement level.
GENETIC RESERVOIR:
Genetic Reservoir: because we can adapt very rapidly by reproductive selection for different environments, different political hierarchies, and different gender traits, humans can adapt to nearly any circumstance within a few generations by modifying little more than status associated with particular traits. So our current gene pools provide a deep reservoir of reproductive adaptability.
THE EXCEPTIONAL RETURNS ON ETHNOCENTRIC COOPERATION
Ethnocentricity and homogenous polities under rule of law by natural law and market government will provide the optimum returns for any and every people. There is no comparison whatsoever. The only problem is reversing asymmetric reproduction between the classes which forces us into continuous devolution by regression to the mean.
TRANSCENDENCE (EVOLUTION) REQUIRES COMPETITION (CALCULATIONS) (undone)
More:A Short Course in The Western (aristocratic) Group Evolutionary Strategy ( … ) A Short Course in Group Evolutionary Strategy (cooperation/competition/war) ( … )
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Man – Action – Transcendence
COMPETITION: GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TRUTH, ARGUMENT, AND NARRATIVE METHOD – (each uses its own)
( … ) (undone)
CIRCUMPOLAR CIVILIZATION (division of trust / truth)
( … ) (undone)
RACE:
Race and Group differences are attributable almost entirely to the local ability to engage in Neotonic reproduction thereby reducing the depth of physical maturity and effectively preserving youthfulness – and therefore aggression and impulsivity PLUS the ability to cull the lower classes. Europeans aggressively culled the lower classes for almost 1000 years, as did the Chinese and Japanese, both through manorialism and aggressive hanging. Between Neotonic reproduction and culling of the underclasses some groups are ‘more evolved’ than others. However, this means that almost all groups can ‘domesticate their populations and develop advanced societies if they are able to use policy to reduce underclass rates of reproduction below the replacement level.
GENETIC RESERVOIR:
Genetic Reservoir: because we can adapt very rapidly by reproductive selection for different environments, different political hierarchies, and different gender traits, humans can adapt to nearly any circumstance within a few generations by modifying little more than status associated with particular traits. So our current gene pools provide a deep reservoir of reproductive adaptability.
THE EXCEPTIONAL RETURNS ON ETHNOCENTRIC COOPERATION
Ethnocentricity and homogenous polities under rule of law by natural law and market government will provide the optimum returns for any and every people. There is no comparison whatsoever. The only problem is reversing asymmetric reproduction between the classes which forces us into continuous devolution by regression to the mean.
TRANSCENDENCE (EVOLUTION) REQUIRES COMPETITION (CALCULATIONS) (undone)
More:A Short Course in The Western (aristocratic) Group Evolutionary Strategy ( … ) A Short Course in Group Evolutionary Strategy (cooperation/competition/war) ( … )
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Man – Action – Aesthetics
AESTHETICS
THE ARTS
What is excellence? Excellence is Art. Dimensions of Measurement There are three dimensions of art criticism: – Craftsmanship (includes materials) – Design (the play of order(composition) and bounty(beauty) and perception) – Content (the content and values of that content) All art can be judged by triangulation (comparison) along these three axis. There is no possible cardinality to art but ordinality can be achieved by recursive triangulation. 1. Craftsmanship (Craft) (Physical) … Materials … Technology … Skill 2. Design (Design) (Sensory) … Pattern (Sensory Aesthetics, Order) … Depth (Complexity, Hand of man) … Beauty (The Presence of Resources) 3. Content (Art) (Meaningful) Signal Value … Capturing … … Utility vs … … the Experience, vs … … the Moment or Era (good and bad) vs … … the Culture or Civilization, (good and bad) vs … … the Eternal Condition of Mankind And … Intention to Make Art … Hand (Time) of Man, Degree of Investment (Scarcity) … Fulfills its Promise (honest) … Innovation (Mastery) … Uniqueness (Novelty) … Scale (decoration to monument) And … Measurement by Triangulation … Competitiveness (by triangulation) Sums To … Culminates in Excellence And You. You and your experiences. Like reading text, the content you experience is a combination of your memories, with the art. ( Opera is an acquired taste. ) All human action can be tested by this method. All of it. Everything humans do. Like many things our ‘taste’ consists of personal associations (subjective) to objective measures. We can measure the quality of art. “Your taste is a measure of you, not art.” So like vocabulary, or manners, or style, or other opinion, we retain some constant values, but learn to improve our taste: a skill. Causality “Fertility” “Beauty is the presence of resources” “Excellence is the presence of Human Investment” “Human investment is the evidence of time invested” “The evidence of human mind and hand” Hierarchy Children > Amature > Student > Practitioner > Craftsman > Master Craftsman > Artist > Representative of Movement > Peak of Movement > Peak Across Movements All Art Begins with Monumental Architecture and Devolves to Decoration and Handcrafts – Monumental Architecture is self selecting due to cost. – Monumental Sculpture is self selecting due to cost. – Monumental Painting is self selecting due to cost. – Life Size Representationalism (not photorealism) in painting is self selecting due to cost (hours). HOWEVER – Painting, Print, and Photography are not self selecting. They are middle, working, and lower class substitutes for monuments. – Even for the upper middle and upper class, and out-of-sight class, the few pieces of quality art that are canon (mentioned in art magazines and books, and references, or which had popular press) are inaccessible. Demand is just too high. So given the high signal value of art (yes it is an extreme expression of dominance), the market has had to experiment with novelty in order to satisfy demand. Much of what ordinary people rail against is the same as railing against fashion: for those in the fashion industries (of which display art is a member) novelty has to function as a substitute for scarcity of craftsmanship quality (note my particular distaste for the so called ‘art glass’ industry). AS SUCH – Monumental works convey ideas (allegiances, heroics, beauty) – The demand for low cost high production ‘decoration’ (a) may form an icon or ‘remembrance’. (b) may decorate the environment. (c) may reflect the monumental, life sized, and representational, is misplaced in non monumental size (which is what most of us intuit as great work). IN OTHER WORDS – Monumental work is misplaced in most homes and offices in market (business) and is generally reserved for the political and institutional and aristocratic. – Most homes cannot support monumental work and require only design (decoration). – Most people are actually not capable of design, or capable of acquiring the monumental. – As such the colorful, abstract, the impressionistic, are to homes as type design and color pallet are to print and display advertising. IN OTHER WORDS – when people purchase relatively well made ‘design’ (abstract, gestural, impressionistic) of architectural size (to fill a wall) they are practicing good aesthetics (not acting on pretense). – when people pay homage to the monumental in private spaces, they are practicing good aesthetics. (small engineering drawings, paintings of flowers, well constructed prints) – when people pay homage to the monumental in architectural spaces (your living room, hallway, or dining room, or office) you are (a) alienating others, and (b) … ( … ) … FULFILLING THE PROMISE Artworks, whether craft, decoration, design, or art, need only fulfill their promise. This is why student and amature art fails. In order to fulfill the minimum promise the work must not make false promise. We can appreciate good craft, decoration, design, and art. We can appreciate all the arts by the same criteria: craft, decoration, design, and art. Japanese ritualistic behavior in food preparation, cooking carpentry, and the crafts is the best example of institutionalized excellence. Italian design has never been equalled. Gothic architecture never equalled. German music never equalled. Russian literature never equalled. —“Are you saying there is a formula to produce beautiful architecture, paintings, movies, music, statues etc”–Carl Persson A formula is via positiva. Science is via negativa. So Reverse that. Knowledge is not closed. Language is not closed. Symbolism is not closed. We can know bad art. We must discover good art.
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Man – Action – Aesthetics
AESTHETICS
THE ARTS
What is excellence? Excellence is Art. Dimensions of Measurement There are three dimensions of art criticism: – Craftsmanship (includes materials) – Design (the play of order(composition) and bounty(beauty) and perception) – Content (the content and values of that content) All art can be judged by triangulation (comparison) along these three axis. There is no possible cardinality to art but ordinality can be achieved by recursive triangulation. 1. Craftsmanship (Craft) (Physical) … Materials … Technology … Skill 2. Design (Design) (Sensory) … Pattern (Sensory Aesthetics, Order) … Depth (Complexity, Hand of man) … Beauty (The Presence of Resources) 3. Content (Art) (Meaningful) Signal Value … Capturing … … Utility vs … … the Experience, vs … … the Moment or Era (good and bad) vs … … the Culture or Civilization, (good and bad) vs … … the Eternal Condition of Mankind And … Intention to Make Art … Hand (Time) of Man, Degree of Investment (Scarcity) … Fulfills its Promise (honest) … Innovation (Mastery) … Uniqueness (Novelty) … Scale (decoration to monument) And … Measurement by Triangulation … Competitiveness (by triangulation) Sums To … Culminates in Excellence And You. You and your experiences. Like reading text, the content you experience is a combination of your memories, with the art. ( Opera is an acquired taste. ) All human action can be tested by this method. All of it. Everything humans do. Like many things our ‘taste’ consists of personal associations (subjective) to objective measures. We can measure the quality of art. “Your taste is a measure of you, not art.” So like vocabulary, or manners, or style, or other opinion, we retain some constant values, but learn to improve our taste: a skill. Causality “Fertility” “Beauty is the presence of resources” “Excellence is the presence of Human Investment” “Human investment is the evidence of time invested” “The evidence of human mind and hand” Hierarchy Children > Amature > Student > Practitioner > Craftsman > Master Craftsman > Artist > Representative of Movement > Peak of Movement > Peak Across Movements All Art Begins with Monumental Architecture and Devolves to Decoration and Handcrafts – Monumental Architecture is self selecting due to cost. – Monumental Sculpture is self selecting due to cost. – Monumental Painting is self selecting due to cost. – Life Size Representationalism (not photorealism) in painting is self selecting due to cost (hours). HOWEVER – Painting, Print, and Photography are not self selecting. They are middle, working, and lower class substitutes for monuments. – Even for the upper middle and upper class, and out-of-sight class, the few pieces of quality art that are canon (mentioned in art magazines and books, and references, or which had popular press) are inaccessible. Demand is just too high. So given the high signal value of art (yes it is an extreme expression of dominance), the market has had to experiment with novelty in order to satisfy demand. Much of what ordinary people rail against is the same as railing against fashion: for those in the fashion industries (of which display art is a member) novelty has to function as a substitute for scarcity of craftsmanship quality (note my particular distaste for the so called ‘art glass’ industry). AS SUCH – Monumental works convey ideas (allegiances, heroics, beauty) – The demand for low cost high production ‘decoration’ (a) may form an icon or ‘remembrance’. (b) may decorate the environment. (c) may reflect the monumental, life sized, and representational, is misplaced in non monumental size (which is what most of us intuit as great work). IN OTHER WORDS – Monumental work is misplaced in most homes and offices in market (business) and is generally reserved for the political and institutional and aristocratic. – Most homes cannot support monumental work and require only design (decoration). – Most people are actually not capable of design, or capable of acquiring the monumental. – As such the colorful, abstract, the impressionistic, are to homes as type design and color pallet are to print and display advertising. IN OTHER WORDS – when people purchase relatively well made ‘design’ (abstract, gestural, impressionistic) of architectural size (to fill a wall) they are practicing good aesthetics (not acting on pretense). – when people pay homage to the monumental in private spaces, they are practicing good aesthetics. (small engineering drawings, paintings of flowers, well constructed prints) – when people pay homage to the monumental in architectural spaces (your living room, hallway, or dining room, or office) you are (a) alienating others, and (b) … ( … ) … FULFILLING THE PROMISE Artworks, whether craft, decoration, design, or art, need only fulfill their promise. This is why student and amature art fails. In order to fulfill the minimum promise the work must not make false promise. We can appreciate good craft, decoration, design, and art. We can appreciate all the arts by the same criteria: craft, decoration, design, and art. Japanese ritualistic behavior in food preparation, cooking carpentry, and the crafts is the best example of institutionalized excellence. Italian design has never been equalled. Gothic architecture never equalled. German music never equalled. Russian literature never equalled. —“Are you saying there is a formula to produce beautiful architecture, paintings, movies, music, statues etc”–Carl Persson A formula is via positiva. Science is via negativa. So Reverse that. Knowledge is not closed. Language is not closed. Symbolism is not closed. We can know bad art. We must discover good art.
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Man – Organization – Influence
Influence
Definition of the spectrum of influence.
|INFLUENCE| Ignorance > Awareness > Influence (Speech) > Incentive (Exchange) > Coercion (Force) > Enserfment (Power)
- One can Influence
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while preserving choice. - One can Incentivize
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while preserving some choice - One can Coerce
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while limiting choice. - One can Exercise Power
Power is defined as possessing any of the various means by which to influence the probability of outcomes in a group or polity while eliminating choice.
Three Weapons of Influence
There are three means of influencing groups of people with institutions. (Johnson) 1) Force, or the threat of force (Masculine Strategy) A person has a VIOLENCE INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way when it has been made known to him that failure to do so will result in some form of physical aggression being directed at him by other members of the collectivity in the form of inflicting pain or physical harm on him or his loved ones, depriving him of his freedom of movement, or perhaps confiscating or destroying his treasured possessions.
FORCE: Tool: Physical Coercion Benefit: Avoidance Benefit Strategic use: Rapid but expensive. “Seize opportunities quickly with a concentrated effort.”
POWER Procedural Power: Political, Judicial, and Military Power (Soldiers, Judges and Politicians)
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Limits: Via-Negativa: Procedural Power: Political, Judicial, and Military Power (Soldiers, Judges, and Politicians)2) Remuneration or payment (Neutral or Market Strategy) A person has a REMUNERATIVE INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way if it has been made known to him that doing so will result in some form of material reward he will not otherwise receive. If he behaves as desired, he will receive some specified amount of a valuable good or service (or money with which he can purchase whatever he wishes) in exchange.
PAYMENT, EXCHANGE: Tool: Remunerative Coercion Benefit: Material Strategic use: efficient in cost and time, only if you have the resources.
POWER Economic Power (people with wealth either earned or gained through tax appropriation).
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Possibilities: Via-Practica: Economic Power (people with wealth either earned or gained through tax appropriation)3) Moral claims (collective goods) – (Feminine Strategy) A person has a MORAL INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way when he has been taught to believe that it is the “right” or “proper” or “admirable” thing to do. If he behaves as others expect him to, he may expect the approval or even the admiration of the other members of the collectivity and enjoy an enhanced sense of acceptance or self-esteem. If he behaves improperly, he may expect verbal expressions of condemnation, scorn, ridicule or even ostracism from the collectivity, and he may experience unpleasant feelings of guilt, shame or self-condemnation.
WORDS: Tool: Verbal, Moral Coercion Benefit: Ostracization/Inclusion, and Insurance benefit Strategic Use: slow, but inexpensive. “Wait for opportunity by accumulating consensus.”
POWER Populist Power (Religion, Entertainment, Public Intellectuals)
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Wants: Via-Positiva: Populist Power (Religion, Entertainment, Public Intellectuals)
Evolution of Institutions of Coercion
So given that there are only three methods of coercion available to us:
- UNDERMINING: feminine gossip, rallying, and shaming(exclusion from opportunity).
- REMUNERATION: libertarian trade, and
- FORCE: Masculine force
There are only six interpersonal actions available to us:
- Predation(Force, Theft, Fraud) >
- Force (Coercion) >
- Remuneration (Trade) >
- Boycotting (Boycott/Ignore) >
- Undermining: Inclusion in opportunity (Ostracization) >
- Flight(Separation)
Evolution of Social Orders
There are three existing and one emerging method of institutional coercion:
Religion (Inclusion / Exclusion) > Law (Protection / Punishment) > Credit (Consumption / Deprivation) > Surveillance – DigitalReputation (inclusion / exclusion from opportunity)
- RELIGION
Religion evolved to provide understanding of the word, virtues to imitate, and general prohibitions, across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, so that people could cooperate more easily and retaliate (feud) less frequently.
Weapon: Ostracization (death sentence)
Records: memory of locals.
Institutions: Church, Academy, School, Family, Individual - LAW
Law evolved to standardize punishments across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, to keep the peace, preserve productivity, preserve taxation, and legitimize (provide value by) rule.
Weapon: violence, deprivation
Records: written ledgers of crimes and punishments.
Institutions: Military, Judiciary, Sheriff/Esquires, Militia, Men - CREDIT
Credit rule evolved to increase productivity by the promise of consumption in the present, such that the primary form of social punishment was loss of consumption, status, and signaling.
Weapon: deprivation of consumption, status, and signaling.
Records: written and electronic records of creditworthiness.
Institutions: Government, Treasury, Banking, Business, Technology, Labor - SURVEILLANCE (Inclusion / Exclusion)
(emergent)
Weapon: deprivation of opportunities for cooperation.
Records: digital record and scores of your ‘desirability’ for cooperation.
Institutions: Combining all of the above plus surveillance.
- One can Influence
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Man – Organization – Influence
Influence
Definition of the spectrum of influence.
|INFLUENCE| Ignorance > Awareness > Influence (Speech) > Incentive (Exchange) > Coercion (Force) > Enserfment (Power)
- One can Influence
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while preserving choice. - One can Incentivize
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while preserving some choice - One can Coerce
Alter the probability of an individual or group’s decisions while limiting choice. - One can Exercise Power
Power is defined as possessing any of the various means by which to influence the probability of outcomes in a group or polity while eliminating choice.
Three Weapons of Influence
There are three means of influencing groups of people with institutions. (Johnson) 1) Force, or the threat of force (Masculine Strategy) A person has a VIOLENCE INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way when it has been made known to him that failure to do so will result in some form of physical aggression being directed at him by other members of the collectivity in the form of inflicting pain or physical harm on him or his loved ones, depriving him of his freedom of movement, or perhaps confiscating or destroying his treasured possessions.
FORCE: Tool: Physical Coercion Benefit: Avoidance Benefit Strategic use: Rapid but expensive. “Seize opportunities quickly with a concentrated effort.”
POWER Procedural Power: Political, Judicial, and Military Power (Soldiers, Judges and Politicians)
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Limits: Via-Negativa: Procedural Power: Political, Judicial, and Military Power (Soldiers, Judges, and Politicians)2) Remuneration or payment (Neutral or Market Strategy) A person has a REMUNERATIVE INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way if it has been made known to him that doing so will result in some form of material reward he will not otherwise receive. If he behaves as desired, he will receive some specified amount of a valuable good or service (or money with which he can purchase whatever he wishes) in exchange.
PAYMENT, EXCHANGE: Tool: Remunerative Coercion Benefit: Material Strategic use: efficient in cost and time, only if you have the resources.
POWER Economic Power (people with wealth either earned or gained through tax appropriation).
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Possibilities: Via-Practica: Economic Power (people with wealth either earned or gained through tax appropriation)3) Moral claims (collective goods) – (Feminine Strategy) A person has a MORAL INCENTIVE to behave in a particular way when he has been taught to believe that it is the “right” or “proper” or “admirable” thing to do. If he behaves as others expect him to, he may expect the approval or even the admiration of the other members of the collectivity and enjoy an enhanced sense of acceptance or self-esteem. If he behaves improperly, he may expect verbal expressions of condemnation, scorn, ridicule or even ostracism from the collectivity, and he may experience unpleasant feelings of guilt, shame or self-condemnation.
WORDS: Tool: Verbal, Moral Coercion Benefit: Ostracization/Inclusion, and Insurance benefit Strategic Use: slow, but inexpensive. “Wait for opportunity by accumulating consensus.”
POWER Populist Power (Religion, Entertainment, Public Intellectuals)
OPTIMUM FUNCTION Wants: Via-Positiva: Populist Power (Religion, Entertainment, Public Intellectuals)
Evolution of Institutions of Coercion
So given that there are only three methods of coercion available to us:
- UNDERMINING: feminine gossip, rallying, and shaming(exclusion from opportunity).
- REMUNERATION: libertarian trade, and
- FORCE: Masculine force
There are only six interpersonal actions available to us:
- Predation(Force, Theft, Fraud) >
- Force (Coercion) >
- Remuneration (Trade) >
- Boycotting (Boycott/Ignore) >
- Undermining: Inclusion in opportunity (Ostracization) >
- Flight(Separation)
Evolution of Social Orders
There are three existing and one emerging method of institutional coercion:
Religion (Inclusion / Exclusion) > Law (Protection / Punishment) > Credit (Consumption / Deprivation) > Surveillance – DigitalReputation (inclusion / exclusion from opportunity)
- RELIGION
Religion evolved to provide understanding of the word, virtues to imitate, and general prohibitions, across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, so that people could cooperate more easily and retaliate (feud) less frequently.
Weapon: Ostracization (death sentence)
Records: memory of locals.
Institutions: Church, Academy, School, Family, Individual - LAW
Law evolved to standardize punishments across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, to keep the peace, preserve productivity, preserve taxation, and legitimize (provide value by) rule.
Weapon: violence, deprivation
Records: written ledgers of crimes and punishments.
Institutions: Military, Judiciary, Sheriff/Esquires, Militia, Men - CREDIT
Credit rule evolved to increase productivity by the promise of consumption in the present, such that the primary form of social punishment was loss of consumption, status, and signaling.
Weapon: deprivation of consumption, status, and signaling.
Records: written and electronic records of creditworthiness.
Institutions: Government, Treasury, Banking, Business, Technology, Labor - SURVEILLANCE (Inclusion / Exclusion)
(emergent)
Weapon: deprivation of opportunities for cooperation.
Records: digital record and scores of your ‘desirability’ for cooperation.
Institutions: Combining all of the above plus surveillance.
- One can Influence
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Man – Organization – War
Conflict (AND WAR)
( …. ) Three choices THE THIRD QUESTION OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYThe question isn’t how we get along, it’s Genghis Khan’s question: “Why should the strong refrain from decimation, enslavement, enserfment, or rule for maximum profit?” The only incentive for the strong is whether cooperation is preferable to conquest. It is only preferable for conquest if it is sufficiently preferable to conquest to refrain from conquest. So, as the Great Khan said: “Given that cooperation is not preferable or possible, and serfdom and slavery are costly, that leaves decimation, or rule for the maximization of profit.”“We might prefer the former or the latter. However the enemy would undoubtedly prefer separation to decimation or rule under out maximization of profit. And this is the wise choice. Since we can still cooperate indirectly by trade while having no influence over one another within the same polity.” The problem the Khan faced is that he lacked the ability to produce institutions capable of sustained rule, just as expansionary aryans lacked the ability to produce institutions of sustained rule for maximum profit. The Indo-Aryans succeeded only under decimation and replacement in europe, not by any other means. The europeans killed the males and kept the females. The Persians stayed insular but were invaded by the Arabs, the indo-iranian’s are gone. The Anatolians are gone. The Caucasians are all but gone. So the Khan was wrong. Decimation was the right answer.
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Man – Organization – War
Conflict (AND WAR)
( …. ) Three choices THE THIRD QUESTION OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYThe question isn’t how we get along, it’s Genghis Khan’s question: “Why should the strong refrain from decimation, enslavement, enserfment, or rule for maximum profit?” The only incentive for the strong is whether cooperation is preferable to conquest. It is only preferable for conquest if it is sufficiently preferable to conquest to refrain from conquest. So, as the Great Khan said: “Given that cooperation is not preferable or possible, and serfdom and slavery are costly, that leaves decimation, or rule for the maximization of profit.”“We might prefer the former or the latter. However the enemy would undoubtedly prefer separation to decimation or rule under out maximization of profit. And this is the wise choice. Since we can still cooperate indirectly by trade while having no influence over one another within the same polity.” The problem the Khan faced is that he lacked the ability to produce institutions capable of sustained rule, just as expansionary aryans lacked the ability to produce institutions of sustained rule for maximum profit. The Indo-Aryans succeeded only under decimation and replacement in europe, not by any other means. The europeans killed the males and kept the females. The Persians stayed insular but were invaded by the Arabs, the indo-iranian’s are gone. The Anatolians are gone. The Caucasians are all but gone. So the Khan was wrong. Decimation was the right answer.