(FB 1551736203 Timestamp) Gates, Bezos, Jobs, Ellison, Faceberg, The Googles. The best human being in that list is Gates, and the rest are so far behind it’s embarrassing, informative, and frustrating.
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(FB 1551714534 Timestamp) TRIVIUM > QUADRIVIUM > PHILOSOPHY Trivium: The Word. Grammar (Primary School – repetition), Logic (Middle School – understanding ), Rhetoric (high school – argument) -vs- Quadrivium: The Number. Arithmetic(The Number), Geometry(The Number in Space), Music(in Time) and Astronomy(Motion(Space and Time)) -vs- Philosophy: The Idea TODAY IMO Propertarianism completes Philosophy with Grammars (Metaphysics), Acquisitionism (Psychology), Compatibilism (Sociology), Propertarianism(Ethics), Natural Law (Politics), adds Group Strategy, and articulates Aesthetics. Between the logic of the grammars, the logic of numbers, and the logic of cooperation (P), we have completed the systems of calculation available to the human mind. THE EDUCATION IN THE SKILLS OF THINKING Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts (based on thinking skills), as distinguished from the practical arts (such as medicine and architecture). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven liberal arts (essential thinking skills) of classical antiquity. THE TRIVIUM Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student “comes to terms,” defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat. Logic (also dialectic) is the “mechanics” of thought and of analysis, the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted. Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) and being transmitted outwards as wisdom (rhetoric). THE QUADRIVIUM The quadrivium (plural: quadrivia ) is the four subjects, or arts (namely arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), taught after teaching the trivium. The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The quadrivium was the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time). PHILOSOPHY In turn, the quadrivium was considered the foundation for the study of philosophy (sometimes called the “liberal art par excellence”) and theology.
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(FB 1551721894 Timestamp) If you’re a member. Vote for Prop. 😉 https://www.facebook.com/groups/198567587146349/permalink/784937938509308/
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(FB 1551712646 Timestamp) —“”Decolonize the curriculum is simply forced prohibition of cultural appropriation – take away the science. No phones, internet, semiconductors, universal polyphase power grid, no cars, elevators, escalators, forget the printing press.””— James Santagata
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(FB 1551721810 Timestamp) TERRITORIAL DIFFERENCES POST ONE
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(FB 1551711158 Timestamp) —“Decolonization is the 21st century version of “Yankee go home! And take us with you!”— James Santagata
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(FB 1551721737 Timestamp) TERRITORIAL DIFFERENCES POST TWO
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(FB 1551710193 Timestamp) FREE WILL IMU (in my understanding) free will must exist out of the necessity of neural economy (calculability) if for no other reason than fragmentary information in high causal density always requires a forces a wide margin of error. We see synchronicity for certain since people with similar experiences, and who are subject to the same information, come to similar conclusions in similar time frames. But we see everything else as well – including continuous discordant thought word and deed that is counter to those of others. So we demonstrate free will. Simply out of error. From this understanding we see science is not a via positiva function, but instead a via negativa function by which we reduce error by increasing coherence by increasing correspondence.
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(FB 1551721702 Timestamp) TERRITORIAL DIFFERENCES POST THREE ON POLITICAL THEORY Apr 25, 2016, 12:35 PM What are the first things one should know in political theory?
- The first question of ethics is ‘Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff?’.
The first question of politics is “Why don’t me and mine kill you and yours and take your stuff?”
The first question of group evolutionary strategy is “How can we either kill them and take their stuff, or prevent them from killing us and taking our stuff?”
- The answer to all three questions is the same: “Because **cooperating in a division of labor **is productive and can continue to produce mutual returns while conflict is costly and and results only in net consumption. Over time those who cooperate have more numbers, are healthier, have better industry, technology, and warfare than those who don’t.
- So, how do we organize group evolutionary strategy, politics, ethics, production and reproduction, so that we can out-compete, or at least say at pace with, competitors, given the people, their abilities, the territory and its resources that are at our disposal?
- Answering this question requires facing a very unpleasant fac****t, that the problem we face is** human capital **(talents) and that every person at the bottom of the curve drastically reduces the effectiveness of every person at the middle and top of the curve. In other words, it matters more that you don’t have impulsive, aggressive, idiots than it does that you have calm geniuses. So by and large nations in colder climates were more successful at killing off the undesirables through winters and starvation, than those in the warmer climates.
- So we see many different group evolutionary strategies dependent upon human capital, territory, and resources. The most obvious are
* the hierarchical and authoritarian irrigated flood-river valleys * the aggressive tribal steppe and desert regions * the egalitarian forest and river regions. * the equalitarian polar peoples * Each of these main groups produce different political systems in order to make use of the territory and means of production available to them. Those that do not make good use of territory and means are displaced, conquered, or exterminated by those that do. * All groups require: * A method of organizing reproduction (usually marriage) * A method of organizing production (an economy) * A method of organizing norms (usually religion/education) * A method of producing commons (government) * A method of holding territory (army) * There are two economic poles available and all make use of one part of the spectrum or another, and all economies resulting in some variant on the mixed economy: * Propertarian / Libertarian / Capitalist / High Trust / High Innovation – Why? No corruption in theory. Incentives work. But no competitive commons are produced, so it doesn’t work. * Mixed Economy of Consumer capitalism with some authoritarian commons production. Incentives work and commons possible. * Authoritarian / Totalitarian / Socialist / Low Trust / Low Innovation – Why? high corruption, no incentives, and it doesn’t work. * All governments are corrupt but if a people are successful at implementing rule of law it is possible to protect the economy using the courts from excessive interference by the government monopoly. * The method of deciding ( making excuses for ) which commons is produced rather than some other commons is a matter of local dispute. But it is actually a question of competition with other states, and it is only very wealthy states that choose luxuries rather than necessities. * That is about all there is to political theory.
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(FB 1551697263 Timestamp) ( I mean, I don’t get it. Lay a foundation deep enough to carry a one meter wall. Concrete block. Foam. Dirt Fill. Two stories. Nine foot ceilings. Six foot windows. Cast lintels on-site and in place. Lam center beam. High Pitched Roof, with French (Provincial) cornices. Steel over Panels. One wet wall. Bedrooms up, kitchen, dining, great room down. Smaller house. Better fixtures. Lasts 300 years minimum. Standards and volume produce discounts. French construction is small but quality. No more sheds thanks. )