October 30th, 2018 7:22 PM [H]alloween Celebration: Driven by (a) children per household, (b) relative wealth (c) the dominance of the workplace as means of trick-or-treating, because (d) the dissolution of the stable, territorial, intergenerational family, because of the growth of cities – and (e) as Haidt’s recent book suggests: the ‘infantilization’ of the generation, and it’s ‘paranoia’ due to the inverse relation between crime and criminal trends. Where I am in a rural area of the USA at the moment, its as insane as christmas decorations in suburbia. Don’t underestimate the impact of the current political stress over white-replacement on civic participation. It’s huge.
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The Same Then and Now.
October 30th, 2018 6:17 PM PROTESTANTISM AGAINST CENTRAL GOVT OF THE CHURCH, TODAY AGAINST CENTRAL GOVT OF THE STATE. THE SAME THEN AND NOW. [P]rotestantism wasn’t a reaction to the bible, it was a reaction to the corruption of the church, the taxation by the church, and the church as a vehicle for foreign rule, just like washington DC and Brussels today. The church conflated rule, government, and education into a monopoly and used it to entrench costly corrupt bureaucrats, extractive rents, and impose ignorance, in a time of literacy, economic growth, and the expansion of trade in the north, and decline of trade in the south, due to venetian decline as the navy of the byzantines. The church was a very corrupt parasitic government and the people rebelled against it and restored local government. This broke the church’s taxation. Broke the church’s corruption. Let loose the dead capital held by the corrupt church (50% of the capital in europe), and broke the church monopoly on literacy, thereby combining literacy, available capital, expanding trade routes, into a great leap forward in european life and standards of living. Christianity consist of four(or five) rules. That’s it. Four rules you can teach a child. Protestantism ended church tyranny, corruption, impoverishment, and enforced ignorance. Faith was the MORAL language that they described it in, just as we describe today’s economic language in today’s moral prose. Washington is an unnecessary corrupt parasitic power. Brussels is the same. The church was the same. And people have chosen to localize rule, governance, and choice. Why? Because they can. Ask why the orthodox church HASN’T failed instead. Ask why the protestant evangelical churches (church of jesus not god) continues to grow. Ask why the catholic church and the protestant churches of GOD fail. There is no god. There never was a god. There was just a lot of ignorant undomesticated humans who could be exploited by those who possessed literacy. With literacy, the restoration of aristotelian reason, an the empirical demands of trade, all ‘god’ religions are dying EXCEPT Islam and Orthodoxy.
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Aristocratic (propertarian) Markets
October 30th, 2018 3:33 PM ARISTOCRATIC (PROPERTARIAN) MARKETS 5 – Established Males (industry/politics): Curt’s View 4 – Lightly Established Males (family/smb): Bill’s View 3 – Warrior Males (individuals/craftsmen): Eli Harman’s View. 2 – Occultists (outcasts/literary) … so far we don’t market there. Someone undoubtably will…. 1 – Traditionalists … (Religion/Tradition) … interested largely in the outputs not the history. (from bill and I discussing what’s going on … )
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Combatting the Parasite Industrial Complex.
October 30th, 2018 3:14 PM COMBATTING THE PARASITE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. by Luke Weinhagen The Parasite Industrial Complex branches: – Military Industrial Complex (masculine parasitism, right establishment politics) – Narrative Industrial Complex (feminine parasitism, left establishment politics) Many models of thought and politic have been proposed to combat either the Military Industrial Complex or the Narrative Industrial Complex. Propertarianism recognizes and combats the Parasite Industrial Complex. (excellent)
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Halloween = Samhain (SAH-winn)
October 30th, 2018 8:25 PM HALLOWEEN <- ALL HALLOWS EVE <- SAMHAIN (SAH’-winn) [S]amhain is believed to have Celtic pagan origins and there is evidence it has been an important date since ancient times. Some Neolithic passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with the sunrise around the time of Samhain. It is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and many important events in Irish mythology happen or begin on Samhain. It was the time when cattle were brought back down from the summer pastures and when livestock were slaughtered for the winter. As at Bealtaine, special bonfires were lit. These were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers and there were rituals involving them. Like Bealtaine, Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed. This meant the Aos SÃ, the ‘spirits’ or ‘fairies’, could more easily come into our world. Most scholars see the Aos SÃ as remnants of the pagan gods and nature spirits. At Samhain, it was believed that the Aos SÃ needed to be propitiated to ensure that the people and their livestock survived the winter. Offerings of food and drink were left outside for them. The souls of the dead were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality. Feasts were had, at which the souls of dead kin were beckoned to attend and a place set at the table for them. Mumming and guising were part of the festival, and involved people going door-to-door in costume (or in disguise), often reciting verses in exchange for food. The costumes may have been a way of imitating, and disguising oneself from, the Aos SÃ. Divination rituals and games were also a big part of the festival and often involved nuts and apples. In the late 19th century, Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer suggested that it was the “Celtic New Year”, and this view has been repeated by some other scholars.
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Aristocracy?
October 30th, 2018 3:12 PM
—“Should the aristocracy that governs us be ultimately meritocratic or reproduce through birth.”—
[N]ot necessarily an either-or proposition. Given: Monarchy, Aristocracy (military /territory), Nobility (church /governance /ability); the reason for inheritance of the MONARCHY evolved to be inheritable as (a) demand for singular rule decreased as participation by the aristocracy (territory) and nobility (ability) in rule increased, (b) demand for limiting competition over secession between the aristocracy and nobility increased. So via positiva meritocracy and via negativa aristocracy just rotate at different rates, and the monarchy slowest of all (if at all). In this context the elite intellectual families are doing a pretty good job of self perpetuation and maybe we should subsidize them a bit more.
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Table: The Middle East vs The West
October 30th, 2018 8:15 PM
THEM (MIDDLE EAST) VS US (WEST) Face ..................vs Truth Reasonableness ........vs Decidability Pilpul ................vs Construction Critique ..............vs Falsification Authority .............vs Market Equality ..............vs Hierarchy Proportionality .......vs Reciprocity Herd ..................vs Pack. Feminine ..............vs Masculine
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All you really need to know about propertarianism
October 30th, 2018 3:01 PM
[R]eductive version: “All you need to really understand about propertarianism is that it makes it possible to write law so these f—kers in the financial, media, academy, state, complex can’t keep stealing from you without repercussion, and because of that we can de-financialize, de-propagandize, de-politicize our country and live happily as one income families again.
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The Market for Halloween Celebration
October 30th, 2018 7:22 PM [H]alloween Celebration: Driven by (a) children per household, (b) relative wealth (c) the dominance of the workplace as means of trick-or-treating, because (d) the dissolution of the stable, territorial, intergenerational family, because of the growth of cities – and (e) as Haidt’s recent book suggests: the ‘infantilization’ of the generation, and it’s ‘paranoia’ due to the inverse relation between crime and criminal trends. Where I am in a rural area of the USA at the moment, its as insane as christmas decorations in suburbia. Don’t underestimate the impact of the current political stress over white-replacement on civic participation. It’s huge.
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Propertarianism Will Make Their Lives Better and Fast
October 30th, 2018 2:52 PM THIS IS ALL NORMIES NEED TO UNDERSTAND: PROPERTARIANISM WILL MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER AND FAST – NOT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND IT. BUT BECAUSE OF THE LAW IT MAKES POSSIBLE. [N]ormal people are not students of, or interested in, nor necessarily capable of conceiving the world via the tools of calculus, economics, programming, law, or formal logic. They are merely the BENEFICIARIES of it when used by those of us who can. If you merely explain that it is possible to use the law to prohibit the financial sector, the media, politicians and the academy from taking advantage of them by lying to them, and that Propertarianism provides a method of writing the law in order to make that possible, they will understand. Because the work consists largely of: (a) a single value-independent language of logic, science, ethics, politics, economics, and law. (b) a set of criteria for testing whether or not statements made in that language (which is very close to law already) is false (such that it may still be true but it is not false or dependent upon pretense of knowledge). (c) that we can add this to the constitution and the courts fairly easily. And in doing so allow us to continue market support of what we favor, and court suppression of falsehoods that we don’t. (d) and if we do this most of the ‘redistributive demands’ can be made possible by disempowering of the financial, academy, media, and state sector, so that those proceeds can instead by consumed by the people (citizens), (e) so that once again it is possible to bear and rase a family on one income, pay for one’s house, and then save for retirement for the vast majority of the laboring, working, middle, and upper middle classes. That’s it. That’s what they have to understand. The rest of it is just the technical means of constructing, debating, writing, administering, and judging the law such that all of that is possible.