Source: Original Site Post

  • The Difference Between Understanding(knowledge) and Use (craft)

    October 8th, 2018 2:28 PM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT) I just thought of a good analogy. Mathematicians do amazing things without having any idea why their craft performs as it does. Then we have this nonsense of the contortions of the logical foundations of mathematics, that once you understand them, are ridiculous. Not false, just ridiculous – because the foundations of mathematics are TRIVIAL. But the whole host of nonsense we call mathematics doesn’t stop us from using the CRAFT of mathematics, any more than adding ancestor’s bones to a crucible of iron doesn’t explain why the extra carbon can produce low grade steel. It didn’t stop people from making steel. The same is true of the LAW. People conflate the ethical, moral, legal, and necessary law (natural law) all the time as what they intuit as ‘wrong’. Yet a minority of laws, moral norms, social norms, customs, traditions are in fact ethical, and moral under natural law because our various polities, groups, cultures, and civilizations used different portfolios of rights and obligations to preserve the social order regardless of its morality – survival is not a moral question. So we just habituate all sorts of means of calculating, from math and logic to laws, and norms, we produce vocabularies that help us do what we do in the context that we do it in, and we lose, if we ever new, which mostly we don’t, the ‘science’ and ‘logic’ in the rich weave of normative rules that we use on a day to day basis. It’s a small minority of us that must learn, recall, use, persist, and evolve those fundamental ideas that allow us to manufacture those normative ideas in useful form. Goods, Services, and Information are all products. The thing is, that goods are easy to charge for, services less so, and information hardly useful at all except in dispute resolution.

  • We Know Quite Well What Postmodernism, Communism, and Abrahamism “Are”: Lying.

    October 8th, 2018 11:48 AM WE KNOW QUITE WELL WHAT POSTMODERNISM, COMMUNISM, AND ABRAHAMISM “ARE” (“Consist Of”) (CD: Important piece on intellectual history) In response to a criticism of Hicks’ Postmodernism:

    —“Hicks …. When you don’t know what communism or postmodernism is.”— Anon

    Which I’ll counter with “When you know exactly what Abrahamism, Communism, Postmodernism, and Feminism consist of: Counter-Revolutions Against Truth and Reason.” GRAMMARS OF COERCION: There are only three means of coercion: 1 – Violence, 2 – Remuneration, and; 3 – Ostracization (Shaming/Endearing (Gossip)). We have invented: 1 – Law and War for Violence. 2 – Markets and Corruption for Remuneration, 3 – and a host of grammars of persuasion for inclusion (insurance) versus ostracization (risk). ABRAHAMISM, COMMUNISM, POSTMODERNISM VS TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND TRUTH. We see the evolution of law of western peoples: 1 – Sovereignty, (individualism is incorrect). 2 – Tort, and thang, court, senate, 3 – Martial Truth (MIlitary ‘Reporting’), and the demand for speaking martial truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competency) hierarchy. 4 – Reason, rationalism, empiricism, and science as a consequence. 5 – Markets and competing intellectual disciplines rather than authority and mono-disciplines (ie: religion). These choices are the consequences of mixed, metalworking, agrarian, cattle herders, requiring large well defended territories, that must self finance their military capability, because they lack any means of concentrating capital and taxation cheaply as did the irrigationist in the flood river valleys. They developed ‘Contractual Civilization’. But we also see: 1 – Abrahamic fiction and supernaturalism of the pastoralists against the reason and realism of the agrarians and metallurgists; 2 – Pseudoscientific Communism as a restatement of Jewish separatism using class warfare; and; 3 – Postmodernism as a pseudo-rational restatement of marxism-communism using ethnic warfare. WHERE 1 – Superstition (Judaism, Christianity, Islamism) evolved into ==> 2 – pseudoscience (w Jewish Critique) evolved into ==> 3 – pseudo rationalism (w Jewish Pilpul) (French > German > Jewish), USING Each time increasing in rhetorical complexity but using the same techniques in each of the sophisms: 1 – Justification (Pilpul) and Poisoning the Straw Man (Critique) then adding incremental techniques of: a) Fictionalism (Fictional History > Mythology), b) Supernaturalism, c) Pseudoscience, and; d) Pseudo Rationalism, and at present e) Simple Denialism. (Race, IQ, Homogeneity, Markets) LYING BY SUGGESTION It took me less than a year of relatively hard work to disassemble the techniques into grammars and enumerate and articulate all of them. But no matter the depth of analysis, lying by art of suggestion by overloading is still lying by abuse of the human process of continuous recursion in streams of memory producing what we call Meaning, and our suggestibility and suspension of disbelief in that state. DEFENSE AGAINST FALSEHOOD Realism, Reason, Calculation and Computation in all their forms, are defenses against this suggestion, loading, overloading by the use of correspondence and operational possibility, but take disciplined training and a minimum intellectual ability. Because we have a host of cognitive and moral (reproductive) biases that influence our choices without the discipline and training to prevent them from doing so. RULES OF ORDER The Ancient World civilizations each produced means of producing sufficient meaning (rules) for local preservation of cooperation: Rome (Realism), Athens (Idealism(abstract)), Anatolian (lost), Babylon (Ideal Monotheism(supernatural)), Jerusalem (Authoritarian Reactionary Monotheism), Beka Valley (Authoritarian Expansionary Monotheism), Memphis (Pragmatic Ritual Polytheism), Indus (Pragmatic Narrative Polytheism), and Yellow River (Confucian Rationalism, hierarchy and harmony), Lao Tsu’s “balance and reasonableness”, and the utility of Buddhism in Ritual. With only the Japanese THE GREAT CONFLICT OF HUMAN HISTORY The homogeneous masculine eugenic pack of hunters and farmers were able to produce high trust commons, versus the heterogeneous feminine dysgenic universalist herd and herders were unable to produce high trust commons. (Cain and Able is the literary example of the Pastoralists hatred of the wealthier and urbanized Agrarians and Metalworkers). But the question is not Athens vs Jerusalem, since both ideal democracy and supernatural universalism have been the greatest failures of all of the world civilizations, causing the destruction of every great ancient civilization and bringing about the Abrahamic Dark Age and it’s 750M dead; as well as the current 150 Year attempt at recreating another Abrahamic Dark Age — this time by Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Adorno and co., and their 100M dead. Followed by the inventiveness of the French and their conspirators: Derrida, Foucault, Rorty et al. And the feminists that followed from them: each trying to produce a monopoly as a means of avoiding markets for cooperation, because they are unable to compete in those markets for pareto optimums, only nash equilibriums In the ancient world, overextension of the empires to eliminate local frictions (taxes, rents) on trade, and profit from those efficiencies, produced travel, communication, trade, and infrastructure that made possible the jewish and christian invasion of the western empire; intentional fomenting of underclass resistance against the aristocratic civilization; and then Byzantine forcible conversion of the entirety of the population in order to end Reason, Law, and Aristocratic Rule. The same technique is being used in this current era: invade, rebel, rally underclasses, import underclasses, and then seek power by numbers, using fairy tales desirable by those underclasses using the sophisms those underclasses are defenseless against, and which the Aristocracy tolerates or finds useful until the society has been destroyed by it. ORIGINS Gobekli Tepe is the oldest Temple complex we find to date, and predates all other monolithic works by thousands of years. It is also just south of one of the world’s greatest hunting gardens teeming with life at the origin of the Euphrates – an Eden if there ever was one. As far as we know, from there, at the nexus of the continents, near the center of trade between them, on the highways of the main rivers, the idea spread from the monoliths of the Atlantic peoples to the advanced stone of the egyptians. It was an early and effective tool of social order. Most likely because it predicted seasons. Once those skills existed, the construction revolution bloomed. THE WEST THAT THE REST REBELS AGAINST: While Myth, Ritual, and Oath are necessary components of demand for neural economy (computational efficiency) in the production of rules of social order, how we communicate those rules, the group evolutionary strategies in those rules, and the outcomes that are produced as externality by those rules, are not only means of internal persistence, but external competition. Only one set of those rules produces reciprocally beneficial outcomes: Western Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Sovereignty, Reason, Science, Rule of Law, and Competitive Markets in Everything gave the world nearly everything that raised man out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the dangers of nature. Western Civilization consists of The Continuous Calculation by Competitive Trial and Error, of our Ascent into the Gods we imagine. Western civilization was and until recently, was organized to continuously produce Agency at the cost of eugenia, whereas the middle civilizations were organized to limit agency in exchange for dysgenia. Without Manorialism and Markets (East Asia, Europe) the dysgenia defeats all attempts at preservation of gains. It is not malthus’ numbers that cause dark ages. It is the end of eugenic limitations, let loose by unregulated innovations, that feed regression to the mean, and brought about the Bronze age, Iron Age, and the present Steel Age collapses. That is why the enlightenment project failed to create either an aristocracy of everyone (british), a middle class of everyone (french and german), or an underclass of everyone (jewish and russian). In europe and east asia, after more than a thousand years of manorialism, war, disease, and extremely aggressive criminal prosecution, the consequential upward redistribution of reproduction led to distributions that allowed pareto organization of populations where the ratio of the middle and upper was sufficient to produce surpluses necessary to concentrate capital in multipliers (commons). But both hindus (which have yet failed in their project), east asians (who succeeded under our pressures), and westerners (who succeeded because of our tradition of empirical law), had an advantage. The chinese conquered and colonized all border people. The Western Indo Europeans conquered (exterminated) and colonized all border people, and both europe and east asia produced homogenous eugenic, agrarian, metalsmithing societies. Either one is eugenic or dysgenic. The red queen cannot be defeated by any other means. It takes 95 to follow simple instructions, 105 to repair a machine, 115 to learn on one’s own by reading, 120 to design a machine, 130+ to synthesize and communicate ideas, 140+ to invent new ideas. Everyone below that who cannot be put into labor that does not require continuous learning and adaptation. This is social science. Everything else is religion. BIOLOGICAL ORIGINS: HOW MUCH AGENCY DO WE HAVE? The broader question is, how much agency do we have? Women and men demonstrably think very differently because of the difference between utility and truth, and between proportionality and reciprocity, and between dysgenia and eugenia. Why do we assume that this same cognitive bias is limited to gender rather than a balance between the genders, and that different groups don’t just demonstrate the male cognitive bias or the female cognitive bias? Truth, Reciprocity, and Physical Violence that Ends when Ended, VERSUS Fraud, Proportionality, and Reputation Destruction that Never Ends until Destroyed. Violence and Threats VERSUS Shaming, Ridicule, Gossip, Straw Manning, Rallying, and Reputation Destruction. Those are the Male versus female competitive strategies. HERD <—————> PACK Utility <—————> Truth Proportionality <——> Reciprocity Equality <————-> Meritocracy Dysgenia <———–> Eugenia r <——————–> K F<——————–> M There is nothing in mankind that is complicated other than the lies we tell ourselves and others in order to achieve our desired ends. Male and female reproductive strategies are at odds. And we have little agency in the choice of those strategies, at the individual, group, civilizational levels. Everything else is a consequence. We are just another self-domesticating animal. Some of us more successful at it than others. Nothing more complex is at work. Curt Doolittle The Evolutionary Strategy of Europeans The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Literature, even fictional literature, is subjectively testable when operationally stated.

    October 8th, 2018 11:45 AM

    [U]m. No. Let me help you: Literature, even fictional literature, (artificial history) is subjectively testable when operationally stated. Literature is not the problem. Using the fictionalisms of the the magical (pseudoscientific), Ideal (sophomoric, pseudo-rational), and occult (supernatural) is the problem. All such attempts are merely frauds to compensate for one’s incompetence or dishonesty.

  • October 7th, 2018 8:05 PM [Y]eah. Yeah. I know the china thing. It’s like old ne

    October 7th, 2018 8:05 PM [Y]eah. Yeah. I know the china thing. It’s like old news. The problem is, Like, I thought it would correct no later than 2010 or 2012. Now is 2018. So why isn’t it correcting? I mean, I don’t care about another ‘warning’ or ‘opinion’ or ‘woo wooo’ column on the Chinese economy. The answer is SO WHAT? If they don’t have a correction then why? If they are going to have a correction then why? I mean, what ‘limit’ will be hit that that causes the cascade? Because ‘well it usually happens this way’ is not a very good answer in economics. High causal density and all that kinda thing. OK? sigh….

  • Intercultural Differences in Demonstration of Neuroticism

    October 7th, 2018 3:39 PM Via Brandon Hayes FROM TEXT: Interpretation # 1 Intercultural differences in neuroticism reflect slight differences in culture-specific components of neuroticism. All cultures share similar personality dimension of neuroticism, but this trait does not mean completely the same thing in various cultures. Interpretation # 2 The mainstream religion influences the level of neuroticism in a given culture. Interpretation # 3 Geographically close cultures show similar levels of neuroticism in comparison with geographically distant cultures. Interpretation # 4 Intercultural differences in neuroticism are caused by the nonidentical response styles of people from different cultures. Interpretation # 5 Intercultural differences in neuroticism reflect genetic differences between cultural groups. Neuroticism is thus a universal personality trait and is fully comparable between members of different cultures. Interpretation # 6 Intercultural differences in neuroticism may be caused by adaptations of psychometric personality questionnaires to other languages. ABSTRACT? —“Independence of Neuroticism? Finally, we would like to pay attention to the question of “independence of neuroticism.” Neuroticism has been found to be positively correlated with cultural dimensions of masculinity and uncertainty avoidance (Hofstede model, see Hofstede & McCrae, 2004; Allik, & McCrae, 2004), power distance (Hofstede model, Özkan & Lajunen, 2007) and harmony value (Schwartz model, Schwartz, 2006) and negatively correlated with the interpersonal trust dimension from the Inglehart model (Allik & McCrae, 2004). Thus, it is not likely that neuroticism is an independent personality trait that is not related with any other construct measured on the cultural level of analysis.”—

  • Deconflation: Choice vs Probability

    October 8th, 2018 2:11 PM UM. NO THAT’S CONFLATION. CHOICE vs PROBABILITY

    —“Curt: I am currently enrolled in a Chemical engineering course in which the professor is attempting to pair game theory with traditional modeling of chemical reactor plant design. He has conceptually replaced decisions with reactions and choices as atoms with the pains as thermodynamic indicators. As far as I can tell it is an entirely new field but it at least initially seems to be better at actually predicting the behavior of real populations of people better standard Game Theory.”—

    [E]veryone is doing this. I do this (operationalism in economics), some other philosophers do it (See Glennen and Bechtel: Mechanistic Philosophy), mathematicians do it (see the Intuitionistic and Constructivist Movements), the physicists do it (see Operationalism/Operationalist movement in physics), all of computer science does it (this is what distinguishes computer science/programming from mathematics, and more so from formal logic, informal logic, and argument), and most visibly Stephen Wolfram, of Wolfram Alpha calls it ‘the new science’. The universe consists of layers of complexity each of which produces a limited number of possible operations. whatever the universe consists of > subatomic physics > physics > chemistry > biochemistry > biology > organisms > complex organisms > ecologies > planets > solar systems > The Universe > sentience > consciousness > reason > computation > calculation > Whatever Comes Next. If you want to call that game theory (which is choice) that’s anthropomorphism. In other words, human, sentient, conscious reason. It’s not choice. It’s probability and necessity. Hydrogen and oxygen can’t wake up in the morning and choose not to make water. Your favorite female recreational sex partner can choose not to service you today. All error rises from misapplication of analogy. Operations and probability = physical, Opportunity and Choice = mental. Don’t conflate them.

    —“The expansion of the model beyond traditional matrices solves the problem of increasing the number of players as well as introducing a mechanism for repeated games (recycling decomposed products/made decisions and filtering off unmade possibilities).”—

    Again. games in the sense of choice (game theory) vs probabilities in the absence of choice (probability) These are two different models. Human actions are not open to probabilism for reasons I don’t wanna go into right now at depth, and the universe has fixed options and therefore is not gaming just probabilistic. Nassim Taleb does a pretty good job of explaining the Ludic Fallacy. Confusing Games (dice , bounded, and probabilistic) with Choices (actions, unbounded and heuristic).

  • Yes, Game Theory Is Just a Rubik’s Cube – a Toy – But…. Let’s Look at That a Moment…

    October 8th, 2018 1:56 PM YES, GAME THEORY IS JUST A RUBK’S CUBE – A TOY – BUT…. LET’S LOOK AT THAT A MOMENT…

    —“Curt, What are your thoughts on Game Theory? Is it a valuable tool for describing group or individual behavior or just a kind of Rubix Cube for involuntarily celibate economists.”—‎Vincent Cucchiara‎

    [W]hile it is useful as a general principle that layers of prisoner’s dilemmas are always at play and therefore unpredictable, it’s a dead end since only the first, second, and at most third order are perceptible and calculable and demonstrated by man. No real world game (market) is that trivial. Same with logics. We are all pretty good with first order logic and sometimes second order, but beyond that it’s just a language game for logicians – no one does or can think in those terms. Because no one expresses ideas that trivial. Causal density is simply too high. I’d make the same argument about Operationalism, in that it’s only important to understand general rules produced by operational analysis the way we understand norms and laws – we just do (use or repeat) them. The fact that it is incredibly burdensome and requires a great deal of knowledge to speak in operational language lets us make proofs when we need to the way we do with engineering, recipes, programming, and mathematics, but people will continue to speak in norms as a means of limiting the cost of neural economy (computational efficiency). We always and everywhere seek to limit physical, emotional, and intellectual costs – particularly when a norm exists that lets us communicate while avoiding them: (i.e. manners, vocabulary, narratives, traditions.) We are always battling the problem of neural economy (computational efficiency) and this is why normative concepts are helpful – they function as useful puzzle pieces that eliminate our demand for computation of everything all the time, in real time, which is exhausting. The value of neurons is that they generalize. Our whole problem boils down to ensuring constant relations between the real world and our generalizations of it. Unfortunately we are ignorant, we err, we bias, and we tell white, grey, and black lies to ‘maintain the peace’ as frequently as we speak in constant relations with the existential universe. It’s bad enough we have to use prices and bank balances…. lol Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • Harman’s Law: The Government is Our Enemy.

    October 8th, 2018 1:01 PM HARMAN’S LAW: THE GOVERNMENT IS OUR ENEMY AND ALL RESISTANCE BY ANY MEANS BOTH MORAL AND ETHICAL By Ely Harman [T]he government is our enemy, and it is in the hands of our enemies, with whom are at war. Denying your enemy resources, by any and every means possible, legal, illegal, moral, immoral (it hardly matters) is good. If a wealthy family had paid more taxes to the government, they would only have spent it mass importing ethnic enemies, breeding dependent underclasses, spoiling and corrupting women, sending aid to subsidize the explosion of foreign underclasses to someday mass import as ethnic enemies under a cover of insistent shrieks produced by spoiled and corrupt women; projects with no worthwhile, beneficial, outcomes, to anyone but worthless parasites… Truth, justice, morality, law, are rules for cooperation between friends, or at least honest, productive, people. For everyone else there is only power, violence, deception, conflict, war… We will never take the side of our enemies against those who harm our enemies, but don’t harm us, no matter the facts…

  • We Know Quite Well What Postmodernism, Communism, and Abrahamism “Are”: Lying.

    October 8th, 2018 11:48 AM WE KNOW QUITE WELL WHAT POSTMODERNISM, COMMUNISM, AND ABRAHAMISM “ARE” (“Consist Of”) (CD: Important piece on intellectual history) In response to a criticism of Hicks’ Postmodernism:

    —“Hicks …. When you don’t know what communism or postmodernism is.”— Anon

    Which I’ll counter with “When you know exactly what Abrahamism, Communism, Postmodernism, and Feminism consist of: Counter-Revolutions Against Truth and Reason.” GRAMMARS OF COERCION: There are only three means of coercion: 1 – Violence, 2 – Remuneration, and; 3 – Ostracization (Shaming/Endearing (Gossip)). We have invented: 1 – Law and War for Violence. 2 – Markets and Corruption for Remuneration, 3 – and a host of grammars of persuasion for inclusion (insurance) versus ostracization (risk). ABRAHAMISM, COMMUNISM, POSTMODERNISM VS TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND TRUTH. We see the evolution of law of western peoples: 1 – Sovereignty, (individualism is incorrect). 2 – Tort, and thang, court, senate, 3 – Martial Truth (MIlitary ‘Reporting’), and the demand for speaking martial truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competency) hierarchy. 4 – Reason, rationalism, empiricism, and science as a consequence. 5 – Markets and competing intellectual disciplines rather than authority and mono-disciplines (ie: religion). These choices are the consequences of mixed, metalworking, agrarian, cattle herders, requiring large well defended territories, that must self finance their military capability, because they lack any means of concentrating capital and taxation cheaply as did the irrigationist in the flood river valleys. They developed ‘Contractual Civilization’. But we also see: 1 – Abrahamic fiction and supernaturalism of the pastoralists against the reason and realism of the agrarians and metallurgists; 2 – Pseudoscientific Communism as a restatement of Jewish separatism using class warfare; and; 3 – Postmodernism as a pseudo-rational restatement of marxism-communism using ethnic warfare. WHERE 1 – Superstition (Judaism, Christianity, Islamism) evolved into ==> 2 – pseudoscience (w Jewish Critique) evolved into ==> 3 – pseudo rationalism (w Jewish Pilpul) (French > German > Jewish), USING Each time increasing in rhetorical complexity but using the same techniques in each of the sophisms: 1 – Justification (Pilpul) and Poisoning the Straw Man (Critique) then adding incremental techniques of: a) Fictionalism (Fictional History > Mythology), b) Supernaturalism, c) Pseudoscience, and; d) Pseudo Rationalism, and at present e) Simple Denialism. (Race, IQ, Homogeneity, Markets) LYING BY SUGGESTION It took me less than a year of relatively hard work to disassemble the techniques into grammars and enumerate and articulate all of them. But no matter the depth of analysis, lying by art of suggestion by overloading is still lying by abuse of the human process of continuous recursion in streams of memory producing what we call Meaning, and our suggestibility and suspension of disbelief in that state. DEFENSE AGAINST FALSEHOOD Realism, Reason, Calculation and Computation in all their forms, are defenses against this suggestion, loading, overloading by the use of correspondence and operational possibility, but take disciplined training and a minimum intellectual ability. Because we have a host of cognitive and moral (reproductive) biases that influence our choices without the discipline and training to prevent them from doing so. RULES OF ORDER The Ancient World civilizations each produced means of producing sufficient meaning (rules) for local preservation of cooperation: Rome (Realism), Athens (Idealism(abstract)), Anatolian (lost), Babylon (Ideal Monotheism(supernatural)), Jerusalem (Authoritarian Reactionary Monotheism), Beka Valley (Authoritarian Expansionary Monotheism), Memphis (Pragmatic Ritual Polytheism), Indus (Pragmatic Narrative Polytheism), and Yellow River (Confucian Rationalism, hierarchy and harmony), Lao Tsu’s “balance and reasonableness”, and the utility of Buddhism in Ritual. With only the Japanese THE GREAT CONFLICT OF HUMAN HISTORY The homogeneous masculine eugenic pack of hunters and farmers were able to produce high trust commons, versus the heterogeneous feminine dysgenic universalist herd and herders were unable to produce high trust commons. (Cain and Able is the literary example of the Pastoralists hatred of the wealthier and urbanized Agrarians and Metalworkers). But the question is not Athens vs Jerusalem, since both ideal democracy and supernatural universalism have been the greatest failures of all of the world civilizations, causing the destruction of every great ancient civilization and bringing about the Abrahamic Dark Age and it’s 750M dead; as well as the current 150 Year attempt at recreating another Abrahamic Dark Age — this time by Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Adorno and co., and their 100M dead. Followed by the inventiveness of the French and their conspirators: Derrida, Foucault, Rorty et al. And the feminists that followed from them: each trying to produce a monopoly as a means of avoiding markets for cooperation, because they are unable to compete in those markets for pareto optimums, only nash equilibriums In the ancient world, overextension of the empires to eliminate local frictions (taxes, rents) on trade, and profit from those efficiencies, produced travel, communication, trade, and infrastructure that made possible the jewish and christian invasion of the western empire; intentional fomenting of underclass resistance against the aristocratic civilization; and then Byzantine forcible conversion of the entirety of the population in order to end Reason, Law, and Aristocratic Rule. The same technique is being used in this current era: invade, rebel, rally underclasses, import underclasses, and then seek power by numbers, using fairy tales desirable by those underclasses using the sophisms those underclasses are defenseless against, and which the Aristocracy tolerates or finds useful until the society has been destroyed by it. ORIGINS Gobekli Tepe is the oldest Temple complex we find to date, and predates all other monolithic works by thousands of years. It is also just south of one of the world’s greatest hunting gardens teeming with life at the origin of the Euphrates – an Eden if there ever was one. As far as we know, from there, at the nexus of the continents, near the center of trade between them, on the highways of the main rivers, the idea spread from the monoliths of the Atlantic peoples to the advanced stone of the egyptians. It was an early and effective tool of social order. Most likely because it predicted seasons. Once those skills existed, the construction revolution bloomed. THE WEST THAT THE REST REBELS AGAINST: While Myth, Ritual, and Oath are necessary components of demand for neural economy (computational efficiency) in the production of rules of social order, how we communicate those rules, the group evolutionary strategies in those rules, and the outcomes that are produced as externality by those rules, are not only means of internal persistence, but external competition. Only one set of those rules produces reciprocally beneficial outcomes: Western Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Sovereignty, Reason, Science, Rule of Law, and Competitive Markets in Everything gave the world nearly everything that raised man out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the dangers of nature. Western Civilization consists of The Continuous Calculation by Competitive Trial and Error, of our Ascent into the Gods we imagine. Western civilization was and until recently, was organized to continuously produce Agency at the cost of eugenia, whereas the middle civilizations were organized to limit agency in exchange for dysgenia. Without Manorialism and Markets (East Asia, Europe) the dysgenia defeats all attempts at preservation of gains. It is not malthus’ numbers that cause dark ages. It is the end of eugenic limitations, let loose by unregulated innovations, that feed regression to the mean, and brought about the Bronze age, Iron Age, and the present Steel Age collapses. That is why the enlightenment project failed to create either an aristocracy of everyone (british), a middle class of everyone (french and german), or an underclass of everyone (jewish and russian). In europe and east asia, after more than a thousand years of manorialism, war, disease, and extremely aggressive criminal prosecution, the consequential upward redistribution of reproduction led to distributions that allowed pareto organization of populations where the ratio of the middle and upper was sufficient to produce surpluses necessary to concentrate capital in multipliers (commons). But both hindus (which have yet failed in their project), east asians (who succeeded under our pressures), and westerners (who succeeded because of our tradition of empirical law), had an advantage. The chinese conquered and colonized all border people. The Western Indo Europeans conquered (exterminated) and colonized all border people, and both europe and east asia produced homogenous eugenic, agrarian, metalsmithing societies. Either one is eugenic or dysgenic. The red queen cannot be defeated by any other means. It takes 95 to follow simple instructions, 105 to repair a machine, 115 to learn on one’s own by reading, 120 to design a machine, 130+ to synthesize and communicate ideas, 140+ to invent new ideas. Everyone below that who cannot be put into labor that does not require continuous learning and adaptation. This is social science. Everything else is religion. BIOLOGICAL ORIGINS: HOW MUCH AGENCY DO WE HAVE? The broader question is, how much agency do we have? Women and men demonstrably think very differently because of the difference between utility and truth, and between proportionality and reciprocity, and between dysgenia and eugenia. Why do we assume that this same cognitive bias is limited to gender rather than a balance between the genders, and that different groups don’t just demonstrate the male cognitive bias or the female cognitive bias? Truth, Reciprocity, and Physical Violence that Ends when Ended, VERSUS Fraud, Proportionality, and Reputation Destruction that Never Ends until Destroyed. Violence and Threats VERSUS Shaming, Ridicule, Gossip, Straw Manning, Rallying, and Reputation Destruction. Those are the Male versus female competitive strategies. HERD <—————> PACK Utility <—————> Truth Proportionality <——> Reciprocity Equality <————-> Meritocracy Dysgenia <———–> Eugenia r <——————–> K F<——————–> M There is nothing in mankind that is complicated other than the lies we tell ourselves and others in order to achieve our desired ends. Male and female reproductive strategies are at odds. And we have little agency in the choice of those strategies, at the individual, group, civilizational levels. Everything else is a consequence. We are just another self-domesticating animal. Some of us more successful at it than others. Nothing more complex is at work. Curt Doolittle The Evolutionary Strategy of Europeans The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Literature, even fictional literature, is subjectively testable when operationally stated.

    October 8th, 2018 11:45 AM

    [U]m. No. Let me help you: Literature, even fictional literature, (artificial history) is subjectively testable when operationally stated. Literature is not the problem. Using the fictionalisms of the the magical (pseudoscientific), Ideal (sophomoric, pseudo-rational), and occult (supernatural) is the problem. All such attempts are merely frauds to compensate for one’s incompetence or dishonesty.