—“Males are required to make group judgements regardless of outliers. “— Greg Hamilton Women evolved to think of individual children’s (and women’s) needs, while men evolved to think of the tribe (family) survival. Division of production cycles, division of temporal perception, cognition, calculation, and advocacy. We are amazing together, but we are cognitive specialists. We need to understand what part of the production cycle we specialize in. The now, the soon, the later, and the future.
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Learn from History – With Humility.
I don’t try to be smarter than people in history unless they do things for deceptive, emotional, or ideological reasons. We all make calculations given sparse information in real time and under stress, and we all get some of them wrong. Study Napoleon for a perfect autistic (infovore seizing opportunities), and study hannibal for the opposite (slow construction of a strategy), and study Rommel and Alexander for mastering tactical maneuver with professional forces, and study islam for ‘raid them to death and destroy their whole civilization by daily small sieges’.
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Learn from History – With Humility.
I don’t try to be smarter than people in history unless they do things for deceptive, emotional, or ideological reasons. We all make calculations given sparse information in real time and under stress, and we all get some of them wrong. Study Napoleon for a perfect autistic (infovore seizing opportunities), and study hannibal for the opposite (slow construction of a strategy), and study Rommel and Alexander for mastering tactical maneuver with professional forces, and study islam for ‘raid them to death and destroy their whole civilization by daily small sieges’.
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New Religion
Leaving behind abrahamic deception requires replacing it with anything other than oath, ritual, feast, and festival. None of which require any falsehoods, and all of which are easily produced. TED, Football Games, and Concerts are just Church. Why do you think stadium rock relied upon anthems? Why is TED popular with the left (Scientific Miracles). Why are team sports so popular with the working and underclasses (pack experience and the hunt). Why are concert experiences so popular with the middle and working classes (they’re spiritual). All that is necessary to produce the effect we get from religion is proximity, shared experience, oath, and some corresponding physical repetition. Why is Government so attractive a sports team, and democracy so attractive a savior, and economics so attractive a heaven? There is no reason why the experience must be conflated with law, pseudohistory, or the supernatural. THAT’S THE EVIDENCE. We know why religions work. I can disassemble any of them into component parts (although hinduism is still confusing to me). The fact that so many substitutes for religion exist, but none have been canonized is merely a failure to do what the nazis, fascists, and communists did: create a secular religion. I mean, too bad the nazi thing went sideways because the aesthetics were genius. Soviet aesthetics were genius as well. Rock aesthetics were genius. The problem is that markets are the optimum, and homogeneity is the optimum, and everyone just got only one part right or the other. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done right. No one is going to revert to abrahamic primitivism except those who are already primitive. And those who are primitive by that choice and their deferral of agency are self selecting themselves into the RULED and out of those who RULE.
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New Religion
Leaving behind abrahamic deception requires replacing it with anything other than oath, ritual, feast, and festival. None of which require any falsehoods, and all of which are easily produced. TED, Football Games, and Concerts are just Church. Why do you think stadium rock relied upon anthems? Why is TED popular with the left (Scientific Miracles). Why are team sports so popular with the working and underclasses (pack experience and the hunt). Why are concert experiences so popular with the middle and working classes (they’re spiritual). All that is necessary to produce the effect we get from religion is proximity, shared experience, oath, and some corresponding physical repetition. Why is Government so attractive a sports team, and democracy so attractive a savior, and economics so attractive a heaven? There is no reason why the experience must be conflated with law, pseudohistory, or the supernatural. THAT’S THE EVIDENCE. We know why religions work. I can disassemble any of them into component parts (although hinduism is still confusing to me). The fact that so many substitutes for religion exist, but none have been canonized is merely a failure to do what the nazis, fascists, and communists did: create a secular religion. I mean, too bad the nazi thing went sideways because the aesthetics were genius. Soviet aesthetics were genius as well. Rock aesthetics were genius. The problem is that markets are the optimum, and homogeneity is the optimum, and everyone just got only one part right or the other. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done right. No one is going to revert to abrahamic primitivism except those who are already primitive. And those who are primitive by that choice and their deferral of agency are self selecting themselves into the RULED and out of those who RULE.
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“Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.”
Now to balance this anti-abrahamism out the truth is that you will be happier serving the interests of others than any other pursuit in life. It’s just true. Sorry. There are very few of us who are wired oddly enough to live happily alone without succumbing to it. Random acts of kindness. Deliberate acts of charity (service). Resistance of the political. Deliberate contribution to kin. These are the things that will make you happy. But do not ask for acknowledgement in return. That is the the dark side of charity. It isn’t charity if you want appreciation. It comes with time.
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“Germanicized Christianity, without Abrahamism, Pilpul, and Semitic Myths.”
Now to balance this anti-abrahamism out the truth is that you will be happier serving the interests of others than any other pursuit in life. It’s just true. Sorry. There are very few of us who are wired oddly enough to live happily alone without succumbing to it. Random acts of kindness. Deliberate acts of charity (service). Resistance of the political. Deliberate contribution to kin. These are the things that will make you happy. But do not ask for acknowledgement in return. That is the the dark side of charity. It isn’t charity if you want appreciation. It comes with time.
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Love Is Enough. Truth Is for Men. Possibility for Women.
Like I said. Love women. Listen to them (it’s hard to do that for any length of time I know – but all men develop the ability to filter, respond, and not try to solve all their problems). Try to make them happy as you can without going into debt. Don’t argue truth and falsehood, or good or bad, just take a stand on what is possible and advisable or not. Women are the most awesome part of life I’ve found, and other than destroying the competition in business the greatest high. 😉 But they aren’t men, and we aren’t women, and we’re both much happier when we understand that. 😉 It’s usually easier to get men to understand that women aren’t men than get (american) women to understand men aren’t women. The problem is very simple economics of demographics: since women are more marginally indifferent and more narrowly distributed, the number of men desirable for women is much smaller than the number of women desirable for men – and this is a constant problem. Women settle much more often than men. And while women almost always underestimate their sexual market value (it’s just weight and preening and you’re there), men vastly overestimate their sexual market value. So for men, it’s not complicated: read heavy things, lift heavy things, save and invest everything you can. When a woman attracts a man her standard of living increases by twenty percent or more. When a man attracts a woman his standard of living decreases by twenty percent or more. For women men are emotionally burdensome, and for men women are experientially (financially) burdensome. So make sure you understand the investment you’re making in one another. Marriage is the most damaging financial mistake you can make and is the most significant factor in determining whether you will be comfortable and happy or poor and depressed in old age.
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Love Is Enough. Truth Is for Men. Possibility for Women.
Like I said. Love women. Listen to them (it’s hard to do that for any length of time I know – but all men develop the ability to filter, respond, and not try to solve all their problems). Try to make them happy as you can without going into debt. Don’t argue truth and falsehood, or good or bad, just take a stand on what is possible and advisable or not. Women are the most awesome part of life I’ve found, and other than destroying the competition in business the greatest high. 😉 But they aren’t men, and we aren’t women, and we’re both much happier when we understand that. 😉 It’s usually easier to get men to understand that women aren’t men than get (american) women to understand men aren’t women. The problem is very simple economics of demographics: since women are more marginally indifferent and more narrowly distributed, the number of men desirable for women is much smaller than the number of women desirable for men – and this is a constant problem. Women settle much more often than men. And while women almost always underestimate their sexual market value (it’s just weight and preening and you’re there), men vastly overestimate their sexual market value. So for men, it’s not complicated: read heavy things, lift heavy things, save and invest everything you can. When a woman attracts a man her standard of living increases by twenty percent or more. When a man attracts a woman his standard of living decreases by twenty percent or more. For women men are emotionally burdensome, and for men women are experientially (financially) burdensome. So make sure you understand the investment you’re making in one another. Marriage is the most damaging financial mistake you can make and is the most significant factor in determining whether you will be comfortable and happy or poor and depressed in old age.
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Religiosity as A Mask
You know, you don’t know this, but I do: that the principle reason people hide behind authoritarian religions is so that they don’t have to negotiate with other people on existential terms. In other words, it’s a form of isolation despite public appearances.