—“Our field’s fixation on the Westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states … In fact, it is a very distorted view of even the Westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. Almost all of the emerging European states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… Ironically, it was the European empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world…”— Burbank and Cooper
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—“How will the petroyuan affect the future of the American economy?”—
by T Michael Lutas via Quora Assuming that the petroyuan actually takes off, the US will have an inflationary impulse as petrodollars cycle back to the US at last and US Fed interest rates have to rise in order to soak them up. Assuming that the Fed doesn’t completely mishandle things, it will be a short term bump depending on the amount of petroyuan contracts. Strategically, the bigger the petroyuan, the less room China will have to continue on its current economic road, something that will greatly advantage the United States, if the US is smart enough to take advantage of it. China depends on economic manipulation to keep its economy going at a level far beyond what foreigners are comfortable with. China can survive the disapproval of these foreign governments and private economic players because the vast majority of yuan are kept within the borders of China where short selling yuan is not legal. The larger the yuan market outside of the PRC government control, the more likely someone will replicate George Soros’ feat when he broke the english pound. If anyone succeeds, they will make Soros look like a pauper. Alternatively, China could clean up its act, keep honest economic books, and merrily advance its way to real world power. But it keeps those books crooked for a reason. It is unlikely that the CCP would survive in its current role if those economic bookkeeping reforms were to happen. It is very likely that the CCP knows it because keeping crooked books is a tremendous source of inefficiency and economic misallocation for China and this is commonly known.
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—“How will the petroyuan affect the future of the American economy?”—
by T Michael Lutas via Quora Assuming that the petroyuan actually takes off, the US will have an inflationary impulse as petrodollars cycle back to the US at last and US Fed interest rates have to rise in order to soak them up. Assuming that the Fed doesn’t completely mishandle things, it will be a short term bump depending on the amount of petroyuan contracts. Strategically, the bigger the petroyuan, the less room China will have to continue on its current economic road, something that will greatly advantage the United States, if the US is smart enough to take advantage of it. China depends on economic manipulation to keep its economy going at a level far beyond what foreigners are comfortable with. China can survive the disapproval of these foreign governments and private economic players because the vast majority of yuan are kept within the borders of China where short selling yuan is not legal. The larger the yuan market outside of the PRC government control, the more likely someone will replicate George Soros’ feat when he broke the english pound. If anyone succeeds, they will make Soros look like a pauper. Alternatively, China could clean up its act, keep honest economic books, and merrily advance its way to real world power. But it keeps those books crooked for a reason. It is unlikely that the CCP would survive in its current role if those economic bookkeeping reforms were to happen. It is very likely that the CCP knows it because keeping crooked books is a tremendous source of inefficiency and economic misallocation for China and this is commonly known.
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Three Books – A Hostile Elite
THE FATAL EMBRACE – JEWS AND THE STATE THE PEOPLE THAT SHALL DWELL ALONE A WARNING TO THE WEST https://www.amazon.com/Warning-West-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/0374513341/
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Three Books – A Hostile Elite
THE FATAL EMBRACE – JEWS AND THE STATE THE PEOPLE THAT SHALL DWELL ALONE A WARNING TO THE WEST https://www.amazon.com/Warning-West-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/0374513341/
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—-”Soon the world will be filled with mixed race people. Will racism and prejudice therefore end?”—-
It won’t happen. (Really). A limited number of social orders are possible: i) genetically imperial (Han Chinese, Russian Empire), ii) large hierarchy of casts (india), iii) small homogenous and dynamic (europe, japan). iv) tyrannical hetero-tribal, v) failed peoples that cannot hold territory (diasporic unlanded people). Every experience with heterogeneity has failed. (Middle East, Brazil, and most obviously, India.) The most successful states are homogenous kin groups (China, Korea, Japan, the nordics, and until recently western europe.) The Chinese/Japanese/Korean civilization will very soon dominate the world economic and political sphere, and their racial exclusion will be copied by the rest of the world. The problem isn’t racism. The problem is that most unsuccessful races, subraces, tribes, and clans, consist of excessively large underclasses whose standards of living cannot be satisfied now that the advantages of western technology have been redistributed. Look at brazil. Look at the USA. The ‘whites’ are trying to separate. The jews remain separated. The diasporic chinese separate. It’s underclass peoples that commingle. The optimum social order is homogenous, for the simple reason that we redistribute to kin and resist redistribution to competitors. The optimum possible social and political order is kinship. (Do the research) Kin selection is an evolutionary advantage. (Do the research) The experiment with Democracy has largely failed. (Do the research)
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—-”Soon the world will be filled with mixed race people. Will racism and prejudice therefore end?”—-
It won’t happen. (Really). A limited number of social orders are possible: i) genetically imperial (Han Chinese, Russian Empire), ii) large hierarchy of casts (india), iii) small homogenous and dynamic (europe, japan). iv) tyrannical hetero-tribal, v) failed peoples that cannot hold territory (diasporic unlanded people). Every experience with heterogeneity has failed. (Middle East, Brazil, and most obviously, India.) The most successful states are homogenous kin groups (China, Korea, Japan, the nordics, and until recently western europe.) The Chinese/Japanese/Korean civilization will very soon dominate the world economic and political sphere, and their racial exclusion will be copied by the rest of the world. The problem isn’t racism. The problem is that most unsuccessful races, subraces, tribes, and clans, consist of excessively large underclasses whose standards of living cannot be satisfied now that the advantages of western technology have been redistributed. Look at brazil. Look at the USA. The ‘whites’ are trying to separate. The jews remain separated. The diasporic chinese separate. It’s underclass peoples that commingle. The optimum social order is homogenous, for the simple reason that we redistribute to kin and resist redistribution to competitors. The optimum possible social and political order is kinship. (Do the research) Kin selection is an evolutionary advantage. (Do the research) The experiment with Democracy has largely failed. (Do the research)
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—“Can a country lose its cultural heritage if the country borrows from other cultures, which become a part of their culture as well?”—
We have all borrowed from one another for all of history. And those isolated areas that could not borrow from others not only didn’t improve, but in many cases (New Zealand, Australia) regressed. (I am still studying the empires of west Africa and it’s possibly been a problem there also.) However, borrowing isn’t always voluntary, and borrowing isn’t always good. Islam has been a destructive force everywhere it’s been adopted – although to different degrees, judaism (membership), christianity (resistance), islam (rule) were spread by coercion rather than choice. So we can import good things (metallurgy, engineering, farming practices), or we can import bad things (lower trust, political competition, underclasses) or we can import really bad things (means of deception, means of propagandizing, means of coercion, means of rule).
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—“Can a country lose its cultural heritage if the country borrows from other cultures, which become a part of their culture as well?”—
We have all borrowed from one another for all of history. And those isolated areas that could not borrow from others not only didn’t improve, but in many cases (New Zealand, Australia) regressed. (I am still studying the empires of west Africa and it’s possibly been a problem there also.) However, borrowing isn’t always voluntary, and borrowing isn’t always good. Islam has been a destructive force everywhere it’s been adopted – although to different degrees, judaism (membership), christianity (resistance), islam (rule) were spread by coercion rather than choice. So we can import good things (metallurgy, engineering, farming practices), or we can import bad things (lower trust, political competition, underclasses) or we can import really bad things (means of deception, means of propagandizing, means of coercion, means of rule).
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Peak Human?
—“Are there any morphological differences between the brain of a highly intelligent person and a person with average intelligence?”— Three positive factors: 1 – greater neurogenesis 2 – greater neural density 3 – greater white matter (reduced friction) Three negative factors 4 – Lack of defect in biochemistry (or other illness) 5 – Lack of defect in personality trait (brain structure and chemistry) 6 – Lack of defect due to trauma (of any kind). And one less obvious: 7 – False knowledge or beliefs (non-correspondence). Certain sets of ideas are incredibly attractive but entirely destructive to our ability to think. We should note that so far, (as most of us expected) a) intelligence is influenced by a very large number of genes. b) unfortunately most influences are negative not positive. HOWEVER That means: c) that potential intelligence does not require we increase any substantial capacity. d) that potential intelligence can be incrementally increased by cumulative, specific, genetic corrections. AND f) Ot seems likely that intelligence then developed a long time ago by accident but through reproduction we have not been able to produce dominance in intelligence without controlled reproduction (like we do with animals), OR g) Or the innate possibility was there originally and we have actually devolved from it. This hypothesis isn’t as strange as it originally sounds. Its entirely possible that the rapid increases in our ability to communicate produced greater selection pressure on verbal ability than it did intelligence, and we began to function more as a collective (social) intelligence than individually intelligent agents who imitated each other. The relationship between brain size and intelligence isn’t linear but it exists, and we have smaller (less expensive) brains than both Neanderthals and Cro Magnon’s for example. In other words, we might have passed peak genetic ability in the past but because of verbal communication reduced the cost and size of our brains, and as such, increased the survival of our weakest. We don’t know yet.