Your purpose as is the purpose of every other life form is to perpetuate your genes by the capture of differences in rates of entropy and to expend it as waste heat. That’s your purpose. You perpetuate the temporary concentration of energy as a means of producing higher returns on the concentration of energy.
Our ability to think and remember evolved for very simple reasons: creatures that can empathize with intent, imitate, and cooperate without violating reciprocity, can, through the cooperateive concentration of energy on high returns, produce greater caloric capture than any other evolutionary solution the universe has yet discovered by trial and error.
However, since self awareness has been a byproduct of that evolutionary innovation, and since along with that self awareness is the need to be valued by (useful to others) because otherwise we would have less incentive to cooperate and produce outsized returns – you need to find some means of surviving while at the same time either feeling not-harmful, useful if possible, and contributory if possible, and dramatically contributory if possible, because this is what status signals and fulfillment refer to.
Most unsatisfied (unfulfilled) people are unwilling to or unable to admit their low potential, low value, low status, and low contribution and will not spend the effort to obtain mediocre returns suited to their abilities.
hence why charity is so attractive and useful – it takes very little effort to produce outsized cooperative returns for those of even less value to others than you are.
This chain of providing value to those less valuable to than you are is how the entire in-class, and cross-class, social, economic, political, and military hierarchy manages to function given that some of us are unfit, unattractive, have undesirable personalities, and are stupid, are from bad families, and bad groups – and some of us are fit, attractive, have desirable personalities, are intelligent and from good families and groups.
Come to terms with your status and ability and serve those who need your service. This is why christians are so disproportionately happy and christian civilizations are so disproportionately productive: we are mercilness with producing purely empirical status signals. everyone else tries to fake them.
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Superiority And Inferiority Are Purely Empirical Measures
Inferiority and superiority are simply a measurement of agency. They’re purely empirical assessments. Either one possesses agency of the self, the group, the environment, the universe, or one does not. The inferior cannot compete. The superior can. This competition whether internal interpersonal political environmental or physical is the only empirical test of superiority and inferiority. Evolution and entropy never stop. They are ceaseless. The superior evolves, adapts, increases its agency, and the inferior does not, and dies, and evolution and entropy continue their battle. This is not an opinion or a value statement, it is a description of every single process in the universe. -
Superiority And Inferiority Are Purely Empirical Measures
Inferiority and superiority are simply a measurement of agency. They’re purely empirical assessments. Either one possesses agency of the self, the group, the environment, the universe, or one does not. The inferior cannot compete. The superior can. This competition whether internal interpersonal political environmental or physical is the only empirical test of superiority and inferiority. Evolution and entropy never stop. They are ceaseless. The superior evolves, adapts, increases its agency, and the inferior does not, and dies, and evolution and entropy continue their battle. This is not an opinion or a value statement, it is a description of every single process in the universe. -
Why Westerners Are Susceptible To Ethical Duplicity
Israeli (self) vs other (host) ethics is a continuation of ghetto ethics (one standard for you and one for me) – western ethics requires reciprocity. We hear (((arguments))) assuming reciprocity. (((They))) make (((arguments))) assuming reciprocity. That is why we are fooled, every day, time and time again by (((pilpul))) – we are the only high trust civilization that metaphysically assumes reciprocity, and therefore we are we are uniquely vulnerable to (((deception))), just as we are far less vulnerable to violence. -
Why Westerners Are Susceptible To Ethical Duplicity
Israeli (self) vs other (host) ethics is a continuation of ghetto ethics (one standard for you and one for me) – western ethics requires reciprocity. We hear (((arguments))) assuming reciprocity. (((They))) make (((arguments))) assuming reciprocity. That is why we are fooled, every day, time and time again by (((pilpul))) – we are the only high trust civilization that metaphysically assumes reciprocity, and therefore we are we are uniquely vulnerable to (((deception))), just as we are far less vulnerable to violence. -
Our Only Asset Is Time. Poverty Didn’t Evolve. Wealth Did.
Poverty didn’t evolve, wealth and money evolved. Poverty is merely a relative assessment of one’s ability to consume. Hence why indigenous peoples commit suicide in droves once aware of their relative condition. That relative condition is poverty. However, it can only be known to be poverty once one is aware of a relative condition. Prosperity (wealth) evolved from the division of labor. Money of some kind (commodities) is necessary to remove frictions to the coincidence of wants in a division of labor. Prices are necessary to allow planning, complex production of multi-part products and services, credit, and debt. Non-Commodity Money is necessary to reduce frictions to the coincidence of wants, that limits the expansion of trade. ****Our only asset is time. We are not wealthier than cavemen. We have simply made all goods, services, and information cheaper, through the division of knowledge and labor using the information system we call money and prices. This is the most important lesson of economics. All understanding of wealth exists in this one paragraph.**** -
Our Only Asset Is Time. Poverty Didn’t Evolve. Wealth Did.
Poverty didn’t evolve, wealth and money evolved. Poverty is merely a relative assessment of one’s ability to consume. Hence why indigenous peoples commit suicide in droves once aware of their relative condition. That relative condition is poverty. However, it can only be known to be poverty once one is aware of a relative condition. Prosperity (wealth) evolved from the division of labor. Money of some kind (commodities) is necessary to remove frictions to the coincidence of wants in a division of labor. Prices are necessary to allow planning, complex production of multi-part products and services, credit, and debt. Non-Commodity Money is necessary to reduce frictions to the coincidence of wants, that limits the expansion of trade. ****Our only asset is time. We are not wealthier than cavemen. We have simply made all goods, services, and information cheaper, through the division of knowledge and labor using the information system we call money and prices. This is the most important lesson of economics. All understanding of wealth exists in this one paragraph.**** -
“Traditionalists make the presumption that Christian ideas had positive effects
—“Traditionalists make the presumption that Christian ideas had positive effects in Europe. But Ideas do not change behaviour – law does. Christianity put in places LAWS which had a positive effect and those laws were largely Celtic and Roman derivatives. The ideas meant very little, law on the other hand we know has had measurable effects.”— Bill Joslin -
“Traditionalists make the presumption that Christian ideas had positive effects
—“Traditionalists make the presumption that Christian ideas had positive effects in Europe. But Ideas do not change behaviour – law does. Christianity put in places LAWS which had a positive effect and those laws were largely Celtic and Roman derivatives. The ideas meant very little, law on the other hand we know has had measurable effects.”— Bill Joslin -
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