—“One might view this as two competing models of class: the conservative model emphasizes producing an upper half of the pyramid, where the leftist model strives to produce the lower half.”—CLASSES–The conservative model emphasizes producing an upper half of the pyramid, where the leftist model strives to produce the lower half.— Conservative, K-selection, Male/strong, long term, tribe, lower cost of defense. Progressive, r-selection, Female/weak, short term, offspring, lower cost of reproduction. We differ in perception and function, but are compatible, and through exchanges(negotiations and trades) we ‘discover‘ the ‘price’ of persistence (survival). And we rebel at the limits, when exchanges are no longer possible or desirable.. MEMES I see memes as… a failure to produce an equally compelling narrative. But at the bottom of the argumentative spectrum it’s all rallying and shaming anyway. So yes, I see us having adopted the marxists methods, even if I don’t like it. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute
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Curt: Does Civilization Give Us Higher Purpose?
(short answer, no) —does the introduction of civilization produce another algorithm, one in which the goal is to satisfy human desires and intentions more than a biological imperative?— It sure looks as though at some point we stop reproducing more out of security and simply consume more out of luxury. I think the domestication of man produces far more productive results, and that we have an endless appetite for consumption. I don’t see anything other than that. If any human behavior can be expressed as an attempt at acquisition, consumption, and persistence, then that behavior provides us with decidable causality. And we need not try to invent falsehoods to comfort ourselves that anything else is going on here. We enjoy each other because operation at low cost and entertainment at low cost are good algorithms. Enjoyment is the body’s reward for saving, obtaining, consuming, or inventorying calories. Our emotions are all reducible to changes in property. All of them. It’s …. kind of painful to understand it. But we do get to enjoy the ride our genes take us on.
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Curt: Does Civilization Give Us Higher Purpose?
(short answer, no) —does the introduction of civilization produce another algorithm, one in which the goal is to satisfy human desires and intentions more than a biological imperative?— It sure looks as though at some point we stop reproducing more out of security and simply consume more out of luxury. I think the domestication of man produces far more productive results, and that we have an endless appetite for consumption. I don’t see anything other than that. If any human behavior can be expressed as an attempt at acquisition, consumption, and persistence, then that behavior provides us with decidable causality. And we need not try to invent falsehoods to comfort ourselves that anything else is going on here. We enjoy each other because operation at low cost and entertainment at low cost are good algorithms. Enjoyment is the body’s reward for saving, obtaining, consuming, or inventorying calories. Our emotions are all reducible to changes in property. All of them. It’s …. kind of painful to understand it. But we do get to enjoy the ride our genes take us on.
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Can We Find Class Movements In Conservatism, Libertarianism, And Progressivism?
(Short answer: yes) CURT: —I tend to refer to the various conservatisms as class-movements within the aristocratic egalitarian system of cooperation, with the national socialists and 88’ers and such as the upper proletariat and lower working class(soldiery, labor, and demand), the traditionalists as the upper working class(nco’s, information and advocacy), the legalists as the middle class(officers, organization and choice), and the martial and judicial castes as the upper class (Monarchy, generals, force and limits).- Curt Doolittle IVAN: —“Are there similar class-movements among progressives and libertarians? And, could it be stated that class-movements among all three groups are consequence of division of moral intuitions on one hand, and perception, cognition, labour and advocacy on the other? I guess, among libertarians, there would be: libertines (lower), an-caps(middle) and international traders (high). And among progressives there would be members of syndicate (lower), social justice warriors (middle) and globalist (high).”— Ivan Ilakovac
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Can We Find Class Movements In Conservatism, Libertarianism, And Progressivism?
(Short answer: yes) CURT: —I tend to refer to the various conservatisms as class-movements within the aristocratic egalitarian system of cooperation, with the national socialists and 88’ers and such as the upper proletariat and lower working class(soldiery, labor, and demand), the traditionalists as the upper working class(nco’s, information and advocacy), the legalists as the middle class(officers, organization and choice), and the martial and judicial castes as the upper class (Monarchy, generals, force and limits).- Curt Doolittle IVAN: —“Are there similar class-movements among progressives and libertarians? And, could it be stated that class-movements among all three groups are consequence of division of moral intuitions on one hand, and perception, cognition, labour and advocacy on the other? I guess, among libertarians, there would be: libertines (lower), an-caps(middle) and international traders (high). And among progressives there would be members of syndicate (lower), social justice warriors (middle) and globalist (high).”— Ivan Ilakovac
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Nazis and Soros in Ukraine?
Q&A –What’s the story with nazis funded by Soros in Ukraine?— The story is, this: Which is more believable: that in a Country the size and population of Canada, whose people look across the border enviously at the prosperity of their extended family in Poland – people who speak approximately the same language, possess approximately the same religion and values – would revolt when their president rejected joining the EU because he was bought and paid for, like everyone else in the government, by the Russian government, in hopes of collapsing the military and civil order sufficiently that Russia could claim a humanitarian excuse for repossessing the territory and restoring the Russian empire by the reuniting of Ukraine, belorus, Prussia, and possibly Kazakhstan? What’s NOT rational about the red necks in Ukraine like any other country with a surplus of unemployed men, would not gladly take out their frustrations on a government so corrupt that it makes Venezuela look like holy see? OK. So apparently people in these circumstances, tasting the chance that they might exit unnecessary poverty and corruption are going to be swayed by Soros’s money? The USA was flying almost 10M in cash a week into Ukraine to give to people. But no one in a million years thought the president would flee, because no one in a million years thought that the people would fight that hard. Soros funds a lot of things. BTW: I know these guys that are supposedly ‘nazis’ and if you call them right wing nationalists that’s true. They want to crush corruption of the bolsheviks in Russia the same way the germans wanted to crush the bolshevik movement in Europe. There isn’t anything bad about crushing bolshevism, communism, Russian expansion at all. The only thing we can really (over centuries) criticize the nazis about is overconfidence and running out of money to use resettlement camps as labor and finally starvation camps. Fascism is a rational response to communism. It worked. National socialism was a rational response to communism and bolshevism and Trotskyism. Soros should be in prison like Putin put the oligarchs in prison. I have no idea why we don’t just seize everything he owns and prosecute everyone who works for him. The hard right in ukraine is just a patriotic nationalist movement. We should not confuse putin’s legitimate constraint of american power, with putin’s illegitimate attempt to restore the russian empire and the corruption endemic to the russian sphere of influence. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute
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Nazis and Soros in Ukraine?
Q&A –What’s the story with nazis funded by Soros in Ukraine?— The story is, this: Which is more believable: that in a Country the size and population of Canada, whose people look across the border enviously at the prosperity of their extended family in Poland – people who speak approximately the same language, possess approximately the same religion and values – would revolt when their president rejected joining the EU because he was bought and paid for, like everyone else in the government, by the Russian government, in hopes of collapsing the military and civil order sufficiently that Russia could claim a humanitarian excuse for repossessing the territory and restoring the Russian empire by the reuniting of Ukraine, belorus, Prussia, and possibly Kazakhstan? What’s NOT rational about the red necks in Ukraine like any other country with a surplus of unemployed men, would not gladly take out their frustrations on a government so corrupt that it makes Venezuela look like holy see? OK. So apparently people in these circumstances, tasting the chance that they might exit unnecessary poverty and corruption are going to be swayed by Soros’s money? The USA was flying almost 10M in cash a week into Ukraine to give to people. But no one in a million years thought the president would flee, because no one in a million years thought that the people would fight that hard. Soros funds a lot of things. BTW: I know these guys that are supposedly ‘nazis’ and if you call them right wing nationalists that’s true. They want to crush corruption of the bolsheviks in Russia the same way the germans wanted to crush the bolshevik movement in Europe. There isn’t anything bad about crushing bolshevism, communism, Russian expansion at all. The only thing we can really (over centuries) criticize the nazis about is overconfidence and running out of money to use resettlement camps as labor and finally starvation camps. Fascism is a rational response to communism. It worked. National socialism was a rational response to communism and bolshevism and Trotskyism. Soros should be in prison like Putin put the oligarchs in prison. I have no idea why we don’t just seize everything he owns and prosecute everyone who works for him. The hard right in ukraine is just a patriotic nationalist movement. We should not confuse putin’s legitimate constraint of american power, with putin’s illegitimate attempt to restore the russian empire and the corruption endemic to the russian sphere of influence. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute
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Analysis Of The Strategies Of The Ukrainian And Russian Peoples And A Prediction Of The Future.
—Why is urkaine’s independence sacrosanct?— 1) liberty has a value in itself, and one cannot claim a desire for liberty without reciprocally assiting others. Although the reason for that is longer than I want to get into right now. 2) there is no reason ever, why a people cannot secede to form a nation by secession from an empire, except occupation. 2) It is always moral for a higher trust people to govern a lower trust people, but Russians are a lower trust people than Ukrainians. 4) Poland and Ukraine are genetically related peoples (indistinguishable) and there is no reason that Ukrainians cannot possess the same quality of life as the Poles. Poland has a GDP per capital of 14K and Ukraine, despite similar geography and demographics has one of 4k. Ukrainians could triple their standard of living if they could join either Poland or the EU, which would displace the oligarchs, and with the oligarchs and Russian corruption, post-soviet poverty. 5) The Russians have murdered far too many people in this country, desecrated graves, destroyed traditions, made people disappear in the night, destroyed a once-healthy high trust European culture, destroyed families, destroyed ethics and morality, destroyed the middle class, occupied, impoverished, and supported a predatory and corrupt regime. They don’t want Russian leadership they want prosperity. 6) the borderlands sphere, consisting of the north eastern European countries: Boland, Czech republic, Hungary,, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, and at the outside, Romania form a cultural and genetic region. The southern eastern European countries of the mountain-sphere: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, would be better off forming their own federations. These countries had more ottoman influence and they will always be harder to govern. Belarus has decided to remain, like the Kazhaks, in the Russian steppe-sphere. Much like cuba lived off soviet contributions, belarus lives of russian. WHY DOES UKRAINE MATTER TO RUSSIA? Well, to be a great power requries about .5B people. Russia has 140M. The Kazahks have 17, the Belarus 10, Ukraine about 45, the poles 38, the baltics not enough to matter. Russia has poor ports for a world power: the black sea (crimea), kalinningrad (conquered german city of Koenigsburg), and it’s artic locations. So as an ARTIC power it’s got bases, but as a TEMPERATE SHIPPING power it doesn’t. Without access to water russia cannot be a great power. WHY DOES RUSSIA WANT TO BE A GREAT POWER? They want to restore orthodox civilization, and frankly who can blame them. Otherwise they’re a small population with an enormous land mass to defend, and without the people, economy, and infrastructure to defend it. Russian mythology and paranoid psychology does not easily accept the status of second-rate nation, subject tot he will of others. Especially when internal control requries such heavy-handedness. Weakness is not tolerable. So the die is cast, and unless russia wants to rule the islamic world by remote, using israel, saudi arabia, and turkey, she has no possible method of obtaining territory and economy sufficient for a great power status. So she has three choices: join the west (which is what we all want really – them to rescue us from liberalism and us to rescue them from corruption and the absence of rule of law. She can try to unite with china, which merely means she will be a client state of 140m managed by the economiy and might of a different race (chinese) who have a very poor record of treatment of satellites. Or she can try to progressively obtain control over the middle east. And why is this sensible for russia? Beause almost all the oil in the world is in a big puddle between saudia arabia, and the artic above moscow. IN other words, russia can make a play to rule the resourc-cursed destert and steppe peoples. Why? Islamic demographics and religion dooms them to permanent underclass. Russia, israel, and turkey can create a technological and miltiary caste system that basically farms the arabs and iranians as cattle. THIS IS HOW GROWNUPS TALK ABOUT WORLD AFFAIRS. (and if you can’t talk economics and incentives you need to learn to) BACK TO UKRAINE. A romantic would say that we preserve Ukraine. A scientist would say that the southeast and access to the black sea are lost because Russians successfully transplanted so many of their people into that region that they have done to Ukraine what Europeans did to the American Indians: destroyed them through invasion and conquest and immigration. So the rational solution would be to give russia her warm water ports and return the center and west of Ukraine to poland, making Poland roughly the population of Germany, but with three time’s germany’s 120k square miles, at ~300K square miles of territory, and the best farmland outside of west france. Capable of feeding all of europe forever. Poland and germany alone then would be equal in population to russia, and economically leaving germany+poland/ukraine with ~5T in GDP compared to 2T of russian GDP. Russia then is both safe and economically incapable of western expansion.
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Analysis Of The Strategies Of The Ukrainian And Russian Peoples And A Prediction Of The Future.
—Why is urkaine’s independence sacrosanct?— 1) liberty has a value in itself, and one cannot claim a desire for liberty without reciprocally assiting others. Although the reason for that is longer than I want to get into right now. 2) there is no reason ever, why a people cannot secede to form a nation by secession from an empire, except occupation. 2) It is always moral for a higher trust people to govern a lower trust people, but Russians are a lower trust people than Ukrainians. 4) Poland and Ukraine are genetically related peoples (indistinguishable) and there is no reason that Ukrainians cannot possess the same quality of life as the Poles. Poland has a GDP per capital of 14K and Ukraine, despite similar geography and demographics has one of 4k. Ukrainians could triple their standard of living if they could join either Poland or the EU, which would displace the oligarchs, and with the oligarchs and Russian corruption, post-soviet poverty. 5) The Russians have murdered far too many people in this country, desecrated graves, destroyed traditions, made people disappear in the night, destroyed a once-healthy high trust European culture, destroyed families, destroyed ethics and morality, destroyed the middle class, occupied, impoverished, and supported a predatory and corrupt regime. They don’t want Russian leadership they want prosperity. 6) the borderlands sphere, consisting of the north eastern European countries: Boland, Czech republic, Hungary,, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, and at the outside, Romania form a cultural and genetic region. The southern eastern European countries of the mountain-sphere: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, would be better off forming their own federations. These countries had more ottoman influence and they will always be harder to govern. Belarus has decided to remain, like the Kazhaks, in the Russian steppe-sphere. Much like cuba lived off soviet contributions, belarus lives of russian. WHY DOES UKRAINE MATTER TO RUSSIA? Well, to be a great power requries about .5B people. Russia has 140M. The Kazahks have 17, the Belarus 10, Ukraine about 45, the poles 38, the baltics not enough to matter. Russia has poor ports for a world power: the black sea (crimea), kalinningrad (conquered german city of Koenigsburg), and it’s artic locations. So as an ARTIC power it’s got bases, but as a TEMPERATE SHIPPING power it doesn’t. Without access to water russia cannot be a great power. WHY DOES RUSSIA WANT TO BE A GREAT POWER? They want to restore orthodox civilization, and frankly who can blame them. Otherwise they’re a small population with an enormous land mass to defend, and without the people, economy, and infrastructure to defend it. Russian mythology and paranoid psychology does not easily accept the status of second-rate nation, subject tot he will of others. Especially when internal control requries such heavy-handedness. Weakness is not tolerable. So the die is cast, and unless russia wants to rule the islamic world by remote, using israel, saudi arabia, and turkey, she has no possible method of obtaining territory and economy sufficient for a great power status. So she has three choices: join the west (which is what we all want really – them to rescue us from liberalism and us to rescue them from corruption and the absence of rule of law. She can try to unite with china, which merely means she will be a client state of 140m managed by the economiy and might of a different race (chinese) who have a very poor record of treatment of satellites. Or she can try to progressively obtain control over the middle east. And why is this sensible for russia? Beause almost all the oil in the world is in a big puddle between saudia arabia, and the artic above moscow. IN other words, russia can make a play to rule the resourc-cursed destert and steppe peoples. Why? Islamic demographics and religion dooms them to permanent underclass. Russia, israel, and turkey can create a technological and miltiary caste system that basically farms the arabs and iranians as cattle. THIS IS HOW GROWNUPS TALK ABOUT WORLD AFFAIRS. (and if you can’t talk economics and incentives you need to learn to) BACK TO UKRAINE. A romantic would say that we preserve Ukraine. A scientist would say that the southeast and access to the black sea are lost because Russians successfully transplanted so many of their people into that region that they have done to Ukraine what Europeans did to the American Indians: destroyed them through invasion and conquest and immigration. So the rational solution would be to give russia her warm water ports and return the center and west of Ukraine to poland, making Poland roughly the population of Germany, but with three time’s germany’s 120k square miles, at ~300K square miles of territory, and the best farmland outside of west france. Capable of feeding all of europe forever. Poland and germany alone then would be equal in population to russia, and economically leaving germany+poland/ukraine with ~5T in GDP compared to 2T of russian GDP. Russia then is both safe and economically incapable of western expansion.
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Politics for Dummies
POLITICS FOR DUMMIES? OK. EASY. Politics for dummies? Ok. It’s this simple. There are three ways to coerce people: force(law/military), payment(trade), and shaming(gossip/morals) These correspond to conservative(saving), libertarian(trade), and progressive(shaming). And these correspond to the reproductive roles of father(conservative), the brother(libertarian), and the mother and sister(progressive) And that’s because it’s the reproductive strategy of the males, the young, and the females. It’s very simple. We all just negotiate on behalf of our reproductive strategies. It’s that simple. All our talk is nonsense.