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When Is External Aggression Warranted?
[W]AR
External aggression is warranted when a lower trust polity causes harm to a higher trust polity, and the result of aggression will be an increase in the level of non-parasitism. In other words, it tis always moral and warranted to export high trust against the will of lower trust peoples. The problem is, it can almost never be done without colonizing and ruling them, and bearing the expense of doing it. Most often it is cheaper and easier to punish them severely so that you raise the cost of their low trust behavior until they adopt high trust out of practical convenience.
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When Is External Aggression Warranted?
[W]AR
External aggression is warranted when a lower trust polity causes harm to a higher trust polity, and the result of aggression will be an increase in the level of non-parasitism. In other words, it tis always moral and warranted to export high trust against the will of lower trust peoples. The problem is, it can almost never be done without colonizing and ruling them, and bearing the expense of doing it. Most often it is cheaper and easier to punish them severely so that you raise the cost of their low trust behavior until they adopt high trust out of practical convenience.
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A Monopoly of Law, A Monopoly of Commons, A Market of Everything Else
[T]he single necessity of monopoly organization is the holding of territory. The single necessity of objectively moral law is universal: prohibition on parasitism. The single necessity of objectively moral commons is universal: prohibition on privatization – also parasitism. The objective necessity of group survival is cooperation in the means of production. The objective necessity of group persistence is cooperation in the means of reproduction. To evolve these necessities we need a territory secured by men willing to fight for it; we need an independent judiciary that discovers objectively moral law during the resolution of conflicts; and we need an independent market in which the classes can conduct exchanges in order to construct their desired commons, and to prohibit the privatization of those commons; and we need a market for the division of knowledge and labor; and we need a market for reproduction that produces families families that bear and rear offspring for subsequent generations.
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A Monopoly of Law, A Monopoly of Commons, A Market of Everything Else
[T]he single necessity of monopoly organization is the holding of territory. The single necessity of objectively moral law is universal: prohibition on parasitism. The single necessity of objectively moral commons is universal: prohibition on privatization – also parasitism. The objective necessity of group survival is cooperation in the means of production. The objective necessity of group persistence is cooperation in the means of reproduction. To evolve these necessities we need a territory secured by men willing to fight for it; we need an independent judiciary that discovers objectively moral law during the resolution of conflicts; and we need an independent market in which the classes can conduct exchanges in order to construct their desired commons, and to prohibit the privatization of those commons; and we need a market for the division of knowledge and labor; and we need a market for reproduction that produces families families that bear and rear offspring for subsequent generations.
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Yes. Postwar Privilege Ended. That’s Why.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/when-america-was-great-taxes-were-high-unions-were-strong-and-government-was-big/407284/ [L]ets Look at History: 1) Americans conquered a new continent 2) They sold off this continent to immigrants 3) They sold consumer goods to these immigrants. 4) They caused a collapse in prices in Europe (like china does to americans today) 5) They created new fiat money to give credit to these immigrants. 6) They directed these profits to investment in everything including the 20’s boom. 7) Europeans sought to control german expansion and created the european civil war. 8) The resulting correction and the oppressive settlement with Germany led to the second world war, which was merely an extension of the first, and which destroyed the word’s economy. 9) Americans inherited control of the British empire’s trading lanes and took over as the reserve currency. 10) American workers benefitted from producing expensive but low quality products to a world largely destroyed by war. 12) It took to the 1970’s for the world to reasonably rebuild. 13) In 1990 the effects of Chinese abandonment of communism and their entry into world labor started the dramatic shift in american consumption of consumer goods, just as america had done to Europe more than a century before. 15) In 2007 the rest of the world has largely adopted the same fiat money and consumer capitalist techniques. 16) In 2015, Americans have lost most competitive advantages EXCEPT for their GERMANIC high trust ethics and rule of law. 17) By 2040 Americans will lose their advantage in high trust ethics and rule of law to cultural and genetic conquest.
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Yes. Postwar Privilege Ended. That’s Why.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/when-america-was-great-taxes-were-high-unions-were-strong-and-government-was-big/407284/ [L]ets Look at History: 1) Americans conquered a new continent 2) They sold off this continent to immigrants 3) They sold consumer goods to these immigrants. 4) They caused a collapse in prices in Europe (like china does to americans today) 5) They created new fiat money to give credit to these immigrants. 6) They directed these profits to investment in everything including the 20’s boom. 7) Europeans sought to control german expansion and created the european civil war. 8) The resulting correction and the oppressive settlement with Germany led to the second world war, which was merely an extension of the first, and which destroyed the word’s economy. 9) Americans inherited control of the British empire’s trading lanes and took over as the reserve currency. 10) American workers benefitted from producing expensive but low quality products to a world largely destroyed by war. 12) It took to the 1970’s for the world to reasonably rebuild. 13) In 1990 the effects of Chinese abandonment of communism and their entry into world labor started the dramatic shift in american consumption of consumer goods, just as america had done to Europe more than a century before. 15) In 2007 the rest of the world has largely adopted the same fiat money and consumer capitalist techniques. 16) In 2015, Americans have lost most competitive advantages EXCEPT for their GERMANIC high trust ethics and rule of law. 17) By 2040 Americans will lose their advantage in high trust ethics and rule of law to cultural and genetic conquest.
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Another Thought on Republics: Indecision.
[A] republic, or an oligarchy by any other name, even one ruled by law, is a notoriously indecisive form of organization. I do not see a better division of labor than the one we discovered by accident. A republic is an excellent means of producing commons. A monarchy an excellent means of conducting war. And a democracy an excellent means of fooling the people into suicide. The Optimum that I know of: 1) Monarch, Military, and Militia for the defense of people, territory, routes, and trade. 2) Independent Judiciary for the resolution of conflicts, Rule of law, Property en Toto. 3) An independent treasury for the provision of credit (issuance and repurchase of shares) 4) Houses for the Production of Commons with members drawn by lot. 5) Families for the production of generations under voluntary selection of mates. 6) Men and Women forming Militia and emergency services. 7) Private provision of public goods. We had it about right. If we had given women and the proletarians houses and maintained land and property requirements we would have created a market for commons, instead of the fallacy of majority rule (mob rule).
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Another Thought on Republics: Indecision.
[A] republic, or an oligarchy by any other name, even one ruled by law, is a notoriously indecisive form of organization. I do not see a better division of labor than the one we discovered by accident. A republic is an excellent means of producing commons. A monarchy an excellent means of conducting war. And a democracy an excellent means of fooling the people into suicide. The Optimum that I know of: 1) Monarch, Military, and Militia for the defense of people, territory, routes, and trade. 2) Independent Judiciary for the resolution of conflicts, Rule of law, Property en Toto. 3) An independent treasury for the provision of credit (issuance and repurchase of shares) 4) Houses for the Production of Commons with members drawn by lot. 5) Families for the production of generations under voluntary selection of mates. 6) Men and Women forming Militia and emergency services. 7) Private provision of public goods. We had it about right. If we had given women and the proletarians houses and maintained land and property requirements we would have created a market for commons, instead of the fallacy of majority rule (mob rule).
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Curt’s “WAR” Reading List
THE WAR OF STATES Sun Tzu: The Art Of War The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) Julius Ceasar: Caesar’s Commentaries: On the Gallic War And on the Civil War Julius Ceasar: The Conquest of Gaul Machiavelli: The Prince Machiavelli: The Art Of War Carl Van Clausewitz: On War (2G Second Generation Warfare) Antoine De Jomini: The Art Of War Moltke: The Art Of War Mao Tse-Tung: The Art of War (4G Fourth Generation Warfare) B. H. Liddell Hart: Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) Michael Handel: Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Martin van Creveld: Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Paperback) Robert Leonhard: The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle (3G Third Generation Warfare) John Keegan: The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare IDEOLOGICAL GUERILLA WAR Martin van Creveld: The Rise and Decline of the State, Transformation of War, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century ADDITIONAL WORKS OF GENERAL THEORY Michael Handel: Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Bevin Alexander: How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror Bevin Alexander: How Great Generals Win (Paperback) John Keegan: The Mask of Command Martin van Creveld: Command in War (everything he has written) John Keegan: The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme Donald Kagan: On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace (everything he has written) WORKS ON REBELLION Étienne de La Boétie: The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude The IRA Green Book The Marxist Mini Manual The Protocols Of Zion The Ten Planks Of The Communist Manifesto Michael Jacoby Brown: Building Powerful Community Organizations Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals Rinku Sen: Stir It Up (Lessons in Community Organizing & Advocacy) Randy Shaw: The Activist’s Handbook Joe Szakos and Kristin Layng Szakos: Lessons from the Field: Organizing in Rural Communities ADDITIONAL WORKS OF HISTORY3 Donald W. Engels: Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third John Keegan: A History of Warfare (Everything he has written.) Archer Jones: The Art of War in Western World Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Donald Kagan: (everything he has written) ANALYTICAL METHODS Two-Person Game Theory Differential Games: A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization Numbers, prediction, and war: Using history to evaluate combat factors and predict the outcome of battles Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War