***Modernity limits the accumulation of damage to our cells, but it increases intellectual and emotional stresses dramatically. Neurons have taken the damage in the information era, that physical stresses have in prior eras.**** The Anglo world is as ‘crazy’ as the medieval. The difference is that the current ‘crazy’ is even worse for us than the previous forms of crazy. (thanks Ricky Saini for reminding me of this post. I’d forgotten about it, and it’s worth repeating.)
Theme: Agency
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Amoral Propertarian Analysis
AMORAL PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS: 1 – I do understand ‘domestication as defensive measure’ 2 – I do understand ‘profiting from domestication’ – an industry. 3 – I do understand that human domestication has produced the same goods for humanity that the domestication of animals and plants and ‘physics’ have provided. 4 – I do understand ‘transcendence’ as the last most intertemporal decidable criteria in the dispute between preferences. I think ‘white man’s burden is bit of masturbatory a signal nonsense’
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Amoral Propertarian Analysis
AMORAL PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS: 1 – I do understand ‘domestication as defensive measure’ 2 – I do understand ‘profiting from domestication’ – an industry. 3 – I do understand that human domestication has produced the same goods for humanity that the domestication of animals and plants and ‘physics’ have provided. 4 – I do understand ‘transcendence’ as the last most intertemporal decidable criteria in the dispute between preferences. I think ‘white man’s burden is bit of masturbatory a signal nonsense’
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Graphing Societies By Neuroticism and Individualism
Once we evolved sentience we required a fanciful positive incentive in order to deal with the fact that the universe is hostile to us, does not care about us, and will exterminate us in a heartbeat if we cease the struggle. And that our collective consciousnesses in each tribe constitute the god we speak to so that together we maintain the illusion that there is some ‘hope’ for us. So some cultures look to the past(china, japan), some to the future(the west), and some to fantasy (Islam, Christianity, but most certainly Hinduism), and some to the rejection of reality altogether (Buddhism). That describes all possible extremes of present-avoidance available to man. I did not say that spirituality provided what is good for man. In fact, other than Stoicism, I think all cults in history are as destructive in some sense while constructive in another (But why does Christianity create prosperity?) But they all provide the same escape from stresses in the present through membership in a virtual ‘pack’ or ‘herd’ that we can appeal to through direct subjective introspection of the patterns in that system of thought. All of which is largely an external consequence of sentience without the ‘internet’ equivalent of constant communication from mind to mind that seems to occur between pack and herd animals. Individual thought comes at a high price. As an aside: stress is created by what psychologists call ‘neuroticism’. So some personalities feel this need greatly, and some personalities feel it very little. If we combine this with intelligence, we see some people have a trust issue because of dunning Kruger effects (they cannot tell whether someone lies or not). So if we combine intelligence vs neuroticism we get a pretty obvious way of graphing different populations and societies.Westerners have higher creativity, and this seems to be correlated with the fact that we have higher neuroticism. It may be that either higher demand for individualism produces higher neuroticism or the inverse.
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Graphing Societies By Neuroticism and Individualism
Once we evolved sentience we required a fanciful positive incentive in order to deal with the fact that the universe is hostile to us, does not care about us, and will exterminate us in a heartbeat if we cease the struggle. And that our collective consciousnesses in each tribe constitute the god we speak to so that together we maintain the illusion that there is some ‘hope’ for us. So some cultures look to the past(china, japan), some to the future(the west), and some to fantasy (Islam, Christianity, but most certainly Hinduism), and some to the rejection of reality altogether (Buddhism). That describes all possible extremes of present-avoidance available to man. I did not say that spirituality provided what is good for man. In fact, other than Stoicism, I think all cults in history are as destructive in some sense while constructive in another (But why does Christianity create prosperity?) But they all provide the same escape from stresses in the present through membership in a virtual ‘pack’ or ‘herd’ that we can appeal to through direct subjective introspection of the patterns in that system of thought. All of which is largely an external consequence of sentience without the ‘internet’ equivalent of constant communication from mind to mind that seems to occur between pack and herd animals. Individual thought comes at a high price. As an aside: stress is created by what psychologists call ‘neuroticism’. So some personalities feel this need greatly, and some personalities feel it very little. If we combine this with intelligence, we see some people have a trust issue because of dunning Kruger effects (they cannot tell whether someone lies or not). So if we combine intelligence vs neuroticism we get a pretty obvious way of graphing different populations and societies.Westerners have higher creativity, and this seems to be correlated with the fact that we have higher neuroticism. It may be that either higher demand for individualism produces higher neuroticism or the inverse.
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Profit From Our Rule Is Our Reward For Producing The Transcendence of Man
Sep 06, 2016 8:43am One theorizes and profits from theorizing out of self-defense. One organizes and profits from organizing out of self defense. One designs and calculates and profits from designing and calculating out of self-defense. One manages and profits from managing out of self-defense. One labors and profits from labor out of self-defense. We progress by our defense against the dark forces of nature, time, ignorance, and man’s design for predictability, stagnation, and parasitism by women and predation by men. We must rule. We must rule for defense alone. But by our rule we transcend man. By the rule of all others, man rarely transcends at all, and others seek to destroy us.
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Profit From Our Rule Is Our Reward For Producing The Transcendence of Man
Sep 06, 2016 8:43am One theorizes and profits from theorizing out of self-defense. One organizes and profits from organizing out of self defense. One designs and calculates and profits from designing and calculating out of self-defense. One manages and profits from managing out of self-defense. One labors and profits from labor out of self-defense. We progress by our defense against the dark forces of nature, time, ignorance, and man’s design for predictability, stagnation, and parasitism by women and predation by men. We must rule. We must rule for defense alone. But by our rule we transcend man. By the rule of all others, man rarely transcends at all, and others seek to destroy us.
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The Source of Bliss
As far as I know feelings of intellectual bliss are caused by the pack response combined with obviating the labor of reason. Comfort food, comfort of home, comfort of surrendering to the will of the pack. Now, there are many kinds of feelings of bliss, as well as pleasure and joy. Some of them are clearly good – church, festival, feast, sporting event, and play. Some of them are less good because they do not require a commons to produce them and therefore require more methods of escape by the individual(communes and cults). Some of them are less good because they cause disconnection from reality(mental states). And some of them are less good because they cause physical and commons damage by consequence when escaping reality (drug use). GOOD Festivals, sporting events, theatres, Arts, literature, church, prayer/contemplation …. these are all excellent methods of non-destructive experience of the pack response. While metaphorical they are not false. They are safe means of exploring other worlds, and they obtain the consent of the commons. HARMFUL THROUGH LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY There are those things that are no longer metaphorical but false. Those things neither obtain the consent of the commons but reject it and reality. DESTRUCTIVE And there are those things that are no longer false but forced – sense-damaging, and body-damaging, and crime-producing drugs. CLOSING So, i would flip the question around and ask “What failure exists in any commons that other than outlier-individuals would seek refuge from the commons in physical, emotional, and mental escape, at the cost of socializatino, consumption, physical and mental help? How should we fix such a commons?
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The Source of Bliss
As far as I know feelings of intellectual bliss are caused by the pack response combined with obviating the labor of reason. Comfort food, comfort of home, comfort of surrendering to the will of the pack. Now, there are many kinds of feelings of bliss, as well as pleasure and joy. Some of them are clearly good – church, festival, feast, sporting event, and play. Some of them are less good because they do not require a commons to produce them and therefore require more methods of escape by the individual(communes and cults). Some of them are less good because they cause disconnection from reality(mental states). And some of them are less good because they cause physical and commons damage by consequence when escaping reality (drug use). GOOD Festivals, sporting events, theatres, Arts, literature, church, prayer/contemplation …. these are all excellent methods of non-destructive experience of the pack response. While metaphorical they are not false. They are safe means of exploring other worlds, and they obtain the consent of the commons. HARMFUL THROUGH LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY There are those things that are no longer metaphorical but false. Those things neither obtain the consent of the commons but reject it and reality. DESTRUCTIVE And there are those things that are no longer false but forced – sense-damaging, and body-damaging, and crime-producing drugs. CLOSING So, i would flip the question around and ask “What failure exists in any commons that other than outlier-individuals would seek refuge from the commons in physical, emotional, and mental escape, at the cost of socializatino, consumption, physical and mental help? How should we fix such a commons?
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The Purpose of Emotions. Consequence Not Cause.
We seek emotions because we evolved those emotions for very obvious reasons: rewards. What is it that we are seeking a reward for? What change in state or preservation of state do we seek to achieve and for what reason? Emotions are only rewards and punishments. What are we rewarded and punished for by monopoly orders? Originally, and still in some parts of the world, competition was considered immoral. Why isn’t the monopoly of orders, like competition, just lagging indicator of our need to create institutions that allow us to act morally in the new order, rather than cling to what is no longer moral out of habit and intuition? BTW: I usually say it this way: we value status signals higher than every other good. Why are status signals valued higher than any other good? Why do we need confidence in our status? Why do we want status signals from others? Why would we evolve such a thing? for the same reasons every other species has means of demonstrating fitness. Except that we cooperate, so it is not just reproduction but survival that depends upon our status.