Theme: Agency

  • I am an outlier. I’m good at advice for outliers. Usually young wanna-be ceos, f

    I am an outlier. I’m good at advice for outliers. Usually young wanna-be ceos, founders, and people who want to buy or invest in businesses. I ran our strategy biz, and we dealt with fortune 400 customers. So at biz strategy I’m pretty solid, but that’s big-boy conversation, takes time and money – and neurons I don’t have to spare. I find for most guys I’m not helpful. I’d rather see Max branch out and approach that market as well. But it’s hard to imagine he has time for it.

    BTW: on the remote chance you’re interested. There is a full-length tv interview of me from the early 00’s out in the wild if you wanna know what I looked and sounded like when younger (and more positive): https://t.co/t4YBfBwasi


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-01 01:30:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630742318943723520

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630709448330170369

  • What we think of intelligence, is trading intuition and speed for recursion and

    What we think of intelligence, is trading intuition and speed for recursion and reflection (thinking). Sort of, a recursive tree function.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-01 01:11:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630737509939388417

    Reply addressees: @SaitouHajime00

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630689615186366464

  • Sorry man. Now I owe you a bunch of apologies. 1) I was trying to suggest it’s n

    Sorry man. Now I owe you a bunch of apologies.
    1) I was trying to suggest it’s normal for you to disassociate with me, us, whatever and go your own way, because you’ve stated you would walk away if I continued on this route of attacking the right. I understood. I expected it. Lots of people have decided they want to move on. You aren’t unique in this matter. You are just the most talented.
    2) I acknowledge that for a long time you’ve been resistant to association precisely because I’ve not only given up on the ‘dysfunctional right’ I can read your facial expressions and see your repeated disconnection from the discourse. You’ve been checked out for a long time. So, I’m positively supporting you in your direction and disassociation even if I regret it. And I”ll keep supporting you.
    3) As for authorities, the FBI simply stated that you were the vector they followed to us. I took this as consistent with your position that you wanted more right-wing advocacy. I understand that you want what you want. I don’t want to be influenced that direction nor influence you in mine. But I will support you no matter what. Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned it. At the time I thought it was legitimizing for you.
    4) As for me, I don’t feel like I’m in a corner. I feel like I”m trying to escape association with the fringe, because I feel I should have stuck to reforming libertarianism and restoring classical liberalism. I shouldn’t have taken the 18 months with John (though it was enjoyable) it was a tragic waste of time and reputation. That’s because the fringe is anti-intellectual, can’t possibly control their aggression and anger, can’t possibly learn not to take the bait, and frankly came after me full force from both Christian fundamentalist and Ethnonationalist and National Socialist directions. So given that I deal with avoiding these clowns every day, I just want to avoid the broken timber as much as possible. All it does is hurt me and my mission. So I’ll stop ‘disciplining the right’ when I stop having to defend myself by doing so. … Trying to organize the dissident right was a waste of time, a failure, and as is demonstrated over and over again, the purity spiral in each faction is so self-destructive that no one CAN organize that group of misfits into a political movement.

    It’s not complicated. I just want everyone to be happy, and to have fewer people throw negativity in my direction, because it tires me out.

    I should have stuck with academic work and then moved into political activism. Now I have to find my way back. And that’s what I’m doing.

    Hugs always.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 21:46:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630685897455804424

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630679472012656640

  • CONSERVATIVE PURITY IS OFTEN A BIT … MUCH. One of the problems with our moral

    CONSERVATIVE PURITY IS OFTEN A BIT … MUCH.
    One of the problems with our moral intuition (meaning I probably share yours) is that we have an extreme sensitivity to purity, and often make the mistake, of demanding perfection that doesn’t exist, instead of benefiting from the best possible, that does exist. 😉
    Why? We want to trust our advisors and not have to think whether they’re right or not. But we can’t. We can only find people we trust more than others, and then dismiss the outliers when we think they’ve missed the boat.
    None of us is perfect. Certainly not me. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 20:04:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630660118286049300

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630658930471837696

  • OUR GOOD PEOPLE ARE A VULNERABILITY: HOW GOOD PEOPLE WERE UNDERMINED. I love how

    OUR GOOD PEOPLE ARE A VULNERABILITY: HOW GOOD PEOPLE WERE UNDERMINED.
    I love how you feel. I wish how you felt were how more people felt. I love good people. Unfortunately, our good people are vulnerable to the enemy’s pretense of goodness, when they’re actually evil.

    Our country continued to be homogenous, ethnocentric, and fully integrated until about 1960. We had regular issues as the economy and industry changed us. But we remained ‘integrated’.

    The reason the enemy succeeded in undermine us and creating conflict requires a bit more explanation than I feel energized enough to write right now, but…

    Woke (Race Marxism) is just the most recent attempt to ‘destroy the institutions of western cultural production’ by generating conflict using the Marxist (class), neoMarxist(culture), Postmodern(truth), Feminist(sexes,family), Woke(Race) sequences of sedition to undermine the harmony we’d produced between the classes and sexes (and through integration other Europeans) into northern European **Trifunctional, Rule of Law, Natural law, Concurrent legislation, Common Law, Truth before Face, Duty before self, Christian Love and Charity, high trust, innovative, adaptive, prosperous civilization.***

    They did it on purpose by the ‘march thru the institutions’. They wrote, planned it, migrated here from Europe, financed it, and started with the academy, and from the academy to the media and to the government, and to education. Everything they do that they claim is virtue, instead claims our effort at peaceful integration as oppression.

    Why? Our western civilization is behaviorally costly both psychologically and emotionally. And whether or not other people are CAPABLE of that amount of self-regulation, self-discipline, delayed gratification, and mindfulness that ignores the trivialities and insults of others – they are clearly often, unwilling.

    Once it was clear that communism would not work, the class Marxists converted to race Marxists and then the race Marxists came to America to use American postwar opportunity and global dominance, and ‘freedom and Christian tolerance to intentionally destroy our culture from within.

    It took them seventy years. But perhaps. more interesting is that they did it by (a) our women, (b) immigration, because (c) western men have not changed substantially and still adhere to our Trifunctionalism the balance between the three sacred institutions of and all: God(Faith), Country(Constitution), and Guns(Military) surrounding the core institution: the nuclear family and individual responsibility.

    Cheers
    -Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 19:26:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630650756033290240

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630646434088230943

  • That would require evidence by demonstrated competency. 😉 Which would be nice,

    That would require evidence by demonstrated competency. 😉

    Which would be nice, really.
    Most very smart people end up relatively unhappy for no other reason than outlier intelligence is alienating and lonely.

    Me? I’m gregarious, and kind of enjoy the common man. At least the working class. They don’t engage in pretenses like the midwits. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 18:25:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630635427362160661

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630633081261441049

  • IQ is the most accurate measure in the behavioral sciences, followed by the big5

    IQ is the most accurate measure in the behavioral sciences, followed by the big5/6 trait/facets, with stereotypes the most accurate measure in the social sciences.

    There are volumes and volumes and volumes on this subject and none of the professionals disagree. And certainly the people who author the testes don’t disagree. The disagreement is from people outside the field or people tangential to it (Psychology today) that have other motives.

    Just search amazon. And pick one of the academic sources. I don’t want to recommend ONE. But there are at least a dozen books that carry it. You will find the best information in research publications instead of books, and that’s just ‘google scholar is your friend’.
    I keep a reading list but that’s a bit nerdy for general consumption.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 17:18:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630618446605041707

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630616646397181954

  • IS IT EGO OR ANIMAL INSTINCT? Ego, arrogance, or confidence in pursuit of femini

    IS IT EGO OR ANIMAL INSTINCT?
    Ego, arrogance, or confidence in pursuit of feminine equalitarianism or masculine particularism is the same behavior. The feminine mind is confident it’s right and the masculine that it’s right. However, the sex difference in that moral intuition is merely the female desire to avoid the responsibility that would cause conflict is simply infantilization, while the male tolerance for conflict to take responsibility is adulthood.
    Sorry. All sex differences in behavior are reducible to this one question. (really)
    Question your intuition. It’s just hunter-gatherer animal instinct that’s talking. Not morality, not reason, not intelligence, not knowledge, not wisdom.
    -Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 14:49:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630580928635449346

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630509323121229824

  • IS IT EGO OR ANIMAL INSTINCT? Ego, arrogance, or confidence in pursuit of femini

    IS IT EGO OR ANIMAL INSTINCT?
    Ego, arrogance, or confidence in pursuit of feminine equalitarianism or masculine particularism is the same behavior. The feminine mind is confident it’s right and the masculine that it’s right. However, the sex difference in that moral intuition is merely the female desire to avoid the responsibility that would cause conflict is simply infantilization, while the male tolerance for conflict to take responsibility is adulthood.
    Sorry. All sex differences in behavior are reducible to this one question. (really)
    Question your intuition. It’s just hunter-gatherer animal instinct that’s talking. Not morality, not reason, not intelligence, not knowledge, not wisdom.
    -Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 14:48:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630580729057878018

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630509323121229824

  • WHY EXPLANATION, EDUCATION, AND PERSUASION FAIL Well, I don’t know where @Steve_

    WHY EXPLANATION, EDUCATION, AND PERSUASION FAIL
    Well, I don’t know where @Steve_Sailer stands on the issue, but the IQ problem is worse than we’d thought, because decline in logical ability increases rapidly and non-linearly, and human linguistic facility tends to mask how severe it is. There is almost no capacity to educate and explain anything of substance that is disagreeable to the audience and requires mutual sacrifice for the public good by the time we hit the low 90s and certainly the mid 80s.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-28 07:32:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630471048591208449