Theme: Agency

  • Military Action Is a Function of Teamwork Not Individual Achievement.

    Most right wingers focus on self improvement but most military action is a function of teamwork not individual achievement. Your primary weapon is physical fitness. Eighty percent of weapon effectiveness is learned in the first few weeks. That’s why riflement defeated professional warriors ending the feudal era.   Oct 21, 2019, 10:05 AM

  • Military Action Is a Function of Teamwork Not Individual Achievement.

    Most right wingers focus on self improvement but most military action is a function of teamwork not individual achievement. Your primary weapon is physical fitness. Eighty percent of weapon effectiveness is learned in the first few weeks. That’s why riflement defeated professional warriors ending the feudal era.   Oct 21, 2019, 10:05 AM

  • The Zone Requires Free Association without External “infection”

      —“A man of immense creativity and endless ideas, Balzac was yet a creature of habit; indeed, a fixed routine was a large part of his success. He isolated himself from the world so that he could concentrate on his writing. He did this in two ways: first, by staying in his home with the blinds drawn,§- and second, by working at night while the world slept. Unless you distance yourself from the ceaseless distractions of the everyday world, like most successful writers (Conrad locked himself into a room, Salinger wrote in a concrete bunker, Fleming completed all the Bond novels in a Jamaican hideaway), unless you take steps to isolate yourself from the madding crowd, distractions are liable to make sustained work impossible. But perhaps even more than isolation, Balzac’s secret was coffee. His procedure was to keep himself alert during the wee hours of the night with murderously black and concentrated and above all thick-brewed coffee, which he made in a big coffeepot and sipped while he worked. He was so fond of coffee that he devoted a chapter to it in a scientific treatise on modern stimulants, singing its praises in glowing terms “[C]offee is a great power in my life,” he confessed. “I have observed its effects on an epic scale.” It kept him awake at night and enabled him to write. It stimulated his creative powers. It allowed him to marshal his thoughts. It gave him so many ideas he could barely keep up with them and his fingers flew across the pages, writing novel after novel at breakneck speed.”—

  • The Zone Requires Free Association without External “infection”

      —“A man of immense creativity and endless ideas, Balzac was yet a creature of habit; indeed, a fixed routine was a large part of his success. He isolated himself from the world so that he could concentrate on his writing. He did this in two ways: first, by staying in his home with the blinds drawn,§- and second, by working at night while the world slept. Unless you distance yourself from the ceaseless distractions of the everyday world, like most successful writers (Conrad locked himself into a room, Salinger wrote in a concrete bunker, Fleming completed all the Bond novels in a Jamaican hideaway), unless you take steps to isolate yourself from the madding crowd, distractions are liable to make sustained work impossible. But perhaps even more than isolation, Balzac’s secret was coffee. His procedure was to keep himself alert during the wee hours of the night with murderously black and concentrated and above all thick-brewed coffee, which he made in a big coffeepot and sipped while he worked. He was so fond of coffee that he devoted a chapter to it in a scientific treatise on modern stimulants, singing its praises in glowing terms “[C]offee is a great power in my life,” he confessed. “I have observed its effects on an epic scale.” It kept him awake at night and enabled him to write. It stimulated his creative powers. It allowed him to marshal his thoughts. It gave him so many ideas he could barely keep up with them and his fingers flew across the pages, writing novel after novel at breakneck speed.”—

  • Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children

    Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children. https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/nothing-beats-the-roi-from-raising-your-own-children/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 16:38:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267495748196851712

  • Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children

    Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children. https://t.co/gRRr0yTytb

  • Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children.

    NOTHING BEATS THE ROI FROM RAISING YOUR OWN CHILDREN. by Noah J Revoy My working theory is that most human development is the direct result of improvements in the sexual market and parenting. More eugenic reproductive choices leads to stronger families -> better parents -> healthier children -> higher Agency adults and on aggregate a more sovereign polity. The people who best manage their reproduction dominate a given system because the production of high IQ, high Agency people is humanities most profitable endeavour. NOTHING beats the ROI from raising your own children. This is why I focus on helping our people improve their SMV and learn Agency. It’s where I can make my strongest contribution.

  • Nothing Beats the ROI from Raising Your Own Children.

    NOTHING BEATS THE ROI FROM RAISING YOUR OWN CHILDREN. by Noah J Revoy My working theory is that most human development is the direct result of improvements in the sexual market and parenting. More eugenic reproductive choices leads to stronger families -> better parents -> healthier children -> higher Agency adults and on aggregate a more sovereign polity. The people who best manage their reproduction dominate a given system because the production of high IQ, high Agency people is humanities most profitable endeavour. NOTHING beats the ROI from raising your own children. This is why I focus on helping our people improve their SMV and learn Agency. It’s where I can make my strongest contribution.

  • What Is the Limit of Parental Discretion?

    WHAT IS THE LIMIT OF PARENTAL DISCRETION?

    —“In the movie The Children Act, Eric Danelaw, [spoiler alert: plot line follows] Jehovah’s Witness parents sought to prevent the hospital from performing a blood transfusion needed to save their child’s life. The judge read the law to say the state had a compelling interest to act in loco parentis and intercede with force to save the life of the child by ordering the blood transfusion to proceed. Children in the West are not strictly property, apparently, and yet in the question of whether the biological parents or the state has the right to make a life and death medical treatment decision for all practical intents and purposes children are property inasmuch as their fate is decided externally by others. The part I am still confused about is whether or not P would deem that most appropriately the parents rights or the states rights should take precedence in a decision to end or save the life of a child needing a blood transfusion?”— Aloha Steven

    Eric Danelaw In P-Law: DEFINITION – The problem of any conscious creature’s demand for infallibility (decidability) in the choice of action, given the continuous consumption of time, and resources in the face of ignorance and scarcity, offset by the unsubstitutable returns on cooperation. – The Law contains a definition of man, of reciprocity, and the terms for cooperation for man, under reciprocity, and the demand for ir-reciprocity in exchange for ir-reciprocity existential or threatened. – The State is merely an inventory of a collection of assets produced by demonstrated interests. – The Military creates a monopoly of control over the assets. – The Judiciary resolves disputes over assets (capital). – The Government, whatever its constitution, produces commons with those assets (capital). – The People Produce, Maintain, Defend, and Consume resources, goods services and information. – The People organize into groups to cooperate to multiply the returns on their efforts. – The Organizations of People compete to preserve the Military, State (assets), Judiciary, Government, and Organizations by producing, maintaining, and defending commons. – The Organizations of people produce hierarchies by pareto distributions, and rewards by nash equilibriums. – The Leadership of any polity consists of the balance of influences between organizations, thereby producing the ‘iron law of oligarchy’. – These organizations will specialize in the three possible means of human coercion i) force defense, ii) bribery trade, iii) advocating undermining, and combinations thereof. – The Oligarchy will most often produce its own figurehead (general, judge, leader, priest). – Optimum Oligarchy and Leadership is Genetic (family, clan, tribe, nation, race) that we call aristocracy: Rule of law by a Professional Judiciary, Monarchy(judge of last resort, military), Nobility (governance, commons), Priesthood (education, family), with Commerce continually rotating with demand, and consumer credit provided at no interests by the state treasury, limiting finance to investment in production and prohibited from rent seeking. – At the expense of limiting reproduction of to those who contribute to commons rather than consume them. DECISION Answering the question: the difference in matters of parenting between: 1. Material and restitutable, (non-reversible, non-restitutable, physical deed) 2. Truthful(scientific) vs lying, and reciprocal vs ir-reciprocal (Restitutable Fraudulent Word) 3. Strategic, Normative, utilitarian, Preferential (reversible, restitutable, word and deed) Ergo, the parents violated 1. and 2. in a matter not open to restitution (reversal). The parents insure the child from the polity, and the polity from the child. Conversely the polity insures the marriage, insures the child from the parents and the polity. Otherwise the parents cannot make a property (demonstrated interest) claim on the child whatsoever, only use violence to enforce their will, assuming their possession of the child. The parents were advancing an un-testifiable, non-restitutable decision and claiming a (3) strategic, normative, utilitarian, preferential decision was superior to a (2) truthful and reciprocal decision. This is a much clearer means of judicial decidability, and a much clearer explanation of it.

  • There exist only so many human intuitions.

    There exist only so many human intuitions. There exist only so many archetypes to illustrate them. There are only so many changes in state (up/down), in so many conditions that we call plots. There are only so many narrative points of view. There are only so many consistent means of discourse in and about the universe (real, ideal, magical, supernatural). But there are endless historical present and possible conditions under which we can apply them to. And a few innovations in human knowledge and complexity that, such that in every era, we can ‘write slow philosophy’ using the story, play, and novel, that restate those fundamentals in the current context, helping us understand past present and future. Now, some of us are principally empathic (feminine cognition), some of us principally systematizing (male cognitino) and most of us are in between. So we produce fantasy, fiction, literature, biography, history, philosophy, law, science, and mathematics according to our principal and tangential means of information acquisition. So society reflects conditions, entertainment responsd to conditions, and fantasy, fiction, literature history and philosophy express, explain, and evaluate, those conditions.