Theme: Agency

  • That Feeling When…

    Mar 26, 2020, 7:07 PM …You’re young, travelling the world, by plane, train, car, foot, and don’t know yet that you’re autistic, and the informational overload produces a high – until it doesn’t. And you simply can’t take it anymore, and need to be still and quiet. And your significant other is all full of go go go and your brain is mush. You don’t know where you are. What day it is. What time it is. Where your luggage is. But you go with her anyway. And what little ‘you’ exists in normal circumstances dissipates into a veil, then a whisp, then disappears, your inner voice disappears, your emotions disappear, your wants disappear, your thoughts disappear, your agency disappears, and you do nothing but absorb experience and information without processing it, feeling it, or judging it, just recording it and riding on overdose – but having habituated a lifetime of acting normal your autopilot goes thru the motions, including dinner, chit chat with friends, making idle conversation. And you sleep for twelve hours and repeat the process.

  • That Feeling When…

    Mar 26, 2020, 7:07 PM …You’re young, travelling the world, by plane, train, car, foot, and don’t know yet that you’re autistic, and the informational overload produces a high – until it doesn’t. And you simply can’t take it anymore, and need to be still and quiet. And your significant other is all full of go go go and your brain is mush. You don’t know where you are. What day it is. What time it is. Where your luggage is. But you go with her anyway. And what little ‘you’ exists in normal circumstances dissipates into a veil, then a whisp, then disappears, your inner voice disappears, your emotions disappear, your wants disappear, your thoughts disappear, your agency disappears, and you do nothing but absorb experience and information without processing it, feeling it, or judging it, just recording it and riding on overdose – but having habituated a lifetime of acting normal your autopilot goes thru the motions, including dinner, chit chat with friends, making idle conversation. And you sleep for twelve hours and repeat the process.

  • The Difficult Idea to Get Across

    Apr 1, 2020, 12:27 PM (important) When I say “the big problem is switching people from idealism (homogenous bias) under which each person seeks whatever bias fits his, to realism (heterogeneous bias) that is aware of the market competition. In other words, monopoly is endemic in western moral thinking bcause we’ve been homogenous since our beginnings. So we have no means of defense against the LIE of the value of diversity. This is yet another example of the f—king stupidity of libertarian tropes (sophistry). If you build high trust high value commons, then diversity increases transaction costs that all ancestors worked to reduce. So the reason we seek SOME diversity is to increase novelty because we seek to hyper-consume cheap novelty (consumption that destroys commons) rather than expensive novelty (innovation, continued capitalization of commons). I don’t know how to explain this more simply. I would appreciate anyone who could. Leftists spend down inheritance to feed herd instinct for numbers.

  • Manโ€™s Competitive Advantage

    Manโ€™s Competitive Advantage https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/mans-competitive-advantage-2/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 04:27:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265862142470828032

  • Man’s Competitive Advantage

    Apr 11, 2020, 10:49 AM (another sermon) What is man’s competitive advantage? Our body form gave us opportunity to out-maneuver all other creatures on this earth. Our bipedal body form gave us opportunity to evolve bipedal motion so that could outrun every other creature on this earth. By outrunning every other creature on this earth our hands were free to develop independently for the single purpose of manipulation. By developing the ability to manipulate objects, we could make and then carry tools, and tools improved our ability to capture resources as predators, and to increasingly specialize in predation in addition to gathering and scavenging. For reasons that appear to be an accidental adaptation to disease our brains obtain the opportunity to vastly increase in size, making it possible for increasingly sophisticated thought. For reasons we are not sure we understand at present other than the obvious utility of it, we developed speech – serialized communication – which gave us the opportunity think and speak in continuously recursive sequential fashion. For reasons that are obvious, thinking in continuously recursive sequential fashion gave us or improved our ability to proactively plan – permute sequences of future predictions – rather than just respond to impulses and opportunities – just as numbers improve our ability to compare what is beyond our senses. For reasons that are obvious, this ability to categorize organize plan using language evolve into reason. For reasons that are obvious, we developed tyranny (upper caste force monopoly for maximum rate of adaptation), the middle class majority: bureaucracy and serfdom for regularity, along with oligarchy and markets for continuous adaptation, and theocracy (lower caste resistance monopoly for resistance to adaptation). Because these are the dominant male, ascendent male, and female competitive strategies – and the only means of organizing mankind. And maximizing our ability to adapt and evolve by using aggressive transformation, persistence of state, continuous adaptation, and resistance to change (or at least demand for satisfaction and compromise in exchange for adapting) continues our strategy of maximizing our ability to outmaneuver nature, plant, beast and other groups of humans. Edit

  • Man’s Competitive Advantage

    Apr 11, 2020, 10:49 AM (another sermon) What is man’s competitive advantage? Our body form gave us opportunity to out-maneuver all other creatures on this earth. Our bipedal body form gave us opportunity to evolve bipedal motion so that could outrun every other creature on this earth. By outrunning every other creature on this earth our hands were free to develop independently for the single purpose of manipulation. By developing the ability to manipulate objects, we could make and then carry tools, and tools improved our ability to capture resources as predators, and to increasingly specialize in predation in addition to gathering and scavenging. For reasons that appear to be an accidental adaptation to disease our brains obtain the opportunity to vastly increase in size, making it possible for increasingly sophisticated thought. For reasons we are not sure we understand at present other than the obvious utility of it, we developed speech – serialized communication – which gave us the opportunity think and speak in continuously recursive sequential fashion. For reasons that are obvious, thinking in continuously recursive sequential fashion gave us or improved our ability to proactively plan – permute sequences of future predictions – rather than just respond to impulses and opportunities – just as numbers improve our ability to compare what is beyond our senses. For reasons that are obvious, this ability to categorize organize plan using language evolve into reason. For reasons that are obvious, we developed tyranny (upper caste force monopoly for maximum rate of adaptation), the middle class majority: bureaucracy and serfdom for regularity, along with oligarchy and markets for continuous adaptation, and theocracy (lower caste resistance monopoly for resistance to adaptation). Because these are the dominant male, ascendent male, and female competitive strategies – and the only means of organizing mankind. And maximizing our ability to adapt and evolve by using aggressive transformation, persistence of state, continuous adaptation, and resistance to change (or at least demand for satisfaction and compromise in exchange for adapting) continues our strategy of maximizing our ability to outmaneuver nature, plant, beast and other groups of humans. Edit

  • The Point of Demarcation Is Individual vs Political

    The Point of Demarcation Is Individual vs Political https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/the-point-of-demarcation-is-individual-vs-political-2/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 04:00:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265855489742692352

  • The Point of Demarcation Is Individual vs Political

    Apr 22, 2020, 2:15 PM There are good people in every group. There are bad people in every group. What matters is whether the good or the bad people in every group advance their, and their group’s interest to integrate into our natural law – or whether they resist integration in to our Natural law; or use resistance movements to seek bribes to conform to our natural law; or seek parasitism by taking advantage of our vulnerability – our tolerance – under our natural law. Our Natural Law is empirical and it tells us we aren’t intolerant enough. If it’s interpersonal then exhaust tolerance (christianity). If it’s political then zero tolerance (Doolittle). It’s not a difficult disambiguation, demarcation, distinction, difference. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Be intolerant. Otherwise you’re committing fraud by not paying to cost of maintaining the commons, under pretense your convenience is a conviction. It’s not. It’s fraud. Be intolerant.

  • The Point of Demarcation Is Individual vs Political

    Apr 22, 2020, 2:15 PM There are good people in every group. There are bad people in every group. What matters is whether the good or the bad people in every group advance their, and their group’s interest to integrate into our natural law – or whether they resist integration in to our Natural law; or use resistance movements to seek bribes to conform to our natural law; or seek parasitism by taking advantage of our vulnerability – our tolerance – under our natural law. Our Natural Law is empirical and it tells us we aren’t intolerant enough. If it’s interpersonal then exhaust tolerance (christianity). If it’s political then zero tolerance (Doolittle). It’s not a difficult disambiguation, demarcation, distinction, difference. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Be intolerant. Otherwise you’re committing fraud by not paying to cost of maintaining the commons, under pretense your convenience is a conviction. It’s not. It’s fraud. Be intolerant.

  • Mindfulness Produces Agency

    Mindfulness Produces Agency. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/mindfulness-produces-agency/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 03:48:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265852375803154433