Theme: Civilization

  • Something happened around the black sea, probably in old Europe, the caucuses, A

    Something happened around the black sea, probably in old Europe, the caucuses, Anatolia or Mesopotamia, and it led to the bronze age. That something had to do with the area serving as the nexus of intercontinental trade. The ‘explosion’ of civilization (meaning technology) radiated from there outward. It is nearly impossible to reach west africa by east-west overland route. So the empires that were forming in west africa were just about at the same level of development as everyone else the same non-linear travel distance from the center of the world. There were empires, but there simply wasn’t enough trade ‘out there on the fringe’. Now we can argue about IQ, yes, but that didn’t stop the south americans.

    Europe lagged mesopotamia, egypt, hrappans, and yellow river china for the simple reason that africa lagged europe: lack of sufficient production capital to tax to form armies of imperial conquest. Rivers concentrated production and concentrated production allowed defense and taxation. the rivers of europe, the steppe, the desert, and the tundra are not as productive. That is why it required mediterranean trade in the old world, north sea trade in the medieval world, and atlantic trade in the modern world, to bring europe to economic parity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-12 10:39:00 UTC

  • The Revolutionary war was actually Civil War of Secession. The Civil War our Sec

    The Revolutionary war was actually Civil War of Secession. The Civil War our Second Civil War of Secession. We have been building toward another since the thirties, and its been slowly growing between the sixties and today. Our Third Civil War of Secession is in progress. #Trump


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 19:58:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028370033305632770

  • Um. the byzantines did well, and so do the chinese, japanese and korean. But tha

    Um. the byzantines did well, and so do the chinese, japanese and korean. But that is because there is greater genetic distance between them than there is between us and west asians.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 17:44:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028336375299547137

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028334945738022918


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @curtdoolittle Are there any societies that have been exposed to it and managed to avoid falling ill (or even that just took longer to succumb) that perhaps we can learn from? Perhaps some level of constant violence is nessisary to keep things pack oriented and not slide to the herd?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028334945738022918

  • This subject is worth a case by case examination, but we are mirror image of Rom

    This subject is worth a case by case examination, but we are mirror image of Rome in every single dimension. History does repeat itself. Although what troubles me is the second version of abrahamism (marxism, feminism, postmodernism). We failed to defend against it this time too.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 17:12:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028328203214094336

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @curtdoolittle Which historical empire collapse do you see as most similar to our current situation? Mongols? Rome? Hapsburg’s? Something else? Or are we so different nothing is really analogous?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384

  • The study of history tells us all empires collapse for the same reasons: overext

    The study of history tells us all empires collapse for the same reasons: overextension, demographics, and raiding. However, in our case we are most similar to Rome (policing trade to obtain discounts) and less similar to the British (colonies and extraction to obtain premiums).


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 17:10:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028327774103261185

    Reply addressees: @dagmar_schmitt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GudistGrug

    @curtdoolittle Which historical empire collapse do you see as most similar to our current situation? Mongols? Rome? Hapsburg’s? Something else? Or are we so different nothing is really analogous?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028326558824464384

  • TO STATE THE OBVIOUS WE ARE COLLAPSING EXACTLY AS DID ROME. —“Which historical

    TO STATE THE OBVIOUS WE ARE COLLAPSING EXACTLY AS DID ROME.

    —“Which historical empire collapse do you see as most similar to our current situation? Mongols? Rome? Habsburg’s? Something else? Or are we so different nothing is really analogous?”—@dagmar_schmitt

    The study of history tells us all empires collapse for the same reasons: overextension, bureaucratic calcification (rent seeking), demographics dilution and immigration, (disease), and raiding.

    However, in our case we are most similar to Rome (policing trade to obtain discounts) and less similar to the British (colonies and extraction to obtain premiums). Not really similar at all to the Habsburgs or Mongols or byzantines for that matter.

    This subject is worth a case by case examination, but we are mirror image of Rome in every single dimension. History does repeat itself. Although what troubles me is the second version of abrahamism (marxism, feminism, postmodernism). We failed to defend against it this time too.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-11 13:16:00 UTC

  • —-”Is Marxism the opiate of the envious?”—-

      1. Marxism (Boasianism, Marxism, Freudianism, Frankfurt School) consists of a **pseudoscientific** revolt against aristocratic european civilization’s sovereignty, reason, markets, and meritocracy, and is merely a restatement of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic **supernatural** REVOLT against the great aristocratic civilizations of the ancient world – this time with a false promise of prosperity in search for power, just as in the ancient world, a false promise of life after death or paradise in search for power. 2. Postmodernism is a **pseudo-rational** restatement of the Marxist (Boasian, Marxist, Freudian, Frankfurt School) REVOLT against reason markets, meritocracy and eugenics that result from that merit. This time abandoning both the supernatural, the pseudoscientific, and merely engaging in gossip, rallying, shaming, ridicule, disapproval, in the pursuit of power to resist meritocracy (eugenics) 3. So whether Semitic Abrahamic **Supernatural** Religion, Marxist **pseudoscientific** reformation of abrahamic religion, or Postmodern pseudo-rational justification is used, the same argumentative **sophisms **of **justificationary Pilpul**, and **critical Critique **are used to circumvent reason, appeal to intuition. 4. Why? We are, because of our genetics, and the intuitions that result from our genetics, of differing interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. This market value is generally categorized as ‘class’. We do, because of genetics, physically possess physical brain and physical chemical intuitions that reflect our class and our genders. And just as the female reproductive strategy (herds) evolved to persist her genes regardless of the merit of her offspring, and men evolved to persist their genes (packs) by the merit of himself and his male kin, classes evolved to express either the feminine dysgenic or male eugenic group strategies. Our differences in moral intuitions are the result of these axis: gender cognitive bias, and class cognitive bias, and the degree of group neoteny that evolved in our relative geographies. 5. So to some degree just as religion is an opiate of the lower classes, philosophy provides an opiate of the middle classes, and pseudoscience the upper middle classes – the upper classes need no opiate other than the rewards of their market position (desirability). Why? we want hope or promise of raising our interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. Because after all – that is what drives reproduction, and what drives all our behavior. 6. The underclasses are not oppressed. They are just six times as bad for the polity as every good person is good for it. Markets cannot lie. They contain lottery effects. And the lottery effect provides us with the incentives (hope) just as religion, philosophy, and pseudoscience provide us with hope. Hope that we will obtain the benefits of being of higher market value than we are. In other words: status rules us. 7. The duration of a Democracy is determined by the time it takes to redistribute, and spend down a windfall, from war, conquest, technical innovation, or accident of nature. We are rapidly running out of the industrial (petroleum) windfall, just as Athens ran out of it’s silver mine. 8. A mixed economy ruled by an authoritarian, an oligarchy, or a ‘party’ – differing only in scale – is the only survivable, with fascism necessary in war, and the luxury of social democracy possible under windfalls.

  • —-”Is Marxism the opiate of the envious?”—-

      1. Marxism (Boasianism, Marxism, Freudianism, Frankfurt School) consists of a **pseudoscientific** revolt against aristocratic european civilization’s sovereignty, reason, markets, and meritocracy, and is merely a restatement of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic **supernatural** REVOLT against the great aristocratic civilizations of the ancient world – this time with a false promise of prosperity in search for power, just as in the ancient world, a false promise of life after death or paradise in search for power. 2. Postmodernism is a **pseudo-rational** restatement of the Marxist (Boasian, Marxist, Freudian, Frankfurt School) REVOLT against reason markets, meritocracy and eugenics that result from that merit. This time abandoning both the supernatural, the pseudoscientific, and merely engaging in gossip, rallying, shaming, ridicule, disapproval, in the pursuit of power to resist meritocracy (eugenics) 3. So whether Semitic Abrahamic **Supernatural** Religion, Marxist **pseudoscientific** reformation of abrahamic religion, or Postmodern pseudo-rational justification is used, the same argumentative **sophisms **of **justificationary Pilpul**, and **critical Critique **are used to circumvent reason, appeal to intuition. 4. Why? We are, because of our genetics, and the intuitions that result from our genetics, of differing interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. This market value is generally categorized as ‘class’. We do, because of genetics, physically possess physical brain and physical chemical intuitions that reflect our class and our genders. And just as the female reproductive strategy (herds) evolved to persist her genes regardless of the merit of her offspring, and men evolved to persist their genes (packs) by the merit of himself and his male kin, classes evolved to express either the feminine dysgenic or male eugenic group strategies. Our differences in moral intuitions are the result of these axis: gender cognitive bias, and class cognitive bias, and the degree of group neoteny that evolved in our relative geographies. 5. So to some degree just as religion is an opiate of the lower classes, philosophy provides an opiate of the middle classes, and pseudoscience the upper middle classes – the upper classes need no opiate other than the rewards of their market position (desirability). Why? we want hope or promise of raising our interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, political, and military market value. Because after all – that is what drives reproduction, and what drives all our behavior. 6. The underclasses are not oppressed. They are just six times as bad for the polity as every good person is good for it. Markets cannot lie. They contain lottery effects. And the lottery effect provides us with the incentives (hope) just as religion, philosophy, and pseudoscience provide us with hope. Hope that we will obtain the benefits of being of higher market value than we are. In other words: status rules us. 7. The duration of a Democracy is determined by the time it takes to redistribute, and spend down a windfall, from war, conquest, technical innovation, or accident of nature. We are rapidly running out of the industrial (petroleum) windfall, just as Athens ran out of it’s silver mine. 8. A mixed economy ruled by an authoritarian, an oligarchy, or a ‘party’ – differing only in scale – is the only survivable, with fascism necessary in war, and the luxury of social democracy possible under windfalls.

  • Nope. Japanese Are Not More Collectivist

    https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1027446881545318400
  • Nope. Japanese Are Not More Collectivist

    https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1027446881545318400