WAS DRAGGING MANKIND ALONG WITH US A STUPID IDEA?
Colonialism (better termed ‘modernization’) was an unprofitable project. It did improve those colonized, but by failing to complete the project (by constraining Germany from her restoration with world wars) made enemies instead. https://t.co/eGljy77uNG
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 14:51:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457722560867704836
WAS DRAGGING MANKIND ALONG WITH US A STUPID IDEA?
— Curt; Wasn’t this a really stupid idea?:
“to drag mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, early death, and the chaos of nature” (that’s the question that comes to my mind each time I hear you say that) —
Of course, like the Chinese in the past, we should have, and should in the future, protect our science and technology, and ‘wall ourselves off’.
That said, our prosperity and innovation are unique in the world, and we benefit from it whether the world does or not.
The purpose of my repetition of this concept is to explain why our civilization’s organizing principles and institutions are superior – because they’re the closest to the laws of the universe.
And so we can’t ‘do the west differently’ if we want to maintain our advantages.
In other words, we’re going to have to mature the sovereignty-reciprocity, rule-of-law, trifunctional model – not something else that will cause us to fail like everyone else has.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 14:47:51 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107241987866655165
RT @Lord__Sousa: If trifunctionalism falls we lose our superpower of adaptive-velocity.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 10:52:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457662286810787842
Great little video of a walk through Kyiv (Kiev) Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ELyOUmVUY
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-08 01:29:17 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457520566026522624
RUSSIA IS MORE CIVILIZED
Look at how respectfully this question is asked, and how respectfully it is answered. Should there be juridical defense against declarations that activists and journalists receive funding from abroad? Probably. Finding of fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLA17JslfY8
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-07 19:04:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457423671178498054
“Q: CURT, HAS RUSSIA GONE RED AGAIN?”
(a) the west is seen as decadent and in decline in much of the world. And a visit to america, or just viewing american streets on google maps will confirm that without much difficulty.
(b) russians are frustrated because their economy was growing until 2014, but the consequences of handling the ukrainian revolution poorly have affected them disproportionately. Worse, all capital is being directed to moscow and st petersburg at the expense of the distant regions. (Again, this is a ‘gamble’ the russian government is taking, given that they expect a rapid collapse of the west – especially europe – witihn the near time horizon as demographic collapse hurts europe more so than the rest of the world.
(c) the entire world is economically equilibrating ending 600 years of european advantage in genetic destribution, institutions, culture, science, and technology, so the entire world will gravitate toward greater state responsibility for the economic condition – which is what we mean by socialism – since socialism always fails, it simply means are more mixed economy favoring state protection of labor markets and prices.
(d) We know what the future looks like and china has taught a very serious and uncomfortable lesson: the chinese are fascists not communists. They are imitating the national socialists not the communists, in every aspect of their society. IN doing so they are demonstrating that the fascists won the argument over the future economic model. Why? Because nationalism, ethonocentrism, heavy trade regulation, state as majority venture capitalism, and private sector as majority producer, is the optimum political model. The only difference is the degree of propaganda necessary to maintain the loyalty of the people to one another (nationalism, ethnocentrism), in proportion to the amount of stress that the people must endure while policy slowly take effect.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-06 17:28:40 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107231295626670588
I want to use this map to illustrate the asia vs west problem.
(a) the northern European IQ average was closer to 115 before the industrial revolution.
(b) china has a 5 pt advantage but will return to relative equilibrium with europeans in just a few decades too.
– “Why does it matter?” –
(a) The most influential factor in the determination of prosperity is the average IQ of a polity.
(b) European average IQ has lost 15 points since ~1830.
(c) Chinese average IQ is losing and will lose its ~5 point advantage over the next few decades.
Why? Low Middle-Class births.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-06 16:44:05 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107231120302366313
(a) The most influential factor in the determination of prosperity is the average IQ of a polity. (b) European average IQ has lost 15 points since ~1830. (c) Chinese average IQ is losing and will lose its ~5 point advantage over the next few decades. Why? Low Middle-Class births.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-06 14:27:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456991679269982209
Reply addressees: @Ahadawi_africa
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1456981113239490561
@PoisonDartPepe Our ancestors dragged a world of ignorant, superstitious, people out of a lifetime of violence, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, death in childbirth, chid mortality, early death, victimization by nature, and the tyranny of priests and warlords, under the presumption that they were untrainable, violent, brutal animals, unfit for civilization and cooperation, at high cost and tiny profit, and they hate us for it. Fine. Hate them back.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-06 00:18:35 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107227245158096682
RUSSIAN OPINION
(a) the west is seen as decadent and in decline in much of the world. And a visit to america, or just viewing american streets on google maps will confirm that without much difficulty.
(b) russians are frustrated because their economy was growing until 2014, but the consequences of handling the ukrainian revolution poorly have affected them disproportionately. Worse, all capital is being directed to moscow and st petersburg at the expense of the distant regions. (Again, this is a ‘gamble’ the russian government is taking, given that they expect a rapid collapse of the west – especially europe – witihn the near time horizon as demographic collapse hurts europe more so than the rest of the world.
(c) the entire world is economically equilibrating ending 600 years of european advantage in genetic destribution, institutions, culture, science, and technology, so the entire world will gravitate toward greater state responsibility for the economic condition – which is what we mean by socialism – since socialism always fails, it simply means are more mixed economy favoring state protection of labor markets and prices.
(d) We know what the future looks like and china has taught a very serious and uncomfortable lesson: the chinese are fascists not communists. They are imitating the national socialists not the communists, in every aspect of their society. IN doing so they are demonstrating that the fascists won the argument over the future economic model. Why? Because nationalism, ethonocentrism, heavy trade regulation, state as majority venture capitalism, and private sector as majority producer, is the optimum political model. The only difference is the degree of propaganda necessary to maintain the loyalty of the people to one another (nationalism, ethnocentrism), in proportion to the amount of stress that the people must endure while policy slowly take effect.
Source date (UTC): 2021-11-05 15:23:57 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107225142902208525