Feb 20, 2020, 10:40 PM
Theme: Civilization
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Russia
Feb 20, 2020, 10:40 PM
—“The West had two chances to save Russia, and ultimately the West (not counting Crimean war). Simply roll in and back the White Army during the first and second Bolshevik revolutions and elminate all of them, and their families.”—James Santagata
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Colonization Was an Alternative to Being Conquered by Islam
Colonization Was an Alternative to Being Conquered by Islam https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/colonization-was-an-alternative-to-being-conquered-by-islam/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 00:01:44 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266520131464806400
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Colonization Was an Alternative to Being Conquered by Islam
Feb 22, 2020, 11:38 AM by Scott De Warren Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire. Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).
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Colonization Was an Alternative to Being Conquered by Islam
Feb 22, 2020, 11:38 AM by Scott De Warren Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire. Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).
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Germanic religion, in so far it can be called that, wasn’t in any way centralized.
Feb 26, 2020, 12:42 PM Martin Štěpán Germanic religion, in so far it can be called that, wasn’t in any way centralized. There was no organization and no book every tribe would have. Every tribe’s version could slowly evolve and diverge, especially if they didn’t come into contact. What we have comes from Iceland written after Christianity was already in place. Even though the gods were shared and Odin does appear to be the head of the pantheon everywhere (Tacitus – central European Germanics, Geoffrey of Monmouth – Saxons) but who knows how the personalities and the stories might have differed. Bill Joslin fight fire with fire, and psychopomp with psychopomp. P, in clarifying the reality of the socio-economic world, turns the wheel of gods, one more rotation back to tyr. law, born of martial culture which domesticates .. a natural response to Fenrir breaking his chains to race across the sky undoing the domestication of our animal nature. Bill Smith This. This is good. Curt. Yeah, Bill has a thing there. That’s a good thing.
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Germanic religion, in so far it can be called that, wasn’t in any way centralized.
Feb 26, 2020, 12:42 PM Martin Štěpán Germanic religion, in so far it can be called that, wasn’t in any way centralized. There was no organization and no book every tribe would have. Every tribe’s version could slowly evolve and diverge, especially if they didn’t come into contact. What we have comes from Iceland written after Christianity was already in place. Even though the gods were shared and Odin does appear to be the head of the pantheon everywhere (Tacitus – central European Germanics, Geoffrey of Monmouth – Saxons) but who knows how the personalities and the stories might have differed. Bill Joslin fight fire with fire, and psychopomp with psychopomp. P, in clarifying the reality of the socio-economic world, turns the wheel of gods, one more rotation back to tyr. law, born of martial culture which domesticates .. a natural response to Fenrir breaking his chains to race across the sky undoing the domestication of our animal nature. Bill Smith This. This is good. Curt. Yeah, Bill has a thing there. That’s a good thing.
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Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia
Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/why-empires-fall-accumulated-rents-and-dysgenia/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:03:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266505560079446016
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Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia
—“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren
Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.
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Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia
—“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren
Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.