Think of europe as a market regulated by the church, with the monarchies competing for market share. Conversely, think of europe a continent owned by the warrior class, competing for territory, with the church as the referee. Think of western civ as continents owned by them militia refereed by judges of the natural law.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:47:30 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576478669152321
IBN KHALDUN’S TRIBAL VS WESTERN STATES
by Igor Rogov
The major distinction Russian scholars make between Ibn Khaldun description of his reality (and by extension, reality in post-USSR) and the so-called West:
Ibn Khaldun notes the most important structures within Caliphate: Asabiyyah, Mulk, Davla. Davla could be translated as “State” but this leads to misconceptions when read by the westerner. Western State (or Stato) is distinct from Davla.
State is (ideally) neutral and is powered by self-evolving law system, mechanically converting the reality into the set of rules. The Machiavellian ideal Prince (and American president) simply has to watch and adjust the balance of powers, so no one could cease and destroy this wonderful machinery. All other tasks are secondary.
Davla is categorically different. It is powered by an impulse to dominate by the ruling elite (Asabiyyah is not exactly the tribal unity, but more like a passion – a will to rule the world by a warring tribe).
Mulk is something special too. It is a sovereignty enforced by violence and nothing much else, keeping the Davla/Caliphate in dynamic unity. There are no “sovereign borders” in Western understanding of this, – only the dynamic, shifting line, depending on the current level of Mulk.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:47:08 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576477163338546
SEDATION OF THE HERD BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER
—“It’s still better than it’s ever been – we are just upset because we can see leading indicators of decline….”–Gary Knight
—“Yeah man, it’s pretty awesome that I have an iPhone and burgers cost $1 at McDonalds. Who needs like, borders, or culture and shit…— Ely Harman
In my understanding, saturation with media has replaced evidence of reality, and so people are unaware of just how bad it’s gotten. We forget that $1burgers, cable entertainment, the internet, video games, porn, pot, are forms of sedation. Not fulfillment but sedation.
Socialization has fallen apart.
Civilization follows.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:27:15 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576398991525062
MALE ARISTOCRACY OF LAND AGAINST FEMALE PEASANTRY OF SHEPHERDS.
The ancient war of the low trust tribal people unable to produce commons or polities and obtain the gains thereof, against the high trust national people, able to produce commons and polities and the gains thereof: Male Aristocracy of Land Against Female Peasantry of Shepherds.
(What do you think the story of Cain and Abel is about?)
Semites invented priesthoods, deceit, and communism. The Afro Asiatic Deception of The Feminine. Dysgenia.
Indo europeans invented aristocracy and markets in everything. The Indo European Testimony of the Masculine. Eugenia.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:25:45 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576393072172630
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The answer is ancient. As we can see in Aesop’s Fables: Fable 112 – The Chariot of Hermes and the Arabs
—“One day, Hermes drove across the entire Earth a chariot filled with lies, villainy and fraud. And he distributed a small portion of his cargo in each country he visited. But when he arrived in the country of the Arabs, the chariot suddenly broke down. The Arabs believed he was carrying a precious cargo and so they stole the contents of his chariot. Hermes was then unable to carry on into the countries of other peoples. More than all other people the Arabs are liars and cheats. Indeed, there is not even a word for ‘truth’ in their language.”—Aesop
This is why our people aren’t compatible. And Taleb has engaged in the same form of sophism that gave license to the great lies of Judaism (undermine), Christianity (pacify), and Islam (consume), which is creating elaborate sentimental stories in order to engage in and justify the ancient hatred of the landless tribal people, and the settled farming people: the battle of Cain and Able: the farmers trust, commons and their cities, against the sheep herders and their lack of capital, trust, and its multipliers in the commons.
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( @nntaleb#nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb )
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:24:06 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576386605002984
Replying to: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576384220810882
IN REPLY TO:
@curtd
THE OTHER REASON TALEB IS WRONG. THE UN-TRUSTWORTHY. By Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute We presume intelligence is the driving factor in our differences in life outcomes. It’s just the driving factor for (a) rate of learning (b) working with complexity. Conscientiousness is evenly distributed across the spectrum of complexity regardless of intelligence. So the market demand is for minimum necessary intelligence and conscientiousness. And then by intelligence sufficient for the degree of complexity. But, what isn’t in that dichotomy is our incentives. This is where Taleb makes his second mistake. Just as we pay police to avoid corruption, we pay people more to avoid corruption. We are not paid just for conscientiousness, or just for complexity, but for loyalty and consequence. So instead of just Intelligence, we have: a) Reward for Conscientiousness (quality), b) Reward for Intelligence (complexity), c) Reward for Scarcity (by income) , and d) Reward for Insurance (by status and security) The Chinese bureaucracy was successful, because of the training and incentive against corruption, in exchange for the status and predictability of income – and why the German and French have been, and why the American has not been, and why the Semitic people have never been able to develop (a) civic trust or truthful speech (b) commons, (c) governments at scale, (d) nations at scale, (e) companies at scale (f) economies at scale, (g) a durable civilization without consuming an existing great one, and (h) why the Semites produce an ibn Khaldun (low trust), instead of Locke, Smith, Hume, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson, Pareto, Darwin, Menger, Maxwell, Nietzsche or Hayek (High Trust). Taleb hates the answer: (a) intelligence matters in the suppression of parasitism, (b) rewarding it with income, status, and security matters in the suppression of parasitism (c) dysgenia results from low trust, poverty results from low trust, and inability to innovate results from low trust, leaving only consumption and distrust and small scale corrupt organizations, (d) he and his ‘Fat Tony’ profit only because in a high trust society and civilization under rule of law, with scale institutions, both private and public, the opportunities for immoral (non-productive) windfalls exist – precisely because we are so high trust we never even THINK of the kinds of scams that Taleb, Fat Tony, (George Soros), imagine. In other words, all Taleb has managed to do across his books is explain why he could come to the west to make money but his people live in ignorance, superstition, tribalism, deceit, and relative poverty. ( … continued )
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576384220810882
THERE WAS NO ENLIGHTENMENT OTHER THAN THE BRITISH
—“The dirty little secret of the German economists and philosophers was that their attack on economics originated out of racial, religious & nationalist bigotry & resentment toward British & American prosperity, ideas & culture” — the ideology behind the German empiricists. via TakingHayekSeriously @FriedrichHayek
The British empirical revolution. Then the French (Rousseau’s Moral Literary), German (Kant’s secular theological), Jewish(Pseudoscientific: Boas, Marx, Freud, Adorno), French again (Postmodern, Derrida, Foucault), and now Muslim(Fundamentalist) Counter Revolutions.
There was no enlightenment other than the British – all others were counter revolutions against the empirical revolution. The Germans nearly restored our past, nearly brought about the second scientific revolution, but War sent Germany’s scientific treasure to America’s Treasury.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:16:13 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576355596028098
“CURT DOESN’T KNOW HISTORY, HE NEEDS TO READ A BOOK”
to: @Gareth Martin
I thought you were going to present some counterfactuals. But no.
I’m tracing the evolution of truthful speech on the one hand and competing forms of speech on the other. The premise is that this is because of accidents of western origin.
Now, you can try to make some argument or other, but in general you’ve made two false ones.
THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
The code of hammurabi like the inquisition for that matter, were attempts to standardize punishments between heterogeneous groups within the “empire”, so that retaliation cycles (feuds) did not scale between those groups.
THE PHOENICIAN GROUP STRATEGY
The phoenicians originated either as southern semites on the southern persian gulf, or in situ from earlier northern semitic survivors of the climate crisis. It appears the latter but it is nearly impossible to separate out their genetics, other than to say that lebanese are an old people. same problem with greek aristocracy. We don’t have samples from enough individuals yet to know.
As far as we know they survived by pastoralism and fishing, but because they had the location and sufficient skill and organization, they were able to discount the shipping cost of Tin from the afghanistan route, and copper from the european route, and there is some evidence of local tin mining. So they capitalized in the ‘arms trade’ of the day (bronze was to the ancient world what oil is today. Waterways are still the cheapest method of transportation of heavy goods. They leveraged this wealth to create a coastal trading empire of city states.
Agrarian societies are more expensive to tovern than naval (as the romans discovered when expanding into europe) because land is slow and costly to cover quickly but can be covered by foot soldiers rather rapidly (at 20m per day).
So phoenicians like athenians and the british and unlike the persians and the germans and the spartans could concentrate wealth in capital with higher returns. But like jews, palestinians, and gypsies today they could not resist armies. They played Switzerland for the ancient empires precisely because they DIDN”T have capable armies, but were too useful as transporters. This utility ended when they competed with rome, that was, like the USA a combined marine and army power engaging in trade where possible, rule where possible, and predation where possible.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:11:56 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576338715045971
HE DID GOOD SERVICE, IN A GARDEN, WHERE LEEKS DID GROW.
—“If your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an honorable badge of the service. And I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.”— Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 7
Liberals make good fertilizer too. They are plentiful. And will save us petroleum costs. And there, they will do the good service, they cannot otherwise do.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:09:15 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576328201513618
VIA TWITTER
My job is to cut thru the ignorance error bias and deceit.
I am very good at it. Genocide and mass migration are the most decisive sources of change in all of history. They are the black swans: events whose consequences nullify all others. And you are generating demand for war.
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:06:01 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576315507627686
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS BROUGHT TO OUR NATION
—“The shootings over the weekend are simply society’s response to a collision of civilizations that’s been ushered in via immigration and multiculturalism. It’s really no different than our body’s immune system responding to a foreign body.
The only way to prevent these shootings is to prevent what’s causing them. While tragic, these events paradoxically bring us closer to the actual solution.”—Aaron John
Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:00:34 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576294064266405