—“If the marginal utility of conflict is greater than cooperation or boycott, one should choose conflict.So to make you not kill me, in our polity, conflict needs to more symmetrical to raise costs so we should all have access to weaponry, as well as free association and disassociation, discrimination, to lower the price of boycott. Finally we should lower the costs of co-operation by making us as homogeneous as possible.”—Carl Persson
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-01 20:58:00 UTC
—”Julius Caesar massacred 1 out of 10 million of Celts in Gaul, and put another million into slavery. In modern terms, this would be called a genocide.”–
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-28 22:08:00 UTC
RT @RealJamesWoods: Here are the State by State Costs of Illegal Immigration. This is reflective only of burden borne by states. The federa…
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 17:47:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/968543226801065985
—“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend
Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.)
We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best example in history. I can’t think of any condition in history where expansionary conquest wasn’t the most profitable endeavor possible.
I think we can say that SYMMETRIC conflict is costly, but ASYMMETRIC conflict is extraordinarily rewarding – hence the eternal arms race from the dawn of time.
Conquest and Rule are THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES ever invented by man.
And we invented it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 08:30:00 UTC
Anarchism is a nonsense word invented as a trope in the same way the capitalism vs socialism are nonsense words invented as tropes – in order to distract from and avoid the causal problem: whether one is ruled by rule of law versus discretionary rule (not rule of law, but rule by command, rule by oligarchy(legislation), or rule by primitive custom).
One either has rule of law or discretionary rule.
One either has monological law (empirical law) of reciprocity , or one has discretionary ‘judgement’ – not law.
The reason the anarchists invented ‘anarchism’ was to preserve poly ethical (immoral) tribal law.
Why? because western europeans practice high trust, and are the highest trust peoples on earth (and always have been). Others cannot compete (or their group evolutionary strategies are parasitic) and
The monarchies allowed ‘hosted peoples’ to retain their common laws (superstitions) when dealing with one another, and enforced the kings law (native european reciprocity) when dealing with others.
If you have rule of law you will end up with markets in everything and a high trust society.
If you have discretionary rule you will end up with corruption in everything and a low trust society.
Marxism Socialism, Libertarianism, and Conservatism are all attempts to change the discourse from science and rule of law, to empty moralizing.
For the simple reason that everyone can think he’s moral and right while rule of law is dismantled systematically – as it has been since the end of the wars.
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-anarchism
Anarchism is a nonsense word invented as a trope in the same way the capitalism vs socialism are nonsense words invented as tropes – in order to distract from and avoid the causal problem: whether one is ruled by rule of law versus discretionary rule (not rule of law, but rule by command, rule by oligarchy(legislation), or rule by primitive custom).
One either has rule of law or discretionary rule.
One either has monological law (empirical law) of reciprocity , or one has discretionary ‘judgement’ – not law.
The reason the anarchists invented ‘anarchism’ was to preserve poly ethical (immoral) tribal law.
Why? because western europeans practice high trust, and are the highest trust peoples on earth (and always have been). Others cannot compete (or their group evolutionary strategies are parasitic) and
The monarchies allowed ‘hosted peoples’ to retain their common laws (superstitions) when dealing with one another, and enforced the kings law (native european reciprocity) when dealing with others.
If you have rule of law you will end up with markets in everything and a high trust society.
If you have discretionary rule you will end up with corruption in everything and a low trust society.
Marxism Socialism, Libertarianism, and Conservatism are all attempts to change the discourse from science and rule of law, to empty moralizing.
For the simple reason that everyone can think he’s moral and right while rule of law is dismantled systematically – as it has been since the end of the wars.
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-anarchism