Theme: Coercion

  • THE WHEN AND WHY OF CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WAR FREQUENCY —“I studied Eu

    THE WHEN AND WHY OF CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN WAR FREQUENCY

    —“I studied European history. It is all about European wars. (vs Islam).”—

    1) That’s because China and Europe went through the ‘warring states’ period of civilizational consolidation thousands of years apart – and Islamic civilization is just going through it now.

    2) It’s also because the conflict between the spread of the curse of Abrahamic religions and the resulting regressive ignorance, superstition, and authoritarianism, versus the rise of modernity in Europe – and Islam is just beginning that transition.

    3) It’s also because (a) in an otherwise tedious consistency of life, wars are the only noticeable occurrences (b) europeans were pervasively literate during our ‘warring states’ period of development. (c) europeans alone solved the problem of government, and the problem of government involves the acts of government – including war.

    4) It’s also because Europe’s rapid technical innovation is due to the pressures created by the use of technology to defeat the southern authoritarian Abrahamic vs the northern germanic libertarian instead of religion, ideology, or population size – because europeans are the produce of the west indo european expansion who united horse, bronze, and wheel and by accident invented good government because of it AND the objective, empirical and finally scientific mind.

    5) there is no comparison between the number, and constancy wars of MENA, vs the other civilizations of Europe, China, and India, especially India’s natural peace, and Europe’s great Pax-Romana, and Pax-Americana for the simple reason that MENA is at the axis of four continents, and four races with the agrarian revolution beginning in the levant anatolia and Mesopotamia, and being conquered by wave after wave of barbarians each of whom replaced the previous generation of barbarians – and unfortunately cost the world the Persians and NW Indians.

    6) There is no comparison between the Muslim destruction of the great civilizations of the ancient world and the reduction of them to ashes: north African, Egyptian, Levantine, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, Persian (3 times), northwest Indian, and even the simple people of the steppe, and the destruction of the advancement of old Europe, and the destruction een of the high culture of the Byzantines. Nor the degeneracy that Islam imposed on each after the recidivism of fundamentalism beginning in the tenth century.

    7) Europeans, with the age of sail, caused by the mulsim destruction of Constantinople and closure of the ports, ended the viability of the overland silk road, ended middle eastern possibility of wealth, and (poorly)unified the world with transport, science, accounting, law, institutions and trade – by dragging primitive peoples into modernity kicking and screaming. But the evidence is obvious that those who were so ‘dragged’ are better off than those not today.

    Compare that to Islam, that has had a devolutionary effect on everything it touches. Even today, nearly all terrorist groups are Muslim, nearly all failed states are Abrahamic, and nearly all instability is either Islamic or the threat of Islam.

    SUMMARY Ignorance in Islam is pervasive and self-justifying because of that ignorance. And, in other words, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The greatest cancer in human history is the abrahamic religions that taught men how to lie – and in doing so evade the one law of the universe, and the one law of god if there is one: discover, adapt, evolve – or die.

    Reply addressees: @chedetofficial


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 14:47:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691099302137876481

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691090408439230465


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    1) That’s because China and Europe went through the ‘warring states’ period of civilizational consolidation thousands of years apart – and Islamic civilization is just going through it now.

    2) It’s also because the conflict between the spread of the curse of Abrahamic religions and the resulting regressive ignorance, superstition, and authoritarianism, versus the rise of modernity in Europe – and Islam is just beginning that transition.

    3) It’s also because (a) in an otherwise tedious consistency of life, wars are the only noticeable occurrences (b) europeans were pervasively literate during our ‘warring states’ period of development. (c) europeans alone solved the problem of government, and the problem of government involves the acts of government – including war.

    4) It’s also because Europe’s rapid technical innovation is due to the pressures created by the use of technology to defeat the southern authoritarian Abrahamic vs the northern germanic libertarian instead of religion, ideology, or population size – because europeans are the produce of the west indo european expansion who united horse, bronze, and wheel and by accident invented good government because of it AND the objective, empirical and finally scientific mind.

    5T there is no comparison between the number, and constancy wars of MENA, vs the other civilizations of Europe, China, and India, especially India’s natural peace, and europe’s great pax-romania, and pax-americana for the simple reason that MENA is at the axis of four continents, and four races with the agrarian revolution beginning in the levant anatolia and Mesopotamia, and being conquered by wave after wave of barbarians each of whom replaced the previous generation of barbarians – and unfortunately cost the world the Persians and NW Indians.

    6) There is no comparison between the Muslim destruction of the great civilizations of the ancient world and the reduction of them to ashes: north African, Egyptian, Levantine, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, Persian (3 times), northwest Indian, and even the simple people of the steppe, and the destruction of the advancement of old Europe, and the destruction een of the high culture of the Byzantines. Nor the degeneracy that Islam imposed on each after the recidivism of fundamentalism beginning in the tenth century.

    6) Europeans poorly unified the world with science, institutions and trade – by dragging primitive peoples into modernity kicking and screaming. But the evidence is obvious that those who were so ‘dragged’ are better off then those not today. Compare that to Islam that has had a devolutionary affect on everything it touches. Even today, nearly all terrorist groups are Muslim, and nearly all failed states are Abrahamic, and nearly all instability is either Islamic or the threat of Islam.

    SUMMARY
    Ignorance in Islam is pervasive and self justifying because of that ignorance.
    And, in other words, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The greatest cancer in human history is the abrahamic religions that taught men how to lie – and in doing so evade the one law of the universe, and the one law of god if there is one: discover, adapt, evolve – or die.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1691090408439230465

  • Q: Curt: Please Contrast Norms and Laws Regarding Alcohol with Other Drugs.”– (

    –Q: Curt: Please Contrast Norms and Laws Regarding Alcohol with Other Drugs.”–

    (1) Europe is organized around the principle of producing maximum individual responsibility by the production of the maximum possible agency, because Europeans distribute responsibility for governance of the commons down to the individual (at least adult mal). This is why Europens have high trust commons.

    (2) drugs reduce the capacity for agency and therefore, responsibility. And the loss of responsibility produces externalities. (disease, injuries, drunk driving, fighting, murder)

    (3) alcohol has a long tradition despite it’s externalities because (a) it has always been a store of high concentrations of calories, (b) is self-purifying despite the rising impurity of water in populated areas (c) tends to be a ‘truth serum’ in social and political contexts (d) mediates stress and induces sleep given the hardships of agrarian age life and in particular, war.

    (4) Ergo, Alcohol had somewhat necessary utility (40% of calories from whiskey for example, possibly as many or more from archaic beer) across the personal social and political spectrum – and we had developed norms, traditions and institutions to compensate for the externalities.

    Other than Caffeine, we can’t say the same for the rest of the ‘drugs’, which have almost entirely sedating, responsibility-reducing, self-destructive, and externality-producing tendencies.

    So it’s not so much what groups care about, but whether the accumulation of negative and positive externalities to the COMMONS – and not to the individual, results in regulatory norms and laws that constrain use of behavior modifying drugs to he positive externalities.

    So the ‘commons’ consist of positive and negative externalities and has nothing to do with the individual.

    And (as I’m sure Martin will chime in here) the decision requires full accounting of benefits and externalities. IMO the experiment with legalization of pot is ongoing. And as far as I know “prohibition worked”. Given the range of prescription drugs today that sedate emotions without incapacitating agency and responsibility – and given the utility of alcohol. And given the consequences of legalization of pot, I’m not sure we aren’t doing something akin to a light version of opium in asia. But time will tell. And no individual can testify to the consequences of this experiment despite the justifications from either side.

    I’m not sure why there should be a lack of understanding of the constitution of commons by anyone since it’s one of the most thoroughly articulated parts of the work, and has been for a decade. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 14:34:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691095832995483648

  • Why do you assume acompromise is possible or desirable for either faction? What

    Why do you assume acompromise is possible or desirable for either faction? What if they are better off separated? Or if the other is eliminated?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-09 08:42:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689195534756548608

    Reply addressees: @GracianoGreen

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689183473074851841

  • African Leadership Very proud of #Kenya for stepping up to make the world a bett

    African Leadership
    Very proud of #Kenya for stepping up to make the world a better place (Haitian Gangs).

    Very proud of the #EconomicCommunityOfWestAfricanStates for stepping up to make the world a better place (Niger’s Junta).


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-08 23:09:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689051221250691073

  • “In the last couple of centuries clever people’s designs for reinventing human c

    –“In the last couple of centuries clever people’s designs for reinventing human civilization have tended to end pretty badly, especially when they’ve been imposed from above.”– Matt Ridley @mattwridley

    The evidence is that the slow, continuous, incremental correction of falsehood, suppresion of irreciprocity, and scientific innovation solve what no radical policy solves – radical policy is the impulsivity of an ignorant child with high time preferences unable to resist eating the marshmallow while the test administrator leaves the room.

    Reply addressees: @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-07 12:42:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688531137956646912

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688305530874306560

  • Minefields cannot survive IFVs with charge-line explosives and mine-clearing tan

    Minefields cannot survive IFVs with charge-line explosives and mine-clearing tanks with ‘bulldozer’ blades.
    But those IFVs and Tanks require suppression of infantry, man-portable anti-armor weapons, and artillery.
    Infantry, Trenches, and Artillery crews cannot survive FAEs.
    FAE’s require aerial delivery.
    Aerial delivery requires air superiority.
    Air superiority requires layers of AWACS, anti air missiles, anti-air fires, fighters, multi-role aircraft, Bombers, and those require extraordinary supply lines.
    That equipment and those supply lines require vast numbers of technicians, transport, facilities, and industrial production.
    Those technicians, facilities, transport equipment and industrial production require lot of time and money to train and build.
    Instead one can destroy the enemies’ transport, supply lines, inventory, command-and control, and saturate them with artillery to exhaust the human ability to bear stress.
    I see the UA military acting as absolutely rationally and logically and strategically as possible precisely because UA does not have the resources to fight an air war. and because at least at present, the belief that if given air weaponry by the west, UA would not be able to resist taking the war to the enemy to break political will.
    So the logical option is to devote local production to taking the war to the enemy, and continuing to build the skill, maintenance and supply chain necessary to eradicate the ability of the enemy to defend entrenched positions.
    UA does everything right. Why? They preserve their men.

    Reply addressees: @ELuttwak


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-07 02:16:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688373622300131328

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688297180937719808

  • Causes of left-wing authoritarianism 1. Verbal intelligence 2. Being female 3. H

    Causes of left-wing authoritarianism
    1. Verbal intelligence
    2. Being female
    3. Having a feminine temperament
    4. Wish to escape from responsibility
    5. Wish to be free of the constraints of pesky reality
    6. Dark Triad Personality, malignant narcissism (psychopaths, parasites)
    7. Facial asymmetry. Low upper body strength.
    8. Male Left as sneaky f–kers (surreptitious mating) and Female Left Promiscuity – as social justice warriors
    9. Having taken just one course in leftism (Abrahamic method of deceit).

    Partly my fault here: The team asks me repeatedly to use feminine instead of female or women, but it’s the NUMBERS of women that are so easily attracted to magical thinking and social construction to evade responsibility and constraints of reality that produce the numbers necessary for social construction, and as a consequence, the utility for males to obtain ‘followings’ by capturing the social construction of magical thinking via the females to undermine the males.

    What you will learn from my work and that of others is that just as the Europeans founded civilization on hierarchy, the prohibition on authority resulting in the law, and truth, the Jews founded their civilization by the female suppresion of hierarchy, the promotion of authority, the use of authoritative (divine) law, and (wait for it) lying by baiting into hazard.

    So in other words, the Europeans and Jews developed elites that specialized in the masculine vs feminine means of social and political organization. This is why the only elite intellectuals in the world are european or Ashkenazi. The problem is … a female political order is impossible. And the current crisis in Israel is one between the preservation of the optimistic feminine against the reality of the pessimistic masculine.

    Reply addressees: @liberaequa @EPoe187


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-05 18:50:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1687898961124667392

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1687864870648307712

  • Adult conservative, Adolescent Libertarian, Infantilized progressive. –“You sto

    Adult conservative, Adolescent Libertarian, Infantilized progressive.

    –“You stop being a libertarian when you realize that we must govern out of self-defense from those who would not so justly govern us.”– Martin Stepan

    You can’t be left alone. You have to work to be left alone. ;). Because they will never leave us alone. The adolescent is reluctant to bear responsibility for the commons. The infantilized is reluctant, unwilling, and unable to bear responsibility for the self, private OR common.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-02 15:39:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686763551422115840

  • Gonzalo Lira, (CRP) has been ‘let go’ from UA. They’re getting rid of him since

    Gonzalo Lira, (CRP) has been ‘let go’ from UA. They’re getting rid of him since he’s a hot potato. Personaly I think he deserved worse than he got. I can’t imagine going to Russia, or any other country, as an american and criticizing the government in a time of war and not expecting punishment for it. Why did he think Ukraine would be any different? Attention-whoring. Being a shill for the kremlin is one thing. Claiming UA Govt is worse than RU govt is simply false by every measure. And UA population is more moral and Christian than RU (As we’ve seen – confirming Patton’s criticism of russians and his demand the West solve the problem of russia for good. Both Patton and MacArthur, and now Bush I were proven correct by history. Never leave domestication of empires unfinished, and never tolerate tyrants for a moment.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-01 14:14:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686379975128309760

  • Edward is proposing a utilitarian solution so that the USA can pivot to China. T

    Edward is proposing a utilitarian solution so that the USA can pivot to China. The fact that it is a rational solution but rewards Russia for aggression is troublesome.

    Was gaining Crimea and two provinces worth losing billions in reserves, and restoring, revitilizing and expanding NATO, when RU could have simply purchased them in 2014 because Ukrainians (myself included at the time) would have been happy to divest the country of the sh–hole provinces that were the home of the communists, sedition, and organized crime?

    I can’t predict the possibility, but that possibility is non-zero. And the Ukrainians want blood. So even if settled I see a frozen conflict.

    Reply addressees: @cowcow8237465


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-31 14:20:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686018981134577664

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685990890706210816