Because returning violence to the political discourse forces honesty back into the hierarchy of decisions.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-29 08:43:00 UTC
Theme: Coercion
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Moral = non imposition of costs
Moral = non imposition of costs
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-26 18:22:51 UTC
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“The Russian elite has become European at the level of consumption, but in order
—“The Russian elite has become European at the level of consumption, but in order to preserve their incomes and consequently their power,” Shevtsova says, “they must isolate ordinary Russians from Europe” and from European values. Thus, “the Kremlin will struggle with Western values inside Russia even as it tries to achieve compromises with European business and elites.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-26 02:41:00 UTC
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WE ADVOCATE HUMAN RIGHTS, ARE WE RESTORING IMPERIALISM? Lets first state that th
https://www.quora.com/Are-human-rights-neo-imperialism/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=34703609WHEN WE ADVOCATE HUMAN RIGHTS, ARE WE RESTORING IMPERIALISM?
Lets first state that the question itself is stated as a deceit. (See writing in EPrime for proper construction of questions. ) The correct phrasing of such a question is:
“Is the Human Rights Initiative an extension of Imperialism?”
1) The question depends FIRST upon whether you consider REGIONAL Religious, Political, Cultural, Normative traditions superior to UNIVERSAL human necessities of cooperation. Generally speaking, norms, cultures, religious and political systems all serve a group evolutionary strategy. Generally speaking, natural rights consist of those necessary rights individuals must possess to engage in productive non-parasitic participation in any economy, and are universal statements of human behavior. So the difference between local group orders and the universal necessary order, is a choice between the competitive advantage of the local order versus the necessary order.
2) The question depends SECOND upon whether it is advantageous or disadvantageous for a group to compete cooperatively and meritocratic-ally rather than through parasitism, predation, and conquest. In other words, if one’s group cannot compete by human rights (Islam, China), then it is a de-facto evolutionary benefit for the group to act immorally (with disregard for human rights).
In other words, the premise of human rights is that if we all respect them, we will create a beneficial, prosperous, meritocratic world order. The counter proposition is that all that matters is who survives and that meritocratic orders are just a form of group evolutionary strategy preferred by more advanced societies, and less meritocratic orders a form of group evolutionary strategy preferred by less advanced societies.
3) Finally, states that emphasize human rights will rarely if ever have reason to war with their neighbors. And the charter for human rights was effectively an attempt to prevent another world war, especially with nuclear weapons, by directing all states to work on local economies rather than political and military expansion OR face the military consequences.
So in that case it’s better to look at the international charter of human rights as an international insurance policy or treated that allows the use of military and economic pressure against those who would abuse human rights, since they are most likely to also engage in expansionary warfare. (Islam)
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-26 02:18:00 UTC
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RESTORING LIBERTY Restoring Liberty required that I restore the requirement for
RESTORING LIBERTY
Restoring Liberty required that I restore the requirement for violence.
To possess Liberty requires the ability to construct it against desires of the naturally parasitic hordes, and to maintain it in the face of their over reproduction and temporal consumption.
For one cannot posess a condition of Liberty by permission. And without the ability to use violence to require forcibly create and maintain Liberty one cannot possess Liberty but only permission.
So this is the purpose of my emphasis on violence. Our efforts to first seize power from the martial aristocracy, then to justify our commercial colonialism, then to mollify our women, then to allow virtue signaling by the academy, state, and media’s recruitment of the immoral hordes, resulted in the incremental loss of our violence, our Liberty, and our civilization.
We must rule. If not out of moral obligation to the rest of humanity that is incapable of it, but our if nothing more than self defense.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-26 01:21:00 UTC
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the only people who matter are those who will take physical actions against peop
the only people who matter are those who will take physical actions against people and infrastructure in the real world.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 14:59:14 UTC
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There is no midway step. It is too easy to revolt, and too easy to lay demands.
There is no midway step. It is too easy to revolt, and too easy to lay demands. Everything else is larping.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 14:51:46 UTC
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There are no LARPS available. The only available options are to raise the cost o
There are no LARPS available. The only available options are to raise the cost of the status quo until demands are met.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 14:49:42 UTC
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Every action produces an incentive to react. One does not convince large numbers
Every action produces an incentive to react. One does not convince large numbers. one raises the cost of non-cooperation.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 14:48:15 UTC
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are the first things one should know in political theory? 1. The first question
https://t.co/KVOTCI8R4EWhat are the first things one should know in political theory? https://t.co/KVOTCI8R4E
1. The first question of **ethics** is ‘Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff?’.
2. The first question of **politics** is “Why don’t me and mine kill you and yours and take your stuff?”
3. The first question of **group evolutionary strategy** is “How can we either kill them and take their stuff, or prevent them from killing us and taking our stuff?”
4. The answer to all three questions is the same: “Because **cooperating in a division of labor **is productive and can continue to produce mutual returns while conflict is costly and and results only in net consumption. Over time those who cooperate have more numbers, are healthier, have better industry, technology, and warfare than those who don’t.
5. So, how do we **organize** group evolutionary strategy, politics, ethics, production and reproduction, so that we can out-compete, or at least say at pace with, competitors, given the people, their abilities, the territory and its resources that are at our disposal?
6. Answering this question requires facing a very **unpleasant fac****t**, that the problem we face is** human capital **(talents) and that every person at the bottom of the curve drastically reduces the effectiveness of every person at the middle and top of the curve. In other words, it matters more that you don’t have impulsive, aggressive, idiots than it does that you have calm geniuses. So by and large nations in colder climates were more successful at killing off the undesirables through winters and starvation, than those in the warmer climates.
7. So we see many different group evolutionary strategies dependent upon human capital, territory, and resources. The most obvious are
* the hierarchical and authoritarian irrigated flood-river valleys
* the aggressive tribal steppe and desert regions
* the egalitarian forest and river regions.
* the equalitarian polar peoples
* Each of these main groups produce different political systems in order to make use of the territory and means of production available to them. Those that do not make good use of territory and means are displaced, conquered, or exterminated by those that do.
* All groups require:
* A method of organizing reproduction (usually marriage)
* A method of organizing production (an economy)
* A method of organizing norms (usually religion/education)
* A method of producing commons (government)
* A method of holding territory (army)
* There are two economic poles available and all make use of one part of the spectrum or another, and all economies resulting in some variant on the mixed economy:
* Propertarian / Libertarian / **Capitalist** / High Trust / High Innovation – Why? No corruption in theory. Incentives work. But no competitive commons are produced, so it doesn’t work.
* **Mixed Economy** of Consumer capitalism with some authoritarian commons production. Incentives work and commons possible.
* Authoritarian / Totalitarian / **Socialist** / Low Trust / Low Innovation – Why? high corruption, no incentives, and it doesn’t work.
* All governments are corrupt but if a people are successful at implementing rule of law it is possible to protect the economy using the courts from excessive interference by the government monopoly.
* The method of deciding ( making excuses for ) which commons is produced rather than some other commons is a matter of local dispute. But it is actually a question of competition with other states, and it is only very wealthy states that choose luxuries rather than necessities.
* That is about all there is to political theory.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:35:00 UTC