3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face). 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent. 6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily. 9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face. Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”
Theme: Cooperation
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Religion Is a Poor Substitute for The Hunt
All religion is poor substitute for the initiatic brotherhood of warriors, their hunt, the feast that results, and the thanks of all for it. There is no greater promise than the oath. No greater mindfulness than the hunt. No greater bond than the with those with whom we fight and kill. No greater thrill than winning (Killing). No greater social experience than the feast. No greater thanks than for the feast. Pity the weak their substitutes.
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Religion Is a Poor Substitute for The Hunt
All religion is poor substitute for the initiatic brotherhood of warriors, their hunt, the feast that results, and the thanks of all for it. There is no greater promise than the oath. No greater mindfulness than the hunt. No greater bond than the with those with whom we fight and kill. No greater thrill than winning (Killing). No greater social experience than the feast. No greater thanks than for the feast. Pity the weak their substitutes.
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Natural Law on Economic Schools
Let me help you by repetition: Austrian Econ studies the Natural Law of Cooperation. Chicago studies Insurance under Natural Law. New York (Mainstream) studies maximum consumption under the maximum violation of natural law, including the consumption of all capital, that still preserves sufficient cooperation to preserve cooperation despite destruction of all capital. Consumption <—– Production —–> Preservation Left………………………Libertarian…………………..Right
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Natural Law on Economic Schools
Let me help you by repetition: Austrian Econ studies the Natural Law of Cooperation. Chicago studies Insurance under Natural Law. New York (Mainstream) studies maximum consumption under the maximum violation of natural law, including the consumption of all capital, that still preserves sufficient cooperation to preserve cooperation despite destruction of all capital. Consumption <—– Production —–> Preservation Left………………………Libertarian…………………..Right
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Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk
—“Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk. If you want people to cooperate with you rather than fight or avoid you, you must mitigate that risk. If you instead try to shame people for your lack of ability to mitigate their risk, they are left with the only options of fight or flight. However, cooperation amplifies the standard of living of a polity, so people would rather live around those they can cooperate with rather than fight/flight. You can only compel people to flee you for so long until the cost of non-cooperation exceeds the cost of fighting (destroying) you to increase the proximity density of people who cooperate at low risk.”— Steve Pender
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Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk
—“Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk. If you want people to cooperate with you rather than fight or avoid you, you must mitigate that risk. If you instead try to shame people for your lack of ability to mitigate their risk, they are left with the only options of fight or flight. However, cooperation amplifies the standard of living of a polity, so people would rather live around those they can cooperate with rather than fight/flight. You can only compel people to flee you for so long until the cost of non-cooperation exceeds the cost of fighting (destroying) you to increase the proximity density of people who cooperate at low risk.”— Steve Pender
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Cooperation is an investment that has non
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk. If you want people to cooperate with you rather than fight or avoid you, you must mitigate that risk. If you instead try to shame people for your lack of ability to mitigate their risk, they are left with the only options of fight or flight. However, cooperation amplifies the standard of living of a polity, so people would rather live around those they can cooperate with rather than fight/flight. You can only compel people to flee you for so long until the cost of non-cooperation exceeds the cost of fighting (destroying) you to increase the proximity density of people who cooperate at low risk.”— Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-05 20:49:15 UTC
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“Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk. If you want people to coop
—“Cooperation is an investment that has non-zero risk. If you want people to cooperate with you rather than fight or avoid you, you must mitigate that risk. If you instead try to shame people for your lack of ability to mitigate their risk, they are left with the only options of fight or flight. However, cooperation amplifies the standard of living of a polity, so people would rather live around those they can cooperate with rather than fight/flight. You can only compel people to flee you for so long until the cost of non-cooperation exceeds the cost of fighting (destroying) you to increase the proximity density of people who cooperate at low risk.”— Steve Pender
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-05 16:49:00 UTC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. NATURAL LAW ON ECONOMIC SCHOOLS Let me help y
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
NATURAL LAW ON ECONOMIC SCHOOLS
Let me help you by repetition: Austrian Econ studies the Natural Law of Cooperation. Chicago studies Insurance under Natural Law. New York (Mainstream) studies maximum consumption under the maximum violation of natural law, including the consumption of all capital, that still preserves sufficient cooperation to preserve cooperation despite destruction of all capital.
Consumption <—– Production —–> Preservation
Left………………………Libertarian…………………..Right
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-05 14:00:24 UTC