Theme: Governance

Wesley: Happy to debate any time. The work itself is sold. Rock solid. Particularly the formal. The application of it to choices of government, one of many possible. The marketing of it to different factions another thing altogether. So, don’t confuse the three different lines of content. I do a lot of experimenting with messaging. Its part of the research program to do so.

We’ll have to disagree on the IQ issue, because it’s a function of distributions which shift – but relationship between distributions remains constant. Eventually you will, in all things, result in the last six generations of both sides of your family. Any change in IQ tide floats and lowers all distributions equally. Shift upward from health and medicine and downward from reproduction is what it is – Flynn and its reversal. Race doesn’t matter except to the people it matters to and no one has a any right under natural law to deny anyone one alternative or the other.

All individuals in all civilizations – all organizations of any scale – seek to maximize rent seeking such that the organizations no longer have reserve capital to alter incentives sufficient to adapt to shocks or change. But the record of history’s middle class management in both the modern and ancient worlds (european) is that incremental suppression of parasitism under the law of tort (natural law) where tort is defined as imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others, is what it is (Acemoglu etc).

There is no end to the law. Man will invent technologies endlessly. The technology he most seeks to invent is rent seeking (parasitism). It is a never ending process.

Either one, one’s kin, one’s organization, one’s party, one’s polity, one’s nation is willing to suppress parasitism for the common good by the incremental suppression of it using the law or one is not.

We govern the humans we have with the humans we have – we have no other choice. We do not seek magic. We seek only to organize force against the negative, thereby incrementally driving everyone living into the market of voluntary cooperation – against their will much of the time –

Our constitution worked reasonably well until intentionally undermined (Richard Epstein) it through a weakness the founders did not understand (review, interpretation, and decision, rather than strict construction, indecision, and return to the legislature otherwise).

The central problem of our age is the combination of democracy, wealth that allows us to pursue genetic interests (see scandinavian gender data); a constitution that allows judicial interpretation rather than process; a founding upon rights not articulated as natural (reciprocity) and tort; and and the third great increase in information distribution (media). While the printing press assisted us in escaping from supernaturalism, the book, prophet, rabbi, priest, imam and acolyte achieved in the ancient world, what the marxist, feminist, postmodernists achieved in the present through academy, media, and state.

Truth is enough. The market for goods services and information via positiva is enough, if the market for suppression of parasitism is enough. It is this market for the suppression of parasitism that we call the law – safe from disintermediation by the government – that will as in the past allow us to evolve suppression as fast as we evolve predations.

If we restore the constitution to one of reciprocity under rule of law rather than arbitrary ‘rights’ under judicial discretion, with demand for political speech at least as truthful as commercial speech, and restore freedom of association in all its forms then the collapse of our civilization will not follow that of rome. It only took 70 years to destroy the empire. Most of it happened in one generation. The same for the greeks looking back on the conflict of athens and sparta.

I won’t tolerate another dark age. I want a renaissance instead.

It’s possible.

It’s institutionally possible.

But it is not going to happen without effort.

Cheers