Theme: Governance

  • Is The World Better Off With Or Without Facebook?

    I think the world is better off for facebook if only for its use in assisting in revolutions.

    I think quora WAS making the world better off before it hired …. idiots …. to post fake questions and generate page responses.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-world-better-off-with-or-without-Facebook

  • Why Does The Us Government Insist On Making Other Countries Be Democratic?

    THE COMPLETE ANSWER
    The world wars dramatically changed western civilization to which we said ‘never again’. This has driven american policy since world war one. American treats europe as a set of petulant client states that are incapable of self rule. This is not new. Americans have believe this of europeans since the founding of the country.

    THE POSTWAR POLICY
    1) We cannot allow countries to attempt to use border expansion to increase wealth.
    2) We will force all countries to focus on internal development of consumer capitalsm, human rights, because this will eliminate any need for inter-state conflict, and it will generate economic ties that will make conflict undesirable and expensive.
    3) All people will rationally choose consumer capitalilsm if given teh ability to choose their own government, because everyone wants to consume, and all people wish to be free.
    4) Therefore we will support the will of all people to establish a democractic, consumer,capitalist society.

    AND THE BIG, UNSTATED, “HOWEVER”
    5) if people choose poorly and institute a government that violates these ambitions we will punish that government and those people until they make the correct, peaceful choice.

    SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM
    1) is a good idea
    2) is a good idea
    3) is absolutely false, and incomprelnsiblly ignorant. consumer capitalsm and democracy are very, very, limited goods, after which both are destructive to family, culture, and civilization.
    4) is what the states does because it is wrong about 3.
    5) is the consequence of doing 4, while still under the illusion of 3.

    THE USA IS A GOOD INSURER. BUT A BAD DIRECTOR.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-government-insist-on-making-other-countries-be-democratic

  • Who Are The Best Examples Of Truly Citizens Of The World?

    People who act locally, and think locally, rather than impose costs of their fantasies upon others?

    https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-best-examples-of-truly-citizens-of-the-world

  • Where Are The Us Political Party Manifestos?

    THE MOST ACCURATE AND COMPLETE STATEMENT YOU WILL NEED.

    The left’s manifesto has been public for over a century, and is represented in the ten planks. And the left has been successful and (a) a complete canon of pseudoscience in the social sciences (b) conquest of the primary education and secondary education systems, (c) conquest of the media, and entertainment businesses (d) invasive immigration of the underclasses, (e) financialization of the economy (f) systematic intentional destriction of our constitution of natural law, by selective advocacy of cases that expose the weakensses in created by the initial draft’s compromise with the southern states, and the violations of natural law added to the constitution after the conquest and defeat of the southern states.

    The right’s manifesto CANNOT be made public under majoritarian democracy since the right’s program is entirely EUGENIC. There is a reason the right speaks metaphorically and morally – if they spoke scientifically it would be challenging.

    Now, the right (as usual) is ‘right’. But its unacceptable under democracy to state that the entire reason we lifted Europe out of ignorance and poverty was that northern Europe like greco-roman civilization was terribly meritocratic, and northern Europe additionally heavily eugenic.

    The puritans who founded the USA were pursuing a eugenic strategy.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-are-the-US-political-party-manifestos

  • How Would An Anarcho Capitalist Society Look Like, In The Long Run?

    (a) Libertines (anarcho capitalists) differ from libertarians (jeffersonian contractualists), where Contractualist Libertarian = do no harm to the commons, and anarchist libertine = do no good to the commons. This is the underlying principle of decidability in libertinism (anarcho capitalism): avoid costs of physical, normative, an cultural commons, where the principle of decidability in libertarianism is merely the prohibition on the imposition of costs that would cause retaliation.

    (b) no anarcho capitalist polity can form out of rational economic incentives because without commons and territory on low cost trading routes, any such polity must be endogenously parasitic.

    (c) no anarcho capitalist can retain desirable, productive individuals in competition with other societies that do produce commons that add multipliers to the market for reproduction and production.

    (d) any anarcho capitalist polity that did survive would be limited to endogenously parasitic members, and those polities that bore the parasitism would eventually, when in a period of stress, colonize, conquer, or destroy such a polity (pirates, drug dealers, money launderers etc).

    (e) Ergo no anarcho capitalist society is possible -and its arguable whether one was desirable. If you need a nearly lawless borderland and will bear the costs to consumption of living there, then go. Antartica, Siberia, and canada contain vast areas of unused territory because it has not economic value higher than it’s costs of survival in harsh conditions.

    The only possible liberty is that of the anglo saxons: contractualism. And the only means of achieving it is to eliminate demand for the state as a suppressor of aggression and retaliation by the use of the common law to prohibit the imposition of costs on life, kin, relations, things, built capital, norms, traditions, and institutions.

    There is only one possible form of liberty then: the only social science man has discovered: rule of law, natural law, common judge discovered law, universal enfranchisement, and universal accountability, and universal reciprocal insurance.

    Curt

    https://www.quora.com/How-would-an-Anarcho-Capitalist-society-look-like-in-the-long-run

  • Why Do We Have Laws If Criminals Are Going To Ignore Them?

    You don’t understand. Laws are the terms of the insurance policy that we demand of the state in order for not using violence ourselves.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-have-laws-if-criminals-are-going-to-ignore-them

  • What Is The Most Powerful Position In Government?

    The Chairman of the Central Bank. There is no question about it.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-powerful-position-in-government

  • Is The World Better Off With Or Without Facebook?

    I think the world is better off for facebook if only for its use in assisting in revolutions.

    I think quora WAS making the world better off before it hired …. idiots …. to post fake questions and generate page responses.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-world-better-off-with-or-without-Facebook

  • Who Are The Best Examples Of Truly Citizens Of The World?

    People who act locally, and think locally, rather than impose costs of their fantasies upon others?

    https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-best-examples-of-truly-citizens-of-the-world

  • What do votes tell us about how they want to live? Or should I detail the fallac

    What do votes tell us about how they want to live? Or should I detail the fallacies of composition?


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