Theme: Governance

  • “Limit the state. Grow the People”

    –“Limit the state. Grow the People”– https://twitter.com/StephenThomasHC/status/1679514181446369281

  • “Limit the state. Grow the People”

    –“Limit the state. Grow the People”–


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:40:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679516195924455424

  • “It’s Unamerican”– I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree

    –“It’s Unamerican”–

    I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree with your sentiments). A normative description only applies under shared norms. And the postwar attempt to destroy the west by the march through our “institutions of cultural production” of…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:39:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679515891178823681

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  • “It’s Unamerican”– I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree

    –“It’s Unamerican”–

    I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree with your sentiments). A normative description only applies under shared norms. And the postwar attempt to destroy the west by the march through our “institutions of cultural production” of individual responsibility, has sought to destroy those norms and impose norms that are anti-american and anti-western. And so we have people who lack sufficient knowledge and understanding to “be american” – meaning “think, speak, or act american” because they have been indoctrinated into a cult of hatred of being american, european, white, and christian.

    I do love this quote though because it states the problem very clearly:

    –“A people whose maxim is ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ cannot be expected to hold a vote to decide whether or not to be enslaved.”–

    This is true, unless some majority or near majority can be promised freedom from individual responsibility sufficent to encourage the government to enslave them.

    We are ‘mistaken’ in our christian and enlightenment universalism, in that by the time the promise of ‘an aristocracy of everyone’ was created in enlightenment Europe, the population of Europe under manorialism since 700ad and under ‘genetic pacification by hanging and war” so suppressed the reproduction of the underclasses, and so expanded the genetics of the middle classes, and beause of this expansion the means of production (agrarian land) was scarce, that when we formed the USA and spread westward, all the countries that were at least nominally protestant, or thus influenced, were brimming with a surplus of genetically potenial middle class people capable of individual responsibilty for self, familiy, and commons.

    We can not continue to immigrate people from low trust polities with no tradition of responsibility, and especially with no reproductive selection (IQ>100), nor genetic pacification (non aggression), who cannot compete in our economy without subsidy, and obtain the same benefits of immigration from the surpluses in europe.

    Whiteness (Western Civilzation) where America is the MOST western political order ever established since Rome, is the most genetically, intellectually, psychologically, and emotionally costly civilization yet produced by man – because it demands that most responsibility in exchange for the most liberty.

    But many people prefer serfdom because they cannot pay the genetic, intellectual, psychological, and emotional costs of responsiblity. And worse, it is even harder without christianity which eases the burden for women to bear that political responsibility – and those that can are not confident other women can ever do so.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:39:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679515890956500994

  • The best a government can achieve is reciprocity within the limits of proportion

    The best a government can achieve is reciprocity within the limits of proportionality (meritocracy). This is only possible to achieve by ‘eliminating irreciprocities’ and creating market substitutes where markets are insufficient.

    Equality is impossible – it’s suicidal. But we…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:07:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679507896822792196

  • The best a government can achieve is reciprocity within the limits of proportion

    The best a government can achieve is reciprocity within the limits of proportionality (meritocracy). This is only possible to achieve by ‘eliminating irreciprocities’ and creating market substitutes where markets are insufficient.

    Equality is impossible – it’s suicidal. But we can reduce inequality that always emerges in complex human systems because of the human tendency to seek discounts, free riding, subsidies, rents, and corruption.

    This is called ‘via-negativa’.

    Eliminates the immoral and only the moral remains.
    And that’s the best we can do.
    And if that won’t do then reproduction for those for whom it won’t do, is immoral.
    It’s that simple.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:07:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679507896730542081

  • It was an optimistic view of man. I remember the neocon emergence, the build up,

    It was an optimistic view of man.
    I remember the neocon emergence, the build up, the discussons, the hopes that we could finally modernie the middle east and prevent islamism as we had communism which is precisely what islamism is strategically copying.
    It wasn’t an insane plan. It was a very western christian liberal belief that people of 85 average IQ with no history of personal responsibility for commons, and a low trust impulsive civilization, could practice rule of law, and participatiory government. Expecially with post-imperial borders that create states that are internally unstable because they’re multi-ethinic and multicultural.
    Moral men should be shamed for their folly, but not for their moral ambitions.

    Reply addressees: @NickGReality @BeauBalentine @PeterZeihan


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-12 20:50:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679231837996998656

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  • A BROADER CONTEXT TO THE POSTWAR STRATEGY The broader context @PeterZeihan doesn

    A BROADER CONTEXT TO THE POSTWAR STRATEGY
    The broader context @PeterZeihan doesn’t quite summarize with enough clarity for average folk, is that the postwar era strategy is to end *empires* that privatized territory, trade and trade routes, and to replace it with nation states (the natural evolution of empires) with relatively free (market) trade.

    So in evolutionary sense we went from imperial agrarian religious, to imperial industrial ideological, to our ‘ambition’ of federated empirical nation states in the hope that the Smithian vision would end the ‘age of empires’ and their endemic wars.

    When we position the postwar program as just ‘against communism’ which evolved into “against islamism” this converts the framing of our understanding from (scientific) natural evolutionary progress of mankind to some pseudo-religious or philosophical context that is an arbitrary preference.

    And in my work this is a common human cognitive failure – we are missing the evolutionary causality that reminds us that we are just another extension of the physical world operating and evolving by the same principles.

    What my hero PeterZ and many others fail to emphasize sufficiently for my taste, is that different civilizations practice group evolutionary strategies that evolved during their first agrarian governments.

    And the result is we are entrenched in civilizational projects that vary increasingly from the laws of nature, and as such, determine our rate of growth.

    From the economic historian’s perspective, all other civilizations recovered from the bronze age collapse, developed their core strategies, and between 800bc and 800ad, completely exhausted the opportunity of agrarianism – and descended into stagnation.

    Where the europeans, had they not fallen to overreach, christian sedition, and wars of migration and innovation, that we could quite easily have had the industrial revolution by 500-800ad, and saved humanity from a thousand years of muslim destruction of seven great civilizations of the ancient world, and the european dark ages, and all the suffering that both included.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute

    Reply addressees: @BeauBalentine @PeterZeihan


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-12 02:56:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678961536876912642

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  • Are they strategic disasters? Do you know what our strategy was? (PeterZ does it

    Are they strategic disasters? Do you know what our strategy was? (PeterZ does it at least half justice, but without the historical context, because I don’t see PeterZ understanding the reason for the west vs the rest). Or for that matter, was Vietnam a strategic disaster? And is that why republican voters revolt against them? Sure some percent do. It’s certainly not a majority opinion. But isn’t it that they are letting the left expand into all our institutions, holding out christian and conservative optimism, and doing nothing to resist the march through the institutions, immigration, multiculturalism, export of heartland industries, and embracing the global financialists over the nationalists?

    The disasters weren’t foreign they were domestic.

    Because the postward government converted the domestic imperial government dreated by the civil war, to a global imperial government – even if one of good will and nature.

    We’ve destroyed the high trust polity, and the relative homogeneity of the culture, necessary for political cohesion and restored the original demand for independent states that the federal government wasd formed under, in imitation of the holy roman empire, and european history itself, because our civilzation’s strategy as a minority on the edge of the bronze age, cannot tolerate large power distance.

    Reply addressees: @BeauBalentine @PeterZeihan


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-12 01:39:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678942033413656582

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  • If you study revolutions they are largely unpredictable in timing even if they a

    If you study revolutions they are largely unpredictable in timing even if they are possible to imagine. I do not see how it is in anyway possible for this country to survive at this scale with this much centrality in the federal government.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-11 23:59:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678916868533362690

    Reply addressees: @John83243550517 @B595B @PeterZeihan

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