Theme: Governance

  • “When I came of age, the big conservatives were Bill Buckley, Ronald Reagan, Mil

    –“When I came of age, the big conservatives were Bill Buckley, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Irving Kristol, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bob Bork, Norman Podhoretz, George Will, Thomas Sowell, Jack Kemp, Michael Novak, James Q. Wilson, et al. I feel lucky. And grateful.”–Jay… https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1678850691819794440


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-11 20:00:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678856767562735619

  • Jay’s list (other than Sowell) consists largely of the NeoCon revolution that ca

    Jay’s list (other than Sowell) consists largely of the NeoCon revolution that captured the republican party. So just as the democratic party under the neo-Marxist influence dragged us out of republicanism into working-class (now underclass) globalism, the NeoCon(NeoTrotsky) influence dragged the republican party into upper-class globalism.

    A republic is a very simple concept: the prohibition on authority, by the rule of law, by the natural law of self-determination by self-determined means by the natural law of cooperation by means of reciprocal insurance (by force of arms) of sovereignty in demonstrated interest, reciprocity in display, word, and deed, limiting us to voluntary markets for cooperation, government of concurrency (falsely claimed as democracy), and commonality in law – meaning a purely empirical civilization.

    (An importance which PeterZ objects to, but I don’t know if it’s because he understands what he’s saying when he states our government under common law is designed to debate (a market), and European governments under continental law are designed to rule (a hierarchy).)

    However, the overproduction of elites, the overexpansion of managerial government, and the false promise of globalism under the guise of multi-ethnic, multiculturalism, are antithetical to a Republic because all overproduction of elites (Turchin), like all overproduction of management in the private sector, or overproduction of researchers in the academy, all drive us out of the prohibition on authority, and into the demand for authority, and the subsequent civilizational collapse.

    So if you don’t recognize the republican party it’s because no longer Neocon, (for the reasons Peter’s Books explain as change in the global equilibrium of comparative advantage), and we are seeing the conservatives instead strive to return to the western tradition of a rule of law republic whose institutions maximize individual responsibility and minimize free riding, rent-seeking, socialization of losses, and privatization of commons, as well as totally ignoring the wants of the population (by our political, academic, media, and financial sectors), while the democratic party, captured by the neoMarxist-to-Woke left consisting of those parasitic classes, and the false promise that those parasitic classes can convey the prosperity of a republic to managerial state, in the service of those classes that seek to evade the maximization of individual responsibility that is the purpose of the western institutional tradition, the common, concurrent, natural law, the constitution, and the very concept of a constitutional republic.

    The problem is that we are so ignorant because of the neoMarxist-to-woke ‘deliberate march through the institutions of cultural production” that we can’t even have an adult conversation about what is possible or not and what is true or not, so between what is true and possible we can choose a compromise position.

    It’s exasperating.
    And the march toward civil war continues.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @PeterZeihan


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-11 19:36:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678850691584933889

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678844221359529985

  • RT @Areez22: @RrayUpp @curtdoolittle Libertarianism shirks the cost of maintenan

    RT @Areez22: @RrayUpp @curtdoolittle Libertarianism shirks the cost of maintenance of the commons. And your statement on libertarianism is…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-10 20:59:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678509306977632262

  • Well no it’s not the same as the IQ problem. But it does require quite a bit of

    Well no it’s not the same as the IQ problem.
    But it does require quite a bit of work.
    And we’ve done it before.
    So what we do is a political choice.
    I’m just doing my job saying the evidence is we can do it. But it’s work.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-10 17:57:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678463439075696640

    Reply addressees: @1nternetflotsam @matteo_pilgrim

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678460658768027648

  • “Q: Curt: Can you summarize your views on this in a short essay? No more than 10

    –“Q: Curt: Can you summarize your views on this in a short essay? No more than 1000 words?”– Faraj Al Rashidi

    Yes. Or at least we can try in 1200 words. 😉

    Though, I summarize it here daily in shorter form,. But the ‘proof’ requires far more explanation, and an increasingly broad hierarchy of contexts, and that proof is what causes people to understand why our behavior is what it is, and why there is no alternative to our behavior other than increasing conformity to the laws of nature by taking responsibility for ourselves

    How? “By The pursuit of self-determination by self-determined means, by mutual demand for responsibility, the resulting mutual insurance of sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, truth, excellence, and beauty, and the resulting markets association, cooperation, reproduction, production, commons, polities, and war, limiting us to truthful debate, disassociation, and courts for the resolution of disputes.”

    Nature is not the kind god we were promised by submission to our priests and philosophers. Instead, the universe is a vast, hostile, irradiated wasteland, and this solar system, this planet, its geology, its climates, and completing life forms from bacteria and viruses to our near-peer super predators have nearly exterminated us over and over again in just our short history, beginning with homo erectus. Nature, nature’s laws, and God if there is one have no mercy: evolve or die.

    So, the fundamental problem we face, is that the more people we attempt to integrate into this responsibility for insurance (citizenship, the polity, the civilization), the less able and less willing and the more discipline and training that it takes for the (costly) inclusion (integration, indoctrination) into that responsibility. And while it was somewhat difficult to integrate the Europeans, it has been difficult to integrate the working classes, extremely difficult to integrate, and it has been almost impossible to integrate women who are in every fiber of their beings, hostile to it.

    Why? The fundamental instincts of men and women are opposites: males to obtain status for cooperation and mating opportunity by demonstration of excellence and accumulation of responsibility for capital, females obtain status by gaining access to male responsibility and capital without producing that capital and responsibility themselves. In other words, women seek irresponsibility and unaccountability at all times. And worse, they are by and large excellent at selection (shopping) and consumption and signaling, but they are terrible to incompetent at innovation, production, capitalization and demand for responsibility from themselves or others.

    So, in summary, we are ‘evolving’ Western civilization and dragging others behind us, at great resistance, out of peasant agrarian irresponsibility that allows the expansion of the underclasses into aristocratic responsibility. And in the West we have gradually introduced classes and paid the price of their responsibilities by forcing them by institutions, both formal and informal, into responsibility. And women are the lowest level of tolerance for responsibility for the polity in any demographic distribution. And as such, we are paying the cost of integration of women into the polity and have not yet outlawed female irresponsible antisocial-antipolitical seditious and treasonous behavior.

    Worse, the only other group capable of intellectual innovation in the world is the Ashkenazim (female European male semitic Jews). But the Ashkenazim like the Jews and truthfully like all of the Semites, practice the low trust seditious means of warfare by undermining. And these Ashkenazim have invented the marxist sequence of pseudoscientific cults, to replace their invention of the Abrahamic sequence of cults (maternal priesthood), the purpose of both is to prevent indo-europeans (paternal aristocracy) from demanding responsibility, and with that responsibility demanding truth, reciprocity, and trust, that low trust tribal societies and frankly the lower classes and women are incapable of.

    So we should have expected this ‘anglo enlightenment project’ of creating an ‘aristocracy of responsibility of everyone’ to be offset by the Jewish ‘priesthood of the irresponsibility of everyone’, where the aristocracy uses the state law and economy to produce a natural aristocracy: hierarchy that is capable of success at producing a high velocity of evolutionary competition, by adaptation that brings us into correspondence with the laws of nature, versus the Jewish and female priesthood of irresponsibility that as we have seen with the Abrahamic, religions relies not on correspondence with nature but the illusion of social construction of falsehoods that deny the laws of nature, but prevent the need for responsibility to adapt to those laws, thus creating semitic dark ages, and explaining why there are no female-dominant civilizations.

    So we choose between the female method of depriving others of responsibility, by manipulation, seduction, and social construction of falsehoods that she uses to mollify the neurology of her children as well as other women who are likewise in need of mollification, and thereby creating and empowering a political priesthood using the same feminine techniques of manipulation, seduction, fraud, and social construction to maintain power over these feminine and the feminine minded at the cost of infantilization and devolution (which we are seeing). Or we choose the masculine aristocratic method of demanding responsibility by insurance of self-determination by self-determined means by truth, duty, reciprocity, excellence and beauty. In other words, left to their own devices the infantile classes are simply criminals and should never have access to political influence.

    Solving this problem is a matter of encoding into law the prohibition on female, semitic, jewish, Abrahamic, Islamic, marxist lies and false promises that, like all religions, seduce our ‘weak’ into social construction of some salvation from adaptation to the laws of nature, by evasion of responsibility for personal and private adaptation to the laws of nature and nature’s god.

    My work, our organization’s work, consists of preventing more dark ages, preventing more devolution, dysgenia, decline, and collapse, by preventing both the female antisocial behavior and the promotion of theology, philosophy, ideology, and institutionalization of any of them, so that we are as capable of ending fraud, sedition, treason, cultural, and political warfare in politics, as we are in the commercial sector, and as a consequence improving our ability at both public and private sector fraud.

    That’s the summary.
    But that’s just the explanation.

    Our work on The Method, The Science, The Logic, and the Grammars, contains all the complexity necessary to produce unambiguous law to do so.

    And the Constitution contains the amendments that produce the institutional outcomes by law. This produces a market for suppressing feminine-semitic-abrahamic-marxist fraud that will, within a decade, cleanse our civilization of harm.

    This will not only prevent a civil war, but will prevent the dark age that was launched by Marx in 1850, was brought to the US as race and cultural Marxism in the 1950s, matured with the capture of the academy in the 1970s, and has culminated in the destruction of our institutions of the cultural production of responsibility (aristocracy) in their ‘last step’ we call Woke today.

    As such my objective (though not all of the Fellows as the institute agree), is to assist those of feminine cognition to mature into mindfulness and responsibility so that we may preserve our inheritance: The uniqueness of Western Civilization as the only civilization that DIDN’T FAIL nature’s law of evolutionary adaptation despite the high emotional and psychological costs of responsibility for self-determination, sovereignty reciprocity truth duty excellence and beauty.

    Every other civilization failed by 800ad. That means between the bronze age collapse in 1200bc and the recovery in 800bc, every civilization failed within one thousand years, by exhausting the opportunity provided by agrarian production: creating authoritarian polities with a small extractive ruling clan, and a vast horde of peasants who remained irresponsible.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation
    “The Law of Man, Nature, and Nature’s God”


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-10 16:38:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678443651012218880

  • (@SosoTheWanderer: the Anglo-American postwar experiment with ending empires and

    (@SosoTheWanderer: the Anglo-American postwar experiment with ending empires and the continuous warfare of empires, by creating free trade and free migration has come to an end – because it failed.

    We are seeing the restoration of nationalism, of ‘civilizationism’, and possibly less so racism (even if India and china are the most racist peoples on earthy).

    And as the empires return to confidence, they restore their ambitions (Russia, China, Iran, and now possibly India, at least under Modi), because the decadence of the west is too high a price to pay and no one wants it to spread to the remaining traditional cultures and equally destroy the individual and the family.

    The west made the mistake of promoting democracy when all that was necessary was promoting rule of law, from which democracy will naturally emerge as the middle class emerges from rule of law. Now the window of opportunity has passed.

    Nigeria has a serious problem because its reproduction is unsustainable, because its production is insufficient to satisfy its population, and it cannot afford to acquire resources in a world where free trade under Western protection ends.

    So we should expect to see increasing suppression of any migration of the poor into countries with declining populations who need every spare unit of their money to carry their elderly – they can’t afford “others’ poor”.

    And we should see extraordinary revolutionary pressure in Nigeria (and not nigeria alone) as the challenge of simply feeding the population is returned to 19th century conditions.

    Economics eventually drives everything.

    Reply addressees: @SosoTheWanderer


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-09 20:01:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678132380714901504

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1677761474109005824

  • 2023-07-09 Chat (multiple topics) FYI: Chats consist of any topics of interest f

    2023-07-09 Chat (multiple topics) https://youtu.be/qvoxMOkZv34
    FYI: Chats consist of any topics of interest from the technical, to our movement, to current events. We’ve found that just background listening to chats tends to help followers become familiar with and learn our method…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-09 19:49:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678129188954419202

  • 2023-07-09 Chat (multiple topics) FYI: Chats consist of any topics of interest f

    2023-07-09 Chat (multiple topics) https://t.co/cc527smdAD
    FYI: Chats consist of any topics of interest from the technical, to our movement, to current events. We’ve found that just background listening to chats tends to help followers become familiar with and learn our method and the various ‘arcs’ of causality we trace by using the method.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-09 19:49:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678129188874645505

  • It’s an important question to answer. And a caesar is the wrong solution. We hav

    It’s an important question to answer.
    And a caesar is the wrong solution.
    We have solutions available the roman’s didn’t.
    We just need the will to show up and enforce them.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-09 03:45:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1677886546890956801

    Reply addressees: @BlakeAn77455669

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1677884019881418752

  • Q: @curtdoolittle: “What should sulla have done differently to stabilize the Rom

    Q: @curtdoolittle: “What should sulla have done differently to stabilize the Roman republic after becoming dictator?”

    Ok. You’re gonna ask me one of the hard questions of history before I’ve finished my coffee? And on a Saturday Morning? ;). You’re a cruel, cruel man Blake Anderson. 😉

    I have a working session in twenty minutes I need to prepare for. But This is a smart question and one worth answering.

    The simple answer in advance, just to get you thinking, is that the population of Rome vs scale and costs of administrating the empire, and the slow speed of information across it, offset by the (low) productivity of the empire (the entire world), meant that Rome needed to be that big for safety, but lacked the economy to remain that big, because settlement of trade routes (domestication of an empire), invites more primitive people out of more primitive reasons, who envy the wealth of those whose resources are invested in increasingly fragile commercial relations and less able to resist them, and unable to unite to conquer them.

    Overexpansion.

    Similar to the West today. Much more detail though, that can answer your question.

    So the underlying question is ‘what to do about it’?

    Curt. 😉

    Reply addressees: @BlakeAn77455669


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-08 14:50:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1677691617199763457

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1677683711729451008