Theme: Institution

  • (western civ) WHY CHRISTIANITY ISN’T ENOUGH 1) Western civ has always been trifu

    (western civ)
    WHY CHRISTIANITY ISN’T ENOUGH

    1) Western civ has always been trifunctional, in that we preserve competition between religion(feminine, familial), law (political, commercial) and aristocracy (war). This forms a market competition between social, economic, and military elites, that promotes competitive innovation, and prevents corruption and stagnation through a balance of powers.

    2) Western civ whose origins are best understood by study of the Spartans, then maturing thru trade into the Athenians, as an upper class of horse-riding warriors (aristocracy) financed by their extended families (oligarchy), over some number of footsoldiers (citizens) and a conquered set of farm workers and laborers (slaves).

    3) Christian religion was an innovation because it provided the underclasses (women, serfs, slaves) a means of obtaining status by simply doing no wrong, rather than possessing wealth and power – and it was made possible by the wealth increase generated by the roman empire, roman roads, roman administration, and roman trade. Thus reducing alienation between the classes, and lowering the cost of administering increasingly larger polities. While the church was successful in undermining roman institutions of cultural production – just as woke is doing today, the military and the law and trifunctionalism remained.

    4) The germanic aristocracy captured the Church as a holding company for land under primogeniture, and so the aristocracy (military and land), traders and transporters (law), and nobility(church and peasantry), maintained the trifunctional equilibrium. (There is no means of concentrating capital as in the flood river valley civs, so it means federations of aristocracy were necessary – especially in Germany.)

    5) As such the church failed to fully reform into the acquinian and scholastic model of natural law, uniting Christianity and science, in response to darwin. The French left in response to the french revolution, and the Jewish left in response to the world wars, were successful in disintermediating the aristocracy and the military ending trifunctionalism and driving to Jewish and french authoritarianism (positive law) – replacing the church, by merging it with the secular state.

    6) The Jewish left then captured the institutions, and converted them from vehicles for training the aristocracy, nobility, and upper middle class into responsibility for the administration of the state, economy, and polity, into CREDENTIALISM which allowed Jewish intellectuals to be pseudo-intellectuals whose purpose was to destroy the institutions of cultural production in Europe,m replacing trifunctionalism with authoritarian clerisy.

    So the correct answer is that Christianity ALONE is too weak to resist the authoritarian religion of the left, and requires military aristocracy, and rule of law, and demonstrated competency in real life instead of certification by credentialism (academies).

    My work attempts to fix this problem and reverse the process of destruction of our civilization. Because we must both repair our law, restore meritocracy over credentialism, restore our military aristocracy, and complete the unification of Christianity and science started by Aquinas, nearly completed by Blackstone, Smith, Hobbes-Locke, and Hume: the natural law (as I define it): “the law of man, of nature, and nature’s god.”

    There is no other solution.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 22:48:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634325501631234054

  • Steve: Do we really care if we bail out depositors, as long as we don’t bail out

    Steve:
    Do we really care if we bail out depositors, as long as we don’t bail out investors?
    Bailing out depositors generally means simply transferring their loans to an acquiring bank.
    At some risk that the risk profile of the failing bank is higher than the successor bank, then…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 21:21:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634303562543972352

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634299263046885377

  • (mathiness in econ) WHY ISN’T BANK REGULATION WORKING? (The short, or sorta-shor

    (mathiness in econ)
    WHY ISN’T BANK REGULATION WORKING?
    (The short, or sorta-short answer, and what it would require to fix it.)

    It’s obvious really. But you know, they promised the vox populi never-ending growth, ever-increasing irresponsibility, and democracy requires… https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1634284552276398088


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 20:13:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634286337498009631

  • Great question. The buyer bought it willingly because we were so much larger. Bu

    Great question. The buyer bought it willingly because we were so much larger. But we were in mostly the same business. I think we were just younger and more technically saavy and had a more pessimistic understanding of the market. I mean, the profitability of printing and photo printing equipment was absurd. We used to laugh that we could shut all 200+ locations down and sell just Agfa supplies out of a garage and make ten times the money.
    I left I think, five or six years before the sale occurred. (they were too greedy).

    Koenig (80s) > Charette(90s) > Pittman (2006-2009)
    – Koenig went Bankrupt in ’92 (I helped franchisees sue them for racketeering. And yes that’s why I left many years earlier.)
    – Charette bought (I think) the commercial biz leaving the retail? I don’t remember the date but it’s early 90s.
    – Charette went bankrupt and was bought by Pittman around 06, then died in about 09.
    – I dunno where Pitman of NJ is today. I assume they’re gone.
    – Some of the original company still exists across the east coast locations today – many I opened myself – though I don’t know how much of a shell or operation it is. Because it looks like a shell, boguth by the original mother and son. And assigned to some minor relative in Indiana 😉

    So to answer your question. Between our theory of the future and their theory of the future, given it wasn’t an asymmetric bit of knowledge, then I take it as ethical.

    Even then, they bought a company that went bankrupt to prevent criminal charges so, they got a deal.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 19:27:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634274698191155201

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634266102556504064

  • Great question. The buyer bought it willingly because we were so much larger. Bu

    Great question. The buyer bought it willingly because we were so much larger. But we were in mostly the same business. I think we were just younger and more technically saavy and had a more pessimistic understanding of the market. I mean, the profitability of printing and photo printing equipment was absurd. We used to laugh that we could shut all 200+ locations down and sell just Agfa supplies out of a garage and make ten times the money.
    I left I think, five or six years before the sale occurred. (they were too greedy).

    Koenig (80s) > Charette(90s) > Pittman (2006-2009)
    – Koenig went Bankrupt in ’92 (I helped franchisees sue them for racketeering. And yes that’s why I left many years earlier.)
    – Charette bought (I think) the commercial biz leaving the retail? I don’t remember the date but it’s early 90s.
    – Charette went bankrupt and was bought by Pittman around 06, then died in about 09.
    – I dunno where Pitman of NJ is today. I assume they’re gone.
    – Some of the original company still exists across the east coast locations today – many I opened myself – though I don’t know how much of a shell or operation it is. Because it looks like a shell, boguth by the original mother and son. And assigned to some minor relative in Indiana 😉

    So to answer your question. Between our theory of the future and their theory of the future, given it wasn’t an asymmetric bit of knowledge, then I take it as ethical.

    Even then, they bought a company that went bankrupt to prevent criminal charges so, they got a deal.

    Reply addressees: @miner49er236


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 19:27:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634274698044354560

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  • RT @Psyche_OS: Almost every institution you knew or loved is gone. All taken ove

    RT @Psyche_OS: Almost every institution you knew or loved is gone.
    All taken over, subsumed or destroyed.
    All without a single shot fired.…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 04:32:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634049533721075712

  • It’s hard to tell. Trust spread eastward from the germanic countries with commer

    It’s hard to tell. Trust spread eastward from the germanic countries with commerce. Russian ‘nobility’ was so heavily corrupt and abusive of the peasantry that they never developed the ‘commons’ attitudes of Germania. They were only freed from serfdom in 1861. About the same time as American slaves. That said, they were pretty devout Christians. Communities were integral if very poor. And AFAIK it was the soviet union and the pervasive corruption and threat of ‘being reported’ that did the number on them. But throughout the 50’s and 60s when russia was ‘looking good’ it was a quality of life improvement for millions, who felt that change more so than those who were resentful. And today’s Russia has the LOWEST institutional trust in the WORLD.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 03:57:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634040807077412866

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634035519167377410

  • It’s hard to tell. Trust spread eastward from the germanic countries with commer

    It’s hard to tell. Trust spread eastward from the germanic countries with commerce. Russian ‘nobility’ was so heavily corrupt and abusive of the peasantry that they never developed the ‘commons’ attitudes of Germania. They were only freed from serfdom in 1861. About the same time as American slaves. That said, they were pretty devout Christians. Communities were integral if very poor. And AFAIK it was the soviet union and the pervasive corruption and threat of ‘being reported’ that did the number on them. But throughout the 50’s and 60s when russia was ‘looking good’ it was a quality of life improvement for millions, who felt that change more so than those who were resentful. And today’s Russia has the LOWEST institutional trust in the WORLD.

    Reply addressees: @NorseJarl


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 03:57:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634040806976765952

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634035519167377410

  • The Libertarian and Conservative views(wants) government as an INSURER, while th

    The Libertarian and Conservative views(wants) government as an INSURER, while the Progressive views(wants) government as a manager, or god help us, a provider.
    WHY? because a conservative takes responsibility and a progressive evades responsibility.
    WHY? Because the male seeks agency and responsibility in the pursuit of status, and the female seeks dependence and irresponsibility in the pursuit of status.
    WHY? children demand from women, women demand from men, men provide and die younger. 😉
    Or at least, that worked until the sixties. 😉

    Reply addressees: @BobMurphyEcon


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-10 03:09:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634028755206242306

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634022695837761537

  • RT @ThruTheHayes: ETHNOCENTRIC POLITIES, MARRIAGE, & LAW Population collapse is

    RT @ThruTheHayes: ETHNOCENTRIC POLITIES, MARRIAGE, & LAW

    Population collapse is imminent due to replacing human compatibility & cooperativ…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 21:22:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633941321567072257