Oct 24, 2019, 8:20 PM People are rational actors acting in their rational self interests, that observe the minimum conformance to rule, procedure, norm, tradition, regulation, legislation, and law, necessary to preserve their status in the social order. Period. End of Story. Good luck falsifying it. People are not good, ethical, or moral. They are amoral. They discover what is in their self interest within the environmental limits and congratulate themselves for the content of their character (self image). This is the empirical evidence from all people in all cultures, in all countries, in all civilizations, across all of history. The civilization of man was performed by the incremental provision of incentives to find self congratulation in minimum accomodation of the various systems of rules, by the incremental evolution of law, norm, and custom to suppress as many opportunities for bad, unethical, immoral, conduct as affordable by the polity, and where incentives are possible to construct. Hence the necessity of sheriffs and policemen and populations increased in anonymity. We must govern amoral humans because all are amoral. Ergo we must govern pessimistically so that we continuously evolve the suppression of irreciprocity (the bad, unethical, immoral) as quickly as we evolve new methods of bad, unethical and immoral behavior. Optimism is why progressive governments fail. Edit
Theme: Institution
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Truth About Human Beings
Oct 24, 2019, 8:20 PM People are rational actors acting in their rational self interests, that observe the minimum conformance to rule, procedure, norm, tradition, regulation, legislation, and law, necessary to preserve their status in the social order. Period. End of Story. Good luck falsifying it. People are not good, ethical, or moral. They are amoral. They discover what is in their self interest within the environmental limits and congratulate themselves for the content of their character (self image). This is the empirical evidence from all people in all cultures, in all countries, in all civilizations, across all of history. The civilization of man was performed by the incremental provision of incentives to find self congratulation in minimum accomodation of the various systems of rules, by the incremental evolution of law, norm, and custom to suppress as many opportunities for bad, unethical, immoral, conduct as affordable by the polity, and where incentives are possible to construct. Hence the necessity of sheriffs and policemen and populations increased in anonymity. We must govern amoral humans because all are amoral. Ergo we must govern pessimistically so that we continuously evolve the suppression of irreciprocity (the bad, unethical, immoral) as quickly as we evolve new methods of bad, unethical and immoral behavior. Optimism is why progressive governments fail. Edit
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Truth in Humor: The History of Entrepreneurial Warfare
TRUTH IN HUMOR: THE HISTORY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL WARFARE (or “We wuz pirates!”) The Templars started out as ‘the poor knights’ as shown by two men on horseback. The Hospitaliers were not poor. They had money, arms, fleets of ships, and took territory. The Vikings were entrepreneurial warriors. The romans were entrepreneurial conquerors. The Greeks were entrepreneurial warriors. The indo europeans were entrepreneurial conquerors. Why do you think we live under the long tradition of Severity, Reciprocity, Jury, Truth, Duty, and Contract? Because we have descended from entrepreneurial warfare. Now if I could just get my fellow western MEN to understand that we are historically entrepreneurial warriors – colonialists, pirates, vikings, in every age, and that it was only the Peace of Westphalia under which our ancestors prohibited us from ‘entrepreneurial war’, and limited warfare to the states. Russia, Iran, and the Muslims and the Jews have broken the Peace of Westphalia, and returned us to a war of all against all, which is the reason for our continuous defeat in central asia and the middle east. To restore our people we must return to our long tradition in the industrialization of ‘entrepreneurial warfare’. Meaning “war for adventure, fun, and profit”. It’s the civic nationalists and the christians so cuckolded that they can’t comprehend this – and those of us who are ‘aryans’, ‘pagans’, ‘raiders’, ‘pirates’ and ‘conquerors and colonizers’ and natural entrepreneurial warriors that are willing to return to ‘revolution as a for profit industry”. This is why you want leaders. You’re still ‘Cucks’ to the state and the ‘church’. You need permission. But European Men don’t need leaders to hoist the jolly roger, pillage, plunder, and burn the house down. To engage in conquest for fun and profit? Only cowards do. 😉 Happy to ‘knight’ you if it’ll make you feel better.
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Truth in Humor: The History of Entrepreneurial Warfare
TRUTH IN HUMOR: THE HISTORY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL WARFARE (or “We wuz pirates!”) The Templars started out as ‘the poor knights’ as shown by two men on horseback. The Hospitaliers were not poor. They had money, arms, fleets of ships, and took territory. The Vikings were entrepreneurial warriors. The romans were entrepreneurial conquerors. The Greeks were entrepreneurial warriors. The indo europeans were entrepreneurial conquerors. Why do you think we live under the long tradition of Severity, Reciprocity, Jury, Truth, Duty, and Contract? Because we have descended from entrepreneurial warfare. Now if I could just get my fellow western MEN to understand that we are historically entrepreneurial warriors – colonialists, pirates, vikings, in every age, and that it was only the Peace of Westphalia under which our ancestors prohibited us from ‘entrepreneurial war’, and limited warfare to the states. Russia, Iran, and the Muslims and the Jews have broken the Peace of Westphalia, and returned us to a war of all against all, which is the reason for our continuous defeat in central asia and the middle east. To restore our people we must return to our long tradition in the industrialization of ‘entrepreneurial warfare’. Meaning “war for adventure, fun, and profit”. It’s the civic nationalists and the christians so cuckolded that they can’t comprehend this – and those of us who are ‘aryans’, ‘pagans’, ‘raiders’, ‘pirates’ and ‘conquerors and colonizers’ and natural entrepreneurial warriors that are willing to return to ‘revolution as a for profit industry”. This is why you want leaders. You’re still ‘Cucks’ to the state and the ‘church’. You need permission. But European Men don’t need leaders to hoist the jolly roger, pillage, plunder, and burn the house down. To engage in conquest for fun and profit? Only cowards do. 😉 Happy to ‘knight’ you if it’ll make you feel better.
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Witch Trials. Why?
Witch Trials. Why? https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/witch-trials-why-2/
Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 12:07:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267427445017399297
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Witch Trials. Why?
Witch Trials. Why? https://t.co/0Aizgen6Pb
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Witch Trials. Why?
AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the inquisition, then the reformation, as a means of creating examples by suppressing newly enabled social dissent under the decline of the influence of the church and the personalization of the religious experience by disintermediation from the priesthood. There isn’t really a consensus on it, but my rough understanding is that as wealth increased and local agency increased we saw the the protestant reformation put more control in the local hands at all levels – including religious. About 80% of prosecutions were of women, and most in central europe (germanic) countries. And women were uneducated and … uneducated women (as we see in daily videos) .. and as evidenced by asylum populations (mostly women), and current mental health statistics, were as disruptive in the past with psychosis as they are today – just like males -although we control males aggressively and we don’t control anti-social behavior in females. In other words I interpret it as a puritan reaction to the transfer of power of catholic inquisition to protestant hands, and the ‘fashion’ of exercising that power, until it was rather obvious that it was out of hand, and (a) judges would no longer accept testimony obtained under torture, (b) it was increasingly outlawed.
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Witch Trials. Why?
AFAIK the increase in witch trials was an extension of the inquisition, then the reformation, as a means of creating examples by suppressing newly enabled social dissent under the decline of the influence of the church and the personalization of the religious experience by disintermediation from the priesthood. There isn’t really a consensus on it, but my rough understanding is that as wealth increased and local agency increased we saw the the protestant reformation put more control in the local hands at all levels – including religious. About 80% of prosecutions were of women, and most in central europe (germanic) countries. And women were uneducated and … uneducated women (as we see in daily videos) .. and as evidenced by asylum populations (mostly women), and current mental health statistics, were as disruptive in the past with psychosis as they are today – just like males -although we control males aggressively and we don’t control anti-social behavior in females. In other words I interpret it as a puritan reaction to the transfer of power of catholic inquisition to protestant hands, and the ‘fashion’ of exercising that power, until it was rather obvious that it was out of hand, and (a) judges would no longer accept testimony obtained under torture, (b) it was increasingly outlawed.
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Why Do Anglo Governments Last so Long?
It’s just much easier to reform a contract (constitution) that is adjudicated by an independent judiciary, than it is to reform a dictatorship, oligarchy, bureaucracy, or theocracy that lacks an independent judiciary and constitutional means of decision making given a division of powers, and fundamental rights especially to property. Most of western history is the difficulty in maintaining our rule of law from attempts to usurp it by the aristocracy, the theocracy, the burghers, and now the underclass communists, devoted, and socialists. A constitution if well written is an algorithm for the operation of a polity under falsification, tested before judges who are not involved in the operations of whatever function is in conflict.
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Why Do Anglo Governments Last so Long?
It’s just much easier to reform a contract (constitution) that is adjudicated by an independent judiciary, than it is to reform a dictatorship, oligarchy, bureaucracy, or theocracy that lacks an independent judiciary and constitutional means of decision making given a division of powers, and fundamental rights especially to property. Most of western history is the difficulty in maintaining our rule of law from attempts to usurp it by the aristocracy, the theocracy, the burghers, and now the underclass communists, devoted, and socialists. A constitution if well written is an algorithm for the operation of a polity under falsification, tested before judges who are not involved in the operations of whatever function is in conflict.