Feb 26, 2020, 12:42 PM Martin ล tฤpรกn Germanic religion, in so far it can be called that, wasn’t in any way centralized. There was no organization and no book every tribe would have. Every tribe’s version could slowly evolve and diverge, especially if they didn’t come into contact. What we have comes from Iceland written after Christianity was already in place. Even though the gods were shared and Odin does appear to be the head of the pantheon everywhere (Tacitus – central European Germanics, Geoffrey of Monmouth – Saxons) but who knows how the personalities and the stories might have differed. Bill Joslin fight fire with fire, and psychopomp with psychopomp. P, in clarifying the reality of the socio-economic world, turns the wheel of gods, one more rotation back to tyr. law, born of martial culture which domesticates .. a natural response to Fenrir breaking his chains to race across the sky undoing the domestication of our animal nature. Bill Smith This. This is good. Curt. Yeah, Bill has a thing there. That’s a good thing.
Theme: Institution
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The Social Function of Elite Universities
The Social Function of Elite Universities https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/the-social-function-of-elite-universities/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:09:55 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266507090702499841
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The Social Function of Elite Universities
Feb 28, 2020, 10:07 AM Elite universities open the door to cushier jobs – meaning they don’t have to work with commoners – without having to compete in the ‘real’ market. Top universities are, to some degree, a test of character – which is why governments prefer to hire from them when possible. Not because people are more capable, but because they are less likely to take risks that would jeopardize their investments in their privileged and high status positions. This strategy has worked in china and in europe. It has worked less well in the USA for reasons well understood. Creative, innovative, high agency, high risk takers are not suitable for the top universities and the ‘academic grind’. This is the hard wall that I didn’t hit, but Taleb did. It’s why he went off the deep end. Its because it turns out that there is a very good reason those people from good schools get those jobs and more ‘dynamic’ people don’t. Because the more responsibility the higher the risk to those one is responsible to. And europeans do not seize non-productive opportunities. There are opportunities for profit that men of character do not seize because they are unproductive. Taleb did. So did Soros. And Bernie Madoff’s don’t go to Harvard or Yale.
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The Social Function of Elite Universities
Feb 28, 2020, 10:07 AM Elite universities open the door to cushier jobs – meaning they don’t have to work with commoners – without having to compete in the ‘real’ market. Top universities are, to some degree, a test of character – which is why governments prefer to hire from them when possible. Not because people are more capable, but because they are less likely to take risks that would jeopardize their investments in their privileged and high status positions. This strategy has worked in china and in europe. It has worked less well in the USA for reasons well understood. Creative, innovative, high agency, high risk takers are not suitable for the top universities and the ‘academic grind’. This is the hard wall that I didn’t hit, but Taleb did. It’s why he went off the deep end. Its because it turns out that there is a very good reason those people from good schools get those jobs and more ‘dynamic’ people don’t. Because the more responsibility the higher the risk to those one is responsible to. And europeans do not seize non-productive opportunities. There are opportunities for profit that men of character do not seize because they are unproductive. Taleb did. So did Soros. And Bernie Madoff’s don’t go to Harvard or Yale.
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Criminality Is Genetic and Dysgenia Is an Institutional Failure
Criminality Is Genetic and Dysgenia Is an Institutional Failure https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/criminality-is-genetic-and-dysgenia-is-an-institutional-failure-2/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 21:35:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266483325755101187
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Criminality Is Genetic and Dysgenia Is an Institutional Failure
Mar 2, 2020, 11:48 AM
—“No. Steven Pinker explained this very well. If parenting had an effect at all, it would turn up in the shared environment. It doesn’t.”—JayMan @JayMan471 —“How do you explain single mothers parenting vastly increasing incarceration and unsocial behaviour.”— tweeter
1) Mothers do not remarry(control, infantilization) or permit others to parent, fathers do. 2) Single mothers don’t cohabit with grandparents as substitute. 3) Single mothers transfer insecurity to children (instability) 4) Increase in female psychosis under feminism. Tolerance?
—“None of those things.”—JayMan@JayMan471
What is it instead? ๐ b/c those things compensated for class (genetic) differences. Which is what I assume you’re going to say. Add: 5) school environment exacerbates. 6) pharmaceuticals (and drugs) exacerbate. 7) recent evidence (female) social media. 8) increase in under-lower class size. So, one can say: 9) increase in anti social behavior. 10) increase in population with it. 11) increase prosecution of it. Edit: ( 11a. in class sortition bc of colleges, and concentrating dysgenia at the bottom – this one is important. ) or 12) decrease in institutional means of compensating for it, suppressing it, and preventing it with marriage, family, community, norm, tradition, and institution. And we can frame the question: (a) are we more aware of it? (b) is there more of it (decline)? (c) are there more people biasing it (population)? (d) are informal and formal institutions no longer controlling it? (e) environmental factors (as w/ lead) (f) all of the above. I read the same papers everyone else does. the disputes are generally categorized as misinterpretation of the top down correlative and categorical; bottom up constructive and individual; and incentives in the constructive that test both. Unfortunately, full accounting is rare. So, to deal with pinker’s assertion that it’s purely genetic, sure. The question then is whether we are just more aware of it, just prosecute it more, increasing dysgenia, or we are failing to mask it with institutions. ie: My original comment’s suggestion: institutions failing. And again, when Jayman disagrees with me it’s because he jumps to the conclusion that I’m making an argument that I am not. ๐ The argument is: Institutional failure. Because dysgenia at present is caused by institutional failure. All of these causes are institutional failures.
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Criminality Is Genetic and Dysgenia Is an Institutional Failure
Mar 2, 2020, 11:48 AM
—“No. Steven Pinker explained this very well. If parenting had an effect at all, it would turn up in the shared environment. It doesn’t.”—JayMan @JayMan471 —“How do you explain single mothers parenting vastly increasing incarceration and unsocial behaviour.”— tweeter
1) Mothers do not remarry(control, infantilization) or permit others to parent, fathers do. 2) Single mothers don’t cohabit with grandparents as substitute. 3) Single mothers transfer insecurity to children (instability) 4) Increase in female psychosis under feminism. Tolerance?
—“None of those things.”—JayMan@JayMan471
What is it instead? ๐ b/c those things compensated for class (genetic) differences. Which is what I assume you’re going to say. Add: 5) school environment exacerbates. 6) pharmaceuticals (and drugs) exacerbate. 7) recent evidence (female) social media. 8) increase in under-lower class size. So, one can say: 9) increase in anti social behavior. 10) increase in population with it. 11) increase prosecution of it. Edit: ( 11a. in class sortition bc of colleges, and concentrating dysgenia at the bottom – this one is important. ) or 12) decrease in institutional means of compensating for it, suppressing it, and preventing it with marriage, family, community, norm, tradition, and institution. And we can frame the question: (a) are we more aware of it? (b) is there more of it (decline)? (c) are there more people biasing it (population)? (d) are informal and formal institutions no longer controlling it? (e) environmental factors (as w/ lead) (f) all of the above. I read the same papers everyone else does. the disputes are generally categorized as misinterpretation of the top down correlative and categorical; bottom up constructive and individual; and incentives in the constructive that test both. Unfortunately, full accounting is rare. So, to deal with pinker’s assertion that it’s purely genetic, sure. The question then is whether we are just more aware of it, just prosecute it more, increasing dysgenia, or we are failing to mask it with institutions. ie: My original comment’s suggestion: institutions failing. And again, when Jayman disagrees with me it’s because he jumps to the conclusion that I’m making an argument that I am not. ๐ The argument is: Institutional failure. Because dysgenia at present is caused by institutional failure. All of these causes are institutional failures.
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Reason for Western Decline
Mar 8, 2020, 10:29 AM 1) Western genetic, cultural, institutional, and technical advantage has been redistributed to most of the world. 2) Our internal redistributive politics have ended our genetic advantage because e have stopped breeding in sufficient numbers. 3) Our civil war (World Wars) destroyed our aggression and willpower. 4) Immigration of postwar Jewish intellectuals created the second abrahamic dark age with the false promises of marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and HBD-Denialism, and sold them to immigrants, the underclass and enough of white women, through the university system, consumer marketing, entertainment and media – undermining our cultural advantage. 5) Immigration and underclass reproduction have eroded our institutional advantage.
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Reason for Western Decline
Mar 8, 2020, 10:29 AM 1) Western genetic, cultural, institutional, and technical advantage has been redistributed to most of the world. 2) Our internal redistributive politics have ended our genetic advantage because e have stopped breeding in sufficient numbers. 3) Our civil war (World Wars) destroyed our aggression and willpower. 4) Immigration of postwar Jewish intellectuals created the second abrahamic dark age with the false promises of marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and HBD-Denialism, and sold them to immigrants, the underclass and enough of white women, through the university system, consumer marketing, entertainment and media – undermining our cultural advantage. 5) Immigration and underclass reproduction have eroded our institutional advantage.
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The Reason for Western Excellence Is Simple and Ancient – And Decline, Recent
Mar 8, 2020, 10:42 AM Western people’s military technology during the western indo european expansion from 2500-1200BC, required (a) a fully militarized polity (b) a voluntarily militarized social order with self funded warriors using expensive hose, bronze, and wheel (entrepreneurial),(c) the natural law of sovereignty and reciprocity we call ‘tort’ or “property”, and the Jury, and the larger version of the jury “democracy”. WIth the combination of military epistemology, military meritocracy, a military social order where everyone has value and earns respect if they just do their duty regardless of rank, and a judicial system predicted on nothing other than evidence, produced a social order that (a) with the least falsehood, (b) with the greatest opportunity for adaptation, (c) with the greatest possible rate of adaptation, (d) with the greatest incentive for technological and organizational innovation. These people used these traditions to conquer all of northern europe, then to expand southward into southern europe, most likely contributing to or causing the bronze age collapse, and then, rebuilding greece, rome, defeating rome, and rebuilding germania, scandinavia, the baltics, russia. When the turks conquered byzantium, and entered europe tey barricaded trade and the europeans developed the age of sail to circumvent the muslims, and discovered the world. They used the world’s new resources (technological advantage) and remoteness (exclusivity) to bring resources to europe, transform them, and sell them to the world, to finance the huge cost of their imperial expansions. The only mistakes they made were not crushing france entirely, so that the holy roman empire, (germany) could control the continent, and russia the steppe; and stopping russia from reconquering byzantium (orthodoxy), and instead having a civil war that ruined it all. Had the west completed the job of colonization, and dragged the whole world into modernity without world wars, abandonment of the colonies, the wars against communism, the current civil war against jewish-abrhamimsm and immigration, and the wars against islam would never have been necessary. Instead we left the world half domesticated and having to catch up to us on their own. The primary difference between the west and the rest is truth and honesty and no-cheating, and no corruption, and rule of law of sovereignty and property because we were equal in respect as a military people, even if unequal in economic ability – we were all in our ‘rank’ and if we do our duty we are due respect. This is also why we win wars, and other people do not. REASON FOR WESTERN DECLINE 1) Western genetic, cultural, institutional, and technical advantage has been redistributed to most of the world. 2) Our internal redistributive politics have ended our genetic advantage because e have stopped breeding in sufficient numbers. 3) Our civil war (World Wars) destroyed our aggression and willpower. 4) Immigration of postwar Jewish intellectuals created the second abrahamic dark age with the false promises of marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and HBD-Denialism, and sold them to immigrants, the underclass and enough of white women, through the university system, consumer marketing, entertainment and media – undermining our cultural advantage. 5) Immigration and underclass reproduction have eroded our institutional advantage.