Theme: Institution

  • Definitions: Human Organizations

    Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city, with an economy primarily of agricultural, crafts, or light industry. City: A large human settlement in a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks, and possessing a financial center for the organization of capital. Quarter: a part of a town or city having a specific character or use. *Ghetto(Aliens): a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. *Enclave(Aliens): a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. *Colony(Alien): (a) a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country. (b a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.) Estate (Proto Plantation): an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. *Plantation (Proto Fief): a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cash crops, including cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. Manor: (especially in England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants. (Today: a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.) Fief(proto-state): an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. Demesne (land): land attached to a manor and retained for the owner’s own use. Protectorate (military): a state that is controlled and protected by another. State(politics): a territory with an organized political community under one government. Country (territory): A state, with a government, occupying a particular territory. Nation(Ethnicity): a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Nation-State(Ethnicity): a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. Federation(politics): a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs. Confederation: a more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority. League: a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose, typically mutual protection or cooperation. Empire(politics): an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. Civilization: the largest organization of humans with common race, ethnicity, history, culture, religion and often language.

  • Definitions: Human Organizations

    Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city, with an economy primarily of agricultural, crafts, or light industry. City: A large human settlement in a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks, and possessing a financial center for the organization of capital. Quarter: a part of a town or city having a specific character or use. *Ghetto(Aliens): a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. *Enclave(Aliens): a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. *Colony(Alien): (a) a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country. (b a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.) Estate (Proto Plantation): an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization. *Plantation (Proto Fief): a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cash crops, including cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. Manor: (especially in England and Wales) a unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants. (Today: a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.) Fief(proto-state): an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. Demesne (land): land attached to a manor and retained for the owner’s own use. Protectorate (military): a state that is controlled and protected by another. State(politics): a territory with an organized political community under one government. Country (territory): A state, with a government, occupying a particular territory. Nation(Ethnicity): a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Nation-State(Ethnicity): a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. Federation(politics): a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs. Confederation: a more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority. League: a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose, typically mutual protection or cooperation. Empire(politics): an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. Civilization: the largest organization of humans with common race, ethnicity, history, culture, religion and often language.

  • A Consulting Company Is, Structurally, an Intelligence Gathering Organization

    A Consulting Company Is, Structurally, an Intelligence Gathering Organization https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/a-consulting-company-is-structurally-an-intelligence-gathering-organization/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:29:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264987072332472322

  • A Consulting Company Is, Structurally, an Intelligence Gathering Organization

    Jan 25, 2020, 9:08 AM A consulting company is, structurally, an intelligence gathering organization, that uses recruiting, tech, marketing, strategy, or finance as an excuse for information gathering – just as do state departments and intelligence agencies. Business is just war by other means. The intelligence sector is just business by other means. Politics is just war by other means. It’s the little people who lack agency and competitive ability that imagine organizations as other than productive rather than destructive means of warfare.) Your social class is determined by whether you are engaging in warfare, contributing to warfare, or free riding, rent seeking, or a parasitic dependent.

  • A Consulting Company Is, Structurally, an Intelligence Gathering Organization

    Jan 25, 2020, 9:08 AM A consulting company is, structurally, an intelligence gathering organization, that uses recruiting, tech, marketing, strategy, or finance as an excuse for information gathering – just as do state departments and intelligence agencies. Business is just war by other means. The intelligence sector is just business by other means. Politics is just war by other means. It’s the little people who lack agency and competitive ability that imagine organizations as other than productive rather than destructive means of warfare.) Your social class is determined by whether you are engaging in warfare, contributing to warfare, or free riding, rent seeking, or a parasitic dependent.

  • Now Is the Time to Go Big

    Jan 25, 2020, 10:10 AM by Mark Astrella Curt. I wanted to put things into perspective so as not to be “the mouse that roared “. Now is the time to build a strong following (over 10 million). Who can preach P. I believe we can do this with more messages by John Mark. He has a way of interpreting and making P easy to understand. In aviation terms he does the 10,000 ft view while you are the architect building the foundation. There are many folks talking 4G warfare… we are not there yet. Not by a long shot. There are currently too many players that are in greater numbers that would eclipse us should CW2 start tomorrow.

  • Now Is the Time to Go Big

    Jan 25, 2020, 10:10 AM by Mark Astrella Curt. I wanted to put things into perspective so as not to be “the mouse that roared “. Now is the time to build a strong following (over 10 million). Who can preach P. I believe we can do this with more messages by John Mark. He has a way of interpreting and making P easy to understand. In aviation terms he does the 10,000 ft view while you are the architect building the foundation. There are many folks talking 4G warfare… we are not there yet. Not by a long shot. There are currently too many players that are in greater numbers that would eclipse us should CW2 start tomorrow.

  • A Church that Is State Funded,

    If you want a Church that works, you need a church that is state funded, otherwise they sell false promise to the bottom. Our founders were only interested in prohibiting the choice of one christian sect over the others. they were presuming that christianity was the religion of the state, and only didn’t include it in the bill of rights because they didn’t want the state choosing the sect. Now that we know only Christianity is compatible with natural law that’s not a problem.

  • A Church that Is State Funded,

    If you want a Church that works, you need a church that is state funded, otherwise they sell false promise to the bottom. Our founders were only interested in prohibiting the choice of one christian sect over the others. they were presuming that christianity was the religion of the state, and only didn’t include it in the bill of rights because they didn’t want the state choosing the sect. Now that we know only Christianity is compatible with natural law that’s not a problem.

  • Problems the Police Face

    Jan 27, 2020, 7:19 AM (1) police are expensive and patrol large territories in expensive vehicles with expensive equipment. (2) because police are expensive they do not travel in groups, and do not practice european policing of de-escalation- europe is small and densely populated. (3) Therefore officers rely on manipulation, deception, intimidation, and force, to subdue an individual and ‘drag him into the system’. Whereas you or I only need to break contact, they have to bring people into the system. The reason is that they don’t have discretionary power (as do sheriffs and judges.) This is because they can get sued if they are forgiving but you do something stupid. So their only defense is to get you into the system. (4) Revenue for a police department and justice system is funded by taxes, tickets and fines, and worst of all, property seizures. This has produced the malincentives we predicted. (5) Police are in a position of high risk, high responsibility, and under multiple conflicting incentives for which they can lose job and pension for any normal human error. This is a no-win situation for them. So they tend to develop procedures that are the safest for them and their careers, by choosing processes that put the officer in the position of making THE FEWEST DECISIONS. This is the problem. (6) The police do not control the bad laws that they operate under. Their job is to bring people into the system and let the system and system processes do the work – thereby (mostly) using time and isolation for heated afraid or excited people to calm down. (7) The data is what it is and the cops know the data: Black americans are disproportionately impulsively violent and will run, drug users are disproportionately unpredictable and dangerous even with bodily fluids or needles, and hispanic americans are disproportionately involved in gangs and dangerous, and white americans are disproportionately cunning and dangerous. (8) Police will not stay in the job if they have IQ’s over 105, so they hire average people for the job, because frankly it’s a lot of paperwork, and a lot of putting up with unpleasant people, and a lot of very high stress followed by very boring procedure. So for an average guy it’s a high income high status job – with decision making above his pay grade. (9) Some police forces are run well and others not, and there is no requirement that police come from the area nor stay in an area and learn the ‘crook book’ for the area. Instead, better police forces hire and train better officers, who then take positions that pay more money in less ‘prime’ territories. So there are just a lot of things going on. Where instead, we should probably have three classes of officers, at three pay grades, the top being criminal lawyers (proto-judges), the middle being today’s armed officers, and the bottom being de-escalation officers, and we should try to use numbers rather than concentration of force to deescalate and bring people in.