Theme: Institution

  • “In the wide swath of history, we went from church and state as bedfellows, to s

    —“In the wide swath of history, we went from church and state as bedfellows, to statutory corporations and state as bedfellows, from veritable theocracy to fascism, with a small window of Enlightenment in-between.”—Angus Jameson Sock

    —“As a side note, statutory shielding of personal liability for stockholders, officers, and boards of directors is just as bad of an idea as clergy being personally immune from the broader actions of the church.”—Angus Jameson Sock


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-06 21:16:00 UTC

  • Ive been saying this for the past three years, but we need a ‘college’, so that

    Ive been saying this for the past three years, but we need a ‘college’, so that we can bring dozens of people together, take in fees for teaching natural law, and provide room, board, and fitness using government money (that we will never really have to repay).

    We have all the pieces. The primary problem has been my health. And my current environment isn’t helping me any. I’m healthier, but I need to get in better shape so that my energy lasts longer. And I need longer periods of quiet to get into the ‘flow’ that are just impossible right now.

    I’ve been reluctant to start teaching classes online because I don’t have a place for a studio and by the time I get a studio set up, I’ve used too much of my energy, and thought about too many different to teach the subject with passion.

    Too much on my plate as always.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 19:50:00 UTC

  • The only Possible Means of Institutionalizing Scale Is Markets in Everything

    1 – “All human organizations evolve to maximize rents, until it is impossible for those organizations to adapt to change or shocks.” 2 – “Organizations that collapse due to the maximization of rents, and inability to adapt to shocks, do not recover.” 3 – “Collapse is caused by competing organizations with fewer or lower accumulated rents – seeking military economic religious and demographic expansion.” 4 -“Collapse is preventable by extermination of rents, by the preservation of markets for association, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of defense.” 5 – “Markets in everything are producible by a government that shifts from redistributive(liberal), to productive(classical), to warfare (fascism) in response to changing circumstances.” 6 – “Unfortunately, the human intuition is to pursue decreases in effort to calculate, and to maximize regularity, so that fringe opportunities are of the lowest cost to seize with the lowest need to organize to exploit them. And therefore, the human intuition is false (counter) at scale – as in all things. Those who seek regularity seek the luxury of freedom from adaptation”. 7 – “ergo the only possible means of institutionalizing scale is markets in everything, under a government unable to institutionalize policies that provide discounts in exchange for reducing the ability to adapt to shocks.” 8 – “that which does not kill you does in fact make you stronger, and the process of continually maintaining and building strength to resist the vicissitudes of man and nature, is produced via negativa : by preservation of competition in al things using markets in all things.”

  • The only Possible Means of Institutionalizing Scale Is Markets in Everything

    1 – “All human organizations evolve to maximize rents, until it is impossible for those organizations to adapt to change or shocks.” 2 – “Organizations that collapse due to the maximization of rents, and inability to adapt to shocks, do not recover.” 3 – “Collapse is caused by competing organizations with fewer or lower accumulated rents – seeking military economic religious and demographic expansion.” 4 -“Collapse is preventable by extermination of rents, by the preservation of markets for association, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of defense.” 5 – “Markets in everything are producible by a government that shifts from redistributive(liberal), to productive(classical), to warfare (fascism) in response to changing circumstances.” 6 – “Unfortunately, the human intuition is to pursue decreases in effort to calculate, and to maximize regularity, so that fringe opportunities are of the lowest cost to seize with the lowest need to organize to exploit them. And therefore, the human intuition is false (counter) at scale – as in all things. Those who seek regularity seek the luxury of freedom from adaptation”. 7 – “ergo the only possible means of institutionalizing scale is markets in everything, under a government unable to institutionalize policies that provide discounts in exchange for reducing the ability to adapt to shocks.” 8 – “that which does not kill you does in fact make you stronger, and the process of continually maintaining and building strength to resist the vicissitudes of man and nature, is produced via negativa : by preservation of competition in al things using markets in all things.”

  • More People Are Mentally Ill than Is Obvious

    Far more people are mentally ill than is obvious from daily discourse. The principle reason is that they are vastly under socialized and their less than able minds are not constrained by continuous training under pressure of peers. Americans are de facto crazy, where other peoples are de facto escapist, religious, or superstitious. This is because we have attributed to and demanded from ordinary people the agency of the middle, upper middle and upper classes. And the fact is that the reason people are in the middle and upper classes is precisely because they possess agency that others do not.

  • More People Are Mentally Ill than Is Obvious

    Far more people are mentally ill than is obvious from daily discourse. The principle reason is that they are vastly under socialized and their less than able minds are not constrained by continuous training under pressure of peers. Americans are de facto crazy, where other peoples are de facto escapist, religious, or superstitious. This is because we have attributed to and demanded from ordinary people the agency of the middle, upper middle and upper classes. And the fact is that the reason people are in the middle and upper classes is precisely because they possess agency that others do not.

  • I prefer Corporate government in the Chinese (or German) model, insular strategy

    I prefer Corporate government in the Chinese (or German) model, insular strategy in the Han model, but northern european ethics, legal system, value of human life, arts – particularly our speaking the truth regardless of impact on the status hierarchy – and Slavic family culture.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 17:17:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981581422963109888

    Reply addressees: @Superhero_sky

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981578434831790080


    IN REPLY TO:

    @Superhero_sky

    @curtdoolittle Well said, you personally prefer China or the United States, are you American?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981578434831790080

  • Everything good about scandinavia existed before their ‘experiment’. Everything

    Everything good about scandinavia existed before their ‘experiment’. Everything bad about scandinavia has occured because of their experiment. Geographic insularity breeds economic, social, political, and military complacency.Wealth allows greater expression of folly. That’s bad. https://twitter.com/DrMarkThornton/status/981545333355368448

  • “Medieval and modern monarchs used the information technology of catholic and st

    —“Medieval and modern monarchs used the information technology of catholic and state churches as well as the new economic instruments of the emerging bourgeoisie urban class to subvert the traditional pagan world and its devolved cultural character stemming from distributed political sovereignty of the aristocracy.”– Simon Ström


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 12:24:00 UTC

  • My understanding of history is that the Chinese insularism, is absolutely the op

    My understanding of history is that the Chinese insularism, is absolutely the optimum strategy. The principle problem wth the chinese was that they failed to solve the problem of competing interests, and tort law to resolve them, which prevented them from solving the problems of (formal) reason, and science.

    If the romans had built the walls, (which they started) they would have given us ‘china’ in the same way that the mountains gave india, and the desert gave africa, and the oceans gave australia and the americas,

    the central problem has been the tribalism of the people of the desert and steppe: the middle east.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 09:18:00 UTC