THE ‘GOOD’ IN RELIGION IS THE CIVIC RITUAL. NOT THE CONTENT
There is nothing in the bible that made the church good. They could have read greek legends and done good with them. It’s the ritual that matters, not the content. What the church spread was literacy, and diplomacy, and eventually natural law. The rest was a bucket of catastrophic lies.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-28 03:13:00 UTC
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Add late marriage, and prohibit cousin marriage, you’ll approach a mean of ~115, which is a ‘magic number’.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-26 06:58:27 UTC
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@curtdoolittle @charlesmurray Is this Gregory Clark’s argument?
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If you practice bipartite manorialism, or its Scandinavian predecessors, then hang 1% of the population/yr …
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-26 06:57:03 UTC
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@curtdoolittle @charlesmurray Is this Gregory Clark’s argument?
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Mobility contributed to the destruction of family and kin. Move capital to people, not people to capital. Happening in tech.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-26 06:29:47 UTC
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Pick up and move to where the opportunities are. A great American tradition. Dying. https://t.co/FFY71ZM8Mo
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Governance by ideology is an admission of empirical and institutional failure. See the Chinese and Muslims. Both Stagnated.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-26 06:25:05 UTC
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I would have thought it impossible: a. fresh take on Don & Hill. https://t.co/YBzwVzCHgF
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Sinic (Eastern) :
Basis of Sinic philosophy is Sun Tzu: Deception and delay until opportunity to defeat. We are strongest when we have total control, and cannot be victimized by the other, and no longer need to compromise.
Falsehood is expected.
Preserve Face, avoiding offense.
Information Hiding, is expected.
Self benefit rather than symmetric benefit is not only expected but desirable.
Decisions are made outside the room by those in authority.
Agreements are temporarily useful for the moment, but open to revision and circumstance at all times.
Differences are to be hidden until they can be used to produce asymmetric benefits.
Disagreements are to be used as opportunities for asymmetric benefits.
Corruption is expected and even ‘understood’.
Asymmetric benefit is expected and ‘understood’
Non Performance is expected, and ‘understood’.
Changing the terms of the agreement is expected and ‘understood’.
Germanic (Western):
Basis of western philosophy is Aristotle: Truth, transparency, and cooperation leading to mutual benefit – we are strongest when we cooperate together, and we preserve our cooperation through constant compromise.
Truth, even if unpleasant.
Directness, even if offensive.
Information transparency, even if disadvantageous.
Objective is mutual benefit – and non parasitism, developing long term trust.
Decisions are made in the room between the negotiators.
Agreements are binding contracts not subject to revision or circumstance, even if risky.
Resolve differences quickly, and move on.
Disagreements must result in mutually beneficial compromise.
Corruption is inexcusable.
Asymmetric benefit is inexcusable.
Non performance is inexcusable.
Changing the terms of the agreement is inexcusable.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-in-business-culture-between-Western-and-Eastern
Sinic (Eastern) :
Basis of Sinic philosophy is Sun Tzu: Deception and delay until opportunity to defeat. We are strongest when we have total control, and cannot be victimized by the other, and no longer need to compromise.
Falsehood is expected.
Preserve Face, avoiding offense.
Information Hiding, is expected.
Self benefit rather than symmetric benefit is not only expected but desirable.
Decisions are made outside the room by those in authority.
Agreements are temporarily useful for the moment, but open to revision and circumstance at all times.
Differences are to be hidden until they can be used to produce asymmetric benefits.
Disagreements are to be used as opportunities for asymmetric benefits.
Corruption is expected and even ‘understood’.
Asymmetric benefit is expected and ‘understood’
Non Performance is expected, and ‘understood’.
Changing the terms of the agreement is expected and ‘understood’.
Germanic (Western):
Basis of western philosophy is Aristotle: Truth, transparency, and cooperation leading to mutual benefit – we are strongest when we cooperate together, and we preserve our cooperation through constant compromise.
Truth, even if unpleasant.
Directness, even if offensive.
Information transparency, even if disadvantageous.
Objective is mutual benefit – and non parasitism, developing long term trust.
Decisions are made in the room between the negotiators.
Agreements are binding contracts not subject to revision or circumstance, even if risky.
Resolve differences quickly, and move on.
Disagreements must result in mutually beneficial compromise.
Corruption is inexcusable.
Asymmetric benefit is inexcusable.
Non performance is inexcusable.
Changing the terms of the agreement is inexcusable.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-in-business-culture-between-Western-and-Eastern
MY CLINTON FOUNDATION STORY
We were asked to rescue a large project ‘funded’ by the clinton foundation, Microsoft, and the originators of the Greenhouse Gas movement.
This project was ostensively managed by the person at Microsoft who was responsible for their advocacy of green ideas. (a man).
This fellow used our ‘reciprocal’ relationship with Microsoft (our trust) to run up a $2M debt, by promising that he would ‘get the PO for the new funds, soon’. (Note that when you do many tens of millions of dollars with a client for decades, this is not an uncommon practice. Why? Because people cost money when they sit, cost more money to recruit again, so it’s better work on spec and help customers move paperwork thru their bureaucracies.)
Now, it turns out that the clinton foundation had promised to split the costs with Microsoft, but never actually had any of the money. We found out that they’d hoped to guilt Microsoft into ‘donating’ to the cause, or experience negative press for not doing so. (Entrapping them.) Autodesk had suggested they might contribute if the project was a success and their tech was used in it. But this was represented to all parties as money in the bank.
Now, I’m not going to get into how many high-fliers were involved in these discussions (Murdoch’s wife, various Clintonistas, people from Adobe, nearly everyone in the three central political players in the global warming movement, but you know, this wasn’t magic money. This was my money and my partner’s money we were dealing with. but everyone at the table was lying.) So I took the hard drives, backed them up, and put it all in a safe deposit box, until Microsoft legal asked us to give it to them. At which point it was dead tech. )
This is about 1% of the information I could write down but you get the general idea. This is how these people work.
And we were $2M poorer. I also spent an additional 200K+ of my own money trying to rescue it for the Global Warming people despite the fact that I actually opposed the state of the science. And I lost that because one of the people involved lied to me about his access to capital as well. What happened? Remember that November when it came out that the science was faked? That was our third month of operation on behalf of the Global Warming folks.
So my view of the clinton organization is that it’s just another bunch of hacks trading political favors. My view of global warming / climate movement is colored by my knowledge of the players. My view of corporations is that they should stay out of the freaking sentimental business anyway, and do good by making and distributing profits, while doing no harm.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-20 05:07:00 UTC
Had Nokia and Motorola as clients. They died for the same reason. Culture could not convert to a ‘fashion industry’.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-19 12:20:00 UTC
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