Theme: Institution

  • I started the institute in Kiev in ’12. We have just recently moved the legal en

    I started the institute in Kiev in ’12. We have just recently moved the legal entity to the USA under the expectation that I will not be able to return (though I want to). But there is still quite a bit of text and image out there with Kiev on it, just as there is “propertarian instititue’ instead of ‘natural law institute’. So for all intents and purposes PI is closed and NLI is born. 😉
    #NLIHistory

    Reply addressees: @Weltenfluss


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-22 20:37:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1694086345277263872

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1694073066953830594

  • Attempt at Falsification: If the middleman is the insurer, where defi has no ins

    Attempt at Falsification: If the middleman is the insurer, where defi has no insurer. This is the primary problem with trying to eradicate the state: the function of the state is the insurer of last resort, which is why it preserves the capacity of force as the last resort, and a monopoly over it: restitution.

    The ambition to eliminate the rent-seekers (banks) is not the same as the ambition to eliminate the insurer (state). As such, I’ve held the same conviction that all we are doing with crypto is research and development for the state (treasury) and killing off the parasitic properties of the financial sector, and as a consequence their influence in the state.

    Justificationary arguments are always false. (which is what the author is claiming, as do so many advocates. But testimony (science) requires enumerating and falsifying all competing theories. And the science suggests very clearly that we are just empowering the state. And that the state need only pursue institutional holders and users of the platforms to end the viability of the platforms. Even today the price is maintained by institutional holdings.

    Reply addressees: @BackTheBunny


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-22 16:51:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1694029487707447308

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1669244042650210304

  • we all do. but its hard to argue with those who fully integrate into our traditi

    we all do. but its hard to argue with those who fully integrate into our traditions, values, norms and institutions.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-22 02:00:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1693805362342752428

    Reply addressees: @KankenYuta @dom_lucre

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1693801517705544149

  • What’s An Advanced Country? Institutionally you cant beat the USA or Germany. Bu

    What’s An Advanced Country?
    Institutionally you cant beat the USA or Germany. But Morally the usa is a sh–thole because of the left’s ninety year war on our institutions of cultural production. Why? morality=bearing responsibility for yourself and the commons.

    When we speak of development, as in a developed country, we mean the rules based order of rule of law, economy, prosperity, but we do not take into account the decadence and folly possible under the resulting prosperity. 😉

    I prefer life with family and friends devotion of russians and ukrainians; as well as business, personal opportunity, and free speech in the states; education, manners, and civil society in germany; high culture in the UK; french agricultural, consumer protection, and energy policy; and aesthetics and design in italy – with a nod to japan on exceptional civil society, craftsmanship as ritual and near-religion, and finally the fresh food food. The difference is that with economic opportunity you have the choice of each. And that comes from Development: ability to trust increasigly anonymous people.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-20 20:27:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1693359032143106048

  • NEXT NLI IN-PERSON GATHERING (reminder to answer our poll) The NLI Staff would l

    NEXT NLI IN-PERSON GATHERING
    (reminder to answer our poll)
    The NLI Staff would like to gather feedback from the greater community to help us plan the next in-person get-together.
    Our previous events have been rewarding for all attendees, and we formed lasting relationships during them.
    Please respond to this poll requesting your thoughts on topics and duration: https://t.co/AOXiQS8GDH…
    Thanks
    Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-20 17:26:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1693313562712637441

  • #twitter discourse of ending the #block function has spiraled into a PR issue th

    #twitter discourse of ending the #block function has spiraled into a PR issue that needs settling: instead shifting blocking features into MUTING without blocking access to someone’s feed is a rational and superior solution.

    Twitter isn’t ending blocking, they’re ending hiding profiles in blocking, and shifting to a more powerful version of muting.

    Personally I want to be able to curate discussions on topics I post, and I don’t know why we can’t delete replies as we do on facebook. But hiding them from all but the author is an option.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-19 14:17:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692903630943268864

  • THE BIGGEST RED PILL. Feminism has not only destroyed the family, destroyed the

    THE BIGGEST RED PILL.
    Feminism has not only destroyed the family, destroyed the political system, destroyed the gene pool, but destroyed two thousand years of effort trying to reverse the universal historical perception of woman as the root of all selfishness, conspiracy, and evil.

    Now it’s fixable. But it’s not easily fixed.

    Condensed Version of a Red Pill:
    1. The one thing men value most in women – loyalty – doesn’t exist in women. Women only follow their emotions. Men get complacent in relationships because they think the woman will be loyal to their sacrifice to the relationship.

    2. Women’s and men’s sexual strategies are mutually exclusive. To fulfill their own natural method of reproduction, each of the opposite sexes must abandon their own. Women cheat for emotional reasons, and cheat to leave. Men have emotionless recreational sex that women interpret as cheating.

    3. The amount of “beta” you need for a functional relationship is vastly overestimated by men. You don’t see couples going to therapy because the man is too alpha. You need only enough to entertain women with the possibility of converting you into a beta. Women like playing in their domain of manipulation and subversiveness, with words and feelings.

    4. Women enjoy trying to turn the alpha into a beta. The dangerous beast and the beauty that manages to domesticate him is the ultimate female fantasy. It’s also evolutionary the best strategy for survival. This is not a relationships thing, women keep stabbing at your frame using **** tests from the moment you meet.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-18 20:33:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692635892031057920

  • You are a fool. The English invented the modern state, rule of law, the agrarian

    You are a fool.
    The English invented the modern state, rule of law, the agrarian, commercial, financial, and industrial revolutions and dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death,…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-17 15:52:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692202647124607259

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692185960341999939

  • REDUCTION OF OUR CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS TO ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION The majority of ou

    REDUCTION OF OUR CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS TO ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION
    The majority of our social and political ills can be solved rather simply by restoring the primacy of the intergenerational family and their production of children as the purpose of policy, and granting that priority in all aspects of the commons over that of the individual. Law (dispute resolution) must regulate the individual but legislation (commons production) must regulate society, and society = children, or you don’t have a society for long.
    Restore the primacy of the intergenerational family – it creates only thing we have in common – the only commensurability between us, by which decisions on policy can be made without favoring the disfunctional at the expense of the whole.
    The enlightenment project completed with the leftist feminist war on the family.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-16 16:13:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691845691906162693

  • THE IMMORALITY OF THE WEST VS OUR INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW –“Democrac

    THE IMMORALITY OF THE WEST VS OUR INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW
    –“Democracy isn’t defined by the West.”–President of Rwanda

    Well, that’s largely false. While…
    1. Science was invented and defined by the West
    2. Natural Law was invented and defined by the West
    3. Rule of Law was invented and defined by the West
    4. Commonality and Concurrency were invented and defined by the West.
    5. Republican government was invented and defined by the West.
    6. and Democracy was invented and defined by the West.

    BUT…
    Those are rules, procedures, and methods of producing the consent of the people, by legitimate governance, through the requirement for concurrency in legislation and voting, commonality in court resolution of disputes, including a market (court) for the prosecution of both the private sector and members of the government, thereby limiting the criminality of the private sector and the corruption of the public sector.

    BUT THAT’S JUST A UNIVERSAL ‘HOW’ – NOT A PARTICULAR PEOPLE’S WHAT!!!…
    The interest of different peoples in different geographies, with different resources, and different constraints, with different demographic compositions, and different stages of development, with different historical traditions, surrounded by different allies, competitors and enemies create different needs for different moral, ethical, and practical policies and laws to right past wrongs, solve past present and future problems, and bring security comfort and prosperity to the people.

    THE WEST IS ONLY POLITICALLY DEVELOPED – NOT MORAL IN POLICY BY ANY MEANS
    The West is going through an attempt by the postwar marxist-to-feminist-to-woke movement to undermine the civilization from within. The USA in particular, is at war internally and has been since the 1950s with the movement of postwar Marxists into the country, where they set out to use our racial conflict as a means of division. Then they converted to using women. Then to immigrants. They are trying to create the problems rampant in less developed countries in the west so that they can be ruled by corrupt, parasitic, privileged elites that the rest of the world so desperately wants to escape from.

    So, the world should ignore all american and European ‘values’ that are obviously immoral and harmful and instead focus on the Anglo invention of the technologies used by our institutions that have made the people wealthy and safe: rule of law by the natural law of individual sovereignty and universal demand for reciprocity.

    The USA had a mission at the end of the world wars: to end the age of empires and prevent another world war, by the use of US temporary industrial technological economic, institutional, and military superiority to create free trade, prohibit empires, promote nation states, limit governments to the improvement of the condition of their people (human rights), and prohibit the breaking of borders (aggressions).

    This strategy was imperfectly executed, of course. But the result was that mankind for the first time in human history was largely raised out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, and early death. And the truth is people still hate the west for our many flaws in doing it, rather than the miracle that we managed to do it at all.

    That said, and the macro level, Americans sought a moral ambition for the world.

    But, domestically? Americans watched TV and played video games while the enemy with in set about the destruction of our culture, our history, our schools, our universities, our institutions, our religion, and worst of all – our families and our morals.

    How moral is a civilization (anglo or European), any country in it, any people, so morally weak, decadent, and corrupt that they allow sedition and treason from within? Are Americans cowards? Lazy? Incompetent? Stupid? Ignorant? Foolishly optimistic?

    In everything: take the West’s technology.
    Government is a technology like any other.
    That’s all.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-15 22:14:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691573996918026241