Theme: Reciprocity

  • There is no difference between your body and my wallet

    There is no difference between your body and my wallet.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-15 19:10:00 UTC

  • “The only way to defeat intolerance (of civilisation, meritocracy, commons) is b

    —“The only way to defeat intolerance (of civilisation, meritocracy, commons) is by being even more intolerant of deceit and non-reciprocal costs.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-15 13:53:00 UTC

  • The Cult of Sovereignty (natural Law)

    It’s better to belong to a cult of truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, and markets in everything, than (a) to be wrong, (b) to be a sophist (c) be dedicated to any OTHER cult. Western law is a cult. hence why Americans treat the constitution (of natural law) as sacred. They just couldn’t defend it as such. The law is a cult, and that is its virtue. I’m thoroughly thrilled to institutionalize that cult. You think calling natural law fundamentalism a cult is an insult? It’s a recognition of SUCCESS. (a) a moral license for violence… (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition (d) a threat of sufficient concern that the other parties acquiesce. But better – a scientific religion of intergenerational transmission.

  • The Cult of Sovereignty (natural Law)

    It’s better to belong to a cult of truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, and markets in everything, than (a) to be wrong, (b) to be a sophist (c) be dedicated to any OTHER cult. Western law is a cult. hence why Americans treat the constitution (of natural law) as sacred. They just couldn’t defend it as such. The law is a cult, and that is its virtue. I’m thoroughly thrilled to institutionalize that cult. You think calling natural law fundamentalism a cult is an insult? It’s a recognition of SUCCESS. (a) a moral license for violence… (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition (d) a threat of sufficient concern that the other parties acquiesce. But better – a scientific religion of intergenerational transmission.

  • But the origins of roman and common law traditions are the same: germanic sovere

    But the origins of roman and common law traditions are the same: germanic sovereignty, and empirical resolution of disputes over property by reciprocity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-12 23:08:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/984568898233225216

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  • That’s not quite right. When I use ‘common law’ I refer to the common law of tor

    That’s not quite right. When I use ‘common law’ I refer to the common law of tort, or ‘natural law’. The roman system had to impose rule on others so they converted the via-negativa of the common law of tort into two tiers, and stated it via-positiva to limit jurists.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-12 23:07:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/984568692460662784

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  • HENCE WHY EUROPEANS NEED THEIR EMPIRE OF NATION STATES UNDER OUR OWN “SHARIA”: N

    HENCE WHY EUROPEANS NEED THEIR EMPIRE OF NATION STATES UNDER OUR OWN “SHARIA”: NATURAL LAW

    —“Our field’s fixation on the Westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states … In fact, it is a very distorted view of even the Westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. Almost all of the emerging European states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… Ironically, it was the European empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world…”— Burbank and Cooper


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-04 21:46:00 UTC

  • A Reminder: “I Don’t Hate on Anyone.”

    I’m not anti anyone at all. I’m not a racist in particular. I’m anti parasitism in all its forms, particularly falsehoods. I’m anti-folly. And I’m anti-conflict. Now, Natural Law of cooperation that we call ‘reciprocity’ tells us what NOT to do. So I end up writing a lot of “Reprimands” (as a follower explained recently.) And I write reprimands of pretty much group on earth – particularly my own. Where I come from is this: There was, that I know of, only one enlightenment – that of Britain – and it was purely empirical. Every culture, in response, has resisted that empirical enlightenment. If we were at the end of the french or german or russian counter-enlightenments, I would attack them. but the french, the germans, and the Russians (or at least the jewish Russians) committed suicide. At present we are at the end of the American Christian, and Ashkenazi-jewish counter-enlightenemtns, and in the midst of the Muslim counter-enlightenments. So of course, my work will place greater emphasis on current examples of interest in the current era, than it will on the french, german, and russian. And of course, I criticize the chinese and indian civilizations as well. Now, empirically, I have to accept that the fundamental problem all civilizations face is the underclass, and that all present, past, and even more so future, questions will be determined by how we answer the fundamental problem of the ‘drag’ that the underclasses place upon mankind. And I understand that this is a difficult problem. But that single problem is solved by soft eugenics: one child policy for the unproductive, and paying them to have either one child only or no children at all. This will, as a consequence attach status to having multiple children, and … attach lack of status to those with wealth that do not. And this is the only solution I know of that is achieved by reciprocity under natural law. So if I offend you then you must answer these questions differently. And you will, of necessity, have a very difficult time finding a better method of calculating a happy prosperous mankind without entering into hubris or deceit.
    Apr 04, 2018 11:17am
  • A Reminder: “I Don’t Hate on Anyone.”

    I’m not anti anyone at all. I’m not a racist in particular. I’m anti parasitism in all its forms, particularly falsehoods. I’m anti-folly. And I’m anti-conflict. Now, Natural Law of cooperation that we call ‘reciprocity’ tells us what NOT to do. So I end up writing a lot of “Reprimands” (as a follower explained recently.) And I write reprimands of pretty much group on earth – particularly my own. Where I come from is this: There was, that I know of, only one enlightenment – that of Britain – and it was purely empirical. Every culture, in response, has resisted that empirical enlightenment. If we were at the end of the french or german or russian counter-enlightenments, I would attack them. but the french, the germans, and the Russians (or at least the jewish Russians) committed suicide. At present we are at the end of the American Christian, and Ashkenazi-jewish counter-enlightenemtns, and in the midst of the Muslim counter-enlightenments. So of course, my work will place greater emphasis on current examples of interest in the current era, than it will on the french, german, and russian. And of course, I criticize the chinese and indian civilizations as well. Now, empirically, I have to accept that the fundamental problem all civilizations face is the underclass, and that all present, past, and even more so future, questions will be determined by how we answer the fundamental problem of the ‘drag’ that the underclasses place upon mankind. And I understand that this is a difficult problem. But that single problem is solved by soft eugenics: one child policy for the unproductive, and paying them to have either one child only or no children at all. This will, as a consequence attach status to having multiple children, and … attach lack of status to those with wealth that do not. And this is the only solution I know of that is achieved by reciprocity under natural law. So if I offend you then you must answer these questions differently. And you will, of necessity, have a very difficult time finding a better method of calculating a happy prosperous mankind without entering into hubris or deceit.
    Apr 04, 2018 11:17am
  • The Dirty Secret of Western Civilization

    The dirty secret of western civilization is that while we invented Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Natural Law,and Market Politics that gave us reason and science, we started out as cattle raiders, pirates, and conquerors, and all the ‘goods’ that we gave the world were an accidental byproduct of the only means of governing voluntary organizations of warriors, raiders, pirates, and conquerors: entrepreneurs.