….I think the problem is that the past was honest but justified it supernaturally, because the promise of reward was after death. Whereas the present is dishonest and justified pseudo-scientifically and promised if we can reach a socialist utopia or some variation thereof. The medieval order was hierarchical and honest. The only false promise was after death. We live in a world of loneliness and lies….
Theme: Religion
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Terror, Progress, and Islam
Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of altering policy. Sovereignty requires one’s government control non-state actors. Democracy requires one’s people control one’s government such that it controls non-state actors, such that it does not break the westphalian peace, nor the postwar peace. Justice visited upon the muslims to contain them just as the west tried to contain the communists in the twentieth century and the Islamic empires, for it’s thousand years of warfare against the west. And so apparently we must unify china, india, russia, and america to contain islam until it respects the peaces of westphalia (containing non state actors), and of the postwar consensus (maintian borders, develop human rights, and develop consumer economies). No people yet has transformed from the medieval to the modern without a reformation, and some sort of civil war. Islam is the only backward civilization remaining. The problem it faces, and south america faces, is that the demographics throughout the muslim world make a rational secular state nearly impossible without the promise of ever-expanding growth under fiat money capitalism.
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Terror, Progress, and Islam
Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of altering policy. Sovereignty requires one’s government control non-state actors. Democracy requires one’s people control one’s government such that it controls non-state actors, such that it does not break the westphalian peace, nor the postwar peace. Justice visited upon the muslims to contain them just as the west tried to contain the communists in the twentieth century and the Islamic empires, for it’s thousand years of warfare against the west. And so apparently we must unify china, india, russia, and america to contain islam until it respects the peaces of westphalia (containing non state actors), and of the postwar consensus (maintian borders, develop human rights, and develop consumer economies). No people yet has transformed from the medieval to the modern without a reformation, and some sort of civil war. Islam is the only backward civilization remaining. The problem it faces, and south america faces, is that the demographics throughout the muslim world make a rational secular state nearly impossible without the promise of ever-expanding growth under fiat money capitalism.
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The Good of Gods and Mythology in Decidability
If truth is the language of the gods, as it must be, then why is not bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit blasphemy? —“There might be a god archetype, in some pantheon, for almost every significant human behavioral pattern. I think that’s a helpful learning utility.”—Adam Houseman Exactly. But that is Myth and literature, for purpose of teaching by analogy. And it is not only important but necessary. Why? Because the western man uses HYPERBOLE to exaggerate, in order to show the consequence of ‘if everyone did this then..’. Kant restates this as the categorical imperative. But it is just the western method of using exaggeration of traits of individuals in order to force every living soul to ask “what if everyone did this” or “what are the consequences of this behavior over time”. Gods help us create general rules of decidability within a context by means of hyperbole (isolation of causal properties.) This is why we need myths, stated hyperbolically, and literature stated analogically: to create general rules, easily employed in a wide variety of circumstances, so that we may, through the thousands of little decisions every day, guide our civilization into that which we seek: parity with the gods.
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The Good of Gods and Mythology in Decidability
If truth is the language of the gods, as it must be, then why is not bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit blasphemy? —“There might be a god archetype, in some pantheon, for almost every significant human behavioral pattern. I think that’s a helpful learning utility.”—Adam Houseman Exactly. But that is Myth and literature, for purpose of teaching by analogy. And it is not only important but necessary. Why? Because the western man uses HYPERBOLE to exaggerate, in order to show the consequence of ‘if everyone did this then..’. Kant restates this as the categorical imperative. But it is just the western method of using exaggeration of traits of individuals in order to force every living soul to ask “what if everyone did this” or “what are the consequences of this behavior over time”. Gods help us create general rules of decidability within a context by means of hyperbole (isolation of causal properties.) This is why we need myths, stated hyperbolically, and literature stated analogically: to create general rules, easily employed in a wide variety of circumstances, so that we may, through the thousands of little decisions every day, guide our civilization into that which we seek: parity with the gods.
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Adam Voight I liked this guy’s lecture on the meaning of the Ottoman Caliphate a
Adam Voight I liked this guy’s lecture on the meaning of the Ottoman Caliphate and the outcome of WWI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659f5wuTgzY
Source date (UTC): 2017-03-21 12:43:00 UTC
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El modelo objetivo
- Los utópicos: Platón
- Los honestos: Aristóteles
- Los que evaden la verdad: Sun Tzu
- Los mentirosos: Abraham
- Los que mienten y además son ignorantes: Mahoma
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El modelo objetivo
- Los utópicos: Platón
- Los honestos: Aristóteles
- Los que evaden la verdad: Sun Tzu
- Los mentirosos: Abraham
- Los que mienten y además son ignorantes: Mahoma
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THE GOOD OF GODS AND MYTHOLOGY IN DECIDABILITY If truth is the language of the g
THE GOOD OF GODS AND MYTHOLOGY IN DECIDABILITY
If truth is the language of the gods, as it must be, then why is not bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit blasphemy?
—“There might be a god archetype, in some pantheon, for almost every significant human behavioral pattern. I think that’s a helpful learning utility.”—Alex Houchens
Exactly. But that is Myth and literature, for purpose of teaching by analogy. And it is not only important but necessary. Why? Because the western man uses HYPERBOLE to exaggerate, in order to show the consequence of ‘if everyone did this then..’. Kant restates this as the categorical imperative. But it is just the western method of using exaggeration of traits of individuals in order to force every living soul to ask “what if everyone did this” or “what are the consequences of this behavior over time”.
Gods help us create general rules of decidability within a context by means of hyperbole (isolation of causal properties.)
This is why we need myths, stated hyperbolically, and literature stated analogically: to create general rules, easily employed in a wide variety of circumstances, so that we may, through the thousands of little decisions every day, guide our civilization into that which we seek: parity with the gods.
Source date (UTC): 2017-03-19 19:44:00 UTC
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The Layer Cake of Social Order
THE LAYER CAKE OF SOCIAL ORDER
- REPUTATION
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Weapon: Ostracization (death sentence)
Records: Memory of Locals - RELIGION
Religion evolved to provide understanding of the word, virtues to imitate, and general prohibitions, across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, so that people could cooperate more easily and retaliate (feud) less frequently.
Weapon: ostracization (deprivation from opportunity)
Records: memory of locals, religious registries and ceremonies. - LAW
Law evolved to standardize punishments across clans, tribes, and conquered nations, to keep the peace, preserve productivity, preserve taxation, and legitimize (provide value by) rule.
Weapon: violence, deprivation
Records: written ledgers of crimes and punishments. - CREDIT
Credit rule evolved to increase productivity by the promise of consumption in the present, such that the primary form of social punishment was loss of consumption, status, and signaling.
Weapon: deprivation of consumption, status, and signaling.
Records: written and electronic records of creditworthiness. - DIGITAL REPUTATION
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Weapon:
Records: - DIGITAL PRIOR RESTRAINT (?)
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Records:
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