Theme: Responsibility

Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 23:41:17 UTC

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@ThomasJMain;

1) Western civilization’s disproportionate success in the bronze, iron, and steel ages, is due to the rate of discovery of the laws of the universe, including the formal(logical), physical, behavioral, and evolutionary, and our utilization of, adaptation to, and evolution in response to those discoveries. And we have nearly single handedly dragged mankind out of superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, the vicissitudes of a nature hostile to our existence, and which has nearly exterminated us with disturbing regularity.

2) This rate of discovery, innovation, and adaptation is possible because of an accident of history, where our ancestors combined(Science, Techne) horse, cart, wheel, and bronze as steppe cattle raiders (Pirates, Vikings), and the entrepreneurial government between those raiders, as the only government possible between them: one that prohibited authority, preserving sovereignty, thus generating demand for contractualism, reciprocity, truth before face, duty before self, and excellence before adequacy, and directing dominance expression to the production of commons. (Self Determination, Sovereignty, Rule of Law, Legislature, Democracy, Meritocracy: Natural Aristocracy.) With a religion and cult universal heroism (Heroic, Militaristic, Hierarchical, Meritocratic, Technological, Expansionary, Sky Worshipping). This is the most rapidly evolutionary and adaptive social, political, economic order available to man. Today we call this “OODA” loop. In the past we called it Manuever. And infrequently, we call it ‘initiative’. And the cost of participation is “responsibility”.

3) There are only three possible means of human influence: social(inclusion-exclusion) in norm and religion, economic(trade-boycott) in weights and measures in contract law, and physical(force-defense) regulation legislation and command via the government or state. These three institutions will develop in an order and priority. All civilizations are anchored by their first institution, which is permanent, followed by a second weaker institution, followed by a third weakest or failed institution. As such civilizations adapt given the rate of adaptabiility of their primary institutions: religion slowly if at all (MENA, India), the State(government) faster but calcifying (Sinic), and the law of contract or competitive cooperation via markets the fastest possible (Europe).

4) But the physical, emotional, and psychological cost to the individual of these institutions, priority of these institutions, and rate of change permissible by these institutions varies by their adaptivity, and *individual responsibility*. With religion the lowest, the state next lowest, and the market the most burdensome. Why? Because the radius of religion is the self and family. The radius of responsibility under the state as dicated. The radius of responsibility under markets is ‘the maximum you are capable of’ because otherwise you are forcing costs upon others in the polity by the absence of your responsibility: equality of responsibility.

5) The ‘liberal’ project in its prewar christian form was merely duty of care for the unfit, in exchange for training the unfit into greater moral fitness (religions). But the postwar ‘liberal left, socialist, equalitarian program’ ‘sells’ personal irresponsibility, dependence, and infantilization, and promises freedom from the logical(postmodern), physical scarcity(marxist), behavioral(neoMarxist, Feminist, Woke), and Evolutionary Laws(Darwinian explanation for all of existence) to authoritarians.

6) Conservatives deny the equality of moral willingness, ability, and fitness for moral responsibility.

7) We deny the utopian and accept the responsibility for the burden of the empirical.

8) We accept the christian burden of providing care as a means of encouraging responsibility.

You avoid responsibility, and claim false competenc and virtue.

Cheers

Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1644484343752998912

Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 23:41:17 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644485528518111232

Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644484343752998912

IN REPLY TO:

Unknown author

@ThomasJMain;

1) Western civilization’s disproportionate success in the bronze, iron, and steel ages, is due to the rate of discovery of the laws of the universe, including the formal(logical), physical, behavioral, and evolutionary, and our utilization of, adaptation to, and evolution in response to those discoveries. And we have nearly single handedly dragged mankind out of superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, the vicissitudes of a nature hostile to our existence, and which has nearly exterminated us with disturbing regularity.

2) This rate of discovery, innovation, and adaptation is possible because of an accident of history, where our ancestors combined(Science, Techne) horse, cart, wheel, and bronze as steppe cattle raiders (Pirates, Vikings), and the entrepreneurial government between those raiders, as the only government possible between them: one that prohibited authority, preserving sovereignty, thus generating demand for contractualism, reciprocity, truth before face, duty before self, and excellence before adequacy, and directing dominance expression to the production of commons. (Self Determination, Sovereignty, Rule of Law, Legislature, Democracy, Meritocracy: Natural Aristocracy.) With a religion and cult universal heroism (Heroic, Militaristic, Hierarchical, Meritocratic, Technological, Expansionary, Sky Worshipping). This is the most rapidly evolutionary and adaptive social, political, economic order available to man. Today we call this “OODA” loop. In the past we called it Manuever. And infrequently, we call it ‘initiative’. And the cost of participation is “responsibility”.

3) There are only three possible means of human influence: social(inclusion-exclusion) in norm and religion, economic(trade-boycott) in weights and measures in contract law, and physical(force-defense) regulation legislation and command via the government or state. These three institutions will develop in an order and priority. All civilizations are anchored by their first institution, which is permanent, followed by a second weaker institution, followed by a third weakest or failed institution. As such civilizations adapt given the rate of adaptabiility of their primary institutions: religion slowly if at all (MENA, India), the State(government) faster but calcifying (Sinic), and the law of contract or competitive cooperation via markets the fastest possible (Europe).

4) But the physical, emotional, and psychological cost to the individual of these institutions, priority of these institutions, and rate of change permissible by these institutions varies by their adaptivity, and *individual responsibility*. With religion the lowest, the state next lowest, and the market the most burdensome. Why? Because the radius of religion is the self and family. The radius of responsibility under the state as dicated. The radius of responsibility under markets is ‘the maximum you are capable of’ because otherwise you are forcing costs upon others in the polity by the absence of your responsibility: equality of responsibility.

5) The ‘liberal’ project in its prewar christian form was merely duty of care for the unfit, in exchange for training the unfit into greater moral fitness (religions). But the postwar ‘liberal left, socialist, equalitarian program’ ‘sells’ personal irresponsibility, dependence, and infantilization, and promises freedom from the logical(postmodern), physical scarcity(marxist), behavioral(neoMarxist, Feminist, Woke), and Evolutionary Laws(Darwinian explanation for all of existence) to authoritarians.

6) Conservatives deny the equality of moral willingness, ability, and fitness for moral responsibility.

7) We deny the utopian and accept the responsibility for the burden of the empirical.

8) We accept the christian burden of providing care as a means of encouraging responsibility.

You avoid responsibility, and claim false competenc and virtue.

Cheers

Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1644484343752998912