What wins in this world. Simple. 1. Internal locus of control. 2. Individual sovereignty (I own me). 3. High Agency. 4. Intolerance. 5. A refusal to seek validation. 6. A refusal to seek approval. 7. The ability to think out to 2nd and 3rd order effects. 8. The ability to understand Requisite Variety — the one with the most options wins. As soon as you are limited by your own values, beliefs and morals against an enemy that wields dual-moralism or is polymorphic and peddles lies, you lose. The church offers confessions for a reason, win and then confess. There is no value in losing or dying with “honor”. 9. The understanding that you were dead the day you were born. And you have a duty and role to play. 10. Do it.
Theme: Sovereignty
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE COST OF SOVEREIGNTY: EVERY MAN A WARRIOR,
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
THE COST OF SOVEREIGNTY: EVERY MAN A WARRIOR, SHERIFF, INSURER
—“It’s a bit unclear but let’s say everybody is a free agent and as such free to do what one wants as long as his actions don’t impose additional costs to somebody else…would that be correct..? “—Antonio Simon
Close, but there is a cost (duty) to pay for such a thing, because free agents are not able to resist opponents, if they are allowed to free ride on the defense of accumulateed and asymmetrically distributed capital.
Every man a warrior, a sheriff, and reciprocal insurer, and then every man is sovereign, possessing both liberty (capital) and freedom (action and speech).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-13 17:03:14 UTC
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THE COST OF SOVEREIGNTY: EVERY MAN A WARRIOR, SHERIFF, INSURER —“It’s a bit un
THE COST OF SOVEREIGNTY: EVERY MAN A WARRIOR, SHERIFF, INSURER
—“It’s a bit unclear but let’s say everybody is a free agent and as such free to do what one wants as long as his actions don’t impose additional costs to somebody else…would that be correct..? “—Antonio Simon
Close, but there is a cost (duty) to pay for such a thing, because free agents are not able to resist opponents, if they are allowed to free ride on the defense of accumulateed and asymmetrically distributed capital.
Every man a warrior, a sheriff, and reciprocal insurer, and then every man is sovereign, possessing both liberty (capital) and freedom (action and speech).
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-13 13:03:00 UTC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“For Russians a true free will (volya) is
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world, or to become a Tsar. Stalin embodied both criminal and Tsar russian archetypes.”—Igor Rogov
The origin of our differences: Limited to Reciprocity vs Unlimited by Reciprocity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 14:51:18 UTC
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Russian Variation on Freedom(from) and Liberty(to)
By Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for Soviet propaganda” If you are a Westerner and talk to us Russians about freedom, you need to know that we understand freedom quite differently from you. In English, there are two complementary words for the topic: “freedom” and “liberty”. We also have a pair, “svoboda” and “volya”. But the complementary meaning for the second one is quite different from “liberty”. “Volya” also means “the will”. Yes, yes, like in the Nazi’s Triumph des Willens. In other words, it’s the ability to do what you want, to impress your will on whatever you have. Vólya also forms the stem of another word, very pleasant to the Russian ear, privólye (an open space, an uncluttered expanse with no unwanted obstacles). This perception of freedom is also worth keeping in mind when you come across all the passionate Russian postings about the yoke of political correctness and stifling liberal oppression that you Westerners must suffer every passing day. For us, having to take into consideration other people, with their annoying habits, pesky demands and petty pretenses is also a form of non-freedom. It is often more oppressing because you can hide from police and taxmen when you really need to. But other people, they are always around! They haunt you everywhere! As our national poet has said, “There is no happiness, but there’s peace and volya”.
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Russian Variation on Freedom(from) and Liberty(to)
By Dima Vorobiev, “I worked for Soviet propaganda” If you are a Westerner and talk to us Russians about freedom, you need to know that we understand freedom quite differently from you. In English, there are two complementary words for the topic: “freedom” and “liberty”. We also have a pair, “svoboda” and “volya”. But the complementary meaning for the second one is quite different from “liberty”. “Volya” also means “the will”. Yes, yes, like in the Nazi’s Triumph des Willens. In other words, it’s the ability to do what you want, to impress your will on whatever you have. Vólya also forms the stem of another word, very pleasant to the Russian ear, privólye (an open space, an uncluttered expanse with no unwanted obstacles). This perception of freedom is also worth keeping in mind when you come across all the passionate Russian postings about the yoke of political correctness and stifling liberal oppression that you Westerners must suffer every passing day. For us, having to take into consideration other people, with their annoying habits, pesky demands and petty pretenses is also a form of non-freedom. It is often more oppressing because you can hide from police and taxmen when you really need to. But other people, they are always around! They haunt you everywhere! As our national poet has said, “There is no happiness, but there’s peace and volya”.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“The very first adjustment, that I had to
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
—“The very first adjustment, that I had to make, the very first time I set foot in the USA, was to redefine ‘freedom’. ‘Freedom’ here means ‘freedom to make money’ – the word has no other meaning. As an immediate afterthought – and ‘God’ is for those who stand in the way of that.
I had just landed in Boston, that thought coincided with leaving the airport and hitting the first public road.
In Culebra, a tiny island (Virgin Islands) in the grip of the Big Bald Eagle (USA), where I live now, ‘liberty’ only has meaning in the context of its abuse: to take a liberty.”— Paul Franklin
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 12:59:17 UTC
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“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute mo
—“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world, or to become a Tsar. Stalin embodied both criminal and Tsar russian archetypes.”—Igor Rogov
The origin of our differences: Limited to Reciprocity vs Unlimited by Reciprocity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 10:51:00 UTC
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“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute mo
—“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world, or to become a Tsar. Stalin embodied both criminal and Tsar russian archetypes.”—Igor Rogov The origin of our differences: Limited to Reciprocity vs Unlimited by Reciprocity.
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“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute mo
—“For Russians a true free will (volya) is enjoyed either by Tsar, an absolute monarch, or by free roaming cossack, vagabond, criminal, who does not have to take the wishes of other people into consideration and either goes into unsettled land where he may continue to live unattached, or to go underground into criminal world, or to become a Tsar. Stalin embodied both criminal and Tsar russian archetypes.”—Igor Rogov The origin of our differences: Limited to Reciprocity vs Unlimited by Reciprocity.