Putting Another Misesian To Bed
—“I generally do not follow socialistic thinking processes such as the concept of trade between groups. Methodological individualism is, to me, the way to go, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out. So I am sorry I cannot agree with this analysis. Individuals trade, and individuals act. This idea of a group having some kind of…
Evolution of European Writing
[S]o whomever brought it up, it looks like humans favor a similar evolution of symbols and then incrementally evolve into pictorial or phonetic. I suspect that like most things, the mark-making process like the language speaking process evolves out of efficiency – laziness. lol So just as humans speak language humans can speak, humans draw…
Getting Un-Lost: It’s All of the Above: Genetic, Cultural, Institutional, Territorial
[I] think I have lost a bunch of you. It seems we get truth. It seems we get the high trust society. It seems we get the western model of truth and trust produce economic velocity. It seems we get the reproductive division of perception and cognition. It seems we get that the anglo saxon…
Grid: Three Group Evolutionary Strategies
Feminine: Aggressive Gossip: (jewish) Libertarian: Aggressive Trade (anglo neo-puritan) Masculine: Aggressive Violence (muslim) Russian = ++Gossip +Violence -Trade Chinese = +Gossip +Violence -Trade I suppose that we can graph all cultures on these three dimensions.
Sorry, But I Love My Betters
[S]orry, but I am perfectly thrilled to have betters. Here in London I see lots of them. And I am thankful for them. I like what I do. I am glad they do what they do. I can see the Dutch and German in them. They’re bigger, taller, and better looking than my little Celtic…
Duelling?
—“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are…
The Steppe Manufactures Aggression?
SO IS THIS RIGHT? Africa generated variation because it is actually quite a hostile climate. the first waves out were not aggressive people. Each new wave has been more aggressive than the last, and exterminated, raped, mated with, or ate the previous generation. At some point the steppe and desert started breeding aggression because of…
How Far Are You Willing To Go?
[H]OW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO? To protect your family? To protect your tribe? To protect your civilization? To protect mankind? What are you willing to do? Talk is cheap. Gossip is ineffective. The only solution is to raise the cost of the status quo until it is intolerable. Source: (5) Curt Doolittle
Grid of Cultural Tactics
1) TRUTH AND DECEIT, 2) MASCULINE AND FEMININE, 3) HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS. ———————TRUTH——————————MASCULINE————————-FEMININE—————————————————————-TEXAS………..GERMAN…………BRITISH …………………..JAPAN…………….FRENCH……………………………………………LATINAMERICAN………………………….HINDU…………………..CHINA…………………………..ISLAM……….. RUSSIA……………JUDAISM———————————————————————————DECEPTION————— Note that the american/hindu line represents “idealism” more so than deception.Latins and french are pragmatic. Anglos and Germans ‘truthful’. More later. Just capturing the idea while I’m thinking of it. Source: (3) Curt Doolittle
On Gays, Gay Marriage, and the Consequence of Breaking the Limits of Tolerance
(interesting) (some novel ideas) [T]wo over-the-top, 60-year-old, male, American, gay travelers at the table across from me, in ‘full whine’. (Full Bitch is a hostile countenance, Full Whine is just a complaining countenance.) I think gay men are pretty awesome ‘additions’ to civilization. I mean, how would I dress myself, without them? Seriously? How much…
Property:Positive / Commons:Negative
[P]roperty is an attempt to solve the problem of decidability on the use of resources. But no matter how we arrange property we still have the problem of producing commons – where we define ‘commons’ as an investment that produces goods, but must be free of privatization (consumption). (Parks are a great example because their…
Another on Aristocracy(criticism) vs Republicanism(Justification)
Science=critical. Morality=justificationary. [I] have been working on the series: ‘obverse/revers, justification/criticism, morality/science, property-right/prohibition, GoldenRule/SilverRule, that is the western innovative alternative to eastern static ying-and-yang. Where they match sides, we only overlap in a venn diagram. Where they have a balance of equality and necessary cooperation, we have a division of labor and voluntary cooperation. OBVERSE:…
Q&A: Aristocracy vs Republic? It’s Criticism vs Justification.
—“I’m a bit ignorant on this. What makes an aristocracy different from a republic. With leaders or rulers representing a population.”— [G]reat question. Thanks for asking it. Because you gave me the nudge I needed to write a first draft of aristocratic government that circumvents problems in libertarian thought. I have been working on the…
Universalism: The Love of Man
[S]orry all, but while I argue to advance my tribe, I also seek to advance all tribes through aristocratic egalitarianism (meritocracy), testimonial truth, and propertarianism. My political solution is very simple: non-parasitism, voluntary exchange, rule of law, common law, jury and truth telling. Truth is enough to restore our civilization to greatness by a radical…
How To Repair The Western Press?
[R]oman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state. Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers. And…
Choice: Truth vs Lies
[W]E HAVE A CHOICE: Truth and Trade (propertarianism) -versus- Lies and Takings (progressivism) Source: (2) Curt Doolittle
Propertarianism is for the Prosecution
(good) [I]f we claim we speak truthfully, then that we perform an act of testimony. If we are both trying to find the truth, then we engage in an act of discourse. If we are both trying to persuade and inform a jury(audience), then we participate in a debate. But if you are trying to…
The Reason You’re Poor
[Y]ou are not a landlord or rentier. So, I understand why you are not rich. But why are you poor and always broke? The answer is that you or the society you belong to, have – for various reasons- a very short time preference. You will rather spend now than save. And you prefer to consume…
Eli Apologizes for American Yankees
[I] want to formally apologize to the world for the part America has played in pushing women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, egalitarianism, democracy, and all the other hallmarks of progressivism. We didn’t kill enough Yankees. That’s a mistake I hope we can someday rectify. But in the meantime, I’m deeply and sincerely sorry. We’ve…
The Problem Isn’t Democracy Per Se, But the Combination of Democracy and Women
COOPERATION MATTERS. Not just cooperation between members of the PRODUCTIVE economy, but between members of the REPRODUCTIVE economy: men and women. We have to cooperate. Not parasite. OTHER WISE COOPERATION IS NOT PREFERABLE TO PREDATION. And under predation, men will win. —“Democracy has brought us both the death of Socrates and the election of Hitler. It…
Genetic Bias Toward Philosophical Systems
[R]OMAN ON THE GENETIC USE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR STATUS SEEKING —If I understand correctly, your novelty is arguing that ideas are the structure and genes are man’s accommodation of them. You can say ideas (civilization) and genes inform each other. Perhaps the influence of ideas is underestimated. I don’t think it’s correct to say that…
Institutions not Genetics. Epigenetic or Otherwise.
[E]pigenetics is interesting but it doesn’t help me with institutions. As far as I can tell, we don’t need to ‘persuade’ anyone of anything. We just need to outlaw the entire spectrum of lying in addition to fraud theft violence and murder and to create universal standing in matters of the commons, and natural incentives…
Michael Philip on Malthus (Smart)
[F]rom Michael Philip I view Malthus as a tempered social revisionist who knocked down myths, thought in terms of social science mechanisms (he had both supply and demand and Keynesian macro in surprisingly sophisticated forms, not to mention an early form of Darwin’s theory of evolution), and was painfully aware of the importance of contingent…
Taleb is On Board with Tribalism
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Why GREECE, GREXIT, and “EUROPE” are an unnatural proto-Nazi “Aryan” construction — or why putting Teutons and Greeks together isn’t the smartest (and most stable) idea. Nor is it natural. The least *unnatural* union for Greece is some sort of *loose* Mediterranean League of City States (and another minor Balkan connection). But again,…
Religions Come In Many Forms
[T]o act in concert with, or at least not in conflict with, others, we require a narrative (scope) and a means of decidability (choice). Religion provides both. Philosophy (reason), Scientism (evidence), Politics(utility), and Magianism(mythology) all are forms of religion: means by which we compose useful narratives and construct useful rules of decidability so that we…