Month: February 2018

Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.

—“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.) We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best…

—“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others…

Just to throw a little operational science in here – humans are happiest when they succeed at controlling their conditions (responsibility) and when they intuit they ‘fit’, are ‘productive’, and ‘won’t be left behind’ (meaning) becauses it reduces the subconscious effort to status-seek or prevent status loss at the cost of cellular damage to zero.…

Obviously, since black participation is relatively meaningless. European civilization’s empiricism begins 4500 years ago. We dragged mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, poverty, superstition, disease, hard labor, and tyranny – kicking and screaming all the while. Both in the early bronze age, the ancient world, and the modern world, with a brief halt to…

Anarchism is a nonsense word invented as a trope in the same way the capitalism vs socialism are nonsense words invented as tropes – in order to distract from and avoid the causal problem: whether one is ruled by rule of law versus discretionary rule (not rule of law, but rule by command, rule by…

Harvard’s seeks to ‘acquire’ an inventory of future leaders. Any criteria that might produce a future leader is sufficient. That’s the selection process in an nutshell. And that is the reason for their market leadership. Harvard and Yale were originally THEOLOGICAL institutions producing talent for the clergy that performed society’s managerial functions – and by…

—“What would happen to the US economy if (scenario 1) the top 5% unleashed all their savings or (scenario 2) put away gradually more into savings?”— I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision: *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use,…

Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness): “I want freedom.” “I want equality.” — So do both, in different places. It’s not that freaking difficult.

Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness): Once democracy becomes fundamentally and explicitly about opening the gates (demographic replacement, or not) it becomes a death match. Discuss.

Retweeted Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit): This makes clear the legal basis for Jared Taylor’s lawsuit. The law in California seems pretty clear: private entities can’t restrict speech if they provide an important forum for public debate. I think it’s got a real shot at success. https://t.co/xMPZMW98qz

—“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold. In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftist beliefs represents Sin. That is, the leftist’s real motive…

by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian argument that (a) the West was already great and that through this greatness, the West made the alien religion of Christianity great (rather than the narrative that Christianity saved and made the West great) and (b) Christianity is a slave religion / religion…

by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum where they end up being reduced to snippets or truisms (e.g., what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger). Most people don’t understand where the ideas come from. I hear people throwing out postmodernist arguments…

by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. It’s just that “we won’t take sh*t” anymore”—

Simon Ström Europe has been populated for a long time but Europeans as we recognize ourselves are a relatively recent, cutting-edge phenomenon. We are a northern artifact of the secondary products revolution on the verge of the Neolithic-Metal age Case on point: the earliest archeological evidence of a nuclear family is from…

THE “EVENT” THAT CREATED ETHNIC EUROPEANS by Simon Ström Yamnaya + Funnelbeaker Neolithic is the final admixture event, and it began already in the 4th millennium BC in PIE Ukraine, if not earlier. The two populations welded together on the material horizon from which the oldest wooden wheels are found–in the…

(memories) That feeling of driving your Ferrari under the parking arm – just ’cause you can. lol

by Alexander Zavialov The practice of exogamy stems from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. The Western offshoots à la Corded Ware remained isolated from the rest of the world and the practice fortunately faded out of existence. You still had Bell Beakers invading Iberia and Italy and thus producing modern Spaniards and Italians. …

LOOK, EUROPEANS (Russian-Ukrainians) ARE ~40K YEARS OLD. And it looks increasingly like an evolution out of Cro Magnons. (Alexander Zavialov ?)

by Alexander Zavialov The entire history of the East Aryans is an absolutely unfathomable tragedy. They went from being the masters of the world – inventing the wagon, the chariot and innovating in metalworking and warfare – to exogamous fools who shared their technology as frivolously as they shared their genes. By the time…

Alexander Zavialov In the end, Indo Europeans went under (were destroyed) wherever they failed to supplant the host population; the biggest contrast being Britain – where the entire host population was wiped out – and basically all Indo-Iranian cultures – where the host population took over and kept only the religion and the…

So, as IE’s expand, they use religion to manage conquered people, and law to manage themselves. (That’s the nut of it right there.)

Human nature invests minimum to gain maximum and is quite lazy when it comes to unnecessary precision, but then attempts to use imprecise terms (and ideas) to solve precise problems. Human experties in sciences (deflationary grammars) serves to deflate any given level of abstraction. I have a chart you need to see. …

by Kage Keller Pardon me for restating in language less exacting. We use Truth to create models that corresponde with reality. We use that model for heuristics. —“definition: a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect,…