There isn’t any shortcut.
THERE ISN’T ANY SHORTCUT TO WISDOM There isn’t any shortcut. You are either going to read enough basic history, and then learn the operational deconstruction of incentives from me, or you aren’t. There isn’t any shortcut. There isn’t one book. There is however a series of books that are the minimum you’ll need. But that’s…
The British Are United In Mutual Defense
by Oliver Westcott Genes -> Culture -> Politics -> Law The UK is made up of many more than 4 distinct cultures. BUT the British are mostly united in the very least on mutual defence. This has been invested into over the centuries and is one of our greatest commons as Britons. (Culture is downstream…
Feelings and Group Strategies
THE CIRCULAR ARGUMENT OF HOW PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL, OR THE SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL? 1) while I must understand how people came to their group strategies (habitual, normative, traditional, intellectual, institutional, and technological), I must also understand the outcomes (externalities) produced by those strategies. 2) if the…
Education (To Taleb)
EDUCATION. via Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT) Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by Tyler Cowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + “liberal education” for free men, (liber), who didn’t work for a living, & +”technical education”, for those who labor. 2) For instance, mathematics as taught for “liberal” education, was theoretical mind…
The Western Cult Is Sovereignty and Law
TO TALEB (THE WESTERN CULT IS SOVEREIGNTY AND LAW) (possibly important post for followers) Replying to @nntaleb @bryan_caplan @tylercowen Nassim: a) Substitute “Warranty and Liability” for “Skin in the Game” and you switch from discourse under colloquial, rhetorical, propter-hoc, low trust, heterogeneous, bazaars, to scientific post-hoc, high trust, homogenous, rule-of-law ‘markets’ proper. Nassim: b) I’ve…
The Mythos of General Plan Ost
THE MYTHOS OF NAZI GENERAL PLAN OST All general staffs develop war plans. The war plan to use asymmetric warfare against ukraine was produced somewhere between 2010 and 2012. Every single general staff in the world has hundreds of such plans. They vary from the trivial, to the devious, to the genocidal. That is what…
Fact and Fiction of Nazi Aryan History
FROM QUORA —“Leaving racial supremacy theories aside, what is the fact and what is the fiction behind the Nazi version of Aryan history?”— CONTROVERSIAL 1) The Nazi propaganda was absolutely pseudoscientific nonsense. We have to understand that the Nazi program was aesthetic – a sort of secular religion – to inspire people who were utterly…
The Possibility of an American Revolution
THE POSSIBILITY OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION Replying to @DiasporaDiabhal @thefaceberg 1) While historically a small percentage (under 3%) of unwed males have been the cause for most revolutions (men being a surplus resource of violence like any other resource) it is trivial at this point in time for very small numbers to bring an end to…
Do Smart People Lack Common Sense (Intelligence)
–“DO SMART PEOPLE LACK COMMON SENSE?”– Well, there are a couple of issues here we can discuss. 1) IQ increases the rate at which you learn, and the degrees of indirection between what’s learned. 2) IQ is the most dominant personality trait, with industriousness second, and all others comparatively far less influential. 3) By and…
The Experiment Failed.
–“I never understood how letting everyone vote is a good thing”–Peter Sorrentino Well, I think originally jefferson’s idea was that being as inclusive as possible decreased the chances of concentrating power. Universal white males in 1856 White women in 1920 Minorities in 1965. So you can see what happens rather rapidly. The experiment has been…
The Purpose of Diversity The Defeat of Western Civilization?
Are calls for dramatically increasing cultural diversity essentially calls for the replacing of Western Civilization with something else? The roman empire was undermined by the same (((People))) by the same means, by selling similar fictionalisms to women and the underclasses, and rapid immigration overwhelming the military, which was what made Romans disciplined, invested in the…
A World Without Money?
A WORLD WITHOUT MONEY? —“What would happen if there were no money on earth?”– (Repost) Answered May 1, 2013 Believe it or not, this subject has been given quite a bit of treatment in the literature – mostly during the early part of the last century in response to the communist, socialist and fascist movements.…
There Are Plenty of Good Women…
There are plenty of good women. They are just rarely on the market precisely because they are good women. There are plenty of good men. They are just rarely on the market precisely because they are good men. The problem with good men and good women is that relationships do fail today, and they don’t…
Western Vs Jewish Ethics
Libertarian ethics derive from hebrew diasporic pastoralist ethics (those than can run away) whereas western sovereign ethics derive from western indo european agrarian militia ethics (those that remain present) – which is a difference between the short term temporal and longer term intertemporal. which is why libertarian ethics are limited to volition, not like western,…
Rome: We Begin And End With The Militia
–“The story of [the Empire’s] ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated…
Then and Now.
England started the industrial revolution with crucible steel. America supplied cheap labor to european inventions just like china is supplying cheap labor to western inventions. The second scientific and technological revolution happened in post-prussian germany in the later 1800’s and was truncated by the war, with the russians (equipment and tools) and americans (scientists) the…
The Failure of Libertarian Property Definition
by Eli Harman via Brandon Hayes Libertarians have a theory of legitimate private property originating in original appropriation and subsequent exchange. This is sometimes called “Intersubjectively Verifiable Property” (IVP) which means “property people can agree who owns” and it basically limits the scope of “legitimate” property to personal, private, property. But people will intuit assaults…
Libertarianism’s Self Destruction
by Luke Weinhagen (better than I have said it) (brilliant) The way (my revelation) hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation)…
The Key To Understanding Propertarianism
KEY TO UNDERSTANDING PROPERTARIANISM by Luke Weinhagen Understanding this: —-“There exist only three possible relations (avoidance, cooperation, conflict).”—- … and developing the skill to accurately identify these categories, makes everything Propertarianism is exploring understandable and in context. Where I’ve had misses in comprehension has consistently been where I’ve mis-categorized one or more of those three…
Ghengis Khan vs Crusoe
GENGHIS KHAN VS CRUSOE What provides genghis kahn with the incentive to (a) let you live, (b) keep your things (c) let you remain free of slavery (d) Let you keep a portion of your production? It’s the inverse of the Crusoe’s Island thought experiment. Historically, the model that we evolved with, is an evenly…
Self Ownership Must Be Constructed From A Commons.
SELF OWNERSHIP CAN’T EXIST IT MUST BE CONSTRUCTED FROM A COMMONS. Well, self ownership can’t exist, it can only be constructed as an informal institution(norm) or formal institution( legislation). So you can desire to construct a thing, and once you construct a thing, use that thing to produce goods, but it does not exist independently…
The East Was Never Roman.
The roman empire consisted of the Roman (western mediterranean), and Rome’s conquest of the Greek Empire (Aegean), Greek-Conquered Egypt, and Anatolia, Roman conquered Syria, Palestine, and North Africa. The greek (eastern empire) survived, but the west was lost to jewish internal insurrection and Germanian external conquest, and the rest incrementally lost to judaism v3, the muslim…
The “Dirty World” and Pollution
The reason indians east asians produce the vast majority of ocean waste (plastics) is that here are more people in the “Dirty World” than in the rest of the world combined. So when I tell you that there is only one problem in the world and it is the population of that region, that is…
Eli Harman Schools Libertarians
ELI TRIES TO SCHOOL LIBERTARDS ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CIRCULARITY OF “SHOULD” VERSUS THE CORRESPONDENCE OF “IS” > Clifton Knox Hoppe’s argumentation ethic presented in formal logic. 1. Using reason and evidence to deny a proposition is a kind of argument. 2. Deny a necessary precondition or premise of an argument and you deny…
Ending the Libertarian Fallacies of Argumentation and Estoppel
ENDING FALLACIES OF ARGUMENTATION AND ESTOPPEL: THE LESSON 1) You cannot OWN anything without an insurer (violence) capable of insuring it against all *anticipatable* alternatives. 2) You can possess something in fact without an insurer (numbers). 3) You cannot possess a right of enforcement (property right) without an insurer. 4) Ownership consists of a normative…