bucking the trend becomes the new trendsetting
October 10th, 2018 8:22 PM —“This is always how trends and fashions work. Once the trendsetters become the norm, bucking the trend becomes the new trendsetting. Look how beards have gone in and out of fashion approximately every century for the last all of recorded history or so…”—Ely Harman
Politics Is a Replacement for War.
October 9th, 2018 12:51 PM —“Majority rule is only sustainable if its a proxy for fighting strength. Politics is a replacement for war. It assesses the likely outcome of conflict without the bloodshed. But leaders lost that understanding and expanded voting to those who have no fighting or funding capacity. There is no functional reason…
Civil War Is Already Here
October 9th, 2018 12:48 PM —“Civil war is already here. We just haven’t had a battle with major casualties. (Portland antifa trying to intimidate drivers and calling them white). Note the police on a motorcycle just a 100′ away, standing down. Police in Democrat-run cities are enemy combatants, remember that. They can be nothing else…
No, The Byzantines Weren’t Roman
October 9th, 2018 12:17 PM NO THE BYZANTINES WEREN’T ROMAN AND THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE HAD LITTLE IF NOTHING TO DO WITH ROME OR EUROPE. CHRISTIANITY IS JEWISH, SYRIAN, AND GRECO-ANATOLIAN Ethnically, culturally, organizationally, they were Anatolians and the greek aristocracy (european conquerors) of the athenians and spartans lost. We treat old europe (southeast europe)…
Temples Functioned as Banks
October 9th, 2018 9:45 AM [T]he only historic facts we know are that (a) someone seems to have existed, (b) the fact that temples functioned as banks necessary for trade, and the uprising at the temple, (c)the prosecution and crucifixion of this person. Every other aspect appears to have been produced by the fictionalization and…
The Flip Side of Colonialism
October 9th, 2018 9:31 AM THE FLIP SIDE OF COLONIALISM Colonialism was a profound if not most profound good since the invention of farming – we dragged mankind out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, disease, hard labor, child mortality, early death, suffering, tyranny, and subjectivity to the vicissitudes of nature – kicking and screaming all the…
No, The Abrahamic Dark Ages Are Something We Survived.
October 9th, 2018 7:47 PM NO, THE ABRAHAMIC DARK AGES ARE SOMETHING WE SURVIVED. [I] don’t make mistakes. It’s my job to not make the mistakes others have made, no matter how frequent. No, the abrahamic dark ages destroyed all the great civilizations of the ancient world. Yes, it was the combination of plague and…
Good Maps of Evolution of Europa and West Asia
October 9th, 2018 3:27 PM GOOD MAPS OF EVOLUTION OF EUROPA AND WEST ASIA
(I just work harder at not being wrong )
October 9th, 2018 2:14 PM SERIOUSLY. [I] don’t make mistakes (very many anyway). It’s my job to limit myself to those things in which I can’t be mistaken, or which being mistaken is extremely difficult. Which is the entire point of my work. 😉 Limit yourself to that which you can operationally testify to. it’s…
Um. Shroud of Turin Is a Nice Forgery. Sorry
October 9th, 2018 2:08 PM UM. SHROUD OF TURIN IS A NICE FORGERY. SORRY [A]s far as I know the Shroud of Turin was produced for profit (a forgery) after the Fourth Crusade, as was common for all religious artifacts of the era. (Every little church wanted one as it provided an excuse for pilgrimage…
Plague and Disease vs Religion
October 9th, 2018 1:27 PM DEATHS FROM PLAGUE VS WARFARE VS RELIGION VS IDEOLOGY [P]lague is a disease (Bubonic Plague) spread by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis originating it what appears Pakistan in less virulent form?, spreading to china, and as usual, becoming virulent in china, and from china via overland and ships to persia, mesopotamia,…
Harman and Doolittle on The Economics of White Privilege
October 9th, 2018 10:57 AM HARMAN AND DOOLITTLE ON THE ECONOMICS OF WHITE PRIVILEGE THE ORIGINS OF WHITE PRIVILEGE by Eli Harman “White privilege,” and its precursor, “racism” have been used as weapons to create a burden of debt on white people and a claim of entitlement for non-white people. That constitutes a real non-white…
Liberalism vs Absolutism
October 9th, 2018 9:19 AM LIBERALISM VS ABSOLUTISM As usual, the study of Philosophy is almost always used as simply a reformation of the study of Theology. In that sense, it’s a sophism of the pre-scientific period, or a pseudoscience in the present. 1 – Morality (rules of good (non-retaliatory), and bad (retaliatory) display word…
The Final Word on Ontology vs Paradigm and Frame
October 9th, 2018 8:11 AM THE FINAL WORD ON ONTOLOGY vs PARADIGM AND FRAME. Ontology is used in subjective (experiential) and objective (testimonial) contexts to refer to a hierarchy of categories in a paradigm (network) of constant relations between existence perception cognition speech, and the service of speech in recreating the experience (loaded and inflated)…
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October 9th, 2018 12:31 AM (Before Trump’s election I wouldn’t touch politics at all – it was ‘an unworthy subject’. I just stuck with my work. The problem is, that it just got to be so much FUN after the election, and it hasn’t stopped being fun yet. So, yes, I have squandered a bit…
The Economics of Association in Heterogeneous Polities
October 9th, 2018 12:27 AM WHY WHITE PRIVILEGE? HERE IS THE CORRECT ANSWER: THE ECONOMICS OF ASSOCIATION IN HETEROGENEOUS POLITIES [I]t’s because ethnic europeans, particularly northern europeans, largely because of geography and culture came out of the dark ages first, had the enlightenment first, developed the first fully middle class civilization first, and did so…
Harman on Abandoning Hope for Western Women, And Resorting to Self Defense.
By Ely Harman At this point, I officially no longer care even about legitimate victims of rape or victims of legitimate rape or whatever you want to call them. Too many of them, in a blind, senseless, rage, mean to make ME a victim of a suffocating and overzealous matriarchy that won’t even address, but…
What Does Markets in Everything Mean?
October 8th, 2018 3:09 PM WHAT DOES MARKETS IN EVERYTHING MEAN? (Literally Everything) Markets in everything: 1 – Association (Disassociation), 2 – Reproduction, (Families), 3 – Cooperation, (interpersonal, social), 4 – Production, (commercial), 6 – Commons, ( private and public ), 5 – Frames: Disciplines/Paradigms/Grammars (conceptual), ……(this is the hard one to get across that…
The Difference Between Understanding(knowledge) and Use (craft)
October 8th, 2018 2:28 PM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT) I just thought of a good analogy. Mathematicians do amazing things without having any idea why their craft performs as it does. Then we have this nonsense of the contortions of the logical foundations of mathematics, that once you understand them, are ridiculous.…
Deconflation: Choice vs Probability
October 8th, 2018 2:11 PM UM. NO THAT’S CONFLATION. CHOICE vs PROBABILITY —“Curt: I am currently enrolled in a Chemical engineering course in which the professor is attempting to pair game theory with traditional modeling of chemical reactor plant design. He has conceptually replaced decisions with reactions and choices as atoms with the pains as…
Yes, Game Theory Is Just a Rubik’s Cube – a Toy – But…. Let’s Look at That a Moment…
October 8th, 2018 1:56 PM YES, GAME THEORY IS JUST A RUBK’S CUBE – A TOY – BUT…. LET’S LOOK AT THAT A MOMENT… —“Curt, What are your thoughts on Game Theory? Is it a valuable tool for describing group or individual behavior or just a kind of Rubix Cube for involuntarily celibate economists.”—â??Vincent Cucchiaraâ??…
Harman’s Law: The Government is Our Enemy.
October 8th, 2018 1:01 PM HARMAN’S LAW: THE GOVERNMENT IS OUR ENEMY AND ALL RESISTANCE BY ANY MEANS BOTH MORAL AND ETHICAL By Ely Harman [T]he government is our enemy, and it is in the hands of our enemies, with whom are at war. Denying your enemy resources, by any and every means possible, legal,…
We Know Quite Well What Postmodernism, Communism, and Abrahamism “Are”: Lying.
October 8th, 2018 11:48 AM WE KNOW QUITE WELL WHAT POSTMODERNISM, COMMUNISM, AND ABRAHAMISM “ARE” (“Consist Of”) (CD: Important piece on intellectual history) In response to a criticism of Hicks’ Postmodernism: —“Hicks …. When you don’t know what communism or postmodernism is.”— Anon Which I’ll counter with “When you know exactly what Abrahamism, Communism, Postmodernism,…
Literature, even fictional literature, is subjectively testable when operationally stated.
October 8th, 2018 11:45 AM [U]m. No. Let me help you: Literature, even fictional literature, (artificial history) is subjectively testable when operationally stated. Literature is not the problem. Using the fictionalisms of the the magical (pseudoscientific), Ideal (sophomoric, pseudo-rational), and occult (supernatural) is the problem. All such attempts are merely frauds to compensate for one’s…
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October 7th, 2018 8:05 PM [Y]eah. Yeah. I know the china thing. It’s like old news. The problem is, Like, I thought it would correct no later than 2010 or 2012. Now is 2018. So why isn’t it correcting? I mean, I don’t care about another ‘warning’ or ‘opinion’ or ‘woo wooo’ column on the…