2. The Present Condition

[60min] (tentative)

Outline:

• The Convergence
  • What made the west unique and WEIRD…
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  • Every time we raise a class into agency….
    • Lag: Resistance to adaptation into conformity with the class above
      • Class = capacity to bear responsibility NOT income.
    • Economic Lead
    • Legal Lag
    • Institutional Lag 
    • The utility and disutility of common law and concurrent legislation vs monarchy or authoritarianism in correcting these lags
    • Global Lag as the world has caught up economically
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  • The replacement of meritocracy with credentialism and the managerial state
  • The overproduction of pseudo-elites and the resulting conflict and calcification of politics, economics, society, and geo strategy.
  • The introduction of a hostile elite using the feminine-semitic method of warfare from within.
  • The nature of women and our failure to suppress female antisocial behavior.
  • The swarming of our numbers by immigrants to compensate for the introduction of women and the offset in reproduction.
  • The oversupply of labor by the combination of women, immigrants, outsourcing.
  • The resulting inequality of returns and as such of income.
  • The resulting financial distress of increasing segments of the population.
  • The resulting social distress as demands for conformity to reciprocity cross the border of ‘proportionality’ into disproportionality creating social conflict.
  • The resulting decline in social cohesion and a rise in individualism and factionalism contribute to a breakdown as communal ‘trust, grace, tolerance’ weaken, society becomes more prone to conflict.
  • The resulting weakening of state institutions, as trust in these institutions erodes, whether through corruption, inefficiency, or inability to enforce laws fairly, also leads to social breakdown. 
  • The resulting incentive of factions in the population to resort to non-institutional means of achieving their goals, including protests and revolutions.
  • The resulting fiscal distress of the government as its false promises are falsified
  • The resulting destruction of the family as the first institution of production – of generations that persist the group evolutionary strategy and its contents.
  • The resulting destruction of socialization and adaptation as the second institution.
  • The resulting destruction of economic competitiveness.
  • The resulting destruction of strategic competitiveness.
  • Leaving our legal system and our currency as the only strategic advantage … until they destroy that too.
    
    

The Present Condition (state of Things)

• (macro) Determinism
  
  
  1. The destruction by false promise and demoralization
     1. the fomenting of conflict.
        
        
  2. Things Aren’t Good
     1. “lives Are Pretty Hard.” “victorian Work Conditions”  
     2. Standard of Living Has Dropped, with Hand-To-Mouth, Minor Crises Driving Them Over the Edge.
     3. For the Young Generation, as Useless as They Are, Uneducated and Indoctrinated, They Are ‘screwed’.
     4. The nationalization and globalization of status and identity markets (self regulatory, competition, context)
        
        
  3. The Spiritual State of The West.
     1. Social Media just made us AWARE of the damage becuse we could circumvent the academy, media, state ‘cathedral’ complex.
     2. psychological
     3. biological
     4. social, economic, political
     5. the demand for mindfulness provided by the ability to ‘calculate’ one’s actions to produces successes reinforced by social proof (feedback)
        
        
  4. We are not aware (Sources of Our Confusion)
     1. of our ‘mindfulness’ needs (confidence, anti-neuroticism),
     2. nor are we aware of the importance of limited variation in the polity’s ‘system of weights and measures’.
     3. Nor are we aware of the importance of variation of those weights and measures from our group strategy.
     4. Nor are we aware of our group strategy’s variation from the laws of nature including the natural law.
     5. We only experience stress instead.  (Therefore our work to make these things explicit.)
  5. (Brad’s Summary) …  (tie to measurement)
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The Problem of Prediction of Means of Change and Outcomes from it

• The feminine means of warfare by the enemy is MORE destructive than the masculine means of warfare.  Capital can be reconstructed.  Children can be born. But destroy the information system of the polity and as the middle east shows, you cannot reconstruct the polity.  Yet the only solution to the feminine means of warfare is the application of organized violence to suppress it, just as we suppress all means of warfare. The question is why westerners so oddly, alone among peoples of the earth, resist use of violence against the feminine means of warfare?  (Sovereignty, reciprocity – we are our own vulnerability.)
  
  
• Each Generation Is Stuck in The Zeitgeist of Their Formative Years, so is Each Civilization. THis generation Are Stuck in The Mentality of 2005.  So we have the problem not only of generations but of factions, because the enemy has been so successful at fomenting conflict as a means of generating demand for their authoritarianism.
  
  
• Frog in the boiling pot: “Nobody Sees It Coming, but it always happens” – the Determinism of Cw2

• The Difficulty in Predicting (despite Being Good at It)
  • Determinism of Conflict
  • Indeterminism of Means (field of Possibilities)
  • The Problem Is Timing
    
    
• The Solution is to Take Control of Causality to Produce Determinism in Outcome
  • And that is what we are up to at the Institute.