Author: CurtD59

Jan 5, 2020, 5:20 PM Proximity decreases opportunity costs (time). Decreases in opportunity costs increase transactions. Increases in transactions increase monetary velocity. Monetary velocity increases the possibility of consumption. Increases in consumption increase the possibility of taxation. An increase in taxation increases the possibility of commons. Increases in commons produce increases in demand for use…

Religion for the -80’s, Moralizing for the 90’s, Rationalization for the 100’s. platonism for the 110’s empiricism for the 120’s. operationalism for the 130’s+ There is a reason for islam in the arab and indonesian worlds, and hinduism in the hindustani worlds. buddhism on se asian. christianity in the south american, secular christianity in the…

Jan 8, 2020, 9:14 PM ‘FOOL US TWICE, SHAME ON US. Why did they invent lying? And why are we susceptible to it? Abrahamic deceit is not backward. It is an advanced technology that like viruses or cancer, that takes advantage of a natural cognitive vulnerability to empathy and suggestion to bypass reason and create…

Fable 112 – The Chariot of Hermes and the Arabs “One day, Hermes drove across the entire Earth a chariot filled with lies, villainy and fraud. And he distributed a small portion of his cargo in each country he visited. But when he arrived in the country of the Arabs, the chariot suddenly broke down.…

Jan 8, 2020, 10:02 PM I don’t get to ‘appeal’ to markets. The law doesn’t do that. We use the law to create policy that appeals to markets WITHIN the natural law. I CANT compromise without compromising the law itself. So no. Propertarianism isn’t an ideology or philosophy it’s just a formal logic of the…

Jan 9, 2020, 9:10 AM —“You lose me totally here. It’s ALL about race.”—Cortny That’s because you’re conflating two issues. There is no contradiction between ethnonationalism for all to produce optimums for all, and eugenics for all to reduce the worst for all. In other words under truth (science), under reciprocity and rule of law,…

Jan 9, 2020, 9:14 AM Scapegoating vs Accountability – vs – Plausible Deniability vs Warranty. by James Lyons Sr.

Hydrocarbons are from dead organic material – and you need an astonishing set of circumstances to make oil out of these things and preserve them. First, you’ve got to concentrate them somewhere where they’re not dispersed or oxidized – which means in swamps, marshes, lakes or something like that. (See “Peat Marshes” and “Bog Bodies”.)…

Jan 9, 2020, 5:45 PM Why Arabs Lose Wars meforum.org Source: Excerpt from meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars (Conversely: Staying on message: Islamism like Judaism (or christianity) is exceptional at undermining.) First, the well-known lack of trust among Arabs for anyone outside their own family adversely affects offensive operations.26 Exceptions to this pattern are limited to elite units (which…

Jan 9, 2020, 5:45 PM Why Arabs Lose Wars meforum.org Source: Excerpt from meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars (Conversely: Staying on message: Islamism like Judaism (or christianity) is exceptional at undermining.) First, the well-known lack of trust among Arabs for anyone outside their own family adversely affects offensive operations.26 Exceptions to this pattern are limited to elite units (which…

Jan 10, 2020, 11:02 AM —“The hardest thing over the last few years I’ve had to come to accept has had to be be the proposition that “we are self-domesticating.” That we must own efforts in every “agent-arena” relationship because no one but us will. For those of us like myself that “wandered through the…

Jan 10, 2020, 12:41 PM Again: if parenting was that influential we couldn’t exist. Instead, parents primary control is ONLY who they mate with, and while you can’t make your kids ‘better’ you can do them harm. So in parenting, as in ethics, DO NO WRONG is far more important than trying to do right.…

Jan 12, 2020, 3:47 PM @charlesmurray Correct but the opposite, via-negativa: The neuroscience is trivial. The causes of defects in intelligence are almost limitless. It’s not so much that we need to understand intelligence (g), it’s that we need to understand why defects in intelligence are so common. AFAIK, (g) is the most accurate measure…

Jan 13, 2020, 3:20 AM What are you talking about? IQ is the most studied, most empirical, most accurate, and most consistent subject in psychology? The 60’s and 70’s were the scientific dark ages as the pseudoscience of marxism and sophistry of postmodernism had their largest affect on soft sciences. We combine IQ with Bi5…

I’ve followed this guy for quite a few years as an example of someone whose empirical management and workload was something I simply had to be in awe of. I don’t know if he’s guilty of anything yet but his skill is certainly something to study. He was brutal (American) in both France and Japan.…

Jan 14, 2020, 12:50 PM In the Western tradition, we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties because of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due disrespect or even punishment if we do not…

Jan 14, 2020, 2:42 PM Henri Pirenne – Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe-Mariner Books (1956) You can find this book on library genesis. So far it’s the ‘least wrong’ history of medieval europe I can find. Also can recommend: Hodgett, Gerald Augustus John – A social and economic history of medieval Europe (1972).…

Jan 14, 2020, 4:27 PM by Bill Joslin (important) (riffing of post shared below) (note the multiple dimensions common in propertarian analysis) 1) Production Distribution: Whereby the square root of the population accounts for 50% of productivity (thanks Heavens Wolves for these connections). 2) Lower Power Distance = Greater Chance of Trust. Power distance index:…

Jan 15, 2020, 8:51 AM —” (with irony) Today’s Youth explains that the economic failures of communism didn’t have much to do with the Soviet Union’s demise.”—Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer The Soviets used the fact that Russians had been serfs only decades before – and most still lived like serfs – and migrated them to a…

Jan 15, 2020, 6:32 PM —“Equality of Opportunity is only theoretically possible in a totalitarian state and even then it is impossible because those with the power to enforce equality of opportunity would be vastly more powerful than the ordinary citizen and would use that power to further entrench themselves and their class in the…

Jan 17, 2020, 9:43 AM Under P-Law claiming you were or your ancestors were oppressed if (a) domesticated, (b) forcibly integrated into civilization, rule of law, truthful speech, nuclear family, self-sufficiency, the sacredness of the commons, duty, piety (c) fulfilling an economic necessity, is a crime.

Jan 17, 2020, 10:29 AM —“Curt I think you need to stay home because after the shit gets hot this country’s going to need a leader because a lot of the people on the right are getting tired of Trumps BS because he’s so pro-israel and pro-immigrant”—Robert Shumaker If I want street creed with those…

Jan 18, 2020, 2:20 AM The galaxy has only rotated 50 – 60 times, the earth has only rotated around it 20 times, we pass through the galactic plane every 30-40m years, and are part of a wave-shaped stellar nursery above and below the plane.

Jan 18, 2020, 8:05 AM We can just as easily categorize the female brain and the male brain instead as breadth(experience, children)-first vs depth(time, environment)-first. When the paradigm you use is the high cost of brains, and high returns on brains, neural economy; division of reproductive, productive, and cognitive labor; economics of (returns on) cooperation;…

Jan 18, 2020, 8:43 AM (core) important —“It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”— Aristotle —“This is a manifestation of…