The Cost of IQ
This is probably the most important simple chart that we must understand to grasp the world we live in. It’s really that simple.
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The Weeks When Decades Happen
America’s 100 Days Kulak Oct 24, 2024 As of writing it is 18 days to the election on Nov 5th, and 94 days to Inauguration Day on Jan 20th. Maybe the most knowledgeable meta-historian/Commentator alive today, whatifalthist, has predicted a civil conflict in which over 1000 Americans die will begin in this period… And I’d…
1. Three Presentations
[ 10 min] Curt – The Course and Conduct of a Revolution orCivil War “Understanding the Dynamics of Revolution and Civil War: Causes, Methods, and the U.S. Context” Setting Up the Context The Present Condition How We Got Here The Cause of Revolution and Civil War The Emergence of an Age of Discord(Crisis) Means of…
8. Possibilities of Revolution, Civil War or Collapse?
Possibilities of Revolution, Civil War, or Collapse? ( … ) What A Collapse Will Look Like ( … ) What a Victory of the Left Will Look Like ( … ) Paint the “Scary Picture” – What Does Real Civil War Look Like? ( … ) The Most Likely Means of Conflict,…
2. The Present Condition
[60min] (tentative) Outline: The Convergence What made the west unique and WEIRD… ( … ) 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…
4. The Cause of Civil Wars
[75min] Curt: (am) “the Problem”: “ability, Agency, Responsibility” – Natural Selection in Favor of Evolution. Transitional Intro Criminals will not give up their crimes, and victims will not stop their suffering until the criminals are forced to give up their crimes. You’re a victim of crime and all the rest of the chatter is primitive…
10. The Choice
[75min] Curt: (pm) The Choice (discussion and Audience Participation) <problem Statement, Having a Hand in Shaping the Future> We’ve Shown that Winning Is Possible. but We Have to Make the Choice to Win by The Means Available and Ends Available – Not Those that Are Fanciful Ideal and Otherwise Impossible. Presentation <potential Content> the Problem…
9. The Solution
How to Address Parasitic Irreciprocities and Prevent Crimes That Lead to Revolution The purpose of all of these irreciprocities is to sequester a group outside of market forces, while forcing other groups to bear the costs of market forces. ChatGPT said: That’s a powerful insight — irreciprocities work precisely by creating symmetric burdens where one…
3. How We Got Here
How We Got Here How The Population Incorrectly Frames The Issue But The Real Cause of Failure Is …. How The Intellectual Class Frames The Crisis The Feminine Means of War Reasons for The Emergence of Conflict The Resulting Asymmetry of Power Asymmetry of Power Between the Left and the Right Present Asymmetry of…
5. Emergence of An Age of Discord
Ages of Discord Ages of Discord as Markets – but for what? What Markets Make Aspiration of Classes Possible? What Is an Elite (versus an Aristocracy)? What Does Power Mean? Why Some People Aspire to Elite Positions Over Others What Makes Elite Overproduction Possible Emergence of Parasitic Elites Ages of Discord (Turchin) An “Age…
6. Means of Revolution and Civil War
Means of Revolution and Civil War Goal: What will a revolution look like. 0. First Principles of Causes of Political Conflict I. Spectrum (Categories) of Political Conflict II. Examples across that spectrum III. Variation by Stage of Development IV. Variation by Ethnic and Ideological Differences 0. First Principles of the Causes of Political Conflict…
7. Possible Means of US Conflict
Possible Means of US Conflict —“The Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute in Norway, which studies civil conflict around the world, defines “civil strife” as 25 deaths a year from politically motivated violence. For a conflict to rise to the level of “civil war,” the annual death count must…
Response to Lafeyette and Lee – The Ten Holes in the Constitution
RE: “Lafayette Lee & Michael Anton discuss the American Revolution & Counterrevolutions” While the modern rule of law state was invented by England, it was the founders who, under Blackstone’s articulation of Natural Law as the science of cooperation, created a system of governance under it, by producing a formalization in a constitution (contract)-…
Immigration
1) THE REASONS WHY GOVERNMENTS TOLERATE IMMIGRATION DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF THE POPULATION Q: Why are governments tolerating immigration over the objections of the populations? Answer Governments often tolerate immigration despite public opposition due to a variety of reasons, including economic, demographic, and humanitarian considerations. Here are some factors that might explain this phenomenon: Economic…
Rules of Ternary Logic (working copy)
(what we can say about the world) LOGICAL Decidable: ( … )There are three states of decidability, in order from more certainty to less: 1. Undecidable (In-actionable) (-) 2. Truth candidate (actionable) (+) 3. False certainty (=) Truth: ( … )There are Three States of Truth in the Spectrum of Demand for Truth Incoherent – Meaningless Coherent –…
Rules of Ternary Logic
Logic There are three states of decidability, in order from more certainty to less: 1. False certainty… 2. Truth candidatate (actionable)3. Undecidable (In-actionable) There are Three States of Truth in the Spectrum of Demand for Truth Incoherent – Meaningless 1. Coherent but inconsistent with satisfying the demand for decidability 2. Coherent and Consistent but Insufficient to satisfy the demand for decidability 3. Coherent, Consistent,…
Nine Reasons Why Aristocracy Beats Democracy
Jash Dholani ( @oldbooksguy ) Nine Reasons Why Aristocracy Beats Democracy 1. The Pyramid Problem. Will Durant said there are grand tasks “requiring generations” of coordination and democracy is utterly incapable of them. A democratically elected leader can never build a Pyramid. 2. The Freedom Paradox. Durant writes that while…
Spectrum of Warfare
A spectrum that describes the range of warfare actors, from highly organized state actors to loosely organized groups or random collections of individuals. Here’s a structured outline from most organized to least organized: 1. State Warfare Definition: This involves warfare conducted by nation-states with organized and professional military forces. These forces operate under formal hierarchies,…
The Triangles (the ternary logic of the universe)
What Do We Want To Get Across? (Depends on what context you want to get across.) The Whole Thing: “Causality, Dimensions, and Determinism” 0. Three states of the quantum background (-entropy) – (=equilibrium) – (+mass)1. Three States of Physics: (-charge) (=equilibrium) (+charge)2. Three Biological Processes: (-consumption) (=exchange) (+production)3. Three Strategies of Cooperation: (-Boycott) – (=cooperation) –…
European Group Strategy (in multiple forms)
TOC: 1. CURRENT EUROPEAN GROUP STRATEGY (T-SHIRTS)2. THE LIST OF PRINCIPLES EXPLAINED3. EXPLAINED AS COMMON LAW4. AS POETRY BY ALEXANDER POPE CONTENTS 1. CURRENT EUROPEAN GROUP STRATEGY (T-SHIRTS) The European Group Evolutionary Strategy consists of Organizing our numbers as a universal militia; For the reciprocal defense of Self-Determination by Self-Determined means, By ensuring one…
Neil Turok on the Simplicity of Nature
( I captured the text of this interview because Neil Turok touches on insights that I’ve included in my work on the first principles of the universe that we’ve discovered in physics. ) [INTERVIEW BEGINS]Hi, Neil Turok.Thank you so much for joining us on conversations at the perimeter.My pleasure.So I have to say I’ve…
IQ as Five Tribes
By James Thompson at https://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-7-tribes-of-intellect/ Tribe 1 “High Risk” These are the least able 5% of the population. In a town of 10,000 persons these would constitute 500 citizens. Learning is slow, so all intellectual achievements take a fair bit of time. Since all lifespans are finite, and for this group lifespans are shorter than…
The Fall of Libertarians Into Silly People
THE FALL OF LIBERTARIANS INTO SILLY PEOPLE Re: “…Hoppe’s axiomatic “Ethics of Argumentation”…” Common failure of false premises. Claims verbal argument pursuit of truth under pre-established consent to reciprocity, instead of verbal negotiation under presumption of possibility of violence. In other words, Hoppe’s argument, a derivation of marxist argument by hoppe’s mentor, Habermas, and like…
Philosophy Ended in The Last Century
The problem with philosophical tradition is that it’s predicated on textual and scriptural interpretation. It’s verbal not operational. But words don’t mean things, people mean things and they satisfy the demand for unambiguity, consistency, correspondence, and the possibility – or they don’t. So the entire program seems to have ended somewhere between…
