Notes on John Mark Interview – Part 8
Now that we have a much better picture in our head of what a better system could look like, tell us about the constitution you’re writing – how does it build on the original constitution, what does it add or clarify, make more thorough – tell us about it. Let’s do a little course correction…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 7
So is it accurate to say that full-franchise democracy is a disaster, we need to limit who gets to vote, and at the same time people can have representation, but those representatives need to be negotiating with each other within the bounds of reciprocity, not violating reciprocity? Anything you would change or add to that…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 6
Now, gov’t can also have another function which is to have a system where different groups of people can negotiate on commons. (I may take a minute to explain the difference between via-negativa & via-positiva, & briefly define “commons”.) The key is to enable representatives of the people to negotiate on commons without violating reciprocity.…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 5
it’s more accurate to say better govt vs worse govt. (I came from a libertarian mindset where I said “smaller gov’t is always better”, but you helped me see that’s not always true.) E.g. a 3rd-world country doesn’t pay its judges much & thus they are very susceptible to bribes; paying judges well is expensive…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 3
So what we see is that it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s reciprocity vs parasitism. Law’s job is to suppress all forms of parasitism and thus enforce natural law of reciprocity. In my other vids on Propertarianism I’ve explained the basics of how we can write/design our rule of law to do that better than…
Religions: Addiction to Emotional Self Indulgence
RELIGIONS: ADDICTION TO EMOTIONAL SELF INDULGENCE The purpose of most religions is not mindfulness but it supplanting it with addiction to emotional self indulgence. The purpose of buddha’s teaching was, originally, submissive mindfulness. The purpose of stoicism’s teaching was dominant mindfulness – action. The purpose of Epicureanism was evidentiary mindfulness: supplying the human with real…
The Difference is LAW not GOVERNMENT
Just to clarify, it’s our LAW, not our GOVERNMENT that creates anglodom’s excellence: the exclusivity of Tort, meaning ‘Trespass’ – the natural law of reciprocity – that libertarians pretend under Non-Aggression is some innovation on their part,rather than a sophism to entice useful idiots into a moral and arbitrary definition of trespass rather than an…
Morphological Differences in the Genetic Record
Over what period of time are morphological differences discernable in the genetic record? You are only distinguishable as you for about the past six generations, at which point you aren’t distinguishable any longer from the mass of the regional population at that time. One of the criticisms I get from right wing and population geneticists,…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 2
The fundamental problems are of course, That we are wealthy enough to create our own government suitable to our preferences, and we want to. Heterogeneity is a bad thing, that the west has been under an organized attack by the global left and domestic christian and and jews desperate to restore a monopoly and priesthood…
Notes for John Mark Interview – Part 1
It’s not always smaller govt vs bigger govt but it’s more accurate to say better govt vs worse govt. (I came from a libertarian mindset where I said “smaller gov’t is always better”, but you helped me see that’s not always true.) E.g. a 3rd-world country doesn’t pay its judges much & thus they are…
Curt Doolittle’s Via Positiva Strategy
Over the course of my lifetime I slowly evolved a social strategy that helped me overcome my natural aspiness and social anxiety. This evolved into a personal philosophy. Try to make every person you meet your friend or at least predisposed to friendliness. (It’s actually not very difficult.) Try to help every person you meet…
Rhetorical Weaponry Against The Abrahamic Religions
Been collecting a few good books. A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe, by Gerald Augustus John Hodgett 1972 An Economic History of Medieval Europe – by Norman John Greville Pounds 1994 Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe by Henri Pirenne 1936, 2014 Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from…
Sophists, nearly all.
It’s exasperating. Continentals are secular theologians at best. But even analytic philosophers are mostly sophists. Try to explain that the logics are falsificationary not justificationary. Ask them to try to prove something non trivial. Heads explode. Better, try “The liar’s paradox isn’t, it’s just a sophism of grammar using the copula in an incomplete sentence.”…
The Simple Reason Why a Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable
The Simple Reason Why a Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable Daniel Lang April 21st, 2017 SHTFplan.com America has always had its divisions, and Americans have never really been a monolith. We’ve always been a nation of many nations. The culture of New England is different from the culture of the Deep South, which…
America’s Second Civil War Has Already Begun
America’s Second Civil War Has Already Begun March 1, 2019 Repost From https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/americas_second_civil_war_has_already_begun.html By William L. Gensert In an excellent article by Jeff Lukens here on American Thinker, he asks the question, “Is a second civil war coming?” In reply, I say that America’s second civil war has already begun. Its opening shots were fired by Barack Obama…
The Origins of Our Second Civil War
The Origins of Our Second Civil War By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON July 31, 2018 6:30 AM Reposted from https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/origins-of-second-civil-war-globalism-tech-boom-immigration-campus-radicalism/ A Trump supporter holds an American flag at a rally in Madison, Ala., February 2016. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters) Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861?…
What A Second American Civil War Might Look Like
What A Second American Civil War Might Look Like Published on May 10, 2018 in History by Knjaz Milos Repost from https://foreignpolicyi.org/what-a-second-american-civil-war-might-look-like/ American society is highly divided one. The last time Americans were so opposed to each other was back in the 19th century, and it didn’t end well. When even the national security experts agree that there are…
Libertar-idiocy Dissipates Slowly
—“Ukraine was NEVER an anarcho-capitalist society and was never even close.”– (a) Define Ancap. (anarchic) voluntary Polycentric polylogical (clan) law. Voluntary commons (none). Voluntary Military (gangsters, clans), usury, irreciprocity, blackmail, all permitted. In other words, migratory shepherds of the deserts trying to hold superior farmland, when it is farmland that created demand for infrastructure (commons),…
Only Bullets Remain
The Right is Recognizing that When Ballots Don’t Count Anymore, Only Bullets Are Left. [This is our most important essay] Posted byRed-State Secession OFFSITE LINK: https://redstatesecession.org/?p=97 EMBED https://redstatesecession.org/?p=97
The Wyrm Turns
Time burns and the wyrm turns, and every day the window shifts, options decrease, opinion shifts, the pattern of behavior shifts, opposition is emboldened, defense is agitated, more and more give up hope of compromise, uncertainty increases, and all that it takes is a few of the right injustices to fan sparks to fire. I…
What Percentage of The Population Can Understand
(In reference to a post) —“If you were to hazard a guesstimate…what percentage of the population can comprehend what you have just written?”–Tom Watt Do you mean, CAN, or CAN and would CHOOSE to? I mean, I’m easier to understand than Kant, Menger, and Bohr to pick a few candidates. Many Millions CAN. Of those…
Some of Us.
Some of us change the physical world. Some of us change the social world to change the physical world. Some of us organize the social world to change the physical world. Some of us are stuck with the job of deciding the priority of that which we organize and change in the social and physical…
Truth, Force, and Agency
[T]ruth is half the battle (helps develop agency), force (using your agency) is the other half. —Alain Dwight The Three Acknowledgments of Agency: 1) I acknowledge that I can exercise some level of control over my thoughts, feelings and actions. 2) I acknowledge that I am responsible to control my thoughts, feelings and actions to…
“Invisible Hand of Nature”
by Martin Št?pán I have used the term “invisible hand of nature” in the last post. This is deliberate to create an association between nature and market because that is what nature is, a market. A self-correcting system, constantly trying to approach an equilibrium it can never reach because there’s too many variables involved. I…
Red Flag on Blackout Coffee is the Line in the Sand I Think.
Judicial Review wasn’t enough The 14th Wasn’t Enough Stacking the Court wasn’t enough Eliminating libel, slander, and duel wasn’t enough. Forcible integration wasn’t enough. Outlawing self defense wasn’t enough. Bussing wasn’t enough. Abortion wasn’t enough The ’86 ban wasn’t enough. In the Military wasn’t enough Marriage wasn’t enough. Forcing the bakers to bake wasn’t enough.…