The Definition of Proletariat in Roman Law
October 17th, 2018 10:53 PM THE DEFINITION OF PROLETARIAT IN ROMAN LAW by Igor Rogov [P]eople not belonging to any particular family, and having no name nor any stakes in upholding the ancestral honor: Which is literally “proletariat”, as defined by the Roman law and culture. The difference between Rome and the Present, is that…
The Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part I
October 17th, 2018 6:14 PM https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/10/jean-piaget-the-superior-psychogenetic-cognition-of-europeans/ (Copied without permission for Archival Purposes) Jean Piaget: the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part I Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Everyone has heard about Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of the cognitive development of children. But no one knows that his theory placed Europeans at the top of…
Economic Pseudoscience = Cherry Picking
October 17th, 2018 5:30 PM ECONOMIC PSEUDOSCIENCE = CHERRY PICKING [W]hat separates economic science from economic pseudoscience, is selective measurement of changes in capital. Labor mobility turns out to be one of the WORST POSSIBLE means of altering poverty. Bring capital and rule of law to people, not people to capital and rule of law:…
“Are You Done Yet?”
October 17th, 2018 3:08 PM [Y]ou don’t understand. Propertarianism is the most complete system of thought to date – more so than Marxism. It completes the Darwinian-Nietzchean (spencer, maxwell, mengerian, poincare) revolution. No I’m not kidding. That’s why you can’t grok it so easily. It addresses every aspect of human knowledge from what we call…
Answering Misunderstandings and The Folly of Cults.
October 17th, 2018 3:04 PM ANSWERING MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND THE FOLLY OF CULTS. With Giego Caleiro ( @Giego : I think your pm put out your objection pretty clearly, so hopefully this is a good start to working through the details. -Curt) —“There are fewer influx of defectors in islands, in isthmuses with mountains on the…
The Social Order
October 17th, 2018 2:19 PM THE SOCIAL ORDER by Brandon Hayes [M]arkets are the solution for cooperation and they form BETWEEN THE CLASSES! When we begin to dissolve the classes or they become intertwined/intermingled with-in a democratic system; cooperation ceases and compromise becomes the ethic. And the way we compromise in democracy is voting. And…
Due to The Pro Dysgenics, Movement, We Are Now Trapped
October 17th, 2018 12:50 PM [D]URING AGRARIANISM … … Humans were valuable for labor. During urbanization, labor and food were valuable for markets. Markets were valuable for Taxation. Taxation was valuable for producing a calculative class. A calculative class made possible greater scale of cooperation, greater returns, and greater survivability against competitors. During the industrial…
Markets of The Via-Negativa
October 16th, 2018 1:44 PM MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA [M]arkets don’t do much more than suppress the network of rents that exist wherever market competition does not. As always, markets are a via-negativa good. Just as law is a via-negativa good. Just as falsification is a via negativa good. We never know the truth, the…
The Problem of Political Stability
October 16th, 2018 12:33 PM THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL STABILITY by Michael Churchill The left cannot function once its means are revealed. Its leaders understand that, hence the cultivation of Antifa as shock troops. Democracy may be in the process of phasing out as an optimal political solution, because it creates a monopoly, and one…
The optimum government is flexible
October 16th, 2018 11:30 AM —“That The optimum government is flexible (Roman) with Authoritarianism for War, Markets for growth, and Redistribution for Windfalls. Can’t be said enough.”— William L. Benge
Again: MBTI vs BIG5/6 vs Moral Foundations vs Gender
October 16th, 2018 10:43 AM AGAIN: MBTI vs BIG5/6 vs MORAL FOUNDATIONS vs GENDER (from elsewhere) In other words, the principle difference between MBTI and Big 5 are (a) the weight it gives to trait expression, and (b) the principle difference in value is that with 100 Questions we can test your IQ within a…
The left HAS to be kleptocratic. They’re dysgenic.
October 16th, 2018 7:58 AM [H]onor and Decency are antithetical to the left. They mean ‘don’t steal’. The left HAS to be kleptocratic. They’re dysgenic.
Absolutism Is Nonsense. Zero Tolerance Is Not.
ABSOLUTISM IS NONSENSE. ZERO TOLERANCE IS NOT. 1) We pursue what we can both undrestand and suits our interests. 2) Absolutism is easy to understand. It’s the children’s-blocks version of political problem solving. 3) Absolutism is easy to use when ‘backward’ or ‘at war’, but extremely error prone at competition and production. It is…
The New York Times on The NPC Meme
October 16th, 2018 8:25 PM THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE NPC MEME (Edited) -What is an NPC?- NPC means â??nonplayable characterâ? or â??nonplayer character.â? Itâ??s a term, borrowed from the world of video games, for a character that is controlled by the computer rather than by a player. An NPC often advances the gameâ??s…
Vlad’s Simple Strategy
October 16th, 2018 6:44 PM VLAD’S SIMPLE STRATEGY [V]lad’s strategy was ‘scorched earth‘. A territory with no crops, and no farmers to work it is a desert to a ruler who wishes to collect taxes from it. Tepes made it irrational to pursue him because (a) he had already penetrated the sultan’s camp to assassinate…
Upcoming Book: Alienated America
October 16th, 2018 6:32 PM UPCOMING BOOK: ALIENATED AMERICA Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse Available February 19, 2019 [D]uring the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclaimed, â??The American dream is dead,â? and this message resonated across the country. Why do so many people believe the American dream is no longer…
The Rise of The Postwar Anti-White Cult
October 16th, 2018 6:10 PM THE RISE OF THE POSTWAR ANTI-WHITE CULT (and it’s parallel to Christianity) —“The shroud dropped over our eyes circa 1945 from what I can tell.”—- A Friend [Y]es. They used the postwar prosecution of the Nazis to create new a religion (Fictionalism) in order to oppose the Darwinian revolution, Cultural…
Agency Must Be Trained
October 16th, 2018 5:41 PM AGENCY MUST BE TRAINED by Brandon Hayes [A]gency has to be fostered and trained. We can develop systems to promote it. Having an agency based (propertarian) framework is a great first step. Teach people to view the world in a reciprocal fashion. We teach dogs to be helpful; I can…
NPCs? Not So Simple…
October 16th, 2018 5:39 PM NPCs? NOT SO SIMPLE… by Ely Harman It’s not as simple as “NPC bad!” There are NPCs on our side too. Most conservatives are NPCs. The issue is most people lack the agency (awareness) for self-ownership, sovereignty, enfranchisement, or any number of related, partially overlapping, terms. That doesn’t mean they…
Dehumanize Them? the Other Way Around.
October 16th, 2018 5:34 PM DEHUMANIZE THEM? THE OTHER WAY AROUND. By Eli Harman [D]ehumanize them? The issue is that they don’t regard US as human, or our preferences or values as valid, or legitimate – and so, in exchange, regarding THEM as people and THEIR preferences and values as valid and legitimate is giving…
Zero Tolerance
October 16th, 2018 5:07 PM ZERO TOLERANCE —” …really let that sink in…. conflation… that’s all it took. A bit of ambiguity and a bit of repetition and the cult of non-submission became a slave society.”—Bill Joslin Zero Tolerance is the only defense against incrementalism.
Our European Gods
October 16th, 2018 5:02 PM TIWAZ > TYR > DEYUS PATER > ZEUS PATER > JUPITER > SOL INVICTUS THE UNCONQUERED Sol Invictus (“Unconquered Sun”) was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers. In 274 AD the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official cult alongside the traditional…
Atheism Isn’t a Religion. at Best It’s an Ideology
October 16th, 2018 4:38 PM ATHEISM ISN’T A RELIGION. AT BEST IT’S AN IDEOLOGY [A]theism isn’t a religion (and casting it as such is a fraud), it’s a statement of Science (measurement) and used as an Ideology (political change), and arguably a Prosecution (law against fraud and harm). The only reason atheism is ridiculous is…
Propertarianism Isn’t an Ideology.
October 16th, 2018 4:22 PM PROPERTARIANISM ISN’T AN IDEOLOGY. IT’S THE LOGIC OF RECIPROCITY (Propertarianism) AND THE SCIENCE OF TESTIMONY, COMBINED INTO A FORMAL RATIO-EMPIRICAL SYSTEM OF LAW (Decidability) FOR ETHICS, AND POLITICS. In other words, it’s the solution to social science. —“This is crucial for people that want to claim they don’t adhere to…
Calvin divided all the human activity into…
October 15th, 2018 11:25 AM REINVENTING PURITANISM. —“Calvin divided all the human activity into sinful (working against God’s will), and virtuous (working in accordance with His will), and neutral which are neither this nor that.”—Igor Rogov