A Note to All Young Men Searching for Political Answers
—(response to email request for help)— [I]t is in the nature of ambitious young men to rush to an hypothesis of their own construction upon their first few encounters with enlightenment – accompanied by the desperate wish to share their revelation. It is in the nature of great theorists to develop a question or hypothesis,…
Education Is Just Leftist Malware
October 11th, 2018 11:45 AM EDUCATION IS JUST LEFTIST MALWARE by James Santagata What you received was worse than being deprived of an education. If you were simply deprived of an education, it would be a fairly simple matter to apply yourself, and remedy those gaps or that deprivation. What you were given was Mental…
The function of a headman
October 11th, 2018 10:49 AM [T]he optimum function of a headman from the family, clan, tribe, nation, empire (civilization), is not to lead outside of war – it is to function as a judge of last resort in matters of conflict between those who lead, and to limit those who lead to the people’s interests.
The Existential Frame
October 11th, 2018 10:42 AM THE EXISTENTIAL FRAME by Bill Joslin The existential frame (operations) remains constant (unmolested) across both linguistic (cognition) and experiential (sensory) domains. And any other frame, like rose color glasses, blinders or eye patches; twists, limits, or colors the experiential via the linguistic. (That’s what frames do). Subject – that which…
fiscal soundness
October 11th, 2018 7:54 AM “For 2016, the latest year for which data are available, the top five most fiscally sound states were, in order: Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Florida and Oklahoma. The five worst states, starting at the bottom: Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Kentucky. Notice anything similar in these groupings? We did.…
Gender Differences in Educational Demand
October 11th, 2018 7:15 AM GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL DEMAND [T]he evidence is that women in education are damaging to society because they come from the bottom of their graduating classes; they prolong infantilization in order to maintain control; and they seek to teach in order to create an environment under their control; because women…
Grammars of our founders
October 11th, 2018 6:57 AM Um. Aristotle, Confucius, Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, Abraham. That order is meaningful. What grammars does each depend upon?
All Speech Is Measurement,
October 11th, 2018 6:52 AM ALL SPEECH IS MEASUREMENT, ALL STATEMENTS TRANSACTIONS. BUT MEASUREMENT OF WHAT? You know, the material universe seemed complicated until we discovered the atomic structure and created the periodic table of the elements. The same is true for the Grammars. Once you understand the grammars, all speech is as open to…
You Were Deprived of Education Purposefully
October 11th, 2018 6:43 AM —“While I might understand what he says it makes me realize how under educated I am and how much more I need to learn.”— Vinny Vidivicci [J]ust one note. (a) You were deprived of education purposefully, to make you ignorant, and pliable for the authoritarian ‘Self Anointed’ left. (b) We…
The Power of Personality: Predicting Important Life Outcomes
October 11th, 2018 9:46 PM http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00047.x The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Rebecca Shiner, … First Published December 1, 2007 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00047.x Abstract The ability of personality traits to predict important life outcomes has…
Roughly 10% of the population is capable of a university degree
October 11th, 2018 8:45 PM [A]ccording to this graph, the IQ for university degree is 120+. Which means roughly 10% of the population is capable of a university degree in a calculable field. The rest is not education. It’s pseudoscience, sophims, and religion.
Dragging Mankind out Of Ignorance and Poverty Against Their Will and Thanklessly
October 11th, 2018 8:04 PM DRAGGING MANKIND OUT OF IGNORANCE AND POVERTY AGAINST THEIR WILL AND THANKLESSLY [T]his is a diagram showing how long it took the west in time, blood, and treasure, to drag the rest of humanity – whining, kicking, screaming, fighting, and objecting all the while – out of ignorance, superstition, poverty,…
Dogs. 😉
October 11th, 2018 7:41 PM —“Modern dogs are part of the extended phenotype of indo europeans.”—Alba Rising lolz;
Which set of values do you more viscerally identify with that the other?
October 11th, 2018 6:29 PM by Richard Nikoley The problem here is that it’s crucially important what values you’re acting (or fighting, or kicking teeth) FOR. There is no virtue in combat for the sake of combat. That’s for Fight Club and everyone knows what the first rule of Fight Club is. So, everyone fights.…
Quoted in the Post
October 11th, 2018 6:26 PM —“Hi Curt, it looks like you were quoted in the NY Post.”– John Mark https://nypost.com/2018/10/09/wheres-the-outrage-over-hillarys-call-for-a-civil-war/ CONTENT HERE: Two events from the last two days stand out. The first came Monday night with President Trump’s forceful yet compassionate speech at the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The…
The Simple, Universal Answer to The Left
October 11th, 2018 5:47 PM —“I am to the point where I simply say, “You are stealing from us various things that we value. Everything you say is an excuse to steal. If you don’t think you’re stealing, that makes no difference because *we* believe you’re stealing. And our patience for it is at…
Postmodern, Critique, Pilpul: Hicks, Macdonald, and Doolittle
October 11th, 2018 5:34 PM POSTMODERN, CRITIQUE, PILPUL: HICKS, MACDONALD, AND DOOLITTLE Understanding of Postmodernism spreads via Hicks. Critique by Macdonald. And I (Curt) do the history of Pilpul (sophism), Critique(gossip), the Fictionalisms (pseudoscience, pseudorationalism-sophism, and supernaturalism-occultism) and their use as vehicles for loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion for the purpose of generating moral hazard…
Duty forces us to bear costs
October 11th, 2018 5:26 PM [D]uties are those things we must do even though they force us to bear a cost. Men must complete those duties women cannot and women those that men cannot. Truth(Speech), Duty(action), reciprocity(Cooperation). Men absorb cellular damage. Women produce offspring. Strangely, having children prolongs women’s lives. Physical service shortens men’s lives.
Cultural Differences in the Treatment of Dogs.
October 11th, 2018 5:22 PM (Customs: Westerners treat dogs as members of our family. Muslims hate them, and Asians eat them. We do not seem to take into account the difference in cleanliness and disease between cold-sparsely populated, temperate-loosely-populated, and hot-densely populated climates.)
Democracy: Circumventing Cooperation
October 11th, 2018 4:35 PM —“Democracy: A circumvention of cooperation; under the guise of compromise.”—Brandon Hayes
States and Markets: Suitable Commons
October 11th, 2018 4:32 PM “[M]arkets between nations states allow us to produce commons suitable to each group’s degree of neoteny and development.”
Democracy requires homogeneity
October 11th, 2018 4:29 PM “[M]arkets allow us to cooperate on means despite disparate ends. Democracy, only on same ends. Democracy requires homogeneity.”
The Limits of Democracy: Homogeneity
October 11th, 2018 4:28 PM [D]emocracy is limited to the choice of preference in commons among those of similar interest given scarcity of resources.
Democracy: the search for power external to the market.
October 11th, 2018 4:27 PM “Democracy (majoritarian monopoly) is little more than the search for power by means external to the market.”
Countering Right Criticism of Cultural Marxism
October 11th, 2018 3:31 PM COUNTERING RIGHT CRITICISM OF CULTURAL MARXISM ( In response to: https://www.facebook.com/pepe.escobar.77377/posts/10156644462266678 ) So you didn’t actually make an argument I can counter, other than “Misinterpreted” – when the universal criticism of the left is that while the right can understand the left (rationally) the left cannot comprehend the right (intuitionistically)…