Germany Must Ascend, Even at the Cost of the Anglo World
Feb 26, 2017 11:34am Even at the cost of the Anglo world we must ensure that this next ascent of Germany is successful. They have been ascending since the fall of the soviet union both economically and politically and greater Germania again possesses both the population necessary (>500M), and the sphere of influence, (germanic, latin…
Absolute Nuclear Family only Survives Under Special Conditions
The absolute nuclear family only survives under special conditions: when all men are in the militia, all families are culturally homogenous and near kin, and where there is little migration. In other words, it evolved under the middle class version of farming: manorialism, and the middle class version of farms: producing excess for market sale,…
We are Best When We Do Not Rest
Our first wave settled all the way to the northern limits and developed a copper civilization across Europe – including our monumental stone henge. And we rested. Our second wave created a bronze civilization in central europe, and advanced all of europe by doing so. And we rested. Our third wave out of the Ukraine…
Quarterly Reminder – What I Do Here – Fair Warning!
For new friends and followers, please understand what I do here on FB. It is my sketch pad. I work in public like a village blacksmith where you can peer into the forge and see the experimental work being done – good and bad. Propertarianism is a very special thing and you can learn…
(Thoughts) Unwinding Psychology
You know, I can almost unwind this damn thing into a series of dependencies upon information…. not quite, almost. been bothering me since maybe 83? 84? The five factor model is utilitarian not descriptive or causal. what’s the cause? Calm <–> Worry Spectrum (fear) Patience <–>Impulsivity (dominance) Autism(intro) <–> Solipsism(extro) Spectrum (“Degree of Self”) Intelligence…
Synonyms: Altruism, Morality, Virtue
SYNONYMS Altruism(direct), Morality(indirect), Virtue(long term) a) find an example of altruism that is not an example of kin selection. (you won’t) b) find an example of morality that is not an example of investing in future reciprocity (you won’t) c) find an example of virtue that is not an example of bearing a cost (‘banking’).…
Virtuous and Ethical Behavior Is Determined by Cost
Feb 28, 2017 4:14pm (full argument)(read it and weep. lol) —“I can struggle not to cheat on my wife. And still fail. While you can argue it’s better that I at least struggled as opposed to gleefully giving into my hedonism, I still missed the mark concerning virtuous behavior.”— Example of a parlor trick. Here…
Property without Magical Thinking
“There is no evidence that objects transform into property, that they are somehow magically infused with an attribute known as ownership. Sure, humans transform inputs into outputs all the time, that’s what we do, and generally we treat things that we have transformed as property. But the truth is that transformed objects are still just…
The Data You Want on the West Vs the Rest
Civilization: Powered by the West, Threatened by the Rest Via William Butchman http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2017/01/09/civilization-powered-by-the-west-threatened-by-the-rest/ As Butch mentioned above, (I just saw this post tonight, on March 1st) I’m increasingly confident that what accounts for the west consistently competing faster than ‘the rest’ is sovereignty, and its requirement for deflationary truth, and everything else results from it.…
On Unions
ON UNIONS The unions made common mistakes of overreach. They began with the moral: safety, liability, minimum wages, profit sharing, and replacing with cheaper workers (arbitrage). But then proceeded with overreaches that varied from moral hazard: demands for impossible future claims: continuous increases and pensions; then to the immoral: mandatory membership, mandatory fees, and fostering…
The Distillation of Western Civilization
THE DISTILLATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION If you would be sovereign, you must fight. If you would be sovereign and win, you must equally confederate. If you would be sovereign and confederate, you must equally compromise. If you would be sovereign and equally compromise, you must equally forgo opportunities for gain at another’s loss. If you…
As I Understand It This Is the Current Understanding of Regional and Now Tribal, Group Genetics.
As far as I know all human variation is demonstrably caused by little more than the intensity of expression of possibilities extant already in the genome. Despite partial speciation, we did did not complete sufficient physical speciation for typical classification because our primary means of speciation migrated from the physical to the conceptual, and the…
Europe and East Asia ‘have Done Better’ Because of Territorial Advantage Within Geographic Fortresses
Fortress Europa obtained non-territorial advantage by: A COLLECTION of hypotheses that include: a) europeans have higher neuroticism (creativity) b) europeans have lower clannishness (dislike of outsiders) c) europeans have dramatically reduced the size of the underclass ( produced a higher distribution of Iq, and lower distribution of testosterone) d) there seems to be a longstanding…
Q&A: “What’s Your ‘Official’ Opinion on Trump?”
‘OFFICIAL’ OPINION ON TRUMP: AGREE WITH CRITICISMS? —“Do these opinions of trump resonate with any opinion at the Propertarian Institute?”— No. because I know from close personal experience what kind of shitty assholes the financial capitalist class is, what kind of shitty assholes the legal capitalist class is, how shitty and corrupt the regulatory politicians…
Understanding Accounting and Finance? Get Back To Lender Beware.
Mar 01, 2017 2:40pm UNDERSTANDING ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE I’ve been told all my life by some asshole or other that I don’t understand accounting or finance. And I always found that humorous. I took the same classes as everyone else. I just learned something very different from them: most of it is used to lie…
The Foundations of Mathematics Are Simple. (really)
The foundations of mathematics are so simple. Seriously. The fact that they even phrase the question as such is hysterical. The reason mathematics is so powerful a tool is precisely because its foundations are so trivial. Like discourse on property in ethics and law it is a word game because no one establishes sufficient limits…
Via Negativa (Evolutionary Argument) in Historial Explanation
by James Augustus My central argument is that Europe benefited by having an evolutionary environment that allowed for a high frequency of cultural, institutional and intellectual iterations, and that truth, sovereignty and natural law produce an existential advantage, so that what survived is what we call Western Civilization and its peoples. It is easy to…
Deflationary Language in Ethics
Mar 01, 2017 6:51pm James Augustus I suspect one of the factors contributing to deflationary language in ethics, law and science is that we needed a rational, empirical means of decidability in matters concerning rule, organization and extra-familial cooperation. (Note that legal realism, contractualism and truth telling (science and it’s precursors) coincided with conquest and…
Natural Law, Sovereignty, and the Restoration
Mar 02, 2017 9:42am NATURAL LAW, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE RESTORATION NATURAL LAW Testimonialism: Epistemology and Truth (Testimony), and Propertarianism: Ethics and Natural Law (Cooperation), and Natural Common Law (a grammar), provide the means of producing contracts (Constitutions), that are ‘scientific’ – which in testimonialism means ‘truthful’, and not open to creative interpretation by the judiciary.…
Poverty and Lack of Agency
YOUR POVERTY AND YOUR LACK OF AGENCY You’re poor because you lack Agency sure. But you know, even if we remove obstructive institutions, and even if we create institutions to invest in overcoming your initial circumstance, we are still stuck with the fact that we cannot change YOU, and that YOU can lack Agency for…
Western Civilization and “Skin in The Game”
Your narrative is exceptional – as wisdom. But wisdom cannot be converted into law unless in a formal, deflationary argument. The west differs from the east. We never conflated law with other fields. And the skin of the loan IN put = the warranty OUT put. High trust civilization (the west) could use warranty rather…
Sovereignty vs Servility
SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS SERVILITY One can hire an administrator of contracts. If that’s what you mean by ‘governor’ then that kind of “government” is something I am comfortable with. But I won’t give up my Sovereignty (My “rights as an anglo saxon”) in the choice of contracts I will prefer to pay for; which choices of…
The Past Superstition vs Present Pseudoscience. (Fictionalisms)
….I think the problem is that the past was honest but justified it supernaturally, because the promise of reward was after death. Whereas the present is dishonest and justified pseudo-scientifically and promised if we can reach a socialist utopia or some variation thereof. The medieval order was hierarchical and honest. The only false promise was…
Terror, Progress, and Islam
Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of altering policy. Sovereignty requires one’s government control non-state actors. Democracy requires one’s people control one’s government such that it controls non-state actors, such that it does not break the westphalian peace, nor the postwar peace. Justice visited upon the muslims to contain them just…
Definitions: Philosophy, Truth, Methods of Argument (Worth Repeating)
PHILOSOPHY The search for internally consistent means of decidability within a domain or context. TRUTH (PROPER) The most parsimonious most universal method of decidability regardless of context. SOME FORMS OF ARGUMENT Analogy – a justification by shared constant relations. Reason – a criticized and justified argument from experience. Rational – an internally consistent, non contradictory…