Category: Thoughts

A scientist? https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-word-for-someone-who-disrespects-on-grounds-of-culture-race-besides-racist

That it’s natural.  That all human groups act in the interests of their kin.  That people vote racially.  They work in racial groups. They live in racial groups. They mate and marry in racial groups.  They speak in racial groups. All racial groups convey status because some groups are more desirable than others.  That all…

They’re wrong. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-say-that-former-eastern-block-countries-had-a-state-capitalist-system-and-not-a-socialist-one

People think and speak aware of race because people act aware of race. People vote as racial blocks. And therefore firm political competition for status and rent seeking. People associate in racial blocks. People work in racial blocks. People reside in racial blocks. Vast differences in reproductive desirability between races.  And people mate in racial…

No “best” among the worst. Close Uha. Burn Hartford. Move the seat of government to Farmington. 😉 https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-bars-in-West-Hartford-CT

We have always had mixed economies and always will. Neither extreme is possible since under pure capitalism commons cannot be produced because incentives to produce them don’t exist, and under pure socialism production is impossible in no small part because incentives to produce don’t exist.  These two terms are also questionably dishonest. Capitalism refers to…

It is impossible. It never had been eliminated. One either gets races or castes.  That’s it. No more lies. https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-US-failed-to-end-racial-discrimination-in-the-country

Anarchism is an insufficient definition for the purposes of answering that question.  https://www.quora.com/Do-anarchists-demand-the-impossible-Why

—“One man can’t stand alone against the world. But a few in confederation can hold the looting hoards at bay indefinitely.”—- Eli Harman

[I] will say it again. Of course I love my family and tribe above all. But I also wish every other family and tribe to prosper, evolve, and transcend. As far as I can tell, our differences are just differences in skills when we practice truthfulness in all walks of life. And yes, I understand…

Of all the skills we can be taught the Trivium is the most important. It is the art of testimony – of teaching all children to judge the truth or falsehood of statements. Why would you no longer teach Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric? Unless you wanted children to lie? The Trivium Gives Us Skills in…

I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only…

—“A revolution is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership. and government activity and policies. Revolutions are thus to be distinguished from insurrections, rebellions, revolts, coups, and wars of independence. A coup d’etat in itself changes only leadership and…

Sometimes we must make hard choices. Because there are no easy choices left to make. When we do, that which we valued above all the day before, we may not value the day after. I am as much a fool as any other fellow. My folly is in things that others find trivial. Just as…

“[D]ear Leftists. You are not safe. You never were. You never can be. That is your greatest folly. We have been patient. But we will come for you. And when we come for you, we will have no mercy.

1) Ideas required of Philosophers, Prophets and Kings. 2) Strategy required of Leaders. 3) Plans required of Organizers. 4) Belief is required of Followers. —“Your list is complete, because the reverse is true.. If you have ideas, you become a philosopher If you have a strategy, you become a leader If you produce plans, you…

(h/t Eli Harman) Note: it is against the geneva convention to kill a someone engaged in war on the behalf of a state. To say that we will not kill the family of a terrorist is to say that we are in fact at war with them. But the purpose of the geneva convention is…

(VERY IMPORTANT PIECE) (h/t: eli harman) [P]ilpul is a craft. It is ‘the art of lying’. It is one of the oldest written arts. The art of justifying anything. The art of loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion. The art of constructing loaded relations in the mind so that a justification for for a desired action…

[W]here we speak of god as an anthropomorphic representation of natural law, and physical law, he is a pedagogical device. Where we speak of gods as anthropomorphic representations of the virtues we aspire to, they are pedagogical devices. Both provide us with analogies to experience that we require for learning, while informing our moral intuitions…

( Dear idiot. Actually, I work. I work every freaking day. I work hard. I work harder than most men have the ability to, or can comprehend working. I gave up everything in my life to do this work. I mastered my craft. With that craft I have made an art. I am fully aware…

[I]f you want to bitch about others I have no time for it. Each group pursues its group evolutionary strategy. It is as foolish to criticize a gypsy, jew, or muslim as it is to criticize a cow or an ape. They know no better. The problem is not them. The problem is US. If…

[I] will insure the liberty of any man of any race in any territory, by use of art and arms, who will insure my liberty in return by use of art and arms. This is Paternalism. Sovereignty. Nobility. Aristocracy. To raise mankind from beast to god – one generation, one father, at a time.