Paul Krugman: Slow Roasting the West in Keynesian Ovens
(trigger warning)(run with this meme) [P]aul; It’s not that you’re wrong. It’s that you’re a liar. You lie by telling half truths and then loading, framing and overloading them with moral falsehoods. You advocate institutional lying: the Keynesian economics of distorting the information system we use to cooperate so that we consume rather than accumulate…
Reflections on our Progress
(reflection) (important) (possible change in strategy) [L]ook at the past two years of posts by Eli Harman and Michael Philip, and look at the change in their sentence structure, length, and chain of causal relations. I’m very conscious of these things. So I see it. Johannes is a bit of a character, but at least…
The Anglo-Saxon Subversion of French Elites
[T]he combination of “Anglo-Saxon” economics (accepting the dynamism of open markets) and of “Anglo-Saxon” politics (governments as seriously responsible–British version–or accountable–Washington version–to their voters) is doubly subversive to the French elite’s entire modus operandi. The “Anglo-Saxons” provide an identity to define oneself against and, in the case of the US, a counterpoint to seek to…
I’m Prosecuting You. It’s not a Debate.
[W]e aren’t debating, or discoursing. We can’t debate or discourse until we’re not lying. Until we’re not lying we’re in conflict. So I am prosecuting your ideas to ensure you’re not lying. Only after you’re no longer lying, can we say that we are negotiating an exchange. But if we start from your premise of…
Reality?
[R]eality Bites. You can ignore reality but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality — Ayn Rand via Emil Suric
Aristocracy For Everyone: How Many Races and Tribes?
Useful Post (PDF): Science on racial differences QUESTION: “THE ARISTOCRATIC MODEL: IF WE CONSTRUCTED NATURAL ARISTOCRACY FOR EVERY MAJOR TRIBE…HOW SUCCESSFULLY COULD WE PARENT OUR TRIBES ABOVE THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 106?” Answer: “We need a lot more countries.” Kinship: Race: Collection of Tribes: Collection of Clans: Collection of Families. * = significant genetic distance…
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–“We don’t agree that…”– [W]ell saying we don’t agree is to use a rhetorical fallacy. Statements are true, false, or incomplete, whether we agree with one another or not. 1) There exist no laws of science itself. There exist, and we have evolved, procedures that we use to eliminate error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit…
Putting Another Misesian To Bed
—“I generally do not follow socialistic thinking processes such as the concept of trade between groups. Methodological individualism is, to me, the way to go, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out. So I am sorry I cannot agree with this analysis. Individuals trade, and individuals act. This idea of a group having some kind of…
Evolution of European Writing
[S]o whomever brought it up, it looks like humans favor a similar evolution of symbols and then incrementally evolve into pictorial or phonetic. I suspect that like most things, the mark-making process like the language speaking process evolves out of efficiency – laziness. lol So just as humans speak language humans can speak, humans draw…
Getting Un-Lost: It’s All of the Above: Genetic, Cultural, Institutional, Territorial
[I] think I have lost a bunch of you. It seems we get truth. It seems we get the high trust society. It seems we get the western model of truth and trust produce economic velocity. It seems we get the reproductive division of perception and cognition. It seems we get that the anglo saxon…
Grid: Three Group Evolutionary Strategies
Feminine: Aggressive Gossip: (jewish) Libertarian: Aggressive Trade (anglo neo-puritan) Masculine: Aggressive Violence (muslim) Russian = ++Gossip +Violence -Trade Chinese = +Gossip +Violence -Trade I suppose that we can graph all cultures on these three dimensions.
Sorry, But I Love My Betters
[S]orry, but I am perfectly thrilled to have betters. Here in London I see lots of them. And I am thankful for them. I like what I do. I am glad they do what they do. I can see the Dutch and German in them. They’re bigger, taller, and better looking than my little Celtic…
Duelling?
—“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are…
The Steppe Manufactures Aggression?
SO IS THIS RIGHT? Africa generated variation because it is actually quite a hostile climate. the first waves out were not aggressive people. Each new wave has been more aggressive than the last, and exterminated, raped, mated with, or ate the previous generation. At some point the steppe and desert started breeding aggression because of…
How Far Are You Willing To Go?
[H]OW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO? To protect your family? To protect your tribe? To protect your civilization? To protect mankind? What are you willing to do? Talk is cheap. Gossip is ineffective. The only solution is to raise the cost of the status quo until it is intolerable. Source: (5) Curt Doolittle
Grid of Cultural Tactics
1) TRUTH AND DECEIT, 2) MASCULINE AND FEMININE, 3) HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS. ———————TRUTH——————————MASCULINE————————-FEMININE—————————————————————-TEXAS………..GERMAN…………BRITISH …………………..JAPAN…………….FRENCH……………………………………………LATINAMERICAN………………………….HINDU…………………..CHINA…………………………..ISLAM……….. RUSSIA……………JUDAISM———————————————————————————DECEPTION————— Note that the american/hindu line represents “idealism” more so than deception.Latins and french are pragmatic. Anglos and Germans ‘truthful’. More later. Just capturing the idea while I’m thinking of it. Source: (3) Curt Doolittle
On Gays, Gay Marriage, and the Consequence of Breaking the Limits of Tolerance
(interesting) (some novel ideas) [T]wo over-the-top, 60-year-old, male, American, gay travelers at the table across from me, in ‘full whine’. (Full Bitch is a hostile countenance, Full Whine is just a complaining countenance.) I think gay men are pretty awesome ‘additions’ to civilization. I mean, how would I dress myself, without them? Seriously? How much…
Property:Positive / Commons:Negative
[P]roperty is an attempt to solve the problem of decidability on the use of resources. But no matter how we arrange property we still have the problem of producing commons – where we define ‘commons’ as an investment that produces goods, but must be free of privatization (consumption). (Parks are a great example because their…
Another on Aristocracy(criticism) vs Republicanism(Justification)
Science=critical. Morality=justificationary. [I] have been working on the series: ‘obverse/revers, justification/criticism, morality/science, property-right/prohibition, GoldenRule/SilverRule, that is the western innovative alternative to eastern static ying-and-yang. Where they match sides, we only overlap in a venn diagram. Where they have a balance of equality and necessary cooperation, we have a division of labor and voluntary cooperation. OBVERSE:…
Q&A: Aristocracy vs Republic? It’s Criticism vs Justification.
—“I’m a bit ignorant on this. What makes an aristocracy different from a republic. With leaders or rulers representing a population.”— [G]reat question. Thanks for asking it. Because you gave me the nudge I needed to write a first draft of aristocratic government that circumvents problems in libertarian thought. I have been working on the…
Universalism: The Love of Man
[S]orry all, but while I argue to advance my tribe, I also seek to advance all tribes through aristocratic egalitarianism (meritocracy), testimonial truth, and propertarianism. My political solution is very simple: non-parasitism, voluntary exchange, rule of law, common law, jury and truth telling. Truth is enough to restore our civilization to greatness by a radical…
How To Repair The Western Press?
[R]oman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state. Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers. And…
Choice: Truth vs Lies
[W]E HAVE A CHOICE: Truth and Trade (propertarianism) -versus- Lies and Takings (progressivism) Source: (2) Curt Doolittle
Propertarianism is for the Prosecution
(good) [I]f we claim we speak truthfully, then that we perform an act of testimony. If we are both trying to find the truth, then we engage in an act of discourse. If we are both trying to persuade and inform a jury(audience), then we participate in a debate. But if you are trying to…
The Reason You’re Poor
[Y]ou are not a landlord or rentier. So, I understand why you are not rich. But why are you poor and always broke? The answer is that you or the society you belong to, have – for various reasons- a very short time preference. You will rather spend now than save. And you prefer to consume…