The Different Group Evolutionary Strategies

Civilizational Context

All proto civilizations, in order to unify larger numbers for larger scales of defense, trade, and cooperation, develop a group competitive evolutionary strategy dependent upon geography, climate, available means of production, present technological development, method of warfare, demographic composition, heterogeneity of, and number of competitors. The strategy is institutionalized by a mythology that provides a paradigm, vocabulary, logic within that paradigm, method of arguing for it, and a set of rituals (debts of loyalty) to reinforce it, including the relation between man and nature, between one another, between the classes, and the authorization of the legitimacy of elites, the hierarchical organization of the polity, and the status signals both good and bad that we call virtues, that demand, justify, and reinforce cooperative behavior at increasing scales.

We Don’t Know Our Group Strategies

We call these  ‘metaphysics’ or values as if they are arbitrary – and they aren’t.

Within each strategy, classes develop sub-strategies

There are a limited Number of Strategies – and we can Enumerate Them

There are only so many human strategies – and we discovered and exploited all of them.

The Conflict of Civilizations

All Surviving Strategies Succeed, Some are Moral or Immoral, and advance man, hinder, or regress man – They Aren’t Equal or Relative or Subjective but Physics at Scale

The Axial Age (Civilization Formation) Anchored Our Strategies

—“Axial Age (also Axis Age, from German: Achsenzeit) is a term coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers in the sense of a “pivotal age”, characterizing the period of ancient history from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. During this period, according to Jaspers’ concept, new ways of thinking appeared in Persia, India, China and the Greco-Roman world in religion and philosophy, in a striking parallel development, without any obvious direct cultural contact between all of the participating Eurasian cultures.”— Wiki

We are Midway through a new Axial age, Failed, and are entering a New Dark Age

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A Comparison of Group Strategies

The Evolution of Man

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The Evolution of Groups

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The Problems of Scale

The Neural Economy

The Neural Economy, Uncertainty, and Worry (neuroticism)

The Demand for “Meaning”

The Demand For Agency (Will to Power, or control, or survival)

The Demand for Mindfulness

I mean the physical, cognitive and emotional discipline to control the subject of attention on the present intent, insulated from distractions whether personal, environmental, or interpersonal.

—“People are not evolved for producing statements of secular epistemic purity but rather for survival through cooperation negotiated by language.”–

Decidability and mindfulness are market goods. We require these goods to compensate for a complex unpredictable (kaleidic) world.

Traits Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism

1. Personal: The market demand for personal mindfulness (Spiritualism) whether empathic-feminine (theological), moral-masculine(rational), or analytic-masculine(scientific) exists, and all three demands exist for most of us.
2. Interpersonal: The Market Demand for interpersonal mindfulness by creating a standard dialog, set of signals, and manners that are costly to learn and practice, but that by practicing display to others you are worthy of honest cooperation on the same terms.
3. Social: The market demand for social mindfulness (limitation of fear and comfort in the ethical, and moral. These are moral rules that serve the group’s competitive strategy – and all reflect the environmental challenges of the age of transformation in which men invented religions.,
4. Political: The market demand for political mindfulness (limits on political action and on rulers actions). I won’t cover each of them here.
5. Strategic: The Market Demand for a group strategy – gypsy parasitism, Jewish parasitism, Muslim parasitism, predation and conquest, Christian undermining of the truth, knowledge, reason, law, property, aristocracy by rallying the peasantry and women and slaves against all and being as expansionary as islam – to counter islam. Buddhist submission and obedience Hindu class duty and function in the ‘harmony’. Chinese hierarchical family (bureaucracy). Anglo aristocratic egalitarianism (entrepreneurship and corporation).

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1. Dominance (Real, Techne-Science, Materialism, Action)
Statism Nationalism (Tribalism) Achieves mindfulness because of participation in state
Soldiery Achieves mindfulness through military fraternity
Agency Achieves Mindfulness because of achievement or success

2. Utility( Idealism, Philosophy, Reason, Choice, Mind)
Aristotelian-Anglo Philosophy
Continental and Platonic European Philosophy
Confucian–Daoist Philosophy

3. Insulation (Accommodation, Ritualization, Thought, Intuition )
Stoicism achieves mindfulness through small daily task completion in a virtuous manner.
Shinto achieves mindfulness through the precise repetition of ritual in a respectful manner.
Buddhism achieves mindfulness through meditation and escape from reality.

4. Submission (Supernatural, Theology, Empathy, Feeling)
Christianity achieves mindfulness by personal and collective prayer (and song).
Islam achieves mindfulness by many memorizations and ritual prayers during every single day.
Judaism achieves mindfulness by separatism and deep indoctrination

The question is, given how the various religions solved mindfulness (Stoicism-epicureanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Abrahamism) which produces agency (stoicism), which produces optimism (Hinduism), which produces withdrawal from reality (Buddhism) and which denies and escapes reality (Abrahamism).

The Geographic Origin of Group Strategies

• Hostilelands: African Ethics (pre-Christian). Africa is akin to the Desertlands because of the sheer number of competitors, the hostility of the disease gradient, the plethora of wildlife, combined with the primitiveness of the available technologies. This is the only possible strategy until one or more core states can evolve, and create suf?cient stability in some regions. (this is occurring now).
• Desertlands: Muslim Ethics: (I am still working on this one because I don’t get that it’s causal – but opportunistic.) What can I justify now in order to make this minor advance now? And thereby accumulate wins by wearing down opponents over long periods. The ethics of opportunism. As far as i can tell Islam is just an excuse for justifying opportunism. We can consider this the combination of religion and justifying opportunism – a long term very successful strategy because it’s very low cost
• Steppelands: Russian(0rthodox) Ethics: What can I get away with now by negotiation and subterfuge, and hold by force later? (steppe raiders) The ethics of steppe people surrounded by competitors, always hostile and unpredictable. This is a dif?cult and expensive but only possible strategy, when one is surrounded by hostile opportunity seekers. While seemingly expansive, it’s actually a fearful one, aggression as the only possible means of controlling defensive positions across open territory.
• Borderlands: Cosmopolitanerish) Ethics: What will someone consent to Regardless of future resentment and retaliation? (borderland/subculture/ deontological ethics: rules) The ethics of diasporic, migrating traders, or herding peoples who can prey upon the locals who hold territory. This is a very low cost (parasitic) ethics that avoids all contribution to the host commons, but requires preserving the ability to exit (migrate). it is the raider strategy by systemic and verbal rather than physical means.
• Forestlands: Family, Clan Farms, Villages. Transportation expensive. Forests are dark and scary places full of brigands. Aristocratic Ethics: What will someone not retaliate against even if we agree to it?(rulers/teleological ethics: outcomes) The ethics of warriors who must hold territory. This is a very high-cost strategy because while professional warrior aristocracy is militarily superior, smaller numbers mean threats must be constantly suppressed when small, as soon as identi?ed. (Pro?ting from the domestication of man)
• Riverlands: Riverlands strategy defends against Steppland and Desertland strategies. (Pro?ting from the domestication of man) Chinese Ethics: What can I get away with now, but over time make it impossible to change later? The ethics of long term ruling bureaucratic class. Sun Tzu strategy, and Confucian hyper familism. This is an exceptionally cost-effective strategy if one possesses a territorial resource (heartland), and can fortify that heartland.
• Fertile River Land: (Pro?t from the subjugation of man) (Cyrus was lost). Bias to Empire.
• Coastal-Island Lands – Athens, Scandinavia Bias to Trade
• Island Lands – Cyprus, Crete, BRITAIN, Naval bias to Trade.
• Diasporic People – Gypsies, Travellers, Jews

AND THEREFORE;
We All Evolved Through Wisdom Literature and Systems of Argument

Burial …
… Ancestor ….
… Animism ….
… Seasons (Agrarianism)
… … Sun Tzu Realism ( Martial Realism)
… … … Confucianism (harmony)
… … … … Daoism (Tolerance)
… … Proto IE Religion
… … … Proto Vedic
… … … … Hinduism
… … … … … Buddhism (stoic)
… … … … … … Buddhism (supernatural)
… … … … Zoroastrianism
… … … European Sky Father (martial realism)
… … … … European Common Law (legal realism)
… … … … … Platonism (idealism)
… … … … … … Aristotelianism (Epicureanism) (realism naturalism)
… … … … … … … Roman History, Law and Administration
… … … … … … … … (The Dark Ages)
… … … … Germanic Common Law
… … … … … English Common Law
… … … … … … The Aristotelian (Classical) Restoration (Italy, England)
… … … … … … … The Aesthetic Restoration (Renaissance)
… … … … … … … The Empirical Restoration (England)
… … … … … … … … The First Scientific Revolution (Theoretic)
… … … … … … … … … Agrarian, Commerical, Financial, Industrial Revolutions (Applied)
… … … … … … … … … … The Second Scientific Revolution
… … … … … … … … … … … The Technological (Applied) Revolution
… … … … … … … … The French Counter-Empirical Revolution (Enlightenment)
… … … … … … … … The German Counter-Empirical Revolution (Phenomenalism)
… … Proto Semitic (Animism)
… … … Proto Judaism
… … … … … Abrahamism <- Zoroastrianism (Authoritarianism)
… … … … … … Rabbinical Judaism (Justificationism)
… … … … … … … … The Ashkenazi Rationalization (Mendelsohn)
… … … … … … … … … The Ashkenazi Pseudoscientific Counter-Revolution
… … … … … … … … … … Boaz, Freud, Marx, Gould Marxism (Science Denial)
… … … … … … … … … … … NeoMarxism (Cultural Marxism)
… … … … … … … … … … … … Postmodernism > PC > Woke > Cancel Culture > Deplatforming
… … … … … … … … … … … … … Anti-Colonialism >Anti Whiteness > White Replacement
… … … … … … … … … … … … Anti-Male Feminism > Mysandry
… … … … … … Christianity (resistance)
… … … … … … … The Augustinian Conflation (compromise)
… … … … … … … … Orthodoxy – Catholicism, (settlement)
… … … … … … … … … Protestantism, (reformation)
… … … … … … … … … … Evangelicalism (folk-religion restoration)
… … … … … … … Islam (7th c+)
… … … … … … … … Fundamentalist Islam (11-12th c+)
… … … … … … … … … Wahabi Fundamentalist Islam (20th c+)

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Adaptability Of Wisdom Literature Response Times

Just as methods of influence produce different response times (effect rates) so does wisdom literature.

Natural Law instantly and continuously evolves with each court finding.	Continuous Adaptation   Least Prescriptive. Most Chance of Rotation. Most personal and social stress.	Truth-before-face
State Command responds slowly by necessity, but fast.	Selective (crisis) Adaptation   Selectively prescriptive. Selectively adaptive – usually by shocks. Life of Stasis and infrequent Shocks.	Face-before-Truth
Philosophy requires generational revision or replacement, but slowly.	General (Great Change) Adaptation	Truth Before Face
Wisdom Literature requires intergenerational reinterpretation to changes. But very slowly.	Consistency regardless of a change	Contingent
Scripture requires frequent re-justification in response to change, but never changes.	Stagnation or prohibition on change.   Most Prescriptive. No Chance of Rotation. Least personal and social stress.	Face Regardless of Truth

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THEREFORE:

1. China (Northeast Asia) developed the State, and institutionalized philosophy, but failed at law, limiting adversarial competition in commerce and invention, but succeeded by mastery of statecraft – using a rational basis of thought – at the cost of slow evolution in technology.

China: Military -> State -> Religion (Philosophy) -> Failed at Law
Imported reformed Hinduism in the form of Buddhism.
Strategy:  Delay, Deceive, And Trickery to Overwhelm, Assimilate, by Incremental Expansion, applying overwhelming numbers to push forward the walls of the fortress with cultural, institutional, and genetic conquest. The China myth is just that, and the longest it’s been a unified empire was a century. China has better demographic trait distribution than India but to some degree – as the Great Khan learned – her numbers make her unconquerable, only temporarily governable.

Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and Confucius, (Wisdom: What should be) All 6th-5th C BC wrote Philosophical Wisdom Literature. Lao Tzu crossed the line into the questionable.  Note that Buddhism was developed in India in the 5th Century BC, but did not succeed there. Buddhism succeeded where the people still retained “Natural Religion“: Ancestor, spirit, and nature worship.

2. Japan (Northeast Asia) is perhaps the world’s most successful state and second only to England and Germany because of her distance from the empirical revolution. To some degree, adaptive Japan is to authoritarian China as adaptive England was to authoritarian and backward France.

Japan: Miliary Success -> State Success -> Law Success -> Religion Unnecessary, Limited Buddhism imposed.

3. India (South Asia) adopted Religion, failed at state, and failed at law, succeeded by numbers that despite numbers demographics and poverty produced a nearly idyllic civilization – using a practical basis of thought – at the cost of castes to prevent dysgenia at the top, failing to shrink the bottom, and making the evolution of the civilization next to impossible.

India: Military Failure -> Religion -> State Failure -> Law Failure
Imported UK Law, State, Education. (Unfortunately, French Socialism)
Strategy: The Immovable Object: Use the massive population and deeply ingrained culture to resist them with kindness, at the cost of tolerating frustration and extractive rule.

Indians (WISDOM, RITUAL, PRAYER, What should be) Wrote both mythology and wisdom literature, bordering on political science, from 1500 to 500 bc, then developed gods through 500AD, and continued to evolve through contributions of ‘saints’ through 1500AD despite Islamic conquest and interference.

4. Iranic Persia ( …. )

The Persians (INDIVIDUAL UTOPIAN UNIVERSALISM) wrote supernormal and supernatural wisdom literature. Zoroastrianism 6th C BC.  They did not make the full leap from religion to philosophy.

5. Semitia (South Eurasia) adopted religion, then religious law, then failed at the state, and civilizationally succeeded by religion – using a supernatural basis of thought, at the cost of generating demand for superstition and resistance to change.

Semitia: Transient Military (State Failure) -> Religion -> Law (Religious) -> State Failure
Importing State (failed) Importing Law (failed)
Competition between kritarchic Priest Law vs State Law.
Strategy: Continuous insurrection by non-adaptation and zero tolerance for adaptation at the cost of non-productivity.

The Semitic Abrahamists , from 6th c BC, to 6th c AD, evolved traditional Semitic polytheistic religion into monolatry, then monotheism, then branched into Christianity, rabbinical Judaism, and Islam (and others). (Wrote Mythology, Resistance, Rebellion, Separatism, and Lie and Destruction of all of the above. (COMMAND, UTOPIAN LIE) They conflated theology, philosophy, and law into authoritarian religion.

The Egyptians  (Lost Civilization ) wrote no systemic text for their natural religion (mythology, animism, polytheism,  They practiced traditional trade: RITUAL AND SACRIFICE Supernatural (Animism, Anthropomorphism, heathenism ) Doctrine and Ritual.

7. Europeans (West Eurasia) developed law, then the state, and failed at religion, succeeded by law –  using the empirical basis of thought – generating the fastest culture of innovation and adaptation humanly possible at the cost of the necessity of market suppression of reproduction continuing human domestication, and importing a foreign religion for the masses. Unfortunately the combination of overextension, immigration, religious conversion,

Europe: Military -> Law -> State -> Religion Failure (Philosophy)
Imported Religion (Christianity)
Strategy: Quality over Quantity: small numbers on the edge of the bronze age must maneuver, innovate, and adapt rapidly, to pressure from hordes of superior numbers.

Aristotle, Epicurus, Democritus; (TRUTH, What is.) Wrote Proto Empiricism: Reason, Naturalism, Proto-empiricism, Law, Calculation. So the greeks and romans crossed from tradition into philosophy and then empiricism (science). Truth Regardless of Cost.

7. Russian Europeans (Eastern Europe and North Eurasia) were following the general European technical and intellectual dispersal eastward but were interrupted by the Mongol invasion, their reconquest of their territories, their successful expansion, rapid Europeanization, but exhaustion from the Jewish Bolshevik Revolution, resulting terrors and the enormous sacrifice fighting the Germans. So Russia’s national myth is excessively one of world war two, not their series of triumphs over adversity, despite being on the edge of European civilization and surrounded by hostiles to south and east – and unfortunately west.

Russia: Military -> Weak State -> Religion (Orthodoxy) -> Now Law
Russia imported orthodoxy deliberately (almost Islam) just as did Japan Buddhism, in order to educate, govern, and tax the peasantry.
Strategy:

8. Africa, or at least west Africa, given her remoteness, was on the cusp of her first empires when interrupted by colonialism. The same is true for North America.

Africa: (Military and State Formation Interrupted)
Christianity imported, and Islam enforced. Experimental but hopeful.

9. Mesoamerican early civilization, again remote, and perhaps the most brutal and gruesome in history, was terminated by colonialism. As was Stone Age north Amerindian proto-civilization.

Americas: Military -> Religion -> State Failure, Law Failure
Exterminated by Europeans and Neighbors

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Gypsy
(Under Suppression)
While the list of disaspora is long, only the various gypsies and jews completely gave up territorial holding and state formation. The gpysy strategy is low-level parasitic specializing in begging, black market, petty crime, gambling, prostitution, entertainment (music, dancing, singing), fortue telling, . And resorting to manual labor when necessary.

—“They pool resources to start and operate fortune-telling businesses. They work together in teams, tarmacking, tinning, and roofing houses. To restrict competition in their fields of work, Gypsies also collude. Kumpaniyi carve up geographic territories, each receiving the exclusive right to operate in a given area. For example, in Gypsies’ most lucrative economic activity—fortune telling—kumpaniyi divide economic territories into three-block areas.

In non-Gypsies’ eyes, Gypsies are thieves. Gypsies have contributed to this stereotype by stealing from and/or defrauding opportunistically. gadjo (non-romani, like Jews use Goy for non-jews or as we Europeans call barbarians, primitives, or even animamls’) For Gypsies, using one’s cleverness to relieve a gadjo of his money or property is a virtue, not a vice. Thus Gypsies don’t scruple at defrauding fortune-telling customers or engaging outsiders in other confidence games. Abusing and defrauding government welfare programs is also a popular and important economic activity for modern Roma.”— Peter Leeson, Economics, George Mason University 2012

As such gypsies functionas a low level infection, and since they are rarely a threat to the sate or economy they are only persecuted for excesses.

Gypsies practice various religions but they also practice supernatural customs, particularly of cleanliness and sexuality – the most dramatic of which is that outsiders are unclean. The severity of this superstition is as demanding as most formal religions.

• • Nepotism (Sustaining Judaism and Jewish People)
  • Separatism (a state within a state), (Buiding Support for Israel)
  • Parasitism (avoidance of broader commons, privatizing commons)
  • Manual or Craft, Construction Labor 
  • Moral Crime
  • Petty Crime 

Jewish
(Undermined England, Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia)
The Jewish religion was the first to require literacy. While philosophy required literacy, religion came to literacy late and last. Literacy both prohibited a bottom class, and gave access to higher-paying administrative jobs. By the second century, nearly all jews had given up farming – or given up on the religion. The Jewish “Avoidance of work” has remained an enduring feature of jewish civlization.

The resulting diaspora, selection for ingroup bias, the exit of failures, upward redistribution of reproduction to Rabbis, and frequent retaliatory prosecutions and bottlenecks produced expected results.

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Differences In Civilizational Colonization (Expansion)

Chinese
(Formal Institutional intentons of conquering: Burma, Laos, Northern India, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Ryukyu Islands, 300 islands of the South China, East China and Yellow Seas, as well as Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Taiwan, South Kazakhstan, the Afghan province of Bahdashan, Transbaikalia and the Far East to South Okhotsk.)

Islamic
(Destroyed and reduced to dysgenia and ashes all the civilizations of  North Africa, Egypt, Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, Indus-India, Anatolia, Caucuses, Byzantium, Old Europe (Balkans). Then Turkey Lost back to Islamism. Islam is now destroying Europe through immigration, reproduction, parasitism, undermining, and conversion once again.)

Orthodox-Russian
( Conquered Golden Horde, Conquered Sibera, Lost SE Europe, Lost East Europe, Lost Uzbekistan )

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Creating Macro Competition between Civilizations: A Vicious Cycle of Civilizational Warfare

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1. Anatolian Hittites versus Egypt enabling the bronze age collapse
2. South Eurasian Iranic Persians versus European Greek Anatolians
3. Alexander Crossing the Bosphorus versus Persia resulting in infection of the west with oriental authoritarian mysticism while spreading Greek Reason, Langauge, High Culture, and Monetary systems across south Eurasia
4. Rome versus Semitic Judea resulting in the Diaspora and the infection of Europe by Jewish seditious mysticism
5. Jewish Christians versus Rome resulting in the Fall of Rome and the Semitic Abrahamic Dark Age
7. Muslims vs the world, and against West Europe in Spain, and Old Europe in the Balkans, and European Anatolia.
6. (Jews Versus Spain)(slavery)
7. (Jewish Facilitation of European Warfare)
8. Jewish
6. Jews versus Russia resulting in the horrors of the Soviet Union – Maoism and Cambodia by imitation.
7. Fascists versus Jews resulting in the Fall of European Empires
8. Postwar Jews versus the EU and USA leading to the present collapse – and the present beginning of the second Semitic Dark Age

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Normative competitions within civilizations: The Enlightenment Failure

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More Evidence that Every Bad Idea Begins In France

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Micro Competitions within Nations

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Classes

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Minorities

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In the modern world, Europeans alone are tolerant of hostiles.

PART IV – EUROPEAN GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

In Contrast with the European Group Evolutionary Strategy

European Group strategy is consistent across European Steppe Herders practicing entrepreneurial cattle raiding and warfare; European mixed herder agrarians practicing conquest of Europe – killing the men and keeping the women as they had captured cattle and women on the steppe; With the only example in written memory being the Spartans, who for all intents and purposes retained the strategy by which the European steppe herders conquered the European continent for profit. As such, they commercialized with the other Greeks conquering locals and overextending; Romans conquering locals and overextending; Franks conquering Europe and overextending. Conquering the Levant and overextending. Conquering the new world and overextending; the British restoring the Roman Empire an overextending – all in the greatest commercial enterprise in history: the domestication of animal man for profit. And by overextension, collapsing, as did Rome, out of unwillingness to use middle eastern or far eastern brutality ‘on their inventory’.

The West’s Group strategy is a universal militia maximizing speed, maneuver, adaptation, innovation, by the continuous domestication (farming) of agency, through self-determination, sovereignty and reciprocity, oath and truth before face, dependent on meritocracy, absent authority, leaving only adversarialism as a means of decidability, voting for production of commons, rule of law for dispute resolution, and markets for the production of goods services and information, and the necessity governing those with less agency, and culling those who lack agency, by natural and market selection, producing the civilization with the greatest conformity to and discovery of, adaptation to and application of the formal, physical, natural, and evolutionary laws of the universe.

The European group strategy is consistent whether steppe raiders, continental conquerors, Greeks, Romans, Nordics, Vikings, English, pirates, and American settlers: democracy rule of law, and empiricism, is the only method of governing a militia of voluntary entrepreneurial warriors. And that tradition has survived five thousand years – including the dark ages.  The critics were right. And this is why the Americans most, Australians next, and British least maintain that ethic. And why the American constitution differs little from that of their pre-literate ancestors.

“An army of all, of a universal militia, of universal entrepreneurs, self-governed by the Natural Law of self-determination, by self-determined means, by the reciprocal grant of, the defense of, the inalienability of, and insurance of, individual sovereignty in all demonstrated interests, and reciprocity in all display, word, and deed, to all members of the polity that are demonstrably able, willing, worthy, and sworn to exchange them, producing adversarial markets in all aspects of life: association, cooperation, production, reproduction, commons, polities, and war – and as a consequence, the fastest innovation and adaptation of knowledge, technology, economy, polity, war, and man, by the continuous evolution of human agency, producing the greatest transcendence of man, in the shortest time, under the greatest prosperity, with the greatest certainty – and the continuation of natural selection by suppression of the reproduction of those demonstrating unfitness for those markets – an aristocracy, holding to the primacy of man, profiting from the incremental domestication of the human-animal into peers. And as a consequence, institutionalizing and industrializing the production of human agency – rapidly evolving man from animal, to slave, to serf, to freeman, to citizen, to sovereign and into the gods they imagined.”

(See The Economics of Pirates” )

While that’s a formal description in legal prose, our law of sovereignty and reciprocity says only ‘Do no harm to private or common’. And it does not limit that harm to the person or physical goods. It includes the personal, physical, familial, shared, common, normative, traditional, and civilizational assets upon which all of us depend for our disproportionate wealth and choice compared to the rest of the world: demonstrated interests. That’s not an opinion on, or theory of, human behavior. The evidence of human behavior.

The Importance of Great Ambitions for European People

( … ) An army requires risk action and material costs and is a higher cost than organized religion and is most rapid and influential; an organized religion requires social and psychological costs and is a higher cost than an ideology and is more durable, and an ideology requires political advocacy and is a higher cost and more actionable than a philosophy.

The Importance of trifunctionalism to the European People

The Importance of Truth To European People

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