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Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 AM ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM GROUP STRATEGY… Ethnocentrism is the optimum group evolutionary strategy however it is in competition with the need for scale, hence the continuous conflict and decline in the tribal middle east, while slow evolution in india, faster in china, and fastest in europe. Only one civilization failed.

Jan 24, 2020, 7:57 AM Another axis of causality is the difficulty in cooperating on externalities, when it’s the collective sum of externalities that produces scale returns on cooperation (trust, velocity, tolerance). We make many decisions every day that can be biased for or against the group interest regardless of cost to us. Likewise hostile…

Jan 24, 2020, 7:57 AM (Organized religion): Feast > Death(Burial) > Tribes (trust building) > Seasons-Astrology (Calendaring) > Scripture (Writing) > Monotheism (conflict) DEBT PAYMENTS

Jan 24, 2020, 8:03 AM I demand the right to personally and collectively pay debts to and gain wisdom from, the entire host of my people’s gods, demigods, and heroes from our foundation forward. To transfer that debt and wisdom between generations, and to defend commons constructed by that debt and wisdom from dilution, diminution,…

Jan 24, 2020, 8:06 AM —“So many right wingers have a nature boner….”–@TruthRespecter Because the debt to Nature and Ancestors is true. Because we are masculine hunters not feminine urbanites. Because we have not devolved under urbanization (yet).

Jan 24, 2020, 8:11 AM The vast majority of literature in the ancient world was commentary on the Iliad just as the vast majority of literature in the medieval world was on the bible. In fact, the fragments of the library at Alexandria – regardless of how that library was physically constructed – were mostly…

Jan 24, 2020, 9:01 AM –“Bayesian”– This is a good start. Now I know the paradigm your working from and its limits. We have a long way to go. But smart folk will get there. My job is to (a) get you to operationalize bayesian learning instead of using it as a ‘magic word’. And…

Jan 24, 2020, 9:07 AM FEMALE HIERARCHIES DON’T SCALE: VIDEO AND WIKI by Andrew M Gilmour ( The Mouse Utopia Experiments | Down the Rabbit Hole at youtube.com ) Social (female) hierarchies don’t scale well (Calhoun). We need to build one, IMO. A council of elders with legal powers over the franchise, marriage and citizenship.…

Jan 24, 2020, 10:18 AM —“Curt. There’s nobody else on the Internet who actually takes people’s questions. It’s EXTREMELY impressive.”— George Ward Hugs brother. It’s ’cause I love my people not my career. And, P gives me a very substantial advantage in explanatory power over other moderates, conservatives, and libertarians.

Jan 24, 2020, 10:32 AM Well regulated meant ‘trained where that training is paid for by the state’. The discussion at the time was that given the vastness of the territory, the sparsity of the population, and the limited funds, that they could not at the time afford to pay for it, and that men…

by Scott De Warren “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.       https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf (The…

Jan 24, 2020, 10:50 AM The only purpose of a political party is promotion and legitimacy the same way the IRA had a political party (Sinn Fein). It’s not because a political party can win elections. It’s because it’s a vehicle for recruiting within a non-military framework, and promoting policy. Via positiva politics, via negativa…

Jan 24, 2020, 11:00 AM —“You keep mentioning trials of Achilles but I have no idea what that’s intended to refer and I wonder if you’re not thinking of labors of Heracles?”—Martin Št?pán The greeks invented the tragedy (nietzsche), and it was a novel technology of social order that justified sacrifice as heroism, and unity…

There are values to be learned from both Achilles(a King who is not yet noble) and Hector (a warrior who is noble). However, what does it say about rage, power, and forgiveness to men who would be kings? Iliad and Odyssey are two books in what is called the Epic Cycle. The “Bible” of the…

Jan 24, 2020, 11:52 AM —“Nature is the mother of reciprocity. Cold, brutal and uncompromising. Pay its price or cease existing.”—Eric Bumpus

Jan 24, 2020, 1:38 PM Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the mythos is true because men said so. We, the rational, only need to understand that Christian love, natural law of reciprocity and the physical laws are written in the structure of the universe regardless of what men said. The difference…

Common themes in the Bible and Homer. adamvoight.wordpress.com By Don Miguel (Must read) You are correct about how fundamental Homer’s work was to the classical worldview. If you read the Platonic dialogue “Ion”, it is clear that the Greeks say Homer as a conduit of divine scripture. My only criticism is that in my view…

Jan 24, 2020, 9:55 PM —“An institution’s ability to perform its primary function is inversely proportionate with the level it’s infested with social justice.”—James Louis LaSalle The reasons SJWs infect organizations are (a) that we don’t separate via-positiva devotional organizations, from via-negativa enforcement organizations, (b) we don’t ALWAYS structure either form of organization as empirical…

Hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village, usually a collection of homes in a rural or agrarian region. Village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area, and possessing minor local commerce. Town: an urban area that has a…

Jan 25, 2020, 8:44 AM Um. Even if I am, or was, a ‘spook’ – that’s like saying a soldier can’t fight in the revolution because he fought for the state. Truth? There are as many stupid overconfident morons on the right as there are on the left. The difference? The left shows up. So…