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(quote of the day) —“Generally speaking, I find I have more fun with my pants off.”— (some actor)

–“What are good introductory books to study about states, politics, and public laws?”— The reason we are in this post-enlightenment **political and pseudoscientific debacle** is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And…

—“Should we try to encourage the belief that black Africans are the master race? They really don’t have a lot going for them, and life in Africa and among black Americans is so hard. I think it would be uplifting for them.”— There is no master race. There are races that have evolved…

Curt Doolittle’s answer: —-”What is the worst geographical situation for a country according to geopolitical science?”—- Answering this question requires a few dimensions: 1) Coastal, to rivers, to dry, to desert 2) Hot desert or jungle to cold mountains or tundra. 3) A low disease gradient …

I’m going to give you a different answer from the rest. Which is the group evolutionary strategy advanced by the different schools. Ostensibly, all schools study every scale of human interaction from behavior through micro, thru macro, through the world economic system. We teach the fundamentals with micro and macro. But these are just entry…

As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited…

Um. I don’t think you understand the constitution of mathematics. And I am not sure that I want to invest that level of effort. But given the simplicity of math, and the impossibility of anything more ‘simple’ than math, the only thing we can do with mathematics that we cannot do now, is increase the…

Don’t you think that by asking this question you are using racism against white people? Look. White people made modernity and dragged everyone else into it kicking and screaming. White people produce the ONLY high trust- low corruption high truth telling society other than Japan. When other peoples produce the same levels of development then…

That prices are determined by market forces independent of state interference. There is no perfectly free trade. And in the current era the value of free trade is no longer what the classical economists suggested. https://www.quora.com/In-Laymans-terms-how-would-you-define-the-free-market

a large percentage of americans cross the 400k threshold at least one year. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-support-the-1-knowing-they-will-never-be-part-of-it

Switzerland. Small, homogenous, locally organized country win no external ambitions, and a universal militia. Cant be done much better. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-best-reflects-your-political-and-ethical-philosophy

100 MILLION PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF HIS PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC NONSENSE. https://www.quora.com/How-did-Karl-Marx-impact-our-society

MMT is an interesting thought experiment.The problem is we can’t test the theory very easily.And the underlying question is whether it would just generate runaway inflation.And as far as I can tell it would. HOWEVERI will put money on the fact that governments will, sometime in the next few decades, distribute liquidity directly to citizens…

In Communism private property is abolished in order to create exclusively common property. (Rule By Discretion) In Libertarianism, common property is abolished in order to create exclusively private property. (Anarchy) In Classical Liberalism (Rule of Law), the houses of government constitute a market for the voluntary production of commons between the people who pay for…

Why would we want to end capital flight? It tells governments that they are managing badly. https://www.quora.com/What-do-libertarians-think-of-a-progressive-global-wealth-tax

Friedman was a statistician and Hayek a philosopher and historian.Hayek explored every field and came to the conclusion that we were having the wrong discussion: the question is simply rule of law under the common law of tort versus discretionary rule of any other kind. Friedman proposed means of producing commons by market means. These…

WE LOOK AT SUCH PEOPLE AS UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN. —-”What do Americans think of the fact that their country is seen almost everywhere on Earth as the most arrogant and bellicose country responsible of the death of millions of innocent people?”—- What do Americans think? You mean uneducated or educated, or educated and knowledgeable, or educated,…

No. 1 – Overpopulation of the untalented classes.2 – Competition for status, because status increases opportunity.3 – Factual differences in individual, group, social, political, and religious value in modernity.4 – Lack of material value of vast sectors of the population – which will only get worse as technology advances. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-that-greed-is-the-main-source-of-all-problems-we-face-today

THE BEST ANSWER YOU WILL FIND. In display (dress, manner) conformity is a form of taxation. (cost) In action (behavior) conformity a form of taxation. (cost) In word, the question is whether the statement is true (scientifically), or false, not conforming or non conforming. If you state the truth, it’s a form of taxation. (cost)…

THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian),…