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I’ve followed this guy for quite a few years as an example of someone whose empirical management and workload was something I simply had to be in awe of. I don’t know if he’s guilty of anything yet but his skill is certainly something to study. He was brutal (American) in both France and Japan.…

Jan 14, 2020, 12:50 PM In the Western tradition, we are all members of a vast army fulfilling our duties because of accidents of time and space. We all are due respect no matter our rank, as long as we do our duty. We are all due disrespect or even punishment if we do not…

Jan 14, 2020, 2:42 PM Henri Pirenne – Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe-Mariner Books (1956) You can find this book on library genesis. So far it’s the ‘least wrong’ history of medieval europe I can find. Also can recommend: Hodgett, Gerald Augustus John – A social and economic history of medieval Europe (1972).…

Jan 14, 2020, 4:27 PM by Bill Joslin (important) (riffing of post shared below) (note the multiple dimensions common in propertarian analysis) 1) Production Distribution: Whereby the square root of the population accounts for 50% of productivity (thanks Heavens Wolves for these connections). 2) Lower Power Distance = Greater Chance of Trust. Power distance index:…

Jan 15, 2020, 8:51 AM —” (with irony) Today’s Youth explains that the economic failures of communism didn’t have much to do with the Soviet Union’s demise.”—Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer The Soviets used the fact that Russians had been serfs only decades before – and most still lived like serfs – and migrated them to a…

Jan 15, 2020, 6:32 PM —“Equality of Opportunity is only theoretically possible in a totalitarian state and even then it is impossible because those with the power to enforce equality of opportunity would be vastly more powerful than the ordinary citizen and would use that power to further entrench themselves and their class in the…

Jan 17, 2020, 9:43 AM Under P-Law claiming you were or your ancestors were oppressed if (a) domesticated, (b) forcibly integrated into civilization, rule of law, truthful speech, nuclear family, self-sufficiency, the sacredness of the commons, duty, piety (c) fulfilling an economic necessity, is a crime.

Jan 17, 2020, 10:29 AM —“Curt I think you need to stay home because after the shit gets hot this country’s going to need a leader because a lot of the people on the right are getting tired of Trumps BS because he’s so pro-israel and pro-immigrant”—Robert Shumaker If I want street creed with those…

Jan 18, 2020, 2:20 AM The galaxy has only rotated 50 – 60 times, the earth has only rotated around it 20 times, we pass through the galactic plane every 30-40m years, and are part of a wave-shaped stellar nursery above and below the plane.

Jan 18, 2020, 8:05 AM We can just as easily categorize the female brain and the male brain instead as breadth(experience, children)-first vs depth(time, environment)-first. When the paradigm you use is the high cost of brains, and high returns on brains, neural economy; division of reproductive, productive, and cognitive labor; economics of (returns on) cooperation;…

Jan 18, 2020, 8:43 AM (core) important —“It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”— Aristotle —“This is a manifestation of…

Jan 18, 2020, 9:20 AM It’s not an advantage for the underclasses. That’s why they invent or fall prey to Abrahamic deceits. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Ancient World. Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism, and Islamism in the modern world. There is no means of defeating the Red Queen, no means of defeating physical law, no…

Jan 18, 2020, 10:19 AM …(James Brittingham Says:) Under the nuclear family, individuals are asked to forgo the comfort, protection of large familiar networks, and women face the crucible of spending all day at home alone with infants, in order to pay our surplus production into a national, civilizational or global commons. Sorry but this…

Jan 18, 2020, 10:21 AM by Tim Kay Such an important post. There are minimum necessary conditions for civilization, undermine any one of them and the castle will fall on you too. A group competitive strategy cannot be ‘wrong’ but it actually can be against one’s interests in the long term. Anyone giving a free…

Jan 19, 2020, 2:54 PM Please don’t waste my time. Find the data. Human behavior is 80% inherited and 20% idiosyncratic development of behavior. Races differ in degree of neoteny, and rate of maturity. Genders differ in the distribution of traits and biases because of structural differences in the brain and distributions in the endocrine…

Jan 21, 2020, 4:37 PM Christians (Europeans) Use “Love”. That’s what ‘progressive’ meant. They continued the work of the church in secular prose. This allowed us to slowly decide if we could a given charity or not, and then ‘feel Christian’ in that we had accomplished a good. But It was the ENEMY that used…

Jan 22, 2020, 12:06 PM —” I’d be curious to hear cowardice put into economic terms. I’d say something like: an irreciprocal transfer of risk onto the leadership/heros.”–Daniel T. Johnson It’s the conservative form of GSRRM. Guilting others for not acting on their behalf, as cover for their cowardice on acting on all of our…

“Behold Europa, maker of heavens. Behold Semitia, maker of hells.”

Jan 22, 2020, 1:24 PM —“Leaving Plato’s cave.”—Micah Pezdirtz “You were sold a lot of lies. Your principal challenge in life is unlearning all the lies you were told, to make you an ignorant, useful, domesticated animal for the political classes.”

Jan 22, 2020, 1:38 PM Libertarianism SUGGESTS to you (falsely, by Abrahamic false promise) that you are in control of the terms by which people will tolerate your existence (proximity, participation, survival) – you are not in control of it. They control it. Because the network of promises (habits norms etc) that they cooperate by…