Comments on: Quote notes (#52)

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:55:30 +0000

Right, so the Chinese got a highly-talented flunky rather than an entrepreneurial genius.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:48:59 +0000

Zheng He wasn’t that lucky.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 02:19:50 +0000

Columbus had serious problems too, but he also had exit options. (When shopping around for monarchs, monarchists tend to downplay the shopping around part, but Columbus didn’t.)

By: VXXC

VXXC — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 01:46:16 +0000

Except until Thomas Friedman no one actually ever believed the world was flat.

You have to be a ProgTard to believe such things.

By: Handle

Handle — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:54:04 +0000

We’ve gone from flat-earth-society to flat-humanity-society. Except it’s the official position; so they prosecute Columbus.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:08:45 +0000

Maybe it was a preventive defense to avoid triggering a genocidal instinct that they couldn’t afford.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:22:01 +0000

Doesn’t the ardent Lysenkoism of the main commie mega-killers tilt speculation somewhat the other way?

By: VXXC

VXXC — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:04:17 +0000

Yes. And hence Tribal Characteristics are bedrock Truth. Mr. Garfinkle goes into the most torturous gymnastics to still justify our policies. I took that quote above from his section on Tunisia, he comes up with no less than nine explanations.

I’ve corresponded with him before online and followed some of his writings. He exhauastively lists the crimes and corruptions, then prescribes truly Talmudic solutions…all of which ignore the core problem: Our elites have done harm instead of good the last 50 years because they mean harm.

Core problem: Our elites are doing harm because they mean harm.

The New Deal succeeded despite all it’s flaws because they meant Good.

The Great Society was doomed even if Human Nature were infinitely malleable and responded positively to bad incentives…because the executors of the Great Society meant Harm.

And their Heirs are positively nihilistic. Also cowards, and twits.

There is no system of checks that can balance people who mean harm.

No government that is staffed by legions that mean Harm can contain their Harm, never mind channel it for Good.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:48:11 +0000

hbd chick has a long series of posts on the topic of tribes and how tribalism affects social functioning. A great deal of tribalism has to do with marriage patterns. The patterns we assume are normal are in fact unique to northwest Europe and the people who originated there.

http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/

By: VXXC

VXXC — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:49:31 +0000

“t is standard trope to support the democratic process but stay away from partisan leanings, because that is the right thing to do and also the tactically most shrewd thing to do in situations where you never know who’ll be on top two weeks from now.”

Oh Dear. No wonder democracy is in bad odour.

My Tribe – Amiriki – are actually quite democratic. It simply must be acknowledged they insist [for at least 400+ years] on some measure of self governance. The roots are Anglo-Saxon and European and same again …increase to 1000+ years.

But that’s my Tribe and it doesn’t travel well…