Music, under Confucian concepts, has the power to transform people to become more civilized and the goal of music is to create balance within individuals, nature and society.

This is why anti-monopoly investigations have hit China’s top technology firms with billions of dollars in fines and forced restructurings and strict new data rules have curtailed China’s internet and social media companies. It’s why record-breaking IPOs have been put on hold and corporations ordered to improve labor conditions, with “996” overtime requirements made illegal and pay raised for gig workers. It’s why the government killed off the private tutoring sector overnight and capped property rental price increases. It’s why the government has announced “excessively high incomes” are to be “adjusted.” And it’s why celebrities like Zhao Wei have been disappearing, why Chinese minors have been banned from playing the “spiritual opium” of video games for more than three hours per week, why LGBT groups have been scrubbed from the internet, and why abortion restrictions have been significantly tightened. As one nationalist article promoted across state media explained, if the liberal West’s “tittytainment strategy” is allowed to succeed in causing China’s “young generation lose their toughness and virility then we will fall…just like the Soviet Union did.” The purpose of Xi’s “profound transformation” is to ensure that “the cultural market will no longer be a paradise for sissy stars, and news and public opinion will no longer be in a position of worshipping Western culture.”

Feeling alone and unable to get ahead in a ruthlessly consumerist society, Chinese youth increasingly describe existing in a state of nihilistic despair encapsulated by the online slang term neijuan (“involution”), which describes a “turning inward” by individuals and society due to a prevalent sense of being stuck in a draining rat race where everyone inevitably loses. This despair has manifested itself in a movement known as tangping, or “lying flat,” in which people attempt to escape that rat race by doing the absolute bare minimum amount of work required to live, becoming modern ascetics.

Wang, having defeated National Taiwan University by arguing that human nature is inherently evil, foreshadowed that, “While Western modern civilization can bring material prosperity, it doesn’t necessarily lead to improvement in character.”

Ultimately, he argues, when faced with critical social issues like drug addiction, America’s atomized, deracinated, and dispirited society has found itself with “an insurmountable problem” because it no longer has any coherent conceptual grounds from which to mount any resistance.

He began to argue that China had to resist global liberal influence and become a culturally unified and self-confident nation governed by a strong, centralized party-state. He would develop these ideas into what has become known as China’s “Neo-Authoritarian” movement—though Wang never used the term, identifying himself with China’s “Neo-Conservatives.” This reflected his desire to blend Marxist socialism with traditional Chinese Confucian values and Legalist political thought, maximalist Western ideas of state sovereignty and power, and nationalism in order to synthesize a new basis for long-term stability and growth immune to Western liberalism.

Those imitating the effeminate or androgynous aesthetics of Korean boyband stars—colorfully referred to as “xiao xian rou,” or “little fresh meat”—were next to go, with the government vowing to “resolutely put an end to sissy men” appearing on the screens of China’s impressionable youth.

“We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, said in a memo to staff Monday. “But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”

Gamma is not sufficient to do the job, no matter how much tensor calculus you bring in to bolster it. In fact, the current transforms are so partial and insufficient that is may be considered a mathematical miracle that they work at all. That they come within any fraction of the correct answer can only be attributed to the great imagination and ingenuity of the mathematicians and engineers who use them.

Some might argue that Einstein simply fell a little short in places—no theory is born in complete and perfect form. But this belief cannot hold: Einstein imported the tensor calculus into Special Relativity himself, though it was completely unnecessary and ill-advised. He did this mainly as a public relations move, to impress the mathematical elite, to dress his theory up for the trip to Princeton. But this move has been disastrous, since it buried the math of the 1905 paper, making any correction almost impossible, especially by those who had taken the time to learn the new math. Those most likely to be able to correct the initial mistakes—the brightest minds in the field—had been diverted. They have been diverted ever since. No one who had spent five years learning General Relativity and its math would want to waste any time looking at basic algebra. It would be like Mozart stooping to think about scales.

self sovereigntyThat's it, that's the game.Either we move toward agency & self-determination, or the species ends through larger and larger fat tail risks assumed by technocratic utopianism.Wild to see this play out before our eyes in so many iterations - Covid response, media/tech collusion, now traditional finance being caught with its dick in the cookie jar.

What was the Polizeistaat, however? It literally translates to “policy state,” and does not mean “police state” in the modern sense. Polizei and its numerous variations including “gute Polizey,” was a commitment to public order, regulation of morals, health, sanitation, vagrancy and so on. These began as police ordinances promulgated by the free cities from the 15th century onward to regulate dress, ensure religious conformance, put beggars to work, insure against house fires, inspect the quality of beer, etc.

“the bulk of mankind is rigidly unphilosophical, and nowadays the bulk of mankind votes.

Some of us, including myself, have already concluded that the seeds of Wokeness are found in liberalism, and that this present condition was always an inevitability.

Hong Kong’s feeble ‘democracy protests’ were a last gasp effort to keep a western toehold in China.

On August 2, 2007, after an independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.[104] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryo and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.

The first documented visit into New York Harbor by a European was in 1524 by Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano, an explorer from Florence in the service of the French crown.[43] He claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême).[44] A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Río de San Antonio (Saint Anthony's River).

Writers have written on how and why it has come about, with a split between those focusing on its roots in the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, while others instead turning towards the liberal Protestantism of New England.

She is dirty, slow, and makes absolutely no sense occupying a route in the space age, one marked by moon colonies and new empire. What is going on here? Things begin to make a little more sense through the lens of an ordinary Vekllei person, with their own bizarre domestic intuition and frame of mind. Like we talked about previously, Vekllei understands the the achievements of industry as a liberationist tool to return to preindustrial, satisfying life.

Residential apartments, for example, often display elements reminiscent of constructivism, where national bureaus, or ‘hard buildings’ as they’re called in Vekllei, are more brutalistic. The stripped classicism of buildings of authority stands in stark contrast to the playful googie of utilities like phone booths and public restrooms. These allusions to grand midcentury architecture are domesticated with a unique form of Vekllei populuxe, usually because of Vekllei’s use of colour and shape as a language in itself.

Just five weeks later, the talks having resumed, a peace agreement is announced. Within a few days a ceasefire is in effect, thereby officially ending America’s involvement in Southeast Asia. Though the CIA will remain to continue directing the war by proxy, America’s men and women in uniform come home. And the Apollo program – despite several additional missions having been planned and discussed, and despite the additional funding that should have been available with the war drawing to a close – will never be heard from again.

And what guy, given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend some time in a reduced gravity environment, isn’t going to want to see how high he can jump? Or how far he can jump? Hitting a golf ball? Who the hell wants to see that? How about tossing a football for a 200-yard touchdown pass? Or how about the boys dazzling the viewing audience with some otherworldly acrobatics?And yes, Neil and the guys did exhibit some playfulness at times while allegedly walking on the Moon, but doesn’t it seem a bit odd that they failed to do anything that couldn’t be faked simply by changing the tape speed?

Approximately 80% of Niʻihau's income comes from a small Navy installation atop 1,300-foot-high cliffs. Remote-controlled tracking devices are used for testing and training with Kaua'i's Pacific Missile Range Facility. Modern missile defense tests are conducted at the site for the U.S. and its allies. The installation brings in millions of dollars a year, and provides the island with a stable economic base without the complexity of tourism or industrial development.

Ergo, there was absolutely an attempt at building “prescribed, substantial unity” ex novo — though the notion that this didn’t exist in the bourgeois-liberal epoch is simply false, and the cruel irony of the whole situation is that the moral backbone of society has been eroded precisely by people who eagerly wanted to replace the deficiencies of “individualistic negative-rights liberalism” and its freedom of contract. It was the liberals who respected tradition and contingency, their successors not so much. The idea of progress, to the extent that it really is such a crucial motivating factor these days, is directed toward positive liberty. But it is in the subsequent chapter that I will address this more thoroughly.

In order to make any advance at all we must instruct and persuade a multitudinous monarch called public opinion, a much less feasible undertaking than to influence a single monarch called a king.” (Not only is liberalism dead, but neoreaction is obsolete, as well.)

“The so-called ‘abstract rights’ of mankind must be denied if society is ever to become the arbiter of its own destiny – in theory, that is, for it is impossible that the real enjoyment of liberty should be thereby in the least diminished, while the sum of human happiness must be greatly increased, and this is the only conceivable object of any right. All the prevailing theories of human rights are but ideal conceptions which not only have never yet been realized, but in the nature of things never can be. In point of fact, all things are now and always have been governed by force, and all the attempts to disguise it under the color of abstract right have only served to make it easier for the unscrupulous to accomplish their personal aggrandizement. Government has always wielded an iron scepter, which the forms of law have only rendered the more inexorable. The most complete recognition of the right of force in human society – the only rule known to the rest of the sentient world, and the only one ever acted upon by mankind – could by no possibility render matters, worse than they are. But this recognition would put it in the power of the controlling authorities in society to introduce progressive elements into government, and make the coercion which is now so fruitless a positive and increasing future benefit.

This involved all sorts of community initiatives to instill moral virtues, including punctuality, as when “one Protestant minister, Ottho Gerhard Heldring, used to visit his parishioners in the 1830s and saw to it that they learned to use the clock he gave them in order to instil timekeeping discipline. In that way they themselves could see to it that they did not waste their time, but used it in as frugally and organised a fashion as possible.” This also included sending children to school, advising people not to drink to excess, and to avoid gambling. These were all initiatives founded on securing the public good and to elevate the standard of morality, and not on the “primacy of the individual” above all else.

The bourgeois-liberal order was heavily grounded on mos maiorum and force of custom, a.k.a. “the law of the land.” In this way, the guarantee of negative rights (freedom from) opens up positive rights (freedom to) by regulating all those obstacles to equitable enjoyment of property and fulfillment of contract. The two poles of negative and positive liberty have never been strictly separate in practice.

he called for the levying of “heavy taxes… on servants in livery, on equipages, rich furniture, fine clothes, on spacious courts and gardens, on public entertainments of all kinds, on useless professions, such as dancers, singers, players, and in a word, on all that multiplicity of objects of luxury, amusement and idleness, which strike the eyes of all, and can the less be hidden, as their whole purpose is to be seen, without which they would be useless.” Hardly the paragon of conspicuous consumption, Rousseau was a neo-Lacedaemonian patriarchal agrarian who scorned all forms of luxury and decadence to an extreme. His constitutional projects for Corsica and Poland display the same ethos even more strongly.

”Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country: but how can they love it, if their country be nothing more to them than to strangers, and afford them nothing but what it can refuse nobody?”

Guizot argued that “scarcely have feudalism, municipal communities, and the clergy, each taken their distinct place and form, when we have seen them tend to approximate, unite, and form themselves into a general social system, into a national body, a national government.” Yet all attempts to establish this until liberalism had failed, i.e. “no particular system has been able to take possession of society, and to secure it, by its sway, a destiny truly public.” This failure was due to the “absence of general interests and general ideas; we have found that everything, as yet, was too special, too individual, too local; that a long and powerful process of centralization was necessary, in order that society might become at once extensive, solid, and regular, the object which it necessarily seeks to attain.”

Thierry’s Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate (1853) spoke candidly of Cardinal Richelieu, who had “for the purpose of reducing all to the same level of submission and order, he raised the royal power above the ties of family and the tie of precedent; he isolated it in its sphere as a pure idea, the living idea of the public safety and the national interest.”

It leads to people thinking that if only we come up with the right “industrial policy” to finally overthrow the tyranny of the “neoliberal Washington consensus,” we can finally deprogram the multiracial working class from the false consciousness that the porkies deliberately instilled into them (so as to avoid the “threat” of another Occupy Wall Street), and unite the country around the one issue that deep down everyone cares about: health insurance.

In any event, what Spencer and many of his contemporaries were realizing is that the (or at least a) liberal creed marked by non-interference, freedom of contract and individual negative right was heading toward its demise. This was obvious to all social reformers, Fabians, radicals and the like who inveighed against it and worked to end it.

Is it not manifest that there must exist in our midst an immense amount of misery which is a normal result of misconduct, and ought not to be dissociated from it? There is a notion, always more or less prevalent and just now vociferously expressed, that all social suffering is removable, and that it is the duty of somebody or other to remove it. Both these beliefs are false. To separate pain from ill-doing is to fight against the constitution of things, and will be followed by far more pain.

The number of Arab dirhams discovered on the island of Gotland alone is astoundingly high. In the various hoards located around the island, there are more of these silver coins than at any other site in Western Eurasia. The total sum is almost as great as the number that has been unearthed in the entire Muslim world.

Although Japan doesn’t have many overweight people, it does have a lot of people aged over 80 (the highest fraction of any country, in fact). So lack of obesity can’t explain more than a small part of the difference between Japan’s death rate and the UK’s.

Compare Japan and the UK. Since the start of the pandemic, the UK has had 180 days of mandatory stay-at-home orders, and 506 days of mandatory business closures (in at least part of the country). By contrast, Japan has had zero days of mandatory stay-at-home orders, and only 112 days of mandatory business closures (all of which were in 2021). So Japan had zero days of mandatory stay-at-home orders and zero days of mandatory business closures last year. Yet the two countries’ official death curves look like this:

Discussions of genes and behavior results in a lot of what I’d call lawyering. That is, there’s a ton of nibbling around the edges of the argument to disqualify the debate rather than grappling with the heady philosophical issues straight on.

the internet is lending a platform to a whole new generation of tech-savvy scientific racists. Faced with that challenge, Khan may be a textbook example of what geneticists should not do: namely, focus on the science alone, and act as if the context doesn’t matter.

For all the attention that creationists receive, Tennessen’s kind of experience may be more typical — and more important. How, though, should geneticists respond to people who draw racist conclusions from their work?

When I showed Graves the passage about policing ideas, he sounded incredulous at the thought that these such views were being suppressed. “I don’t know what society he lives in,” Graves said. “In the societies I’ve lived in, racism has been the norm.”

Joseph Graves, Jr., an evolutionary biologist who writes about the biology of race, was more skeptical about clustering. Instead of distinct human groups, he said, one population grades into another, forming continua called “clines.” “There’s no unambiguous way to cluster individuals and say where one cluster begins and another one ends. It’s dependent upon the dataset you have. It’s dependent upon the genetic markers you look at. But the best models of human population show that we’re a continuous cline.”

In the ancient Sumerian, Roman, and Chinese counting systems, among many others, formation of numerical signs up to the initial triad are indistinguishable from tally markings.

Some of these organisations are leaders in their fields, operating at scale and with globally recognised outputs, for example Bellingcat

While vehemently insisting that it is independent of government influence, Bellingcat is funded by both the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy and the European Union. CIA officials have declared their “love” for Bellingcat, and there are unambiguous signs that the outlet has partnered closely with London and Washington to further the pair’s imperial objectives

Ultimately, he argues, when faced with critical social issues like drug addiction, America’s atomized, deracinated, and dispirited society has found itself with “an insurmountable problem” because it no longer has any coherent conceptual grounds from which to mount any resistance.

This is a step forward in thinking from the simplistic idea that one can avoid the pitfalls or existential crises of liberal democracy simply by maintaining one-party rule. Liberalization and the triumph of the individual to the detriment of the family and nation can also come about through economic forces that render the consumerbot the ‘basic cell’ of organization.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Chinese Politburo concluded that Perestroika (economic liberalization) was good, and that Glasnost (political liberalization) was not good.

Paul Yip, a co-author of the recent study and professor at the University of Hong Kong, said "no country has ever achieved such a rapid decline in suicides"

China's suicide rates were one of the highest in the world in the 1990s; however, by 2011, China had one of the lowest suicide rates in the world.

The reason for this confusion is that the anthropological reports about native American peoples available to Locke disagreed about whether these people in America were peaceful or bellicose.

"There is scarcely any nation that is not at war and dissension with some other, not for the purpose of possessing their territory and conquering their country, but solely to exterminate them if possible and to take revenge for some slight wrong or unpleasantness, which is seldom a great matter.  But their misgovernment and the want of police, which leaves their wicked fellow-citizens unpunished, is the cause of all this evil. . . . And thus it happens most frequently that for the fault of one man alone two entire tribes make war very cruelly upon one another, and are always in continual dread of being surprised the one by the other"

The Huron and Tlaxcala illustrate how democracy has evolved naturally throughout history around the world: whenever the circumstances are such that those trying to rule over a society are compelled to seek the consent of the people they govern, then democratic practices are likely to arise.

Richard Holmes[30] supports the anagrammatic derivation of the name, but adds that a writer such as Voltaire would have intended it to also convey connotations of speed and daring. These come from associations with words such as voltige (acrobatics on a trapeze or horse), volte-face (a spinning about to face one's enemies), and volatile (originally, any winged creature).

By now it should be clear that medicine is not an independent sector but rather a weapon the Cathedral wields to advance its political and economic goals.

BlueCross/BlueShield is one of the biggest government donors, with other major insurance companies not falling far behind. And these insurers love their government regulations! The US government has allowed them to eat little regional insurance companies alive, vertically integrate with hospitals and pharmacies, and outright collude with hospitals to set prices. In return, insurance companies occasionally rescue the government from its more embarrassing episodes – like when a subsidiary of United Health Group fixed the disastrous Obamacare website… for $2.2 billion.

The ideal patient would take a statin and begin exercising vigorously to lose weight and get healthy. Except statins can cause something called rhabdomyolysis, where in response to exercise (or simply nothing at all) muscles break down and shed protein into the blood. The kidneys then attempt to filter the protein and are damaged (potentially irreversibly). That’s what statins do to the big muscles of the body, but they also have been linked to weakening of the most important muscle, the heart. Yet despite that, statins are blockbuster drugs with protected status by the FDA, and newer and more expensive brand-name statins continue to be approved to this day.

Why would you stop eating crap and start lifting weights when you can just pop a pill? And those statin pills generate $17.2 billion dollars ($7.6 billion from direct out-of-pocket consumer costs) to big pharma and its lobbyist friends. “That’s money well-earned preventing heart attacks!”, Mr. Normie-con would probably interject. Never mind that statins don’t actually do that, as it takes 1,000 people each taking a statin for 5 years to prevent one heart attack.

Government public health defenders would probably cry at this point: “But we beat polio!” Except that it was the March of Dimes that beat polio. March of Dimes, a private foundation, organized a polio vaccine clinical trial with 1.8 million pediatric participants in the ’50s, funded by private donations.

The NIH conducts internal research at its hospital and laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland, and funds external research at American universities and indeed in Wuhan, China. But the EcoHealth Alliance adventure was not the NIH’s first rodeo. For that we would have to consider their work with the CIA in the ’60s and ’70s. For its MK-ULTRA program, the CIA funneled money to the NIH and its National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) via non-profit foundations under the guise of treating addiction, depression, and other mental health problems. NIMH performed ‘studies’ for MK-ULTRA and outsourced work via grants to academic institutions (including Harvard).

medical practitioners will literally subordinate patient health to sociopolitical goals. From our “healthcare heroes” on their social media platforms comes “guns are a public health problem,” fat acceptance (obesity is racist), silencing of the debate on transgender surgery for children, and drugs with (R) and (D) political affiliations (aka ivermectin and Remdesivir). Unfortunately, you can’t just ‘listen to your doctor’ anymore without skepticism, same as you would listen to Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow. Just as the Cathedral’s edicts trickle down to the Corporate Media and then the blue checks on Twitter, its medical edicts filter down to healthcare organizations and physicians.

To ensure that a trusted physician in a white coat can represent them well at press conferences, the bloated hospital bureaucracy chooses the most compliant doctors to join their ranks. The usual move is to anoint a physician figurehead to the key Chief Email Officer (aka CEO) position. From a talent pool of doctors whose only leadership training is learning by counterexample come the Chief Medical Officers, and occasionally the Chief Financial Officers of your local hospital.

he is in danger of either changing his previous positions on fundamental questions once he realizes he was wrong or clinging to a view which he no longer supports or may even be against. This will make it politically difficult for his followers to maintain their faith in him. Their old unshakable solid belief will be upset because he now appears to be undecided himself. To followers, such an about-face of their leader, means complete confusion in addition to their feeling of shame in front of those they have previously attacked over the issue.

The city of Linz only had a few Jews. In the course of centuries, they had become outwardly Europeanized and looked human. In fact, I even thought they were Germans. I did not realize the nonsense behind this notion because I believed their only distinguishing mark was a strange religion. Persecution for their religion and hostile comments against them often brought my objection in return. I had no idea that organized hostility against the Jews even existed.

If Social Democracy opposes a more truthful, but equally brutal theory, the new theory will win, even if it requires a battle first. In less than two years, I had developed a clear understanding of both the doctrine and the technical methods the Social Democrats used to propagate it. I realized the infamous intellectual terrorism of this movement targets the privileged-class, which is neither morally nor spiritually a match for such attacks. They tell a barrage of lies and slander against the individual adversary it considers most dangerous and keep it up until the nerves of the group being attacked give in and they sacrifice the hated figure just to have peace and quiet again. But the fools still do not get peace and quiet. The game begins again and is repeated until fear of the villain becomes a hypnotic paralysis.

I struggled with all of this. I had to ask, were these human beings worthy of belonging to a great people? It was a painful question. If the answer were “yes”, the struggle for a national body was really not worth the effort and sacrifice that the best individuals must make; but if the answer were “no”, our people were a poor lot as human beings. I was restless and uneasy during those days of brooding and wondering as I saw the mass of non-nationalistic people grow into a menacing crowd.

They were against everything—the nation—because they thought it was an invention of the “capitalistic” classes. I heard that constantly! They were against the Fatherland, as a tool of the privileged-class to exploit the workers; the authority of law, as a way to oppress the

Who knows if I would have ever become absorbed in the doctrines and character of Marxism if my life had not simply rubbed my nose in it! In my youth, I knew almost nothing about Social Democracy and what I did know was wrong. I thought it was a good thing that the Social Democrats were fighting for the right of all men to vote by secret ballot. Even then my mind told me this had to weaken the hated Hapsburg regime. I was also convinced the Austrian state could never be maintained unless it sacrificed the German element living in Austria. Even at the cost of slowly converting the German element to Slavs, there was no guarantee the empire would survive since their ability to preserve a Slavic society is highly doubtful.

I saw all this going on in hundreds of cases. At first, I was disgusted or outraged. I later came to realize the tragedy of this suffering and to understand its deeper causes. They were the unhappy victims of evil circumstances.

tudying from above results in superficial chatter or the formation of false opinions based on emotion. Both are harmful: one because it can never reach the heart of the problem; the other because it passes by the problem entirely. I do not know which is more devastating—to ignore those who lack the basic necessities such as we see in those who are favored by fortune or live well as a result of their own effort, or is it those who stand tall in their fashionable skirts or trousers and “feel for the people” because it is the latest fad. In any case, these people commit a sin greater than their limited intelligence will ever allow them to understand. Then, they are astonished when their fashionable “social conscience”, which they proudly display, never produces any results. When their fruitless good intentions are resented, they blame the ingratitude of the people. People with minds like this fail to understand that there is no place for merely social activities. When the masses want results, social displays are not enough and there can be no expectation of gratitude for such a show. It is not a matter of distributing favors, but of retribution and justice.

For over three hundred years the canal was in daily use and benefited the people of Kyoto, until transport on the canal was finally banned in 1920. During its three centuries it needed virtually no maintenance, it relied on no engines or fuel, no mining, no metals, no chemicals.

More and more people are understanding that the only thing modernity offers is consumer crap from China, divorce, and joyless sex at best.

Hungarians won’t vote the way they want so rules must be changed.

But Hungary has become the exception that nullifies the rule. After more than a decade under Orbán’s Fidesz Party, its democracy appears to have been fatally wounded, raising doubts that voters could ever remove the current regime.

His most famous dictum, written in The Book of the Law (1909), was: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

Dual Containment (the strategy of isolating and containing both Iraq and Iran simultaneously throughout the 1990s) is one thing when done at a smaller scale, but the idea of trying to apply it to both Russia and China is a rather glaring example of hubris.

Feminists, like all progressive activists, are essentially taking credit for cultural battles that have already been settled in advance by economic forces outside of their control.

In parallel, Rozanov's apology for Old Testament morality as harmonious and natural to man. The opposition of the Old and New Testaments is given: "It is mysterious that the Gospel never mentions a single smell, nothing - smelly, fragrant; as if the discrepancy with the flower of the Bible -" Song of Songs "is emphasized."

European science itself, according to Rozanov, is a natural product of the Christian religion. Christianity, like science, is divorced from life, it is a "spiritual gathering" and this is the poisonous seed of Western nihilism.

В детстве и молодости для Розанова его происхождение, как и его внешность, служило источником нравственных страданий. И лишь в зрелом возрасте он мог со спокойной уверенностью писать: "На кой черт мне "интересная физиономия" или еще "новое платье", когда я сам (в себе, в комке) бесконечно интересен, а по душе - бесконечно стар, опытен, точно мне тысяча лет, и вместе юн, как совершенный ребенок."

"(Розанов) не мог противостоять потоку националистической реакции 80-х годов, не мог противостоять потоку декадентства в начале XX века, не мог противостоять революционному потоку 1905 года, а потом новому реакционному потоку, напору антисемитизма в эпоху Бейлиса, наконец, не может ... противостоять подъему героического патриотизма и опасности шовинизма" ("О "вечно бабьем" в русской душе", "Биржевые ведомости", 1915 г., 14-15 января)

“We are as gods and might as well get used to it. A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested.”

A deserted cabin at Table Mountain Ranch.

(For what it’s worth, Dugin insists he has never served as Putin’s advisor, but Putin over the last two decades has followed Dugin’s blueprint to a tee.)

What ‘reactionary’ actually means as a political programme is harder to define; for me it functions mostly as provocation and placeholder, and if you ask me to be more specific I’ll quote the most literate reactionary of all, the Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila: “The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.”

This past week has seen China take another authoritarian turn which can only be seen a form of cultural protectionism against Westernization.

Former Chinese Chairman Deng Xiaoping is reported to have concluded that the USSR’s experiment in Perestroika (economic liberalization) was right, and its Glasnost (political openness) effort was wrong. It was these conclusions that led China onto the path of opening up its economy while retaining the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. Can you blame them in light of what happened to Russia in the 1990s?

Without providing any evidence, the Global Times commentary claimed Soros had colluded with Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to try to start a “color revolution” in Hong Kong in 2019. It also described Soros as “the most evil person in the world” and “the son of Satan.”

MKNAOMI was terminated in 1970. On November 25,1969, PresidentNixon renounced the use of any form of biological weapons that kill orincapacitate and ordered the disposal of existing stocks of bacteriologicalweapons.

We have attempted to group the activities covered by the 149 subprojectsinto categories under descriptive headings. In broad outline, at least, thispresents the contents of these files. The following 15 categories are theones we have divided these into.

During the Rockefeller Commission andChurch Committee investigations in 1975, the cryptonym became publiclyknown when details of the drug-related death of Dr. Frank Olsen werepublicized.

But this was also Rozanov's impotence. He saw that terrible hole into which his Russia fell, and he could and knew how to shout about it. He knew how to convince. But he couldn't prove it. But his opponents needed not predictions and divinations, but "scientific predictions." Rozanov wrote in October 1914: "We have been given unprecedented beauty And unheard of wealth. This is Russia. But stupid children have wasted everything. These are Russians." Why was it wasted? Where? When? Give numbers, calculations. The well-known left-liberal publicist Ivanov-Razumnik then wrote: "Be that as it may, but one thing is certain: the Russian intelligentsia can look at its future with faith, drawing strength and confidence in its glorious past ... its past is amazing, its future is unimaginable." A certain number of years passed and Razumnik was choking on blood in the Chekist basement (all his teeth were knocked out during interrogation).

Thus, Rozanov, despite the fact that he was older than other philosophers, sharply surpassed them in his spiritual development. The reason for this should be sought not in Rozanov's intellectual superiority, but in his ingenious instinct, in the musicality of his soul. He said that he "lives in continuous poetry", that "every day he notices something poetic in his life." Rozanov's sensitivity, his amazing responsiveness allowed him to be a predictor, a seer.

Indeed. Rozanov is perhaps the only Russian thinker who has never changed his views. And this is the fourth difference between Rozanov. Of course, in his youth he experienced a period of nihilism and atheism, read by Bockle and Spencer, etc. (I say "of course", since in essence materialism is inevitable for any novice thinker.)

When the researchers analyzed the genetic interrelatedness of bears both within and outside the area’s three language families, they found that grizzly bears living within a language family’s boundaries were much more genetically similar to one another than to bears living outside them.

He also discusses the imposition of moral beliefs derived from religion, with which Stephen has no quarrel, pointing out the obvious fact, made real in the present day, that “European morality is in fact founded upon religion, and the destruction of the one must of necessity involve the reconstruction of the other. Many persons in these days wish to retain the morality which they like, after getting rid of the religion in which they disbelieve. Whether they are right or wrong in disturbing the foundation, they are inconsistent in wishing to save the superstructure.”

I think this pandemic is better understood through the eyes of René Girard* than the WHO. The general latent state of pansification means that it is high status to appear concerned about the vulnerable and elderly and to do one’s part to help the cause, the actual opinions of and effect on the vulnerable and elderly be damned. So, a route to status is to appear slightly more concerned and for-the-cause than one’s neighbours, which then increases status rivalry, leading eventually to absurdities like cheering for being placed under dubious house arrest. I got a particular kick out of the trend of clapping from locked-down balconies that developed in some places, as it mirrors the famous anecdote of Stalin too deliciously. Don’t be the first to stop clapping, comrade!

Emotivism often appears as projection in the service of self-exculpation, used by liberals to whip themselves up into a righteous rage and justify ever more vicious attacks on those who stand in the way of their utopian political goals.

The “I turning back into WE” is happening because IDEAS are slipping away as useful and necessary instruments of survival.

Shippey itemizes core features of the Viking mindset; then illustrates and expands on them. The single overriding feature was an absolute need to be brave. Cowardice was utterly disgraceful. Part of that was never giving in. Fighting to the last man was a baseline Viking expectation. We can understand that; it’s to some extent part of our own culture (or was, until we were pansified). Another feature, though, is harder for us to grasp—losing isn’t the same as being a loser. Vikings lost all the time; there was no disgrace in that, as long as you kept the right attitude, which was not giving in. If you had to give in physically, not giving in mentally would do. And the best way to show that was to die laughing (hence the title of the book).

Attacks on Jews as Jews were rare; the prime threat the Jews faced was from the higher nobility, who extorted Jews when they needed money

For food, the town should not spare any effort to be self-sustainable. Food items are also a prime export product, especially high-end refined items (exporting raw materials/food isn’t a good use of resources). It provides jobs and income and is a sure way to draw tourists. For this purpose there will be no lawns, but plenty of gardens, orchards, street side herbs, roof top apiaries and flowers to feed the bees that inhabit them. The rural area (the “market garden zone”) surrounding the town out to a radius of one mile should be devoted more or less entirely to food production in some form, and it should be farmed primarily by the people living in town on a professional or hobby level (either one is fine: create the best allotment system in Texas!). The second belt, is the farm zone. Here I would recommend, if not enough farmers could be found, to offer the land at good prices to Amish families to farm. 800 acres is enough for 10 farms. They also have the expertise to run a farm in any sort of energy crises. The rule of thumb is that only people who live directly off the land should live in the rural area (the “farm zone”).

Foundationalism is grounded in what is universally known to be true, or what was once universally known to be true; it does not invent new truths. Thus, it contains a strong bias toward traditional Western knowledge and modes of thought, without calcification of application. The asteroid miner who knows his Aristotle and his Aquinas, and extracts metals to build great works with a picture of Henry the Navigator in his rocket ship—he is a Foundationalist.

A crowd does not have ideas, but ideas influence the crowd. Only simple ideas can influence a crowd, however, those that are “absolute, uncompromising, and [of a] simple shape.” There is no process of reasoning that takes place, even by analogy. Discussion is alien to crowds; as we have seen in the Wuhan Plague, the very idea of discussing any precept handed down to us and that has been adopted by the global crowd is held as anathema by the crowd, even if that precept directly contradicts one issued yesterday. Le Bon would not be surprised; he says that ideas that mesmerize crowds are image-like, one succeeding the other, and can therefore be contradictory to each other without changing their effect, especially if presented in a theatrical manner.

my question is whether the Right should abandon this rule, and adopt a big tent approach, of no enemies to the right.  Not only would this increase the Right’s reach and power, it would also eliminate a crippling energy drain not found on the Left, as well as destroy a tool that the Left uses to beat the Right and to change the topic whenever traction is being gained in some criticism of the Left.

A society that was becoming liberal and capitalist without that Old Western ballast was a society of timid, bourgeois cynics, incapable of great passion or of great joy.    As [Leopardi] wrote, “this century presumes to re-do all skills and institutions, because it actually does not know how to do anything.”  Happiness, he believed, could only come from the sense of achievement, of having created something, overcome real challenges.  In the age of faith, of Christendom, religion posed both the absolute challenge—of following Christ—and the absolute reward.   Living under judgment, men conceived life as an adventure, and their vivid imaginations conceived great tasks—sometimes bloody, cruel, and murderous—and impelled them to surmount great challenges.

“[T]hey were pessimists because they understood on the one hand that liberalism was the destiny of the West, and on the other that this set of doctrines was unable and unwilling, by its very nature, to restore the sense of self, of continuity, of belonging, and of tranquility that they considered essential to any civilization with a pretense to last.”

To maintain autarky, and for practical and philosophical reasons we will turn to in a minute, Lakeland rejects public funding of any technology past 1940, and imposes cultural strictures discouraging much private use of such technology. Even 1940s technology is not necessarily the standard; each county chooses to implement public infrastructure in one of five technological tiers, going back to 1820. The more retro, the lower the taxes.

At the highest level of generality, Faye calls for “radical,” “revolutionary” thought that “must necessarily be non-dogmatic and must constantly reposition itself.”  No compromise is permitted, though, and “effective radical thought” also requires recognizing “heterotelia, which is to say the fact that ideas do not necessarily yield the expected results.  Effective thought acknowledges its own approximate character.  One sails by sight, changing course depending on the wind, yet always knowing where he is going and what port he is trying to reach.”

If such phenomena occur at all, the rationalistic picture ofthe universe is invalid, because incomplete. Then the possibility ofan other-valued reality behind the phenomenal world becomes aninescapable problem, and we must face the fact that our world, withits time, space, and causality, relates to another order of thingslying behind or beneath it, in which neither "here and there" nor"earlier and later" are of importance. I have been convinced that at

The rejoinder to those who reject liberalism is that anyone who rejects liberalism embraces slavery and the divine right of kings.  This is of course not true, among other reasons because all the core “good things” of liberalism were not originated by liberalism, but by earlier Western Christian thought (though the pre-liberal West often failed to meet its own aspirations), and because liberalism itself increasingly replaces chattel slavery with ideological slavery and the divine right of kings with the equally, or more, tyrannical rule of the administrative state.

Deneen notes that those who push liberal democracy mean that democracy is good only so long as voters choose what is approved by liberalism; otherwise, it is “illiberal democracy” (a term gaining more and more currency, I have noticed)

On the other hand, Venator seems to have little objection to the Condor. Yes, Venator regularly, though dispassionately, refers to the Condor as a tyrant. But is he really? If he is, he has nothing to do with modern totalitarianisms. More than once Venator ties him to Periander, the Tyrant of Corinth who died in 585 B.C. Periander was one of the Seven Sages, men of wisdom and power, who also included Thales of Miletus (to whom, among others, the Delphic maxim “Know thyself” is attributed), and Solon of Athens. Eumeswil is not even a police state. In fact, it allows all sorts of ordered freedoms, and many disordered freedoms, within the constraints of not too directly challenging the ruler. A modest amount of vice is allowed and it appears that there is a sizable amount of low-level corruption greasing the skids of day-to-day life. What shows most of all that he’s not a real tyrant is that the Condor can and does openly move around, “discreetly accompanied,” on the public streets and the waterfront, talking to and joking with the people, with whom he is popular. If he is a tyrant, he is a tyrant in the mold of Augustus.

From a libertarian perspective, pretty much everyone is free to do as he wants, as long as he does not overtly upset the public order (and does not challenge the ruler, on whom more later). History is mostly ignored; the entire society smacks of what is today called postmodernism. In other words, Eumeswil is a stand-in for the modern West, and its people, regardless of their formal type of government, are not analogous to those under Communism in The Forest Passage, but to Jünger’s West German compatriots of the 1970s.

16. (Paragraph 95) When the American colonies were under British rule there were fewer and less effective legal guarantees of freedom than there were after the American Constitution went into effect, yet there was more personal freedom in pre-industrial America, both before and after the War of Independence, than there was after the Industrial Revolution took hold in this country. We quote from “Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives,” edited by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, Chapter 12 by Roger Lane, pages 476-478: “The progressive heightening of standards of propriety, and with it the increasing reliance on official law enforcement (in 19th century America) ... were common to the whole society.... [T]he change in social behavior is so long term and so widespread as to suggest a connection with the most fundamental of contemporary social processes; that of industrial urbanization itself....”Massachusetts in 1835 had a population of some 660,940, 81 percent rural, overwhelmingly preindustrial and native born. It’s citizens were used to considerable personal freedom. Whether teamsters, farmers or artisans, they were all accustomed to setting their own schedules, and the nature of their work made them physically independent of each other.... Individual problems, sins or even crimes, were not generally cause for wider social concern....”But the impact of the twin movements to the city and to the factory, both just gathering force in 1835, had a progressive effect on personal behavior throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. The factory demanded regularity of behavior, a life governed by obedience to the rhythms of clock and calendar, the demands of foreman and supervisor. In the city or town, the needs of living in closely packed neighborhoods inhibited many actions previously unobjectionable. Both blue- and white-collar employees in larger establishments were mutually dependent on their fellows; as one man’s work fit into anther’s, so one man’s business was no longer his own. “The results of the new organization of life and work were apparent by 1900, when some 76 percent of the 2,805,346 inhabitants of Massachusetts were classified as urbanites. Much violent or irregular behavior which had been tolerable in a casual, independent society was no longer acceptable in the more formalized, cooperative atmosphere of the later period.... The move to the cities had, in short, produced a more tractable, more socialized, more ‘civilized’ generation than its predecessors.”

A partial exception may be made for a few passive, inward-looking groups, such as the Amish, which have little effect on the wider society. Apart from these, some genuine small-scale communities do exist in America today. For instance, youth gangs and “cults.” Everyone regards them as dangerous, and so they are, because the members of these groups are loyal primarily to one another rather than to the system, hence the system cannot control them. Or take the gypsies. The gypsies commonly get away with theft and fraud because their loyalties are such that they can always get other gypsies to give testimony that “proves” their innocence. Obviously the system would be in serious trouble if too many people belonged to such groups. Some of the early-20th century Chinese thinkers who were concerned with modernizing China recognized the necessity breaking down small-scale social groups such as the family: “(According to Sun Yat-sen) the Chinese people needed a new surge of patriotism, which would lead to a transfer of loyalty from the family to the state.... (According to Li Huang) traditional attachments, particularly to the family had to be abandoned if nationalism were to develop in China.” (Chester C. Tan, “Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century,” page 125, page 297.)

Thus, a few years past, I used to work some days a hundred miles from home. I carried a detailed railroad map (which are surprisingly difficult to find), figuring that the rails would be a much easier and safer way to return home on foot, in some kind of societal catastrophe, than using the roads. Junger confirms this; not only are railroads easy to traverse (most have walkable maintenance roads running along them, though walking on the ties themselves he says is difficult), they are usually completely free of people, in part because it’s illegal to walk on or along them. So if you ever find yourself needing to move around in the apocalypse, there you go, you’ve gotten a hot tip.

The Kingdom of Darkness wars with the Kingdom of Light, but with the keys provided by Curtis Yarvin, we can see the truth.

So if not a program, what is this? It is a call to action, a call to shake off lethargy, packaged in a way to attract modern youth. As a charge laid against the foundations of modern society, it is well designed. As a political program, not so much.

BAP attacks the idea that women should be “free” in the modern sense. “Liberation of women means freedom and power for financiers, lawyers, purveyors of comforts in and outside government, employers who whore out your wives and daughters.” Not that women should be confined to the home, or lose the vote—in fact, women are most likely to vote for the man to come who exemplifies the Bronze Age Mindset. If women hadn’t lost respect for men, the idea of “liberation” would have seemed pointless and laughable; feminism is therefore merely an epiphenomenon of societal decay.

street protests, marches and the like, are not historically the forte of the Right—in America. It is probably time for them to become our forte.

The chief hurdle Bray faces in this endeavor is that he completely endorses the violent silencing of all opposition to the Left, yet knows that sells poorly in normie America, and to normies, you look bad when your own supposed definition of fascism centers on how fascists “abandon democratic liberties” and use “redemptive violence,” yet both those are the core of your own self-definition. Bray wrote this book in an attempt to square this circle. He doesn’t succeed, because not even God can square a circle. The result is instead protean word salad, where Bray returns again and again to halfheartedly trying to show that Antifa is something other than merely joint action to violently suppress all opposition to the Left, and fails. Then he gives up, and admits his project.

When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’. Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigours which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

When one critic writes, ‘The outstanding feature of Mr. X’s work is its living quality’, while another writes, ‘The immediately striking thing about Mr. X’s work is its peculiar deadness’, the reader accepts this as a simple difference opinion. If words like black and white were involved, instead of the jargon words dead and living, he would see at once that language was being used in an improper way. Many political words are similarly abused.

It looked like this:

Neanderthals did not speak human languages. He quotes a September 2008 talk presented to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists: “Their large nasal cavity would have decreased the intelligibility of vowel-like sounds, and the combination of a long face, short neck, unequally-proportioned vocal tract, and large nose made it highly unlikely that Neanderthals would have been unable to produce quantal speech.” Neanderthal tongues were also not shaped to speak clearly. Overall, the evidence suggests a creature that spoke with a deep timbre with lots of guttural sounds.

The chronostratigraphic term "Jurassic" is linked to the Jura Mountains, a mountain range mainly following the France–Switzerland border.

The climate of the Jurassic was warmer than the present, and there were no ice caps.

The Earth is expected to continue to transition between glacial and interglacial periods until the cessation of the Quaternary Ice Age where it will enter another Greenhouse state.

So they start thinking about the ideas that have become the process. They realize that ideas are not commercial products in a peaceful marketplace, but psychological weapons on a hostile battlefield. They learn to see their own ideas as weapons, and lose their aversion to settling intellectual conflicts by force. A weapon is a weapon.

Archeofuturism was to be the dialectical overcoming of the gulf between tradition and technology, to create a philosophical alliance between ‘the Apollonian sovereign and rational will to shape the world’ and ‘the Dionysian’s aesthetic and romantic mobilisation of pure energy’. For Faye, attempting to build a vision of the future without thinking about its arche was akin to building a house on quicksand. Civilisation requires a foundation, and that foundation is to be found in ur-traditions, or, rather, religion and the morality that is derived from it.Archeofuturism distinguishes itself from the purely traditional in its approach to the technological sciences, which it wholly embraces and does not view with suspicion or fatalism.

Once every year, in autumn’s wistful glow, The birds fly out over an ocean waste, Calling and chattering in a joyous haste To reach some land their inner memories know. Great terraced gardens where bright blossoms blow, And lines of mangoes luscious to the taste, And temple-groves with branches interlaced Over cool paths—all these their vague dreams shew. They search the sea for marks of their old shore— For the tall city, white and turreted— But only empty waters stretch ahead, So that at last they turn away once more. Yet sunken deep where alien polyps throng, The old towers miss their lost, remembered song.

I do not know if ever it existed— That lost world floating dimly on Time’s stream— And yet I see it often, violet-misted, And shimmering at the back of some vague dream. There were strange towers and curious lapping rivers, Labyrinths of wonder, and low vaults of light, And bough-crossed skies of flame, like that which quivers Wistfully just before a winter’s night. Great moors led off to sedgy shores unpeopled, Where vast birds wheeled, while on a windswept hillThere was a village, ancient and white-steepled, With evening chimes for which I listen still. I do not know what land it is—or dare Ask when or why I was, or will be, there.

This reflects a knowledge of a feudal theory of liberty. Liberty is not the absence of servitude, but merely servitude to a higher and less proximate master, such as a king, a commonwealth, etc. “By destroying the power of the fathers over the people, no one respected the power given to them by the law and the custom over property.” The consequences of such a liberation from patriarchy are the multiplication of litigation, the intensification of class war, fiscal mayhem and rationalization of life as states must take over the functions of sustenance stripped from fathers. More fundamentally, this emerges from the consequent loss of obedience as patriarchs lose their legitimacy, and with them personal authority in general. His wife, his children, his slaves — each of them must be given fixed rights, which they owe to the Prince, and of which they will have no obligation save to himself. The father must subtract their goods and their heads from the fancy of a particular master, who; after all, is their equal before the common master.

There's this statistical phenomenon where it's possible for two multivariate distributions to overlap along any one variable, but be cleanly separable when you look at the entire configuration space at once. This is perhaps easiest to see with an illustrative diagram— The denial of this possibility (in arguments of the form, "the distributions overlap along this variable, therefore you can't say that they're different") is sometimes called the "univariate fallacy." (Eliezer Yudkowsky proposes "covariance denial fallacy" or "cluster erasure fallacy" as potential alternative names.)

One recently retired senior officer responsible for overseeing signature reduction and super-secret "special access programs" that shield them from scrutiny and compromise says that no one is fully aware of the extent of the program, nor has much consideration been given to the implications for the military institution. "Everything from the status of the Geneva Conventions—were a soldier operating under false identity to be captured by an enemy—to Congressional oversight is problematic," he says.

it necessarilyfollows that an organism’s value must be judged according to how well that organism is able toimpose its will upon other organisms and objects

Monday (chest, delts, triceps)-Incline dumbbell press: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure-Smith machine military press:4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure-French Press: 3 warmup sets (15, 12, 8) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failureWedensday (Back, traps, biceps)-Deadlifts or barbell bent over rows: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to totalfailure-Dumbbell shrugs: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure-Olympic bar curls: 3 warmup sets (15, 12, 8) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failureFriday: (Quads, Hamstrings, Calves)-Squats: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure-Stiff-legged deadlifts: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure-Seated calf raises: 4 warmup sets (15, 12, 8, 6) 1 working set (8-10 reps to total failure

Ultimately, feminism says a lot about male weakness,

All of that aside, "real men" don’t take a strong interest in women and their affairsoutside of what honor requires

Young men, historically, were inculcated with a social orientation and national learning thatdeveloped masculine virtues - that is why men traditionally aren’t terribly interested in womenoutside of (fledging) circumstances of erotic passion or the (permanent) duties that attend conjugalpatronage.

If sex is merely a form of physical recreation, and there is nothing sacrosanct about female chastity,a 'rape' is really not any different than a simple battery, morally speaking.Feminists merely fetishize the issue in order to place men in potential penal jeopardy for perfectlybenign sexual conduct.

Marxism really, as Sombart pointed out, only has a context within Europe and the peculiardisturbances experienced by Europe in the transition from the Medieval cultural "mind", economy,and political/conceptual horizon to modernity and rationalism/capitalism. It doesn’t make sense asextrapolated to other cultures (including America despite America having a Western core - but thisis a tangential issue) and Marx himself actually recognized this.

In the PRC, "Maoism", as the DDR elite were often pointing out, wasn’t even an intelligible theory ofclass warfare, politics, historicism, or ideology - it was simply a Chinese interpretation of the great-power conflict looming between the Western alliance and the Soviet Bloc (and concomitantly,between the West and the colored world), extrapolated to an internal Chinese political situation.This is one reason why the Chinese have remained "communist" - Chinese "communism" iswhatever the ruling Han party-state decides is required to advance Chinese geostrategic interests -its not anything more than that.

SCOTUS invoked the commerce clause to end desegregation for reasons beyond mere expediency.It’s cost prohibitive for a Producer to adjust labor policy in jurisdictions where race laws exist...undermines labor/capital mobility to unacceptable degrees.

Capitalism represents the transnational consolidation of private interests/capital/authority withostensibly "public" authority while maintaining the fiction that:a) a clear cleft exists between public and private authority b) the system of apparently contestedelections produces accountability c) "freedom" is realized by removing restrictions upon labor andcapital mobilityGlobal capitalism is a chimera because it represents the amalgamation of disparate sources ofpower into a single ideological scheme...a scheme which its proponents deny actually exists

Thoughtful introverts who come to dedicate their efforts to political theory and radical intellectualopposition to the status quo are generally tortured people. They arrive at their conclusions out of aprofound and deeply-felt anxiety that most normal people don’t experience. This is catastrophic inmany cases to physical and mental health.

modern historical fracturing of the racial/patriotic idea,

The clarion call in favor of [patriotic] Ethical Socialism was sounded, practically, amidst thetraumatic disturbance of Germany’s defeat in the Great War; waged initially by the German stateand the Hapsburg Empire, to defend against burgeoning Russian hegemony in Hapsburg dominionsas well as to create circumstances of parity with the still great, but floundering, British Empire. Thedyad of conflict was, however, fundamentally altered by the intervention of America - a massivemilitary effort to upset the natural balance of power in Europe, motivated by a destructive andstupid belief in a future condominium of "world democracy" in opposition to European/Whitepatriotism and the Western cultural idea.

Across Europe, there has been a resurgence of the far right and the politics of hate.

the only Duginian utterances and pronouncements that can be trusted are those that are most extreme, which are certainly in no way lacking.

In The Fourth Political Theory, Dugin claims that he repudiates the “racism, xenophobia, and chauvinism” of the fascist past, which he refers to as “unacceptable elements” of fascism/Nazism (4PT, p. 195). Yes, he wants to incorporate a fascist and Nazi component in his anti-liberal ideology, but his will be a kinder and gentler fascism purged of racism and nationalist chauvinism. One would have to be credulous in the extreme to be taken in by these disclaimers.

Dugin’s suggestive slogan, “Third Rome – Third Reich – Third International,” aptly conveys the scope of his ambitions.

Dugin’s desire to incorporate fascism in his anti-liberal ideology is not a matter of conjecture or interpretation: he himself openly avows it.

When I put this question to John Preskill years ago, he said that decoherence itself -- in other words, an approximately classical universe -- seemed to him like an important component of subjective experience as we understand it.

The real trouble in quantum mechanics is not that the future trajectory of a particle is indeterministic -- it's that the past trajectory is also indeterministic! Or more accurately, the very notion of a "trajectory" is undefined, since until you measure, there's just an evolving wavefunction. And crucially, because of the defining feature of quantum mechanics -- interference between positive and negative amplitudes -- this wavefunction can't be seen as merely a product of our ignorance, in the same way that a probability distribution can.

Probability theory tells us that surprise is the measure of a poor hypothesis; if a model is consistently stupid  - consistently hits on events the model assigns tiny probabilities - then it's time to discard that model.

The LINK token is used in a variety of ways, including paying node operators for the information they provide to the network. In order to be eligible, node operators must “lock up” a certain amount of LINK tokens. This is called staking, and incentivizes operators to provide good data if they want to get their staked tokens back. Interestingly, this also decreases the circulating supply of LINK, which increases demand for tokens.LINK that is staked by nodes can be confiscated by smart contracts when nodes do not comply with agreed upon parameters or if they provide bad data. This creates a strong incentive for node operators to operate in good faith, thus providing an additional layer of security for the network. Because node operators are paid in LINK for securing the network with good information, node operators compete with others to provide the best data. This creates a market for information that is denominated in LINK. So when you own a LINK token, you essentially own the value of information being secured by the Chainlink network.

As demonstrated through this set of hypothetical days, we see that wealth can go up and down, without the full portion of that wealth “going” anywhere. It can simply be created or destroyed, since the latest buyer effectively sets the effective price for all shares of the company.

The remaining original investors therefore have $90 million in unrealized profits.

In other words, if a stock goes from a $500 million to a $600 million market capitalization, many people assume that means that $100 million flowed into that stock. However, that’s not how it works. The marginal trade sets the whole price. This is why bubbles can exist, and can be so destructive. Wealth can simply be created when real innovation happens, and can be destroyed if an asset class deflates in value. Wealth doesn’t necessarily need to “go” anywhere.

In fact, the science is robust, and one of the chief scientists behind it is Chris Goldfinger. Thanks to work done by him and his colleagues, we now know that the odds of the big Cascadia earthquake happening in the next fifty years are roughly one in three. The odds of the very big one are roughly one in ten. Even those numbers do not fully reflect the danger—or, more to the point, how unprepared the Pacific Northwest is to face it. The truly worrisome figures in this story are these: Thirty years ago, no one knew that the Cascadia subduction zone had ever produced a major earthquake. Forty-five years ago, no one even knew it existed.

The United Kingdom is the third-largest holder with $439 billion. Its holdings have increased in rank as Brexit continues to weaken its economy. Ireland is next, holding $314 billion. It's followed by Luxembourg with $281 billion and Brazil with $260 billion.

The Fed needed to fight the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008, it ramped up open market operations by purchasing bank-owned mortgage-backed securities. In 2009, the Fed began adding U.S. Treasuries. By 2011, it owned $1.6 trillion, maxing out at $2.5 trillion in 2014.5 This quantitative easing (QE) stimulated the economy by keeping interest rates low and infusing liquidity into the capital markets, giving businesses continued access to low-cost borrowing for operations and expansion.

If you add the debt held by Social Security and all the retirement and pension funds, almost half of the U.S. Treasury debt is held in trust for your retirement. If the United States defaults on its debt, foreign investors would be angry, but current and future retirees would be hurt the most.

Most headlines focus on how much the United States owes China, one of the largest foreign owners. What many people don’t know is that the Social Security Trust Fund, also known as your retirement money, owns most of the national debt.

Hale ʻaina, the women's eating house. Women ate at their own separate eating house. Men and women could not eat with each other for fear that men were vulnerable while eating to have their mana, or divine spirit, stolen by women.

Native legends often talk of the little people playing pranks on people, such as singing and then hiding when an inquisitive person searches for the music.

Mistake theorists treat politics as science, engineering, or medicine. The State is diseased. We’re all doctors, standing around arguing over the best diagnosis and cure. Some of us have good ideas, others have bad ideas that wouldn’t help, or that would cause too many side effects. Conflict theorists treat politics as war. Different blocs with different interests are forever fighting to determine whether the State exists to enrich the Elites or to help the People.

Garrett Jones famously recommended 10% less democracy . Próspera goes further: 44% less democracy. The city will be governed by a Council of nine people, of whom five are elected and four appointed by HPI.(right now everyone is appointed by HPI because no one lives there, but there are various provisions for gradually giving residents more of a voice as more of them move in, and eventually five Council members will be elected)But that’s still kind of democratic, right? Majority democratic? Yes, but the Council requires 66% majority to do anything. The five democratically-elected members can’t do anything without at least one HPI member in support.But HPI also can’t do anything without some democratic members in support, right? Yes, but HPI has already written all the laws the way they want them. They can’t change anything without at least some democratic support, but they expect to be pretty happy even if they have to keep everything the same.(also, one assumes that the four HPI members will vote as a bloc on issues important to the company, but the democratically elected members will be split among various parties and philosophies in the tradition of democratic elections everywhere. As long as 2/5 democratically elected members vote with HPI, HPI gets what it wants).

HPI is getting some funding from Pronomos Capital, who are exactly the sort of people you would expect to see founding their own city. Pronomos is a group of Silicon Valley libertarians interested in competitive governance; their site predicts "crowd choice in governance providers, new startup societies approved by existing states, and completely new developments in unclaimed areas such as the high seas or celestial bodies".

The central narrative is that we are in a war with an invisible enemy, one that will kill - and will do so indiscriminately. By not actively participating in the fight, you may be guilty of killing others. This is, by definition, a virulent idea, one that frames anything outside of active participation in its aims as culpability. Passivity kills and will not be tolerated.

The obscure man falsely attributes to me the view that “the surplus-value produced by the workers alone remains, in an unwarranted manner, in the hands of the capitalist entrepreneurs” (Note 3, p. 114). In fact I say the exact opposite: that the production of commodities must necessarily become “capitalist” production of commodities at a certain point, and that according to the law of value governing it, the “surplus-value” rightfully belongs to the capitalist and not the worker.

At any rate, in my presentation even, “profit on capital” is in actual fact not “a subtraction from, or robbery of, the worker.” On the contrary, I depict the capitalist as the necessary functionary of capitalist production and demonstrate at great length that he not only “subtracts” or “robs” but enforces the production of surplus value, thus first helping to create what is to be subtracted; what is more, I demonstrate in detail that even if only equivalents were exchanged in the exchange of commodities, the capitalist—as soon as he pays the worker the real value of his labour-power—would have every right, i.e. such right as corresponds to this mode of production, to surplus-value.

The very things that freed the peoples of the steppe to harass and dominate any settled societies they wished (here I’m thinking of the shared oral culture that made confreres of warriors from all across the vast steppe, the horse-focused lifestyle of motion and action and the nomadic rootlessness and efficiency that allowed them to travel light and at lightning speed) all conspired to leave even their most sympathetic chronicler minimal primary sources. This has meant that many historical events hinge upon steppe actors who are at best drawn as shadowy stock characters. Genghis Khan and the Mongols are a great exception, but that is only because of the preservation of The Secret History of the Mongols, which contains a wealth of biographical detail that would otherwise have been lost. It only comes down to us via 15th-century copies made in Ming China. 

I have ignored the question of social and political organization. The reason for this is simple: once you have the intense overarching goal for which you must mobilize over the long-term, the rest falls into place. The complex adaptive system finds its functional organization in necessity. We need to feed, house, and provide virtue-building work for the people; we must be at the peak of our health. We need to build a strong economy; how else will we apply all the necessary industrial effort? We need to stop fighting and love each other; we have no time for disunity anymore. We need to learn to live harmoniously with nature, and build an ecologically integrated civilization; there is no other option for settling the Bison Sphere and flourishing in the long-term. Focus your vision on some great purpose, and everything else becomes clear.

One comes to value this plus health, when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it. A timid man listening to the alarmists in Congress, and in the newspapers, and observing the profligacy of party, — sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences, with a mind made up to desperate extremities, ballot in one hand, and rifle in the other, — might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But, after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play, make our politics unimportant.

The agricultural transition, beginning 10,000–12,000 BP, was associated with profound changes in human ecology1, which in turn are hypothesized to have precipitated major new infectious disease burdens2–4. Specifically, the construction of permanent settlements and a subsequent increase in population density associated with the agricultural transition5,6 may have facilitated the establishment and transmission of infectious agents such as smallpox, measles, rubella, and other pathogens that require hundreds to thousands of host individuals to spread and persist7,8. Agriculturalists and pastoralists also lived in proximity with their domesticated animals, providing opportunity for novel or expanded zoonotic transmission4 of pathogens potentially including rotavirus, measles virus, and influenza9–11. Finally, agriculturists performed extensive modifications to the landscape, including clearing fields and constructing irrigation systems, which may have led to an increase in the incidence of vector-borne diseases, such as Plasmodium falciparum malaria12,13. In several instances, higher intestinal parasite burdens in AG relative to HG populations have also been reported

It is usually a bad idea, individually or collectively, to take actions with unpredictable results.

Through Yan’s eyes, we can see liberalism afresh—as a means of producing certain kinds of subjects whose apparently liberated selves serve the interests of the state. As the continued existence of liberal democracy becomes ever less certain, it is of vital interest to liberals to appreciate their own intellectual tradition—and political situation—from Yan’s perspective.

Yan’s first major work, a translation of John Stuart Mill’s 1859 essay “On Liberty,” reveals that freedom of speech is a means to the end of state power. If this point has rarely been noted in Western societies’ ongoing debates about the erosion of free speech, it is because neither liberals nor their opponents are used to thinking about liberalism in such terms.

Chavez had a history of choosing unwavering loyalty over competence and expertise.

He calls the application of this ideology by feminism the “rolling revolution,” because it has no possible limiting principle; it must always seek fresh aspects of the traditional family regime to destroy.

It has become customary to say that we need to revive faith in liberalism, or to find some new religion or philosophy of the common good that could motivate us again to build and fight. But you cannot construct such a thing by fiat or in response to need. A faithless technocratic prescription of faith fails to achieve it. Life comes only from life. If we have only enough life left to lament that we are dying, then we should hurry up and die to make way for the coming world.

The first and most important problem in our society is the one that makes all of this so tricky. We don’t actually have an epistemically flexible elite that could execute a change in direction to solve our biggest problems.

Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng set out from China on massive naval expeditions that reached as far as Mecca and Mombasa, journeys with more than 300 vessels and 28,000 crew, excursions far bigger and longer than those of Columbus more than a half century later. Staggering in price, formidable in technical sophistication, unprecedented in level of national commitment—Zheng's voyages remain the closest functional equivalent to the cost, effort, and risk required to travel into deep space. Trying to picture what settling other planets might entail? One place to look is 15th-century China.

The rising energy is internal: revulsion within the upper class and the regime itself. Of course it was exactly this internal energy that brought down the USSR. Half the people on Salo Forum have advanced degrees. I imagine very few grew up as conservatives.

Just as the Trump administration was the perfect pill to suppress the elite decay that is the regime’s real long-term problem, the Biden administration is the perfect food for the fungus.

At the dawn of the postwar era, it was easy to always win. Just run a Democrat as a Republican. When Eisenhower ran against Stevenson, the Party ran against itself. This was considerably helped by the fact that historically, it was the Republicans who were the party of the East Coast establishment; early progressivism was only able to take over the Democratic Party because its old guard was moribund and corrupt. But still, the vote banks of the Solid South and the inner-city Catholics were the core of FDR’s majority. Neither had any idea what the Eastern elites they were supporting would do to them in thirty years. 19th-century brands trumped even the left-right spectrum.

It is not good, abstractly, to increase the level of persecution. But we are not children. What matters is the outcome, not the pain. If the pain level increases, but the chance of a good outcome increases, a child will say no; an adult will say yes.

Telegraph service in the U.S. first slowed and then virtually stopped at about midnight on 14 May due to blown fuses and damaged equipment. Radio propagation was enhanced during the storm due to ionosphere involvement, however, enabling unusually good long-distance reception.

In response to the arguments of this section someone will say, “Society must find a way to give people the opportunity to go through the power process.” For such people the value of the opportunity is destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to them. What they need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain autonomy they must get off that leash.

In primitive societies life is a succession of stages. The needs and purposes of one stage having been fulfilled, there is no particular reluctance about passing on to the next stage. A young man goes through the power process by becoming a hunter, hunting not for sport or for fulfillment but to get meat that is necessary for food. (In young women the process is more complex, with greater emphasis on social power; we won’t discuss that here.) This phase having been successfully passed through, the young man has no reluctance about settling down to the responsibilities of raising a family. (In contrast, some modern people indefinitely postpone having children because they are too busy seeking some kind of “fulfillment.” We suggest that the fulfillment they need is adequate experience of the power process—with real goals instead of the artificial goals of surrogate activities.) Again, having successfully raised his children, going through the power process by providing them with the physical necessities, the primitive man feels that his work is done and he is prepared to accept old age (if he survives that long) and death.

Would-be industrial societies that have done a poor job of subordinating personal or local loyalties to loyalty to the system are usually very inefficient. (Look at Latin America.)

The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional small-scale social groups. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities. Beyond that, a technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. In modern society an individual’s loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a small-scale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the system.

It is usually enough to act as a member of a SMALL group. Thus if half a dozen people discuss a goal among themselves and make a successful joint effort to attain that goal, their need for the power process will be served. But if they work under rigid orders handed down from above that leave them no room for autonomous decision and initiative, then their need for the power process will not be served.

Autonomy as a part of the power process may not be necessary for every individual. But most people need a greater or lesser degree of autonomy in working toward their goals. Their efforts must be undertaken on their own initiative and must be under their own direction and control.

For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest.