On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:33 PM, <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
On 1/4/2018 1:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
Capitalism is the belief that free men in free exchange of privately owned resources (including especially themselves) will result in prosperity, peace and more freedom.
g2s is trying to manufacture tribalism on the basis of covetousness, envy, and theft.
Libertarianism is a response to this effort
The left wing effort to turn econonomic categories into tribes was never terribly successful, and now the left is more focused on trying to generate tribalism on the basis of sexual identity and race, generate tribalism on the basis of actually existent tribes.
Which is a lot more successful.
Also a lot more likely to lead to genocide.
Libertarianism is paralyzed by this turn, which renders libertarianism irrelevant.
Instead of stealing the bakery, or price controlling baker's inputs and outputs, they demand the baker cheer at a gay wedding.
Which, on the face of it, does not directly lead to mass murder the way stealing, covetousness, and envy does.
But fighting over status is just as likely, indeed more likely to turn deadly as fighting over stuff.
It has become apparent that there is no stopping point. Males are just naturally superior to women in the male sphere, and white males are just naturally superior to nonwhites in most spheres.
This results in endless, and endlessly escalating efforts, to crush this natural superiority. And this endless escalation has no stopping point but genocide.
OK, white men cannot jump and cannot dance, and our running is seriously underwhelming, but in most spheres, obviously superior. In particular and especially, white males are superior soldiers to any other race by far. Notice the hilarious underperformance of the black posterboys of both sides in the civil war. Similarly, notice that any military that incorporates females as soldiers never wins a war against a military that does not, irrespective of the races. You might argue that the Vietnam war was a counter example to this, but that was a proxy war between the blue empire and the red empire, whites fighting over browns, rather than with browns.
Today's chinese art is obviously superior to today's white art, but this reflects our current decadence. China is coming out of a dark age, while we are sliding into a dark age. Some blame the Jews for the current undeniably crappy state of white art. But the Chinese always had good art, even in their dark age. We have done better in the past than now, but OK, whites are not obviously better than East Asians at art, and it is plausible that East Asians are better at art than whites.
Whites, on the other hand, are better at technological creativity than anyone, even East Asians (though the Japanese are pretty good), and, closely related to this, better at war. The current technological superiority of East Asia is substantially dependent on white and Eurasian emigres, among them emigres fleeing the tribal violence and political repression in California and Silicon Valley.
The current white inferiority at war is the result of women in the military. If we return to the early nineteenth century style army, where logistics are classified as camp followers rather than soldiers, and part of the duty of camp followers is getting soldier's dicks wet, where the soldiers are all male and the camp followers disproportionately female, we will return to winning.
I used to be much more an admirer of Rand - nowadays not so much. However, sometimes quotes from her are so very apropos: “Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.” -- Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism "Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men. Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination." -- Ayn Rand “Racism,” The Virtue of Selfishness "Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority. The notion that one’s culture is superior to all others solely because it represents the traditions of one’s ancestors, is regarded as chauvinism if claimed by a majority—but as “ethnic” pride if claimed by a minority. Resistance to change and progress is regarded as reactionary if demonstrated by a majority—but retrogression to a Balkan village, to an Indian tepee or to the jungle is hailed if demonstrated by a minority." -- Ayn Rand “The Age of Envy,” Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution